So this is the story of my Induction.....
It all started with a trip to the doctors office Monday, May 3rd. Cory and I went into the appointment not really expecting to leave with any different news. My last few appointments I had not changed much in my dilation, I had remained a 1 for the past few weeks. So I was hoping my doctor would tell me some good news that I was progressing and that this baby was on her way, but I wasn't really expecting much. Everyone kept telling me I needed to ask my doctor about when and if he would induce my labor, I went to the appointment expecting that I was going to have to beg to get my doctor to get my labor started. I figured if he didn't I would most likely go way over my due date and that was just not something I wanted to do.
Well we walked into the office, the doctor took my blood pressure and checked me and the next thing I know he is asking me how I would feel about being induced this week. Needless to say in my heart I was jumping for joy, Cory even gave me a little air high five behind the Doctors back. We were both super excited about the prospect of having a baby within the week. The my doctor looks as me and says how about Tuesday? Tuesday..... thats like tomorrow. I was expecting it to be soon but not that soon. My doctor decided he wanted to induce my as soon as possible because I was measuring bigger than my actual 39 weeks, plus my blood pressure had slowly been rising the last few appointments. So he said it was time this little one came out! Yippie! Cory and I left the doctors office is a state of euphoria.... I was both excited and freaking out. There seemed like so much I needed to do before 7:30 the next morning.
Well 7:30 AM came quickly, this was my final photo as a pregnant woman. I was 39 weeks and 2 days. My actual due date was only 4 days away. I was definitely ready to get this little person out.
Getting to the hospital was a weird experience. The weather was terrible, it was so windy and by the time we got to the hospital it was almost snowing. What a wonderful day to bring this baby into the world. I had butterflies the whole way driving to the hospital, it is a crazy feeling knowing that you are going to have a baby that day.
My IV...... took forever!
So we got to the hospital got all checked in, they put me into my awesome backless gown and then my nurse proceeded to try and give me my IV so they could get my Pitocin going so I could have this baby. Well I guess if I haven't told you before my veins are always a big pain to find, its probably one of the reasons I never give blood. Every time someone needs a vein its always this big ordeal and this time was no different. I think that the nurse took about an hour trying to get it in, she got it in once but then had to pull it out because the IV was draining. It was fun! They finally called in the anesthesiologist to put my IV in. He got it in the first try.... sweet guy. But he did say that I had the smallest veins ever! I took about an hour to get the IV in and then well it was just a lot of waiting for many hours.
Being in the hospital waiting for things to happen can get a little boring. This is what happens when you are stuck in a hospital bed and can't move. You start to get a little crazy.
Waiting around was hard, but when things started kicking in they kicked in fast. Way too fast! In fact my doctor had checked me and I was dilated to a 5 and he told me that it was probably going to another few hours before I was a 10 and able to start pushing. So we sent Cory's family home told them to all get some food and we would call them when things started happening.
Cory and Meygen in the hospital right before I started having contractions.
Thats why I'm still smiling!
Well pretty much as soon as they walked out of the room I started having these crazy big contractions. Even my nurse said they had jumped in size very drastically and very fast. I went from not really feeling anything to waiting to die in about a matter of minutes. My epidural wasn't really helping so they brought the anesthesiologist back in and he gave me another big dose of medicine to help with the pain. After about a half hour my nurse checked me and I was at a 10. She was shocked.... so were we. We had just sent everyone home the doctor had left and now everyone had to be back. The hospital paged my doctor and I started pushing with just my nurse. Thankfully everyone got back in time to wait the two hours of pushing that I had to go through. I never thought it would take that long but at 9:20 PM I was holding Rowynne Ivins in my arms.
