Well here it is... the story of my birth... or my baby's birth to be exact... Sometime in mid-September I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. It was a natural birth and delivery. By natural I mean it was not a c-section. It was however, very helpful to have an epidural!!!! For a first time birth. Holy smokes- do not know how any woman can give birth the first time without one. Ugh. It certainly made for a much calmer and more peaceful experience especially when there is a human being tearing out of your lady parts and your body is being split in half. Ouch. Anyway- I labored at home for as long as I could and got to about 5cm which was very painful. So painful I just started crying from the pain. I tried to do hot water and hot showers to quell the pain but all that did was give me 1st degree burns on my skin because it wasn't helping with the pain. I labored 36 hours!! After hour 26 I said give me something!!! I tried stadol- which was heavenly... maybe like a morphine or something... but that only lasts an hour... so then I was like... give me the epi! And than God for that! After about 30 hours I still wasn't progressing from 6cm and the docs said they were going to give me a c-sec... My husband was like... not on your life! I was like... NO WAY!
So I said why don't we try pit first to see if that does it... the doc said OK but it doesnt look good... I said whatever... two hours later I was fully dialated and ready to push! And I pushed for about an hour and 20 minutes... and boom - there was my beautiful baby girl!! AMAZING!!! It was awesome!!!
Can't wait to have another!!! God willing!!
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