A Birth Story

So many of you know that my first birth with Olivia was "challenging" to say the least. She was posterior, meaning she was coming out face up instead of face down which allowed for 4 hours of pushing... ai, yi, yi! That was only the topper to a labor that was about 4 days long... :-( I was really hoping and praying that this birth would be different.

This birth was sooooo different.

I started having contractions around 4pm on Friday afternoon... by 8 pm they were every 4 minutes apart. At 10pm I decided to try and get some sleep ( I was putting off going to the hospital until I absolutely had to)..by 11:30 my contractions varied from 2 minutes apart to 5 min apart....It was then that I decided I needed drugs. :-)

After we got to the hospital, they checked me and I was about 2 cent. dilated... not great , but something. The midwife said that I could have my epidural when I reached 3 cent. .... Whoppee! I decided to get up and walk the halls to get things going...I did that for about 1 hour or so.. came back and I had progressed to 3 cent. They took me right into an labor and delivery room and gave me my epidural....ahhhhhh...relief. That was around 4 am. I was so relaxed I took about a 4-5 hour nap.. on and off. They checked me at 11 am and I was 6 cent. dilated but the midwife noticed that not all of my water was broken so they did that for me ... :-) By 12:30 pm I was ready to push.... 45 minutes later , Finn was born at 1:16 pm.

It was so nice to have a "non" dramatic delivery. My mom and mother-in-law were able to be present for the birth this time and that made it all the more special too..

So there it is... :-)