At about midnight on Sunday I called my ob because I suspected my water broke as i had been leaking all day. They advised me to go to the hospital. We got to the hospital and they hooked me up to the monitor and checked me. I was 3cm dilated. They did a swab which they said would tell us if my water had broken. Well I guess it hadn't lol I still don't belive them though. Anyway, I got sent home and dh and I went to bed. When I woke up at 8:30am the next morning and got out of bed I was still leaking. I went into the bathroom and sat on the toilet and water just kept leaking out. Dh was like tell me you are peeing. I was like no, I reall think my water broke. I called the ob again who advised me to wait until my 3:40pm appt. So I did. We went for our ultrasound first. They wanted to check the babies weight as they suspected he was a big boy. The estimated his weight at 9lbs 8 oz's. We then went in for our appt. and the midwife, who was seeing me that day as my Dr. was out, was not convinced my water broke. She was like why do you think it broke and I explained I had been leaking etc. and I am wearing a pad which is soaked lol Anyway she checked me and didn't even have to do the swab because as soon as she put the speculum sp? in she could tell my water had broke and a bunch came out all over the floor... gross. So she sent us over to labor and delivery. They hooked me all up and we waited... and waited... and waited. They put a gel in to soften my cervix and at about 4am they decided to start pitocin and I got the epi. Well it took the anesth. three times to finally put the epi in which sucked, but he got it in. Unfortunatly it stopped working on one side and they had to come back and do it again which took two more tries. So I labored all day long. Sleeping and waking, sleeping and waking. Finally at about 7pm it was time to start pushing. I was sooo excited. I thought I would be holding my baby in my arms in a matter of minutes lol What a fool I was. I pushed for two hours until my lil man was in position to come out. They called the Dr. and she came in. I pushed three times and then waited for the next contraction while the Dr. gave me an episiotomy sp? and at 9:09pm I pushed my sweet little angel out. He swallowed some fluid on the way out so I only got to hold him for a few minutes before the brought him to the nursery. He was 9lbs 6oz's! 20 3/4 inches long! A big beautiful boy! Kinda boring but that's my story...
