At 5:00pm I got my IV and answered a lot of questions and was put into a nice labor and delivery room and at 5:30pm Dr. Martin gave me my first dose of the cervix thinning medicine. Once things calmed down Ben and I ate, watched TV, and messed around on social media.
Some time around 12:15am I started getting tolerable contractions. I tried to let Ben sleep because I needed him to be extra rested but poor guy had to help me to the bathroom once an hour. Since I wasn't getting much sleep I asked for some pain meds to help me sleep through the contractions and my nurse gave me a Percocet and that knocked me out pretty quickly. But around 3:30 I woke up with pretty decent contractions and at 4:30am my nurse came in to check on me and I kindly asked for the epidural. Around 5:00am I got the epidural and I was able to rest.
At some point (don't remember the time but it was early in the morning) my nurse checked me and I was 3cm and very thinned and she started the pitocin and gave me my last round of cervix thinning meds and by this time our family started showing up. While dozing in and out my nurse would come in and check me and every time she checked me I would be a few more centimeters dilated and it was moving way quicker than I thought.
Around noon I started feeling a lot of pressure during each contraction and I was in some pain. We talked to the anesthesiologist about it and she decided to give me a little more diluted medicine in my drip and once she did that I still felt a little pressure but not with every contraction and the pain was VERY tolerable.
At 12:30pm my nurse checked me and I was at 10cm and Janie Beth was RIGHT THERE. So she called my doctor in and started setting everything up and I couldn't believe Janie Beth was about to be here with us!
12:41pm- Started pushing
1:07pm- SHE WAS HERE! 6 pounds and 11 ounces of pure joy and 19 inches long!
