the one about the birth (long story short)

This is the “long story short” version (this was a 40+ hour process edited down as much as possible). For more details check out my original birth story blog.

Late night October 6^th - I woke up and was definitely having contractions. They were coming strong and pretty steady, and they weren’t pleasant! 

Morning October 7^th- I was recording the time between contractions with an app I downloaded on my phone. They were consistently less than 3 minutes apart, and I was having trouble speaking through them. We went to the hospital at 7:30am. I was dilated to a 2, but after walking laps around the hospital for an hour with no progress they told me to go home L

Evening October 7^th- I think around 6pm. Returned to hospital they sent me straight to a labor and delivery room. Labor went on for hours!!! I was going for a natural/unmedicated birth. It hurt so bad I vomited at least twice.

Late night October 7^th- At midnight they checked me and I was only at a 4 or 5 (the goal is 10cm). At 3am, after 24 hours of contractions, I still hadn’t progressed past a 5. I finally broke and said give me the epidural! The epidural was amazing I went from the worst pain of my life to taking a nap, then watched a movie or two... and waited.

Afternoon October 8^th- At noon I was finally fully dilated, but had no urge to push. That urge never came L so finally a little after 3:00 we decided to go ahead and start pushing. Oh that was so painful! After pushing for a while he was finally crowning- even more pain! Then at 4:28 out came my beautiful little boy!

They put Judah directly on my chest and he was so slippery! I was not expecting that! But he was beautiful! I was definitely crying. I was just so happy to finally meet him. I was so in love with him already. I instantly forgot about the pain. Even though there was a whole lot of stitching and cleaning up going on down below, I was completely oblivious. Judah had the craziest cone head, but a full head of hair, all 10 fingers and toes, etc… He was perfect J

look at that cone head!