My Birth Story

I was scheduled to be induce June 16, 2012 and I couldn't wait. It seemed like time was crawling by and I was wanting my baby here ASAP. The 15th came and Bryce and I had a BBQ at our house that night as a party before the baby came. I wasn't feeling super great that night and decided to head to bed early and knowing I was being induced the next day, I wanted to feel well rested  so I took my usual unisom and tylonel and crawled into bed. That morning, at 3:30, I woke up with contractions. I got really excited because I really had wanted to go into labor on my own. But of course, my contractions lessened and somewhat stopped at 9 that morning, which was when the hospital called us to come in, luckily :) We got checked into the hospital and the induction began. I was hooked up to monitors, given an IV and made comfy in my bed. My Doctor came in and gave me cervidil and I was hoping I'd begin to have contractions again. I did and was given another dose of cervidil at 3ish and they began to come on more. At 5:30 PM my Doctor came in and checked me and I was of course just dilated to a 3. He then broke my water and told me I could get my epidural at anytime. I totally wanted it right away and the anesthesiologist came in not much later and gave me my epi. Thank goodness too because my contractions were becoming terrible. They were so painful that it was all I could do to breathe through each one. When my epidural set in, life was freakin good. But, at 7:00 PM my contractions were becoming inadequate and so I was put on pitocin. And soon after that, I got some sleep. I was so exhausted! I slowly dilated to a 6 by 1:00 AM and we thought that I wouldn't get to start pushing until around 6ish. Surprisingly, I progressed to a 10 by 4:00 AM and I was able to start pushing at 4:45 AM. I then only pushed for 45 minutes and Yasmynn was born at 5:29 AM. It was such an easy labor. Really, I thought it was going to be so much worse but it wasn't. Our beautiful girl is such a joy to us! She is such a good infant. She sleeps all the time it seems like :) We love her so much!

Baby?

The due date has come and still no baby. But I am scheduled to be induced on June 16. Hopefully she'll come before then which would be nice. So everyone keep your fingers crossed :)