****PART 2***** So we reach L&D And the contractions are still coming strong. I mean I had to stop every time they came and reevaluate my life that's how strong they were, but each time they came I prayed through them and was fine. I gave my OBGYN my birth plan weeks ago so they knew i wanted an unmedicated natural birth before hand. They put me in a room and made me strip down to my bra so they could check me. Mind you, this is the first time I've been checked my whole entire pregnancy by choice and the nurse said I was 4/5 cm dilated and 100% effaced, so they transfered me to a bigger room, took my blood pressure and put an IV in my hand(which I told them I did not want) but they said it was "protocol" in case I lost too much blood or something, but anyway. Afterwards they told me to walk around so I could dilate some more and this was the point the contractions were KICKING my behind like back to back to back to back. So finally I felt this huge urge to push, like I had to take a huge dump(sorry tmi, but that's how much pressure I felt down there) So I asked the nurse to check me again and she said I was 8cm, but told me not to push because I wasn't 10cm-______- but ladies I could not help it. so they put me on the bed and I was on my back legs up in the in the air and pushed anyway lol (hence the tares), but 4 pushes and she was out. The part that actually hurt out of it all wasn't when I delivered the after birth but when the midwife was stitching me up! Omg I felt every stitch but they gave me some, cold pad like thing to put under there and it soothed it. All in all a good labor and delivery and I am so blessed to be the mother of a brand new baby girl!