Labor story: October 6th, around 4 am, I starting getting very short mild contractions, not too…

Labor story:

October 6th, around 4 am, I starting getting very short mild contractions, not too close together. Throughout the day, they progressed and at about 6 pm, the contractions were no more than 5 minutes apart. So at 9, I went into labor and delivery. They told me I was only dilated to a 3 and the contractions were mild, and had me walk around the hospital for an hour. I did that, came back, and no progress, so they sent me home. At this point, my contractions were beyond worse than when I came in. When we got home, I tried to sleep, but every 1-2 minutes, I would get a contraction that hurt me so bad, I cried. It was so painful. So around 2 am, Kyle told me we were going back to the hospital. I was dilated to a 5. I got admitted around 3 am, got the epidural around 3:30 am, and waited until I dilated until 10 cm. They nurse came in to check my dilation around 6 and said I was at 8 cm, and while checking, she accidentally broke my water. At around 7:45 am I was fully dilated, started pushing at 7:52 am, and Kora was born at 8:45 am, October 7th ❤️