Birthing story. Wednesday at my doctors appointment at 2:45 my doctor swept my membranes to hopefully get things going since I was 2 days shy of 39 weeks. I went home and started cleaning house and kept moving to hopefully move things along. I started having painful contractions at about 6 pm that night. I had my mom come by to stay with my toddler while she slept so me and hubby could go to the hospital when it was time. She got to my house at about 9. I hopped in the shower to relieve some pain and wash myself before I gave birth. Contractions were now about 5 minutes apart and painful so me and hubby left and I got to the hospital and the contractions were about every 4 minutes by the time they got me in the room. They checked me and I was 7 centimeters. I got my IV in and they started pumping me full of water only. I went from 7 centimeters to 9 very fast and I started feeling like I needed to push down. They opened my legs and I was ready. I pushed him out in 6 extremely painful pushes at 12:19am. I ripped so I had to get stitched up. No epidural and no medication in my IV. Perfect healthy baby boy. My husband was such a great help during the whole thing. I definitely couldn't have done it without him that's for darn sure! :)