My labor story. I went into the hospital at 10pm on Feb 29th. They gave me one dose of gel at midnight and I slept/rested until 4am when they started pitocin. This is when the contractions got real so I just meditated through those with music until just after 7 when the doctor came in and broke my water. I was 4-5cm at this time. From this time through about 1pm I had very intense contractions and quite a bit of painful back labor. I mainly stayed squatted on the bed or on the birthing ball. Around 1pm I had made it to 9-10 with just a tiny bit of cervix left. I stood up and went to empty my bladder to help it finish dilating and that's when the urge to push started. I almost didn't make it back to the bed. I pushed about 20-30 minutes with contractions and she arrived at 1:40. My doctor arrived about 30 seconds after I had her out and finished the delivery. She was a perfect 7 lbs 9 oz. and 21 inches long. Big blue eyes and dark hair. The labor went very well overall...I ended up having no tearing and despite a lot of soreness and cramping we are both doing very very well.