My labor story :

Yesterday July 29, 2016 I had a routine doctors appointment. Just to get the heart rate taken , seeing if I was dilated as well as all of my other vitals . I go in the exam room everything looks great & I am not dilated any still . my OB goes to listen at his heart beat & couldn't find it . About 10 mins later when she did find it , she says the heart rate was lower than usual . She asks me when the last time I ate was , I say about 9am & my appointment was at 1:30pm . In between that I did not eat or drink because I took a nap before going in . Plus , I wasn't hungry . So she offers me juice & crackers to wake him up before sending me off to the NST area for a few minutes . I'm in the NST area after drinking the orange juice they gave me & apparently it showed I was having contractions & he wasn't moving . Heart rate looked fine tho . So the nurse comes in & ask am I having contractions & I go yes . Not too intense tho . They keep giving me cups after cups to drink to wake him up & nothing . The nurse says well by the looks of the test you're having contractions & they look close together , so I could be in labor but there is still no movement going on with baby . So she says she gonna let my OB know & take it from there . My OB comes in & says that everything looks good but it could be better . She sends me off to get some food & drink & tells me to head off to L&D for another stress test & ultra sound. I go do that . I get to the hospital , I am now again ordered 3 more cups of liquid to help with dehydration & waking up baby . Still nothing .. My cervix still closed shut ! I get the ultra sound a∧ he just wasn't responding to that at all either . After about two hours waiting for those results to come back, my nurse comes in & says , you're contracting & the heart beat still isn't where we need it to be . So I think it's just better if we go ahead & induce you . Baby is only going to survive better outside of the womb . Scared out of my mind , I'm like okayy do what you need to do doc. To prep for all of that , since I'm dehydrated the nurses can't find my veins to draw blood work . I'm stuck like 80 times until they find a vein . It was awful . I move over to the delivery room at around 11:30 pm maybe , those contractions I had were actually starting to get a really intense. I could feel like in my uterus , legs , back , everywhere . This is WITHOUT induction medication mind you ... So right before they come in to perform the induction , she checks my cervix again & says , it looks like you're 3cm dilated ... All this time , I've been in active labor & didn't even know it smh ... So because with every painful contractions, I was in pain & my body was stressed , I'm miserable, so is my son . His heart rate just would not stabilize! It was scary . The NST would not keep an accurate reading on him at all . So they had to break my water & stick a monitor on my sons head to monitor him better . Most painful thing I've ever had to encounter 😞 after breaking my water those contraction INTENSIFIED so bad !! The pain became unbearable! All I wanted was drugs & this baby out of me ! So with every tear & every fight I tried to put up my son could feel it ! Next thing you know nurses & doctors come running in the room pushing my family out of the way telling me to hurry up & turn over . His heart rate was severely low, his heart rate dropped from 130 to 78 bpm! they didn't want to continue with the induction & rushed me right into the OR for an emergency C-Section. I'm so scared at this point . I have never been rushed to the OR so fast .. Monitor still on my sons head all I hear the nurse say is , check the heart rate & see if we have time to do a spinal or just put her to sleep .. All I heard was SLEEP ! I'm getting the monitors hooked up to me . The catheters. All within about 10 mins this was all done . I'm shaking scared for my life hoping when I wake up , my son will be okayy .. Next thing you know I wake up in so much pain but all I could hear was my sons cry .. The sigh of relief that went through my mind .. At 1:36am July 30, 2016 my baby boy entered this world ! 😊💙 All this pain & he was so worth it . I didn't get a chance to hold him right away because I was in a severe amount of pain but when I finally got that chance ... 😍😍💙💙