Labor Story!!
So Friday Sept 16 I had minor contractions all day that weren't really painful at all just 10 minutes apart and uncomfortable. That night I started having them every 3 minutes but they still weren't painful, so I slept and the next morning starting around 9am the contractions were still 3 minutes apart and the pain had gotten a little worse. By 1pm that day (Saturday) they hurt enough that I went to the Family Birth Place here and got monitored and checked but I was only fingertip, so not even a full centimeter. Basically they said go home until your in enough pain for medicine. So I went home and tried to go for a walk and then take a bath and rest. Well, Sunday morning they were really strong and around 3pm they started hurting so bad I would cry. So I went for another walk and tried to take a bath but it did nothing for the pain. At 8pm I went back to Family Birth Place and got checked and boom I was at 5cm!! I went from fingertip to 5cm in one day! So they admitted me and gave me a dose of fentonal through an IV for the contractions but that medication is not good for the baby so they told me they would have to stop giving it an hour before i started pushing so it would be completely worn off. By 10pm I was at 8cm and they stopped the medicine. I started pushing at 11:10 with no epidural or any other meds and at 12:35am on Sept 19, my baby boy was born!! Honestly it hurts really bad to do it with no medicine! But I say if that's what your heart is set on(like mine was) then go for it, you can do it! Your body was made to do it and people have been having baby's for hundreds of years with no medicine! He was born with so much hair, and he stopped crying as soon as they laid him on me. It was the best feeling ever and how they say the pain totally disappears after you see your baby is true!!