Our Birth

I just wanted to share my story....On jan 18th I had a perfect baby girl...Juliana Linda, But it all started at 6am in the 17th. Thats when my water broke. It was odd because I did not know what was going on, onlt that I was starting to have some cramps. I called my midwife and she told me to come on in. At 10am we arrived and to my suprise, my water had broke and I was going to have a baby today. The only problem was that my baby had passed meconium and she had to come out soon. I arrived at the birthing center at 7:30 with no real contractions. Right away i was checked...3 cent. So in went the IV of antibiotics and pitocin and on went the fetal monitor. I started to get upset because I wanted to be ale to walk around, And I was the Monitor was only on for a few minutes. The IV though, stayed. I did it all walked, showered, sat on the birthing ball- an nothing made her come down anymore. At about 5am my midwife jenna thought I should take a rest. There was no way that I was going to be able to sleep with an IV and contractions. So they decided to give me morphine-in short it did not work -the contractions were strong enough for me to stay awake but i was no more than 4 cen. At 9am the IV came out and we were going to give this one more shot. Time was running out. By 5pm there was still no sign of baby and it was time to put my labor experience to an end. It was time for a c-section. I was not happy- a c-section was the last thing on my mind but it had to be done. I walked my self on to the OR table. The epidural did not work so next was the spinal block. I have to be honest that was really the only thing that hurt- not the contractions, even after being induced but that spinal block was unreal. In short at 5:28pm my daughter was born 7lb 7oz 21 inches. The staff at the birthing center was great and my midwife has become one of my dear friends. so after the whole experience I ould do it again in a heartbeat. My daughter is my life. so good luck to all of you moms to be...and remember, its really not that bad-no matter what happens.