Carlei was born June 10th. 5lbs 15oz 17 inches 3:22am
I went into my scheduled appt 4 days before my due date, I went early with my first so they said I was going against statistics... The week before I started having contractions and was dialated to 2... so at this appt she says we can strip your cervix, if it works you'll have the baby somewhere w/in 8-10 hours. So she stripped it, I went walking as she suggested, the contractions upped a little, but nothing painful or anything. Husband gets home about 10:30pm, we watch a movie, contractions were 4-7 minutes but sporadic (sp), at 12:30pm we go to bed, stay up and talk till 1:13am, contractions were getting more regular, but nothing painful. At 1:43am my water broke, it hurt.. after that, I was in full force labor... I finally get to the hospital, they said I was dilated to 5. They asked me what pain meds I wanted, I didn't know. My contractions were so painful this time around I could barely breathe. They were checking me about every 5-10 minutes and I was dilating steadily, so unfortunately no meds.. they kept making me switch positions on the bed because her heart rate kept dropping, I think it dropped 4 times within the time they got me hooked up...then all of a sudden, I had to push, I was only there about 20 minutes.. doc checks and tells me I'm ready I think I pushed 4 or 5 times and it was AWFUL! Come to find out she was facing up, so it made everything worse doc said... She cried before she came out, the doc was like "what was that, oh my goodness she's talking already and with quite a personality" Lol.. it was awesome... Not sure that I'm ready to do it again though lol
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