As planned at my 39 week appt my OB called in to the hospital and got me on the induction list... I was originally scheduled for 7:30am the next day but being a pro at this I knew the chances of me getting in at that time were slim.. I was mentally prepared to wait all day.. or weekend even to get in. My 39 wk appt was early in the day on Friday so I was able to call my mom to come to the house and rally all my help for the weekend :) I did my hair and nails and actually packed my bag for the hospital!! I had dinner and got a good nights sleep you know basking in the last moments of pregnancy LOL Of course when I called at 6:30am sure enough they bumped me. The nurse did say they had a lot of women leaving and to be ready to walk out the door when they called... I definitely didn't expect that call to be just 3 hours later!! At 9:30am L&D called and said be here by 10. I hung up the phone and yelled "WE ARE HAVING A BABY TODAY!!" after making some quick calls and giving all my girls kisses we headed over to the hospital. The morning had been so smooth, we had our coffee and hadn't been in a rush and then just walked into the hospital and got checked in...everything was very relaxed. My OB had bypassed the gel induction and decided to admit me from the get go.. I was a 4cm already and was contracting 4mins apart... he was thinking I was going into labor on my own anyway and things should happen quickly... And they did :) They started me on Pitocin since that was the original plan.. but since I was contracting on my own they took me off the Pitocin 30 mins later. I was so thankful because I had really wanted the contractions to build up naturally on their own. I was close to a 5 by then and so they broke my water... and then we waited... I was contracting wonderfully for about 2 hrs, the nurse kept coming in to see if I was ready for an epidural yet...but since I wasn't in any pain I refused. My OB had even called to see if I had got it yet and was like.. what is she waiting for LOL Finally after those 2 hrs I was feeling some good contractions and thought it was a good time to ask for it since they warned me it would take 40 mins at least to get it started. By the time he got there I was definitely feeling it and since it would take some time for the epidural to take effect he gave me a spinal shot to give me some immediate relief but warned me it would wear off in about and hour. Got my epidural in place.. no one passed out.. by this point my mom was at the hospital too so I was thinking I could relax maybe even take a little nap and wake up to push this little bunny out. I lay down got as comfortable as I could with that peanut ball between my legs :) and started to drift... and not long after woke up to insane painful contractions.. I was still laying down and remember looking at my mom and saying this isn't right... at that point I felt like someone was stabbing me in the back and I was just dry heaving uncontrollably I was in complete shock and in pain that I could never put into words.. I don't know if I was screaming but I felt like it.. when my mom called the nurse to say "um my daughter is in pain" in a nice soft voice the nurse replied.. well tell her to press the button...um yeah that shit isn't working just so you know LOL we are beyond pushing any buttons.. anyway the nurse came in and took one look at me and said oh I need to call the doctor she is complete. Meanwhile I have these snippet memories of my mom asking rick to "look down there" to see if there was a baby hanging out.. and of her trying to put a cold wash cloth on my forehead which I am sure I threw at her, she tried putting pressure on my back and I was quick to tell her she couldn't do that or even touch me LOL My OB came in and said sorry your only choice now is to push through the pain. F**K LOL ok so really I was like ok then like 3 pushes and she will be out. I WAS VERY WRONG!!! So I was feeling very brave since this was not at all how I had imagined things would go.. I was going to push with every ounce of energy I had but after pushing and pushing and pushing, pushing up right and lying back babys heartrate was decelerating greatly and it was clear she was stuck. My OB reached in to see what was happening while I pushed and found that she was posterior, he tried to turn her as I pushed but she really didn't like that.. her heartrate dropped to 50 bpm after some other attempts to turn her he realized she was transverse as well and pretty much said.. we can do about 10 more mins of this before we need to do a Csection. With everything going on in the moment I remember thinking NO I have had 3 totally normal births how can this be happening but at the same time thinking... if that is the only way we can get her out safely then it has to be that way... my poor mom was so emotional and had to step away and rick looked like deer in the headlights.. none of us expected to be this scared at this stage.. The OB offered to use the vaccum but only one time.. but of course his first attempt the vaccum came off her head because of swelling on her head from all the pushing. I had to close my eyes and disconnect from everyones faces and feeling their tension.. He decided to try again with the vaccum and I decided she just had to come out... as we waited for a contraction I joked with everyone... "hey she hasn't come out yet because no one has their camera ready!!!" so rick and my mom stopped and grabbed their cameras and when that contraction came I pushed with every ounce of my being and watched her head come out, it was shocking and amazing and that's when the OB said don't push the cord is wrapped.. he said the tightest he had seen.. after trying not to push during that time when he finally told me and her body came out I just lost it... I just kept saying make a noise please make a noise... and then my little ghost white baby cried. There is just nothing like it.. she was ok and nothing else mattered and I am so emotional even reliving it.. The relief I felt in that moment was incomprehensible. I think we all were just in shock and staring at each other... Mia Ivy arrived and was perfect in every way.. she was beautiful and healthy and gave us all a scare just to remind us how lucky we are and I will never ever forget it!!
My OB came back to check on me later and said he was still thinking about what had happened.. he said she just dropped so quickly that she fell into that sideways position and because the cord was wrapped she wasn't handling pushing at all. And as for the pain meds.. sometimes they work sometimes they don't,he thinks I just waited too long and labor progressed so quickly that it just wasnt effective LOL perfect!! The only good thing was I was able to get up and walk immediately. He actually came back in the next day when my mom and rick were there too just to check on them and hung out with us for a bit. We were all still a little traumatized.
