The Labor Story

Looking back I am so happy I wrote about Abby's labor story so I decided I better do it again for Brianna before I forget. Brianna's due date was Tuesday November 20th, well that day came and went and no baby. I had gone to the Doctor the Friday before and I was dilated to a 2 and 70% effaced. On Tuesday morning at about 4:30 am I began having a few mild contractions but they were only about every half hour and they went away as soon as I got out of bed. However on Tuesday night they began coming hard every 10 minutes apart, I didn't get an ounce of sleep all night long because I was curled up in a ball in pain every 10 minutes. I had a doctors appointment on Wednesday morning and was expecting to hear some good news about my progress, however I found out that I was still a 2 and still 70% effaced. I was super frustrated because I had been up all night in pain with nothing to show for it. I had already called my mom and told her to drive up because I was pretty sure the baby would be coming soon. All day Wednesday nothing happened, I was having one or two contractions an hour but they were pretty painful. On Wednesday evening the contractions started coming again about every 10 minutes. I went to bed and was so miserable and tired, at about 1:15 I went to the bathroom and was pretty sure that I lost some of my water, immediately the contractions started coming every 3 minutes so Alex and I rushed to the hospital. When I got there I was dilated to a 5 and 100% effaced. I was able to get an epidural about an hour after I arrived. At around 5:10 the nurse came in to check on my progress and I told her the rest of my water broke and that I needed to push ASAP. She checked me and sure enough I was a 10, she told me not to push and to wait for the doctor, I told her he better hurry up or this baby was coming without him. A few minutes later the doctor arrived, 2 pushes later Brianna was born at 5:24 am. She was 6lbs 15oz and 20 1/2 inches long. Everything about her was perfect and we were so happy she was finally here.