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My surprise is here...

posted 22nd Sep

Ok here goes:
On Sat. 9/19 I was having contractions all day but nothing timeable until the night. At about 10 every 10 min. They werent painful or anything so I just hung at the house just getting ready and trying to go to the hospital as late as possible. At about 12 I went to the bathroom and was leaking what looked like water so I figured it was time and told my hubby to start getting ready so we could head out. In the car on our way contractions were about 7-8 mins and we got to the hospital and they started to get stronger. I was still in good spirits and smiling so they said check first and see if you are dialated and if this is the real deal. They checked me and my water was in fact leaking, I was 4 cm and they were keeping me. It was about 2 in the morning at this point.
I had decided I didnt want anything and I wanted the experience to be as natural as possible even though I was at the hospital. I had requested to not be strapped to the bed or any IV's yet and just labor. They set us up in a room and
I started trying to get as comfortable as possible,the contractions still were pretty bearable so I watched TV, hung out family and just breathed as they came. At about 4 they checked me I was between a 4 and a 5 and they were getting a little stronger. I requested a birthing ball and started using that through the contractions and breathing harder and just trying to get my mind of them.
Things just continued to progressed and got really painful early in the morning. At 7 in the morning the doctor came in and said I was at about a 6. He said if I we wanted to get things really moving we could do pitocin I declined. With the next couple of hrs the contractions were coming every 2 mins and lasting about 40 seconds and I didnt think that I was going to make it without something, I asked family to leave at this point since the labor intensified so strongly and I just stripped down naked and got in a kinda dog position putting wet cold towels on me and hubby talking me through still telling me I could do this and too breathe, I asked the nurse for any type of pain relief but she checked me and I was a t a 9 so she said she would check and see but at this point I wasso close and there wasnt really much they could do so I had to get back mentally positioned to do this and got in the position that made me conmfortable again and when I thought this was it I really couldnt take the pain the nurse told me to try doing a test push cause I was at a 10 and fully thinned out, when I tried she saw the head and yelled to get the doctor right in. The doctor came in and 3 pushes later, my surprise that I waited for 9 months was here, A beautiful baby girl named Anastacia. She weighed 7 lbs and 13 0z and when he said it is a healthly baby girl it was an amazing moment and so worth the wait.
I love her to death and my family is complete.

She is soo chunky!!

Thanks to whoever read any of this and all my gaga girls!!
xoxoxoxo

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