Pregnancy Forum - My Labor Story And Pics!!

Well, I finally have a few minutes to spare. We have had a house full ever since we came home from the hospital.

My waters ruptured on the 17th. It was around 3pm and I had just left work (it was my last day before beginning maternity leave; talk about perfect timing!!) and I was walking through the grocery store. All of a sudden, I felt really wet and decided I should head home. So I checked out with what little I had in my cart and went home. About 5pm, I decided to call the hospital and find out if I should come in or not because at this point I was leaking pretty heavily. They told me to come on it and have things checked out. We arrived at the hospital about 6:30 that evening. I was only 2cm dilated though.

They admitted me and got me into my birthing room. About 3:30 the next morning, I was still dilated at 2cm, so they hooked me up to Pitocin. Sad

By 7am, the contractions were started to get more intense and closer together. By 9am, I was begging for an epidural; the contractions were so close together and so intense that I couldn't catch a breath in between them. And I was ONLY 4cm dilated.

Things progressed very slowly throughout the day and finally around 6pm I was ready to push. I pushed for about an hour and half and just couldn't go anymore, so they had to suction my baby girl out. Cheyenne Grace made her arrival at 7:38pm on August 18th. 28 and half hours after my water ruptured. She was 6 lbs. 6.5 ozs and 20 inches long. She's a beauty!!!

After the delivery, things got very chaotic. The nurses were going to need my birthing room, so they wanted to move me to a post natal room. They got me up to use the restroom and when I got up I gushed a ton of blood everywhere. The nurses hadn't been massaging my uterus after delivery and expelling the blood slowly, so it ALL came out at once. I passed out on them several times. At one point, I was white as a ghost, my lips were blue and my heart rate dropped to 30. Of course, I remember nothing, but my poor husband was scared to death. Needless to say, I stayed in my birthing room that night.

The next day everything was fine and I got moved to the post natal room. They kept me an extra day just to make sure everything was going to be OK. All is well now, and baby and I are doing just great.

Now, what you all came here looking for. PICTURES!! I only have a couple downloaded from the camera, so I'll try to post more later.

Image cave is acting really funny today and I can't get anymore pictures uploaded into my account. I'll try again later if I get a minute.