Okay a lot of you have wanted to know how my labour was with little Noah. Well to start off I wouldn't change anything at all about my labour really except maybe wish I had the fourth doctor to deliver him but the fifth doctor was fine. It's a pretty short story really so it won't take too long to tell.
Well after complaining all morning and most of the afternoon about not enjoying being pregnant anymore, we get home from being out all afternoon shopping and my water breaks in the bathroom at 4:15pm. If it was any sooner it would have been either in the store or all over the car seat. Well they say that normally when most women's water breaks naturally it will be like a trickle and not like the gush in Hollywood movies. Well for me I got the gush, I thought it was never going to stop, and tom is laughing in disbelief at what he is seeing. We call L&D and they told us to come right in. I thought it was going to take forever so we took our time packing my hospital bag and stuff for tom etc. The hospital is about 20min away and 5 min into the drive my contraction start and they start right away at 4-5min apart. Once we get checked in and set up they told me it could be like this for hours. However Noah had other plans. We were 3 cm
dilated when they checked me and an hour later we were 5cm and it pretty much continued at this fast pace, there were no breaks between my contractions, which I really didn't understand why. The Nursers and Doctors were really surprised that a first time mom was going this fast.
In fact the labour was going so fast that although we saw 5 different doctors, the nurses almost had to deliver Noah because no doctors were free. I know they had the call button pushed and 5 nurses were running around and than all of a sudden a doctor showed up just in time. I pushed for 10min and Noah arrived at 9:24pm. Which surprised the doctors even more because Noah was face up(babies are supposed to be born face down normally), which normally makes for a harder labour and some women end up with C section because of it. We were pretty much the talk of the floor for a while at least. Now I couldn't have gotten through it with out Tom that is for sure. He kept me
focused, calm and got me to do my breathing which I think is how I didn't get an
epi. I was also happy I didn't need any stitches and let me tell you the natural endorphins after labour are so nice (just like a runners high). So I know this sounds crazy but I would rather do that labour again than the pregnancy for 9 months
hahahaha. Yes I know I am weird. So that is
basically my story.