Technically I wasn't due until the following Saturday, but I felt like I was overdue. That Wednesday I had noticed that the baby wasn't moving around as much. I had been told that this could happen as the baby outgrew the womb, but this was definitely different. I called the midwives and they had me come in for a non stress test. At the hospital the baby didn't cooperate with the monitor, she didn't have her heart rate go up high enough a certain amount of times. So they sent me down to ultrasound to do a biophysical ultrasound. She passed this time but they still wanted to see me at the midwive's office. The midwife explained to me that while she had passed, the radiologist was concerned as the baby's chest hadn't grown in the two weeks since my last ultrasound. We were going to have to induce labor.
She checked my cervix and found that I was already 4 centimeters dilated. She decided then that having me come in right then to place the Cervadil in my cervix wasn't needed, that they could just break my water the following morning. So she stripped my membranes and sent me on my way. I was to arrive at the hospital at 8am the next morning. I made it way earlier than that!
I started natural labor at 2 in the morning. We arrived at the hospital by 3 and I was already 5 centimeters along. At this point my body decided it needed to be empty of all extraneous fluid and I spent the next two hours waiting for the midwife in the bathroom with a bucket.
At 5:00 the midwife showed up and checked me. I was 7cm and she broke my water. She stepped out for a phone call and I told the nurse I felt like I needed to push. She patted me on the shoulder in a condescending way and said "yes, dear I bet you do. Why don't you just get up on the bed then?" So I did and she checked me and ran running from the room. The baby's head was crowning! They pulled the midwife from the phone and I gave a total of four pushes and she was out. All 6lbs 13oz of her. |
