Labor & Delivery at 19 🏥

I was 38 weeks pregnant on my 19 birthday, I woke up feeling pretty miserable that day. I had a feeling that my birthday might be the day by the way I woke up. My friend took me out to eat at Waffle House and I was having contractions the entire time there so I decided it was time to go to the hospital. Long story short I was in labor, wasn’t progressing, so they sent me home to labor at home. 🙄

Fast forward to a few couple days later, I wake up I’m in extreme pain. I decide to just let it go and go to my friends house because at this point I’ve already been in labor for days and nothing is progressing the way it should, baby boy was taking his time. I start feeling pretty woozy at my friends house and I tell her to take me home and then my man gets home from work. We eat some pizza and a watermelon and I told him I wanted to go curb walking because I’m in pain an uncomfortable and wanted to speed of the process. Boy oh boy did those do something.. I started timing my contractions and they got to about 5 minutes apart and I went to go take a shower and get the things I needed to take to the hospital they say of packed up and ready- cause it was time! I just knew it! My friend took me to the hospital and my man waited at home because he did have work the next day so just *incase* it was a false alarm he stayed home and laid down. So I get to the hospital fast forward a few hours they do all the things cervical check, check if my water broke (because I did feel some leakage but apparently it wasn’t my water), and watch how my contractions progress. They were back to back it seemed like but they were really only every 3 minutes lasting a minute. They come in to tell me they’re doing an ultrasound and cervical check again before they send me home. In my mind I’m like send me home?! Are you crazy?! Unfortunately I was still stuck at 2cm so they were like we’re probably going to send you home but let’s do that ultrasound first, and that’s where things took a turn.

My son was low on amniotic fluid. The look on the nurses face was not a look I wanted to see on my nurses face regarding my baby. I immediately jumped in my phone and texted my man to tell him about her look and that we were doing the ultrasound. They told me we’re going to call your doctor and see what to do because you may end up staying after all. I slowly started to panic and my friend thankfully was there with me to calm me down and I called my man to tell him to pack everything and get ready because I’m pretty sure we’re having a baby tonight. The nurse comes in the room and tells me “yes ma’am you are staying your baby is low on amniotic fluid and he’s in the danger zone so we’re going to have to induce you to get him out before anything else goes wrong” I literally felt a lump in my throat.. I couldn’t believe what was happening right now. They wheeled me to labor and delivery after about 2 hours and they finally let my man come up (covid 🙄) and we were all in my room.

I got set up and I was pretty much chilling until the morning time came and I started having really bad contractions in my ass!!! Those contractions were the worst yet. I was pushing through all the other contractions but those ?? Oh no baby they had me screaming!!!! I got my cervix checked because I felt hella pressure down there and that was the worst mistake ever I wish I would’ve never said anything 😂😂 the ass contractions plus getting your cervix checked ??? Hell no !! So I told them I wanted the epidural IMMEDIATELY. Yall tell me why my doctor came in and broke my water and it was the most excruciating pain ever??? I don’t know if it was because my cervix was already so sensitive and it hurt so bad but man, I was crying 😂 and then when I wanted to get in the shower to relieve some pain the anesthesiologist finally showed up after a HOUR 🥲 I was crying because I didn’t want to end up paralyzed, I was saying I was sorry because I was leaking water everywhere, I was an emotional wreck yall. I got that epidural though and I was straight CHILLINGGGG until the baby had to come. I was sleeping too good!!!

And then it came time to push and I pushed for about an hour, during the pushing my sons head got stuck because he molded to my cervix so they had to move my cervix off of his head. Then of course something else happened , my son’s shoulder got stuck and it caused him to have shoulder dystocia (he was fine thankfully!) I was also okay I did feel him kinda be stuck and I felt the pressure but that’s about it. After a hour of pushing my 8lbs 12oz 21 inch baby boy was here!!! I was in labor for a total of 22 hours not counting the previous days. I didn’t tear HALLELUJAH cause I was terrified to rip like crazy. But there you have it guys , my birth story!!!

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