As Caden grabbed me a wheelchair a cute lady stopped me. "Did your water break?" And then she proceeded to tell me how happy she was and asked what we planned to name her. I tried to be polite but all I could think about was how wet my pants were and how embarrassed I felt.
At 9:30am we arrived to our room, I got hooked up to the monitors and an IV was started. Our nurse came in to introduce herself and we filled out some paperwork. She told us it was going to be a while before baby was here and we should make ourselves comfortable.
Our families showed up around noon and I was only dilated to a 2. We visited, watched some Price is Right and mentioned a hundred more times how excited we were.
At 11:00am I was hooked up to Pitocin to get things moving quicker. The contractions intensified, but nothing too painful. I tried "toughing it out" for about 10 minutes until Caden convinced me to get my epidural so I was comfortable. Best decision ever.
I was so worried about Caden during the epidural. He is NOT a fan of needles, or of me being in pain. I feared he would pass out and my anesthesiologist would have to stop what he was doing to help Cade. Not the case. Caden was a champ and held my hand the whole time. The epidural wasn't nearly as bad as I had imagined, and afterwards my labor was a breeze.
The family started taking bets on when Hazel would make her big debut. Some thought as early as 7pm, others thought as late as 2am. I guessed 11:30pm. Way off.
At around 4:30 the nurse checked me again. I had progresses in thinning my cervix but was only dilated to a 5. The nurse thought I would dilate a centimeter an hour and predicted I'd labor another 5 hours. My mom disagreed.
My family has awesome baby-making genes. Both my mom and sister had simple deliveries and my mom knew she had passed on those child bearing hips. Boy, was she right.
Caden left to go to the bathroom and instantly I felt the urge to do the same. Lots of pressure and big contractions. My mom panicked and pushed the call light. "You better come check her again," and the nurse came rushing in.
I had dilated from a 5 to a 10 in less than 10 minutes. The nurse checking me just looked at me and said "are you kidding?!" Nope. I'm not. I'd like to have this baby now. She's ready.
She called the doctor who was on his way into a c-section. Because this was my first baby, he thought I would be pushing for quite some time. He told the nurse to do a few practice pushes and he would come in once he finished with his other patient.
My next contraction the nurse had me do a practice push. "Push!! 1...2...3...stop!" She stopped me in the middle of my contraction to tell be that Hazel was coming much sooner than expected.
I'm a good pusher.
She called the doctor back and he rushed right over. I gave him two big pushes and Hazel was here.
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