On April 12th Miranda Lynn joined our family!

I was supposed to be just going for tests on Tuesday the 11th but once everything was done I asked to leave and the nurse tells me to sit in one of the rooms and wait. Another nurse walks in and tells me I can't leave today because I have to be induced. I was shocked and upset. I wanted to go home and eat lunch. I was not supposed to be induced for another week if the baby did not come. So I got put into a delivery room and started the drugs for the inducing process. They started me on Cytotec which is taken every three hours. I had to be on a fetal and contraction monitor before and after the dosing of this drug. I started to have contractions but nothing painful. I ended up having contractions all night until they gave me a sleeping pill at midnight. I probably still had them but was out of it enough not to notice them.

Beginning of day two of inducement started at six am with more monitoring than and IV of Pitocin. This started more painful but manageable contractions. The contractions started to be about 2 minutes apart. Then after 8 am my water broke and I wanted to die. The contractions were horrible and about every minute and a half apart. I asked for an epidural but I was not dialated far enough to recieve one. I was given an other drug to help with the contractions but it only lasted for about four contractions, not very helpful. I suffered through the contractions until 11am when I was able to recieve the epidural. I finally was able to relax. I wanted to push a few hours before I was dialated far enough for that so that started to get very uncomfortable, but when I finally was able to push I did not waste any time. I only had to push for 40 minutes. That was 40 minutes of burning pain. I delivered Miranda with out the assistance of forceps or a vaccum. I did end up tearing in three places (one internal and 2 external frontal tears). It took my doctor 30 minutes to stitch all of them up. I still am sore from the stitches. You may forget the pain of labor eventually but I can say it is something I never want to experience again. I also think that I may never have sex again (Sorry Aaron).