Hello my wonderful readers! **I am going to give a warning at the beginning of this post that there might be some graphic descriptions, because of having no other way to describe certain things but I will try to be as least graphic as possible.**
On Sunday, October 26, 2014 at around 4am I was woken up by a weird feeling in between my legs. I reached down to feel what was going on and my pants were completely soaked from my crotch to my knees, my water had broke. I woke my husband up and told him, he proceeded to change his clothes while I changed my pants and called labor and delivery at the hospital to tell them we were on our way. We thankfully had everything in the car already and I just needed to grab my wallet. We made it to the hospital by 4:30am and I went into triage to be examined. I was still only dilated to a 1 just like at my appointment earlier that week. We were in triage being monitored for about an hour or two, then we went up to the delivery room. The delivery room was like a suite at a hotel besides the bed being so uncomfortable. At this point I had not really had any contractions. My parents arrived about 7-730am at our room. I walked the halls over and over to try to get things started naturally but it just didn't happen. I ended up having to have pitocin to get my contractions started, they gave that to me about 9-10am. Then they kept turning up the dose every hour and the contractions started coming on strong. I was hurting but I was determined to try to get her out. I labored until about 8pm and that's when they took my blood pressure and determined it was at stroke level and they had to give me an epidural to get it down otherwise the baby and me would both be in trouble. I felt bad for getting the epidural because I was determined to not have one so bad. I got it and slept off and on through out the night. I labored off and on as well all night and was only dilated to a 4.
Monday, October 27th rolled around and she still wasn't any closer to being here. I labored all day and really most of the day was a blur to me. At about 9am they came in and told me that I was at a 6 and they would give me about 4-6 more hours then they would have to do a c-section, that would be about 3pm. They upped my pitocin and my contractions came back strong and close together. At about 1:45pm I was finally dilated and ready to push. I pushed for 45 minutes and out she came. She got a little stuck on her shoulder when she was coming out so they had to help her out quickly. She was completely purple so they had to cut the cord and take her to the baby table next to my bed to check her out quickly. Aaron unfortunately did not get to cut the cord because of this. She was completely healthy. At 2:29pm Penelope Ann Thorsen came into the world after about 30 hours of labor and 34 1/2 hours since my water had broke. We spent almost 4 days in the hospital from start to finish. A long 4 days! She was 8lbs 3oz, 20.4 inches long. She is perfect in every way. She had a full head of dark hair. It was for sure the hardest thing I have ever done in my life! My husband, Aaron, was amazing through the whole thing, I think he maybe laid down on the couch once to sleep for 15 minutes, otherwise he was by my side holding my hand the whole time. I love him so very much, and to see him finally look into his daughter's eyes for the first time was amazing! I have never seen my husband cry before and he did that day because he was so happy to see her and hold her! They finally stitched me up and gave her back to me to hold for the first time and the overwhelming feeling of her in my arms finally was so amazing! I cried of course because I was so happy (plus my hormones were completely crazy haha). I would never trade anything in the world for the experience and getting to take home my beautiful baby girl! Loves.
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