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My birth story!

This may be kind of long so get ready!! My due date was Jan 7th, I decided to come into labor and delivery yesterday (1/10) afternoon because I thought my water had broken! Turned out it wasn't my water but I was having a TON of watery like discharge. I was told at my latest dr appt I was already almost 6cm, however the nurses at the hospital said I was only a 4. Needless to say I was very disappointed. They did have me all hooked up just to check on baby and literally out of no where I got a huge SEVEN minute long contraction, no lie. Baby boy didn't respond well to that, his heart rate dropped drastically. Of course after that they said they would not let me go back home and since I was already 3 days over my due date they gave me the option of inducing me then so that I didn't have to have any contractions at home later on that could possibly be that long and them not there to monitor him. They started pitocin around 3:30pm yesterday very slowly to see how he responded to it. He had a couple more abnormally long contractions but not another 7 minute one. After a long day and night, contractions really started to pick up today (1/11) although the contractions hurt I felt like they didn't hurt bad enough to want to get the epidural but after OVER 24 hours of laboring I was officially wore out and got the epidural. For me personally it was the best thing I could have done, I finally got some sleep and when I woke up I felt more than ready to tackle labor and delivery. After the epidural, they broke my water when I was at 5cm. And a few hours later they checked and I was dilated to a 9!!! About an hour or so went by even though I was already to a 10 because they wanted baby to get as far down as possible by himself so I wouldn't have to hopefully push as long. After that hour went by he moved down a TON by himself. I pushed three times through one contraction and you could already see his head full of hair! I chose to get a mirror so I could watch the whole process taking place and it was the most amazing thing ever to watch. It gave me so much more strength to want to push him out. Less than an hour after starting pushing my baby boy arrived at 8lbs 12oz! I did tear enough to have 3 stitches. Although I'm a little sore as of right now it was SO worth it as I'm sitting here holding my sleeping baby boy who is a little over 4 hours old now :) I've never been so in love! God has surely blessed me and my husband by giving us our first child, as healthy as can be :)
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Congratulations!
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Congrats xo
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Congratulations
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Congratulations!  Thanks for sharing!
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Awww congratulations hun you are brave God bless you and your family:)
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This is beautiful! I'm so happy for you :")
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