The Birth Story

If you don't want to read this I'll summarize it for you: 

I am totally awesome and gave birth to a totally awesome daughter.

I should also mention that my "birth plan" was to go as natural as possible for as long as possible, and despite the crazy labor story I do not have any regrets about the decisions I made.

This is what happened:

Wednesday July 6 (Due Date) doctor's appointment: 

    Schedule an induction for Thursday July 14. 

    Spend the next week absolutely refusing to accept the fact that I will have to be induced.

Tuesday July 12 doctor's appointment:

    Talk to the doctor. Finally accept that I will be induced and not go into labor naturally.

Half an hour later:

   Go into labor naturally.

   Panic.

11:30 PM:

   Finally decide to go to the hospital when the contractions keep getting stronger.

12:00 PM:

   Arrive at hospital. Contractions stop getting stronger.

1:00 PM:

   Leave hospital. Contractions start getting stronger.

   Very funny, uterus. Very funny.

4:00 AM:

   Decide to go back to the hospital.

   I get to stay this time. 

   And show off my natural laboring skills. 

TWELVE HOURS LATER (Twenty-four since I officially started labor) at 4:00 PM:

   Plead for drugs.

7:00 PM:

   Plead for epidural. 

   I should mention that at this point I have been in transition for 5 hours. Typical time? 10 minutes - 2 hours.

   I told you, I'm awesome.

8:00 PM:

   Finally get epidural to work properly. It didn't cover my right side at first.

   Blessed blessed sleep.

9:15 PM:

  Push.

10:21 PM: Tessa!

I kept telling Seth throughout the pregnancy that my labor and delivery was going to be terrible because I had such a fabulous pregnancy. You know, just to keep things balanced.

Sometimes I hate it when I'm right.

But it was all so incredibly worth it.