Labor and Delivery

Sorry it's been a while.  I have been very busy!  I had my beautiful baby girl, Aubree, on Election Day I was 37 weeks and 5 days.  I went into labor on Sunday night, but the contractions weren't close enough to worry about. Then Monday they were coming every 15 minutes or so. Then by early Tuesday, around 2am they were every 5 minutes apart. So I went to the hospital and they sent me home because I was still dilated 1cm. I went back that day at 9am and still no change. But, my contractions were 2-3 minutes apart and lasting 1 minute! The nurse made the doctor come and see them because she knew I was in labor. When they walked in I was in so much pain they admitted me right away.
I went around 4 or 5 hours before I was able to get an epidural. The thing was I wasn't dilating from were I had the LEEP procedure. I had been in labor for over 36 hours before they finally admitted me!!! The LEEP had caused me to have scar tissue and it was keeping me from dilating. I was screaming I was in so much pain. My poor husband was in tears because he couldn't do anything to help. Then I finally got the epidural and when they checked me again it made the scar tissue finally tear open. I dilated from 2 to 6 within 5 minutes. It caused me to have a continuous contraction and it was squeezing Aubree. They were making me change positions trying to get it to stop. It made her heart rate dropped and they were preparing for an emergency C-section. They gave me a shot in my uterus and it finally worked. They had to stop my labor completely for 2 hours. Then they started giving me Pitocin to start it up again. I dilated the last 4 cm in around 1.5 hours after that. I ended up pushing for around and hour and it was over!! I have never been in that much pain in my life!!!!  But it was well worth it! 

Welcome to the world Aubree Rae!  6lbs, 1oz, 18 inches long.