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Have Faith! Delivery STORYYY!

Hi moms!


My due date was July 28 but my little girl hadn't arrived and I still wasn't dilated. Had a doc appt. July 29. When he checked my cervix, my back started to hurt. Went home and the back pain picked up. Decided to go to hospital July 30 (next day) to see if it was back labor.

Still not dilated and doc decided it may be a uti or bladder infection. Forced to get a catheter without numbing to get a urine sample. When he removed it, I felt something leak. He checked to see if my water broke-NEGATIVE !

Went home leaking and thought it was b/c of the catheter. Then a gush of water went down my dry-fit tights but my dad said it was probably urine since I was checked 30 mins ago at the doc. Brown discharge, uncomfortable urination, and I wore sanitary napkins thinking I was leaking from the catheter placement and removal.

Well my doc didn't call me so I talked to a relative who's a l&d coach. She said the removal of a catheter doesn't do that. EUREKA! I knew it was probably fluids.
Got checked and it was ruptured membranes. Got admitted to hospital. No infection and had been leaking for over 24 hrs yet she had a sufficient amt in the sac
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Congratulations!
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I had been awake for over 24 hours when I delivered my daughter but after she got here I was so happy, couldn't stop holding her and looking at her I didn't rest at all in the hospital I was so in love
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Love your story and glad she's ok.. she's a trooper!! And so are you! I was shaking really bad too. So glad labor is over blah! Congrats :D
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Continued...

The shakes were so bad my jaw was hurting and my body was numb minus one hand. Boobs became numb and my left hand went numb so it was hard to help them lift my thick thighs. Lol!

In the end, the worst part (with the epidural) was the migraine made worse by pushing and the shakes that caused me to feel dead and my teeth to chatter nonstop hurting my jaw. So happy she was healthy. Even after swallowing meconium, being too small so-say, me having a long chord that was wrapped 3 TIMES around her neck yet she still kept her heart rate up. Praise GOD! I tore but I'm walking around and minimal pain everywhere else. Baby girl could've been dead if I didn't go in to get the leaking fluid (which I thought was urine incontinence) checked despite feeling embarrassed! She's so beautiful. I haven't even slept yet. And I'm holding her!

Don't give up moms! Good luck and God bless new moms!!!
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Not dilated still, started on pitocin, 6 hrs in I got an epidural, oh the IV in my arm hurt like HLL! I was freezing but it was the drugs. By 4 AM I was 1 cm dilated. So disappointed and hungry. By 7 AM I was 2 cm. around 8:45 I was 5 cm. and by 11 AM I was 10 cm dilated. PRAISE GOD! Pushed for abt 22 mins and she was here. 6 lbs, 8 oz, 19.5" .  


During the time between 12 AM- 6 AM, the nurse scared me telling me her heart rate dropped, then the machine kept messing up, then she wasn't picking up the contractions so she inserted a tube, then I couldn't sleep because I was being checked every 2 hrs so no sleep and a hunger migraine
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