Delivery! After a week of being on bed rest
since my water broke, I finally went into labor. I began laboring at 11:00am on
February 5th. It started pretty calm, and I convinced my nurse to let me shower
before sending me down to L&D. [I never realized how good I was at
negotiating until I was in the hospital, haha]. Once I was down there, I was
pretty comfortable for a few hours. I could certainly feel the contractions,
but I wasn't in a ton of pain--yet.
Ok, so this is kind of embarrassing. I didn't
know ANYTHING about epidurals. I thought you got one shot, and if it wore off--too
bad, so sad. Therefore, I didn't ask for my epidural until I absolutely could
not stand the contractions anymore. No one ever told me that an epidural is a
continuous drip! Once I figured this out, I requested one ASAP. I had back
contractions--which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. They were so painful. I
finally got my epidural around 6:30pm on February 5th, and it
was heaven.
Post-epidural relaxation
