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**SBP!**
I read your thread below! I'm glad pts is doing well and out of the NICU, and that's great that she doesn't need the shunt.
She is SO gorgeous (and I can't get over how much she looks like you!). How are you adjusting to everything?
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I had sst just two days after pts arrived - she (yay a girl!) was born on Wednesday afternoon, one week early (tomorrow is my actual due date). I had my regular appointment on Tuesday afternoon, and the dr said "well, you're already 4-5 cm, so you'd better go down to maternity and get monitored".? So that's what we did - I finally got seen about 9 pm, and they said I was a full 5 cm and 90% effaced. The weirdest thing was, I was having NO pain at all - just some very mild menstrual-type cramps. My water hadn't broken, nothing. Everybody was marveling at how easy this was going, how well I was doing (ha! I should have known!).
It was smooth sailing until about midnight when they told me I wasn't making any progress and basically I wasn't having real contractions. The nurse said "How you got to 5-6 cm, I'll never know." So they started the pitocin and then the real contractions came - oh yes. I was having more and more painful contractions for the next 7 hours, yet basically making NO progress. They tried to break my water around 3 am, couldn't find it (that was possibly the most painful thing I have ever experienced). Tried again two hours later and still couldn't find it - apparently it broke on its own without anybody, including myself, noticing. So strange.?
Then I burst into tears at 7 am when the doctor told me I was STILL 6 cm. It was at that point where I asked for the IV pain medications, which knocked me out. I was terrified of having an epidural (I have a serious needle phobia), so I was very adamant that I didn't want it.
I woke up and the pain was MUCH worse. My OB came in and told me basically that she was going to have to do a c-section because I had been in labor for so long and still wasn't making any progress (still only 7 cm). Again, burst into tears, because the only thing I wanted less than an epidural was a c-section. I had another dose of the fentanyl, slept for another hour or so, and woke up and the pain was unbearable. I was begging for the epidural. So I got it, it totally numbed me (I couldn't feel one leg at all), went to blissful, blissful sleep and next thing I know, my dr is examining me and saying "ok, you're fully dilated, get ready to push."
So I pushed for about half an hour, which was really hard since I couldn't feel ANYTHING (I kept asking, "am I doing this right??") and then there she was at around 2 pm!? She was a little thing - 6 lb 9 oz (thank you Lord).
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Holy crap, that was really long, sorry.? I guess I was just dying to tell this story to someone who would understand!
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Here she is, about 10 minutes old:
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