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With my first (2 years ago) At 2 days before 40 weeks i didnt feel the baby move for over 15 hours and called DR- she had me come in and get hooked up and i was having some contractions (which i didnt really realize! baby was fine too). I started noticing contractions around 3pm, but they didnt hurt much from what i remember- and they started making me have to lean on the counters when i was making dinner around 8pm... then my hubby went to bed and they started getting painful around midnight, at about 1 or 2am i started crying and called my dr but she said to wait -so i suffered all night back and forth from the couch to my bed not able to sleep due to contractions about 2-5 min apart. I did eat a bowl of wheat chex at about 3am though, probably good that i did! I was in pain and crying off and on all night long moving around... At 5 am i could barely move around or function -i called my work and told them about that time, and told hubby we have to go to the hospital now -i dont care if he wants to yet or not! So it took me until about 7/730 am to get my stuff together in a pile and be ready to go! We got to the hospital around 815am and i was in labor i think 5cm, and the pain and contactions kept getting stronger and more painful! I went into a tub for about 30 minutes around 930 am- I also had 2 shots of Demerol in my IV one before the bath and one after- neither helped or really did anything but make me feel dizzy and jittery. Around 1030 they broke my water at which point the pain become a LOT stronger, and I started pusing shortly after- she was born at 1152 am. During the last hour or so of labor- mainly i think the end of pushing the pain was so much i started seeing/or imagining a BLACK WALL (have no idea why i just remember that) and at the end of pushing right before i had her i feel like i was going in and out of being consciously "THERE" BECAUSE right after she came out I almost felt like "WOAH, Was i asleep? I feel like i just woke up" It was the weirdest thing in the world. I guess at the end i wasnt breathing right and baby hr was slowwing so they gave me an oxygen mask they held to my face and i must not have been pushing so strong cause i remember everyone yelling at me to push and then my Dr using a vaccuum and my baby had to have an oxygen mask for 2 minutes and couldnt be on my tummy at all right when she came out like i had so much wanted. --I would say it was "painful" for about 12 hours even though i think the contractions were for 20 hours. I had an episiotomy (which i DIDNT want more than anything! but i guess she had to cause she said she doesnt really ever do them) and it was pretty bad- Dr also used the vaccuum right at the end too... i had a ton of stitches and was swollen down there the size of a bunch of golf balls for 2 weeks. I am thinking I want a water birth this time but want to also really do what is best for my baby... I am 16 weeks as of now.
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