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Main Page Site Index Getting Pregnant Pregnancy Parenting Pregnancy and Parenting Journals Fertility Nutrition Pregnant Moms Morning Sickness Women's Health Child Health	Kaitlynn's Birth Story By AJRICHEY23       I woke up in the middle of the night the day before I was due, because I had to go to the bathroom, all pregnant women can relate to this. On my way to the restroom I stubbed my toe. When I stubbed my toe my water broke. About an hour later my contractions started. I called the hospital they told me to try to go to sleep and come in at 6 am. Needless to say I couldn't sleep. BTW the labor started at 1 AM.      The next morning at 5, my mother and my husband were both waking to get ready for work and I told them I needed to go to the hospital at 6 because I was in labor. I then asked my mom if this was really what labor was like because it didn't hurt at all. She said, "It will get worse".      We went to the hospital and they hooked me up to the monitor. At about 4 in the afternoon the doctor came in. It still didn't hurt, but I was getting really tired. He said my labor was not progressing and if it didn't progress in 2 hours then he wanted them to give me something to progress it. That did it!!!!! At about 7, I was telling my mom I wanted to go home. And kept asking her to make it go away. I cried. The whole time though I did not make a single sound except for silent tears and whispering to my mom to take me home.       At 8 the nurse came in and put drugs in my I.V. She said not to be surprised if things got weird and they did. The grain in the wood of the door started waving like the ocean. I finally got to sleep though, I was really tired. It wasn't hurting but I was totally exhausted because at this point there was no time between contractions. I hate that stuff they give you!!!       They told me later that my sleep was really restless because I could still feel the contractions though I don't remember any of it. The next thing I knew my sister was sitting next to me telling me to look in her eyes and concentrate on her. In my head, I was cussing her out and beating her up. Apparently (as told to me) , in reality, I was just whispering please leave me alone.       Then I asked the nurse for more drugs. She said that she would check me at 10 and give me some more then. She then proceded to tell my family and husband that I would be having the baby at around 3 am. When she came back and checked me she was really shocked. I was dialated to 8 so she couldnt give me anything else. In my head I was really angry but apparently on the outside I just whispered to my mom "Please take me home now".       The next thing I remember is telling my sister I have to go to the bathroom really bad. She said no that's the baby. Don't push. Everyone was saying Don't push. I was thinking "Yeah right" and on the outside I whispered to my sister I'm Sorry I have To! Then I started pushing. At this point I kept asking everyone is the head there yet, do you see the head. The doctor had gone home and was not there yet. At this point it was 11:40pm. I was thinking in my head the whole time "Come on baby come out before the doctor gets here I don't want an episiotomy!!!!" Just as the head was coming out the doctor walked in and eased the baby out. Yayyyyyy No Episiotomy!!!!       Apparently all through the pushing I made no noise either. So one of the nurses told me to grunt while pushing. Kaitlynn was born at 12:01 Exactly on her due date. It was 23 hrs of labor and only 21 minutes of pushing. The next day the big talk in the labor wing was the girl who made no sound the entire time she was here. I could hear them talking about me in the hall.      Funny thing was about 6 hours after I had gotten to the hospital I heard a woman down the hall having her baby and she was screaming. I was thinking at that point that I didn't want to do it if it was that bad. Let me point out also that I have had Kidney stones. And I think that kind of prepared me because luckily having a baby is not as bad a Kidney Stones and you get a beautiful baby afterwards!!!! Search the Birth Stories Match All Terms Any Term and show results in Standard Form in Compact Form Hint! Enclose phrases in quotes. For example "home birth" [ Return to Section Six Birth Stories Index ]