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@getjazzy: congratulations! So happy for you

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@Ms. RV: congrats!!
@getjazzy: congrats! Sounds like a peaceful delivery.

Glad everyone is healthy & doing well!!

@getjazzy: Congrats, mama!! Scheduled c-sections aren't so bad, right? I actually thought mine was kinda relaxing (if I ignored what was happening on the other side of the sheet haha). Can't wait to hear more!

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@getjazzy: beautiful name!!

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@Ms. RV: @getjazzy: @abmamma: Congrats, ladies! Lots of beautiful babies!!!

@abmamma: hooray!!! congrats so happy for you!

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@abmamma: good job mama! Can't wait to read your story!

Hi Ladies,

I posted a general thread, but didn't update here. I had my LO on August 6th. Her name is Amara James and she arrived super quickly and weighed 7 lbs, 7 oz and was 2 inches long.

Short version: I went to work Thursday morning after 8 days of prodromal labor. Arrived around 8 am and sometime around 10 am I realized the small contractions I'd been having for over a week were becoming super regular and more painful. I wasn't sure if they were "real" or not, and I was only working till noon, so I thought i'd wait a couple of hours and see if they continued.

Except by 10:30, I was pretty sure they were "real", and since I live almost an hour from work, I called my husband and he convinced me to go home. Which was a GOOD THING, because I left at 10:45 and just 15-20 minutes into my drive, my contractions became so painful I was having to concentrate on breathing through them. I considered pulling over during contractions, they were so bad but then decided I'd rather just get home and gather my hospital bags.

By the time I got home a little after 11:45 or so, I could hardly walk up the stairs. I got inside and started gathering my bags, but soon gave up on that and just laid on the exercise ball and tried to breathe through contractions while ordering my mom around while she gathered my stuff. I was trying to wait on my husband to get home from work, but my mom started timing my contractions and they were only 2.5 minutes apart and STRONG, so we decided to head to the hospital. Luckily, as we were walking to the car, DH ran up and jumped in the car with us.

The hospital is only .8 of a mile from our house but there was traffic and I couldn't sit in the car at all--I was in the back on my hands and knees, basically freaking out from the pain. It was VERY intense by this point.

We arrived at the hospital at 12:35 pm. We spent 10 minutes at the ER check in desk, where they kept trying to make me sit down in a wheelchair while they got my insurance information and stuff, and I kept refusing because I was already feeling pushing pressure. I just remember thinking that there was no way I could sit.

They finally got me upstairs to a triage room and asked me to put on a hospital gown and pee in a cup--I was so out of it by this point with back-to-back contractions that I threw the cup on the floor and told them I couldn't pee, I was having a baby. They told me to lay on the bed and we'd wait for my OB to arrive, and I ordered them to find a doctor--ANY DOCTOR--and get them to come check me.

They got the OB on call who came and told me I was fully dilated and ready to push (yeah, no shit!). I asked for an epidural (ha ha.) and he said there was no time...there wasn't even time to get an L &D room ready. They wheeled me next door to an OR and I started pushing. Three pushes and her head was out---it was SUCH relief (there was screaming involved) and on the 4th push she was totally out.

I barely had time to process it. I kept saying "I can't believe she's here", over and over. And I cried.

She was born at 12:56 pm, just about 20 minutes after we arrived at the hospital. 2nd degree tears, since she came so fast.

We've been home over a week now and are doing well! Baby has her days and nights mixed up, and our toddler is up during the day, so we are totally exhausted but loving our little ones.

At the hospital being monitored. Waves have been 2.5-3 mins apart since they started at 1am.

@buttermilk: fingers crossed this it!!

3 cm. but fully effaced. Gonna check me again in 2 hrs. Damn triage is not comfy lol. I was just so nervous to be at home bc they were so close together immediately. Gonna walk around. IM STARVING!

@buttermilk: eeek!!! Can you sneak a granola bar? So excited for you!

No change so they sent me home. Still having the contractions tho they have maybe lessened in intensity. Trying to rest? Also I heard a woman there screaming and it really is messing with me! What if i can't do this?

@buttermilk: you can do it! Definitely eat and rest. Bounce on a yoga ball, walk etc.

@buttermilk: just remember to breathe!!!

@buttermilk: you can do it!! If I did it (with zero plan of going med-free EVER and not a high pain tolerance to start), you can do it!!!