Don't hate me, but my labor was so much easier than I expected
by Jamie Reed posted in Pregnancy
Being a first-time mom, I wasn't sure what to expect from labor. It seems people only want to share their horror stories with you, and television and movies make it look, well, terrible. My own labor and delivery story actually was NOTHING like what I had heard or been told. In fact, it was incredibly easy in comparison! Here's my journey to meeting my baby:
8 p.m. Sunday night We were scheduled to check in to the hospital that evening for my induction, and we arrived only to be told to wait in the lobby. While they had several scheduled inductions that night, they had just had four women show up in labor and were scrambling for rooms and nurses. I was afraid they were going to tell me to go home and come back the next day! (If I went home I didn?t know if I?d have the nerve to go back!) 9 p.m. I?ve changed into my hospital gown, met my evening nurse and repeatedly told her and anyone else who enters the room the two things I was dreading most about labor: 1) the IV, and 2) possibly throwing up. She assured me that they?d be on top of nausea medication and that many women were more scared of the IV than they were of the actual birthing of a baby. I got through the IV (these things are never as bad as I imagine they?ll be) and spent the next hour or so watching The Sound of Music while my husband asked to change the channel.
Hey, you push a baby out of your body, you can pick the movie.
One last pregnancy pic!
11 p.m. I?m now hooked up t...
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