Unmedicated hospital induction
Hi,
I had my second child on May 6th with an induction at the hospital and I was able to go unmedicated! I went in at 41 weeks, and I was a stretchy 3 cm, 50% effaced, and 0 station.
Going into the induction I had a poor attitude because I was hoping to go into labor spontaneously, and I felt that with an induction I wouldn’t be able to go fully unmedicated. With my first I got to 8 cms and then asked for the epidural.
At the hospital they told me I had to stay near the bed, so I wouldn’t be able to stand in the shower, or walk around a lot, so that made me feel even more discouraged at the beginning.
Once I was all hooked up, the pitocin started at about 12:30 pm. The contractions were mild for a while, I was sitting in bed, and then on the ball for a while with nothing really picking up. Around 2-3 pmthe nurse put me into flying cowgirl and I started to feel the contractions pick up, they also increased the pitocin. I was having contractions this whole time about every two minutes, and every other contraction was something I had to breathe through.
I was checked at around 5 pm and I was only at 5 cms. At this point contractions were hard, and I felt a bit discouraged. I got up, went to the restroom, and then tried to stand for some contractions and the nurses said that baby boy was not responding well to me standing up. When I got back onto the bed, I felt baby move down into my pelvis and engage and the contractions became much worse. I was groaning through them, and started to doubt myself. I asked my nurse for the epidural, and she asked if I wanted to think about it and I said no. As they were trying to get things ready, I started dry heaving, and my second nurse said she needed to check me to make sure I wasn’t going to have the baby during the epidural, and that’s when we found out I was 10 cms, and fully dilated. I had gone from a 5 to a 10 in less than an hour. My doctor was not at the hospital and they had to call her in. As soon as I knew I was at a 10, I had the urge to push and couldn’t stop myself. I started pushing with each contraction with no doctor in the room, and after about 3 pushes my water broke. (I was trying to not push to hard because there was no doctor). Then after my water broke my son’s head was crowning and out within the next contraction or two. The head nurse then walked in while my son’s head was out, pushed my leg out of the way and told me to push one more time and my sons fully came out. My son had his cord wrapped around his neck once, so he took a second to cry. My doctor walked in literally 10 seconds later.
My son was born 20 mins after I asked for epidural, 2 mins after my water broke! My son was 8 lbs 12 oz, with a 14 inch head, and no tears!!
My total labor was about 6 hours total, and I am now grateful for how it turned out! I felt AMAZING as soon as he came out, the adrenaline rush was insane.
All of this was amazing because with my first I had a 36 hour labor and a 2nd degree tear.