From the beginning...

My due date was July 28, but Jubilee did not seem to be in any kind of hurry to come out, so we scheduled an induction for Thursday, July 30. My doctor, the amazing Dr. Flowers, had us come in on Wednesday night to stay overnight to get me ready for the induction bright and early the next morning. Checking in that night was absolutely THE strangest and most surreal moment of my life. My body didn't feel any different than it had every other day for the past few weeks, so it was difficult to wrap my mind around the fact that I was about to have a BABY! It's still completely crazy to think about!

Tommy and I did not sleep well that night...me, for the obvious reasons on top of the fact that the nurses come in constantly during the night to poke you with things...and Tommy couldn't sleep because our room was FREEZING and he was sleeping on some kind of couch/chair bed...interesting. So, we watched Sweet Home Alabama...twice.

Once the induction process started, I was having regular contractions but for some reason was still only dialated at 1 cm. I had always planned on getting an epidural, but they wanted to wait until I had made more progress to give it to me. Since I told the doctors I wanted to be on the "minimum pain plan", they gave me this crazy-strong pain medication until I could get the epidural. That drug knocked me out!!! I slept all morning and would only wake up to breathe through the contractions and then fall right back asleep. When my doctor or nurses would come in to talk to me, I would hear them, but I literally could not form complete sentences, so I just stared back at them mumbling incoherently. Later on, my doctor told me that I was a "lightweight" and a "funny drunk". HAHAHA.

The good thing about this drug is that it must have made my body relax, because in an hour and a half I went from 1cm to 5cm. So it was finally time for the epidural. At first, the epidural only worked on one side of my body. In case you were wondering, this was my biggest fear before going into the hospital!! Luckily, I was too drugged up to get worried:) After a few minutes of problem solving, they decided to give it to me again. This time it worked...THANK THE LORD! An hour later, I had dialated to 10cm and after about 30 minutes of pushing at 1:53 pm Jubilee was here!

 

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