Lilian Jane McShinsky

Tuesday morning (2 days over my due date) I had an appointment with my doctor to see where I was and possibly schedule a NST for later in the day. When I got there the nurse was saying my due date was the 22nd (thats what my ultra sound had said) so that totally bummed me out that I would have to wait another few days until I was considered over due! They asked if it would be okay if an intern did my appointment/exam whatever you want to call it.. I said sure why not, she was a labor and delivery nurse training to become the actual doctor so I figured she knew her stuff! After checking everything they started talking about a possible induction which got me really excited! She said I wasn't dialated much but I had a high enough bishops score to start something. So they called over to the hospital to see when I could get it! When she came back in she asked if 8:00 that night would be okay..um YES! So we headed home and I got all ready for the hospital and cleaned the house! Its soo nice to know when the baby is coming, you have time to get everything ready! So at 8 we get to the hospital and we have to fill out some papers and wait around for awhile...at 8:30 I was in my room and around 9ish they started me on my first dose of ..I think its called Cytotec (which if you look that up, it has some really scary side affects!) My Mom and Libby got there around 10 and I was filling out the dates on my baby calendar, not really feeling anything yet besides tighting and cramps...4 hours later at midnight the nurse came to give me my second dose.. i was only at a 2! I figured this was going to take days! So she gives me the second dose and says she'll be back to check on me later, they were planning on only two doses of that stuff and then starting me on pitocin at 5am. So after an hour or so the cramps get a little worse but I was going to try and sleep, I think I got a little sleep, but I remember someone walking in the door I think it was my Mom or Libby, I dont remember..and then I rolled over and it felt like my water had broke..either that or I'd wet myself! So they go get the nurse and she tells me no your water didn't break..so i figure okay whatever (this is at like 3:30..) but then the pain gets reallly strong, and I'm having soo many contractions with no break in between..with ella i wasnt planning on getting an epidural so I got this pain killer in my iv which takes the edge off, makes them not too bad..so after a while I ask for that. It only last for like an 45 min though, so when that started to wear off and the nurse came in with the pitocin at around 4:30 I asked for my epidural right away!! The nurse was a bit suprised that I was already at like a 6 or something! The epidural guy took his sweet time getting there, and i'm sure I wasn't too pleasant..I just wanted some drugs! ha..so after the 20 min or so it took for him to get there and give me the epidural, the nurse checked me again and she thought i was fully dialated but she had to go get some other nurse to check to be sure..what the heck people!..anyway they decided i was fully dialated ( i could have told them that, I sooo needed to push!) but then my doctor wasnt there yet and no one had called her! So I had to sit there for like an hour trying not to push..finally around 6:30 she showed up and in one push Lilian Jane was born at 6:31!