Labor and Delivery

At midnight I went into the hospital. I told Robert if they sent me home I would cry b/c my contractions hurt so bad. They checked me and I was dialated 5cm, so they decided to admit me and I was moved into a delivery room. I then began begging for the epidural. They tried to put the needles in my arm to draw blood, but they couldn*t get my blood to draw and it was very painful, I thought I might break Robert*s hand. They finally got the needles in my hand and they were able to draw my blood and start my fluids. I got the epidural at 2:30am. Robert watched as they put it in. It was very interesting. The doctor got a little to close to the right and my right side went numb immediately, but then everything else went numb. From then on, Robert and I slept on and off for until around 7am. At 4am, they went ahead and broke my water and started me on pitocin b/c my contractions slowed down. I was also 9 cm dialated. So, we slept a little while longer and at around 11am, Dr. Landis checked and I was fully dialated and she had me go ahead and do a test push. I pushed for about an hour and Savannah was here. Robert helped the whole time and held my leg and watched it all. It wasn*t as bad as I thought it was going to be. After 13 hours, Savannah Elizabeth Hicks came into this world at 12 noon at 7 lbs. 10 oz. 20 in. long.