As I look back on my last post about my summer term coming to end, I can not believe that just two days after I wrote that, my water broke...unexpectedly of course. My due date wasn't for another six weeks! Those first few days in July I was a crazy woman studying for my finals and of course the day my finals arrive, so does Miss Sofia. Well, actually she was born on the fourth of July, but my water broke on the 2nd as I was getting ready for the day.
It was early, I was making coffee and every morning when I make coffee I get the sudden urge to go to the bathroom. So there I am on the toilet doing my business when all of a sudden I feel this gush of water. I thought for a second.."How can that be pee, I just peed"...and I didn't push that time. Then I realized.."oh shit, my water broke". I actually contemplated going to school to take my exams because maybe my water really didn't break, but, the water kept gushing. Side note: No one ever tells you that when your water breaks it keeps replenshing and coming out! Gross! So I called for Mr. K and started crying. He calmed me down and after calling the doc for an hour they finally called back and told me to go straight to the hospital.
Mr. K had gone out the night before for his birthday with some friends and had a huge hangover, so he was experiencing those anxiety ridden feelings we all feel with hangovers. When we got to the hospital we checked in and went straight to triage. Triage by the way can be quite comical when sitting there for a long time. I hate to be mean but I will anyway. They brought this one girl back who was pregnant with her 8th child. All of which I'm sure had different daddy's. This poor girl was 18 weeks pregnant and in pain, so she said. I think she may have have been there before because they seemed to have known her and they were not as concerned as they should have been by the way she was screaming. After all her screaming they gave her some meds and I believe they sent her home. Its so sad to say but I'm pretty sure she was on drugs and that's why she was in pain and causing pain to her poor baby. Anyway, they confirmed my water breakage, gave me a steroid shot (for the babys lungs) and did other tests to see if the baby was okay. After so many hours of sitting there the doctor finally came in to discuss the plan. They told me I may have to be moved University of Pennsyvlania because the NICU at Pennsylvania Hospital may have been full. I was completely freaked out since PA Hosp was my hospital and is supposed to be the best in the city. Since I was 33 weeks and 6 days pregnant I had to wait till 34 weeks to actually give birth. So I was going to be in this state for some time since I wasn't dilated and there was no sign of this baby coming on her own. The doctors let me know that for the time I was going to stay and I was admitted.
After the first night of being in the hospital I ended up getting sick from the dry air blowing in my room. I was feverish, and worst of all..couldn't breath. My asthma issues were kicking in. That next day the decided that I was definitely going to stay at PA hosp and they were going to begin the induction process. I was given cervidel so that my cervix could soften up and begin to dilate. The first one was given to me on July 3rd in the afternoon. Once they give you this tablet you can't move for the first two hours which means no bathroom. It was torture waiting. After the first tablet and four hours later they gave me a second pill and I was moved to my birthing room. I finally started feeling contractions and they were coming fast. I started counting on the clock and they were just about every two minutes. I really wasn't in pain yet and the doctor wanted to give me ANOTHER tablet of cervidel. There was no way I was going to go through another four hours of waiting and begged her for the Pitosin. She finally agreed and gave it to me. About an hour later I was two centimeters dilated and in major pain. The nurse talked to me about an Epidural and I thought I could go a little longer without it but who was I kidding I needed those meds. That was the BEST decision I ever made by the way. I was numb and ready to nap. It was 1am and K and I completely zonked out. I woke up at 5 am and the doctor and nurse came in to check on me. I was 10 centimeters! I was ready to go. I called my parents to let them know they better get there quickly or they were going to miss it. They arrived a half hour later and I started pushing at about 6:30am.
It was now July 4th I was about to have my baby girl. When your pregnant you start watching A Baby Story to prepare you for this but nothing can really prepare you for this amazing moment. I pushed, and coughed (since I was still sick), out my baby in just a half hour. She was born at 7:02am on July 4th at 4lbs 9oz.
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