by Jenna Dale

Created on: December 20, 2007   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

Everyone's labor and delivery experiences will all be different so it's better to not think one way only is the way it'll happen with you. Take my stories as example.

My first born, my little boy who is now 3, I planned to have an epidural and I got an epidural. My plans came true, I didn't feel anything after the epidural and relaxed until it was time to push, just how I wanted it. It took nearly two and a half hours to push him out, he was a normal 7 pound baby, and I got a 3rd or 4th degree episiotomy. Those two things right there weren't planned, but still, I had my working epidural to get me through!

So when my second was almost ready to come into this world, a girl this time, I had the same plan going through my mind pretty much. Epidural, relaxation, hopefully push her out within half n hour, no episiotomy no matter what (that is EXTREMELY painful to deal with after birth), and pretty much just smooth sailing!

I had gotten induced slightly the day before i went into labor by my doctor stripping my membranes.
I hit the hospital the next day and I was 4 centimeters but my contractions were erratic and not every so and so minutes apart.
But they didn't let me leave since I was progressing still and almost 5 centimeters. Do you know what was on my mind the entire time? That epidural, and wondering if I would get it in time since I was progressing but was still very able to cope.
Unfortunately my plans were ruined.

They set me up in a room, not a birthing room just a room, and at 4am I was there, ready to go, jumping out of bed in the most pain/pressure ever and I knew it was it.

They get my birthing room, I am almost unable to stand it's so bad, my body is shaking with the contractions.
I am all alone at this time, no family was there of course it was 4 in the morning.
But they start to show up and I am FREAKING OUT.
I just kept yelling for my epidural, I let everyone know very clearly that I was not going to do this the natural way, there is no way, I was just going to go home if I couldn't get my epidural (that wouldn't have helped much I know...).

By 7 centimeters I still do not have an epidural and I'm progressing very fast.
It was after I was told I was 7 when I started feeling like I was going to throw up with every contraction. I do not like getting sick in front of people so I try and walk to the bathroom and just end up on the floor with the worst contraction ever, "throwing up" out of everywhere though...My body was just pushing out EVERYTHING in it.

So this

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