Bryce's Birth Story

This may not be interesting to anyone else, but I wanted to record it so I would remember the experience.

I was scheduled to be induced to have Bryce on September 16th.  The hospital said they would call anytime after 5:30 in the morning depending on how much room they had at the hospital.  They called around 6:20 and we arrived at the hospital just before 7 am.  I was in a bed at 7:00 and hooked up to a monitor, answered questions and at 8:10 I had an IV of saline and Pitocin was started at a level 4.  I was still only dilated to a 3 (had been that way since my last appointment the previous week.)  At 8:30, Dr. Savage arrived and broke my water.  Pitocin was increased to a level 8.  By 9:25, my epidural was in.  At 11:10 Pitocin was increased to a level 20 and I was dilated to a 5.  The monitor was not able to pick up my contractions, so an internal monitor was put in place.  At 11:50, I was checked again and was fully dilated to a 10.  The doctor was called and after she arrived, I pushed through two contractions and he arrived at 12:10.

This was by far my easiest delivery.  From the beginning of the IV until he arrived was only 4 hours.  And I went from a 5 to a 10 in just 40 minutes.  Bryce was born with a bruised face, and they said that was from coming so quickly.  It went away by the second day.  Bryce has been a pretty easy baby and really only cries when he is hungry or messy.  Days 4 and 5 he slept 6 hours at night.  He has since changed that habit, but still sleeps fairly well at night.

My recovery has also been my easiest.  I haven't experienced terrible cramping or as much pain as I did with my other two births.