She's here

Zatanna made her arrival on March 4th at 4:13am. Labor was different then I expected. The epidural made it seem pretty easy at the end. The contractions leading up to it were painful but seemed more like an endurance test than a pain issue that may sound odd but it is how I felt. Either way there were moments I was craving the epidural and it came just in time after I got it those contractions spiked pretty crazy on the monitor and I felt none of them it was awesome. Doug loves to tell people that my water broke on the nurse while I was pushing. He thinks it was pretty gross. He did awesome in the room I was so surprised he left for a few hours to get some sleep while my family came to sit with me since we had no idea how long it would be and the doctors said it could be at least 24 hours. However, she was not having it when I came in I was 2 cm. 4 hours later still 2. I decided on being induced because who wants to go home and worry about what stage of labor they are in for possibly another week. After the decision I had dinner they checked me and boom I was at 3cm. They put in the cervidil which is just supposed to finish softening the cervix and the contractions just kept going up the nurses said they thought I would have the baby that night and although it was the next morning. It went pretty quick. I didn't even need the pitocin so the nurse said she wanted me to know that was all me so to the doctor who was grumpy at me for choosing that I say "Bite me" :)