Eight and a half months into my pregnancy, during my weekly OBGYN appointment, the nurse abruptly excused herself from the exam room. A few moments later she came back in with the doctor. The doctor immediately placed her stethoscope on my stomach and a few minutes later told me that they need to admit me to the hospital because they could not hear any amniotic fluid around the baby.
The doctor's office was on the top floor of the hospital. So, before I was calling my sister to bring my over night bag that I had pre packed, signing admitting papers, disrobed, hooked up to an IV, and they had induced my labor. All in the matter of two hours.
With the rush of my morning, and the unknown about giving birth for the first time, I had a difficult time relaxing. To help me relax they decided to give me an epidural. Thank God for the person who invented it!
From 1:00pm until 8:00am the next morning my labor was pretty uneventful. Then at 8:15 the next morning the baby's heart monitor begin to alarm at the same time my blood pressure began to rise and I began running a fever as the baby heart rate slowed down. The next thing I knew I was on a gurney being rushed to the OR for an emergency C-section. At exactly 8:39am the doctor was holding up a five pound baby boy for me to see for the first time.
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