It's only so late because I haven't had time with relative visiting and now my husband is back at work. I'm taking advantage of him feeding our kiddo right now to post this.

I went in on February 23rd at 4pm for an induction. They popped cervidil in at 6PM and it wasn't that bad. I hate IV's but just forced myself not to look at it. Upon arriving I was around 85% effaced, high, no dilation - 12 days overdue too. Well, the night progressed fine, I slept as best as I could between contractions as they began to get more noticeable. At 6AM they took the cervidil out and started me on pitocin. By 8AM-ish, I was in enough pain from the contractions that I requested the epidural. Boy was THAT a relief. I planned on it anyway. I could breath again. I was updating facebook and calling family and all up until a bit before pushing. By this point I don't know what time it is but I know that I had to start pushing. I was 9 and 3/4ths CM dilated, they wanted me to try to push anyway while stretching me to try and get his head to pass through.

After an hour of that, they decided to give me a break, up my pitocin and turn off my epidural. Well that's when hell began. The epi wore off really quickly and I began to feel everything. I made them give me something for nausea in my IV because I refused to puke during labor, I know if I did I wouldn't be of any use to the birth process because puking makes me really shaky and useless. That helped with the mild nausea I was feeling but then I really had to start pushing. It took 3 hours with constant stretching to get him out, 3 hours straight of more or less natural labor since the epi wasn't on. Finally though, out he came, once the head was out he just seemed to fall out, it felt amazing to get that pressure out of me. I had to be cut, had internal tearing too.

Nicholas Scott was born at 9:45PM on February 24th, weighed 7 pounds even, almost 22 inches long. He scored a 9 on the Apgar.

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/.....hSushi/5-1.jpg
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/.....ishSushi/4.jpg These were taken less than 3 minutes after he was born. He came out perfect :)
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/.....shSushi/99.jpg my chihuahua seems to like him, and so does our german shepherd, she sleeps wherever he sleeps just to make sure he's okay.

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/.....ushi/99999.jpg
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/.....shi/999999.jpg

So there we go :) Birth story! I have to hop off now because I need to finish doing everything I can while my husband is feeding Nicholas. I rarely get a chance to do anything anymore other than feed him, rock him, change him, and take super quick breaks between his screaming fits to go to the bathroom or shove some food in my face. Brandon's back at work now and I really don't know what to do. I am frustrated because he COULD have had off until the 11th, but chose to go back early, which frustrates me because he knows my stitches are bothering me alot lately. :(

Edit:

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/.....hSushi/2-7.jpg
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/.....ishSushi/3.jpg
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/.....hSushi/1-7.jpg (lol, literally 5 minutes after he was born, I look like crap :D)