Katie Carpenter Instagram – Birth story, part 3.
Things picked up. I was buckled in the passenger seat but couldn’t sit still through contractions. I snapped at Kevin for putting all our stuff in the backseat instead of the trunk. I unbuckled and wrapped my arms around the seat, clutching it through each wave. We had a 40 minute drive and contractions were coming every 3 minutes.
Ironically, our arrival time was 12:24am – my angel numbers again. A sign. ✨
We finally got to the hospital to meet our doula. I had two contractions I had to stop for on the way in. They took us to triage and swabbed me for amniotic fluid – which was wayyyy more painful than the cervical check. (I’d heard some women say cervical checks hurt more than labor, but they never hurt me).
I puked a few times and handed Kevin and our doula, Lauren, my barf bags. The midwife confirmed my water had broken. Despite the pain, I was excited to see how far along I was! Since contractions were coming so close, I guessed I was maybe 6cm out of 10cm.
… The midwife told me I was 3cm dilated, and baby was high up. 🙄 It was discouraging.
So they took us to our room – pretty big!! I took the water birth class so they gave us a room with a pool. I was still having contractions every 3 minutes and breathing/groaning through them. They tried to get my blood – but couldn’t find a vein because I was pretty swollen. 😬 then they had the ‘IV guys’ come and do it.
I was really struggling. It felt like I couldn’t get a break.. intense pain hitting me in the front and back of my body nearly every 2 minutes. I felt sick, like I could pass out at any moment.
I had thrown up 4 times now. They gave me some IV fluids to see if it helped. It didn’t. I still had debilitating pain and felt like something wasn’t right.
I KNEW something wasn’t right.
At 4:30 am, the midwife came in and told us what my body already knew… | Posted on 09/Nov/2023 01:52:45
