birth story
As a new mom, I've been having a lot of thoughts and feelings lately, and as a self absorbed Leo, I thought everyone on the internet would want to hear about them. So I'm starting this blog. I wrote this a couple days after the birth of my daughter, Glenn. On Tuesday 10/4, I got to the hospital at 10am to start the induction process (I was scheduled to be induced a week before my due date because I have high blood pressure and am at risk for developing preeclampsia). At 1230pm, it started - I was given a vaginal suppository of a hormone to ripen the cervix, which would get me dilated and possibly start contractions. I was supposed to have a cervix check and be given another dose four hours later, but the four hours turned into ten, which was annoying. At that point, nothing was really happening - I wasn’t feeling any different, just bored and frustrated. Sometime in the middle of they checked my cervix again and I was only dilated one centimeter still. This was my thir...