Here's my birth story:
I started having contractions Monday evening about 10 pm. By morning they were stronger, so we checked at the doctor and I was 6 minutes apart and 2 cm dilated, so we went home for awhile. By the afternoon, they were 5 minutes apart so we went back and got checked in at Swedish hospital. By this time I was in considerable pain and having to work through each contraction. Claudia was positioned facing up, which is called back labor, so the contractions were fairly strong with a smaller aftershock contraction about one minute after the big one. The doctor checked me at 7 pm and I was still only 2 cm because my water had not broken and was preventing progression, so she broke my water. This is when the super bad pain started. I labored for 3 very intense hours, including a stint in the bathtub. Glen's encouragement really helped me get through this. Then I had an epidural and about an hour later I had progressed to 9 cm, which is amazingly fast and explains why the pain had been so intense. I thought I would get a nap before I had to start pushing, but she was ready to go, so we started. I pushed for about 2 hours and was making progress, but with the baby's position and the length between my contractions, it just wasn't enough to get her out. So they gave me Pitocin and had me push on my side, which really worked because she turned into the correct position and a half hour later she arrived!
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