OK, here goes:
Tuesday, December 4th, I went in to the hospital to be induced. They started the pitocin at 10:00 in the morning. The contractions were coming right in on top of each other and by one o'clock in the afternoon I got the epidural. Soon after that I was fully dilated and started pushing and my baby boy was born at 3:31 in the afternoon.
It was a very quick delivery and I didn't have to push for long. I did have to get an episiotomy (hurts like hell right now) and he started screaming the second his head was out. That was so weird!
I was one of the 1 in 10 that has trouble with bleeding as a side effect of the pitocin and so I lost a lot of blood and was shivering so hard that I thought I would break my teeth. I almost had to get a blood transfusion.
It went by really quick the labor and delivery, the epidural was nice because it takes off the edge of the pain. I could still feel the contractions and so I knew when to push, but my legs were like jelly, thank goodness my mom and my husband were there to hold them up for me!
The pitocin also made me throw up a couple of times during labor, but seeing as I wasn't allowed to eat anything beforehand, very little came up, some water and some jello.
Anyway, sorry it's taken me so long to get on here and let you all know. This is my boy Magnus Vikingur, he's a very good baby and often the object of a tug of war, everyone wants to hold him!
I was in the hospital for 48 hours and I'm healthy and the baby is healthy. All is well and I'm just so glad that he's finally out!
8 lbs 2 oz.
20,5 inches
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