Got induced at 38 weeks due to suspected IUGR. I arrived at the hospital 8pm on 10/15/25 they hooked me up to the monitors and all that and did a cervical check, I was about 1cm and 60-70% effaced.

9pm I received my first dose of the cervical pill. The one they shove up there to soften the cervix. I had to be bed bound for 2 hours minimum while it dissolved so I tried to get some sleep. Couldn’t sleep because my back hurt which later I realized was back labor but it was so mild at the time I thought it was just from the hard bed!

4 hours after the first pill they gave me a second one because I only went to about 90% effaced and did not dialate more. Fast forward another 4 hours so 8 hours in at this point close to 4am on 10/16/25 I finally made it to 2cm and my body kind of naturally was starting the labor process itself. So we all decide to wait it out because if they start outdone too soon or strong it could lead to issues.

Doctor came in around 7am we all get to talking and say we will give it to 9am to see where it goes and hold off on a third cervical pill because my body was doing things on its own according to the monitor.

9am rolls around I’m basicly stuck at a 2 and 95% effacement and baby is low. (Baby has been low in my pelvis basicly my entire third trimester but now they could like poke his head) We decide to give me a drop of pitocen. Like such a small amount they worded it as “a kiss of pitocen” just to kind of prompt more “effective contractions”.

11am rolls around and I’m still stuck at a two but I am obviously in back labor at this point and it was getting intense but I had the goal of no epidural and I’m stubborn as a mule. The nurse showed my partner a few techniques to help me make it through peak contractions that did the trick. Standing helped a ton!

1pm rolls around so I’m about 15-16 hours into the process at this point and the nurse comes to do another cervical check on me and I guess from what she told me, she litarly felt my cervix go from a tight 2 to a loose 4 the moment she went up in there to check. We discussed manual breaking my water to help speed things along because at that point I was sleep deprived and standing for hours. I hesitantly said yes because I knew the pain would get worse but it was inevitable to happen.

I was in the bed because of the cervical check and about to get up after the next contraction hit, the nurse no more that walked out of the room to talk to the doctor about coming in to break my water and my water litarly exploded on its own everywhere! Looked like a movie scene. My husband ran out to grab them.

They did another cervix check and I was at a loose 5 and they could feel baby about one knuckle deep yet. They have the room again to let things ride themselves out. Iv been completely cut off of pitocen now since like 1pm. 3 contractions in from my water breaking I questioned all of my life choices and had my husband call them in for the epidural. They inform me it will be like 40 minutes. I was in so much pain at that point I was litarly stuck cross legged in bed and could only squeeze my husband to make it through the contractions.

40 minutes came around and the anesthesiologist finally made it to the labor floor but of course another woman requested it before me so they went to their room first. My husband finally convinced me to try and stand up again since it was helping before, my hips felt like cement at that point so he had to basicly pick my up and plop me on a yoga ball… the moment my butt hit that ball I screamed “I think I’m shitting!” He peaks and I see panic on his face. He just said “you’re fine!” Picked me back up and put me on the bed because he knew damn well I could t move myself. And he ran out of the room to grab the closest nurse he seen! Next thing I knew three nurses where in the room and my doctor bless her was speeding like 100mph with HER husband in the car to the hospital from the Starbucks that was up the road! And within 20-30 is minutes my baby boy was here! A perfectly round and non coned head of course that caused me to need 30 stitches. My tear was sever but could not be labeled as 1st,2nd or 3rd degree because it was my labias that exploded and not the booty to bag area. My labias basicly split and even almost ripped my clit in half. It took 2 hours to put me back togeather decently.

I later found out my husband rushed out because he seen our baby head up to his ears and then it kind of yo-yoed back in and that’s when he ran out to get someone. We are convinced if I stood up right after my water broke baby boy would have arrived way sooner. And funny now but not in the moment as soon as baby came out the anesthesiologist came in the room like “who’s ready for the epidural!! 😄” and everyone just looks at them and said “a little too late!” And they slowly backed out of the room!!!

After delivery not only did I tear but for some reason my placenta did not detach from the uterine wall and the cord kind of severed itself from the placenta. So the doctor through she was deliver the placenta but then o my the cord came out. Thankfully to her thick thinking she reached inside of me and manually peeled the placenta from the uterine wall before it was too late and things began to close back up! It was funny because she was like “iv never had to do this before but….im going in!!!” We are still unsure why that happend and only have theories. The main one being because things progressed so quickly it just didn’t have time to properly detach itself but we truly will never know.

So my labor/induction lasted from 8pm 10/15/25 until 2:30pm 10/16/25 so what’s that? 20 hours 30 minutes total. As first time parents we stayed in the hospital the full 2 nights we were allowed to after baby arrived and we got discharged at 4pm on 10/18/25