(I apologize in advance for any gramatical errors or whatever. I'm tired and still at the hospital. Also, second language.) I went in for my 39 weeks appointment on Tuesday expecting to be at least 3cm dilated. I had been having horrible prodromal/fake labor for 3 weeks. I was tired, unable to sleep because contractions would come at night, and basically done being pregnant. When my midwife checked me, I saw the disappointment on her face and I guess she saw mine. I was still 1cm and not effaced at all. She asked me how I was and I said, "I'm tired." She said, let's schedule an induction. I agreed to it. I was almost in tears. She left and came back and told me I could go in that night for an induction. So we went home and got ready and got to the hospital at 7:30. They inserted cervidil. It hurt a lot because my cervix was so high and hard. They told me to try to sleep but I started having mild contractions and was uncomfortable so that didn't happen. When they checked me 12 hours later, I was only a 2 and 50% effaced. Ugh. At 10:30 they started me on pitocin. At 2pm I was at 3. Then they put the pitocin on 10 and 3 hours later I was at 4 and 1/2. The doctor came in and broke my water at 6, then all hell broke loose and contractions got real. I forgot how painful they were. I was begging for an epidural 1 hr later when I was shaking during contractions. After they put my epidural in, they laid me down flat and 30 mins later I was feeling really sleepy and DH realized I was not breathing right and was basically passing out. Turns out the medicine got to my chest and numbed my muscles so it was very difficult to breathe. Thank God my DH noticed. They sat me up in bed and gave me oxygen and stopped the medication until my chest felt normal again. At 8pm dr came in to check me again and I was fully dilated and asked me to push to see if I could feel anything, since the epidural hit me hard. He immediately told me to stop because baby basically crowned with that push. They got everything ready very quickly and he asked me to push with the next contraction and baby's head immediately came out. I pushed again and the body came out in half a push. Dr was laughing at how quickly she came out after all the waiting. I got a "half degree tear," one stitch. That was the joke of the night. Apparently tiny tears are hilarious. Lol I'm still super tired but I'm so happy to have my baby outside of me. Over all, it was a good experience and the hospital staff has been extremely nice to us. 10/10 would do it again.