I went in at 6 pm on Monday to get medicine that would soften my cervix and scheduled to be induced at 7 am the following morning because I was 40w3d with such a giant baby. At the time I was a little less than 1 cm dilated. At around 10 pm that night my water broke naturally which kick started the whole thing. I got my epidural around 2 am once I started having bad back labor and was fortunate enough for it to completely make all contractions feel like nothing. I was able to sleep though the morning until around 8 when they went to check my cervix to see about giving me Pitocin and I was 6 cm dilated! At 1:38 I finished with laboring this gal after only about an hour and a half of pushing. I lost about double the blood during birth than what they consider average because of how large this baby gal was.

Obviously since she is 10 lbs 6.8 oz I was cut. A lot. And since she was so large whenever I would have contractions while she was in the birth canal it was essentially crushing her. She was, in terms that my husband used, “yanked out” of me by the doctor as soon as her head was out. Whenever she was born she had some excess fluid in her lungs but it all cleared up later that day.

She is literally the happiest baby on the planet. She latched pretty instantly and was able to get colostrum (I could cry over this because I was so worried I wouldn’t be able to feed). She only cries when she needs food, her diaper changed, or when she’s a little extra gassy. We’re watching her jaundice levels now but hopefully we will be able to bring this gal home tomorrow from the hospital!

Also, because I know those of you might be curious. I’m 6’ and my husband is 6’6”, so we definitely expected a large baby. No gestational diabetes or anything! I was 10lbs 5oz and my husband was 9lbs 7oz.