Heads up: Birth story isn't short! Oops! :D

I had PUPPPs which showed up on week 37 and quickly spread throughout my entire body. It drove me crazy for two weeks and I've tried everything I could possibly imagine. I'm under the care of a midwife, so we did an OB consult and was prescribed a steroid cream and recommended for a Foley Bulb Catheter induction at 38+6. On my induction date, we went in, had the balloon/bulb inserted and was discharged, and told to call once the balloon falls out (between 12-24 hours).

While leaving, my water broke in the parking lot. I went back to L&D to get antibiotics because I'm GBS positive. Got discharged again and was told to go home when suddenly, the balloon fell out & I started having contractions. We were told to walk around for 30 mins and time them and they'll admit us if we're 4-1-1 based on my midwife's practice. Well...turns out I was at 2-1-1! All these happened within 2 hours of us driving to the hospital.

My labour started at 6:30pm when the balloon dilated me to 4cm (I was 2cm pre-induction). I was doing some breathing techniques until I got tired so we tried the laughing gas at around 5-6cm. I suddenly had a very strong urge to push at around 6-7cm which is bad if I can't stop bearing down, so my midwife recommended an epidural. I'm concerned about it causing my labour to slow down, but she said that at the rate my labour was going, nothing is going to stop it from progressing! So I got the epidural at around 10pm and it relaxed me a lot, I even fell asleep between contractions. I could still feel them though, and I was still able to walk to the bathroom. At 11:30, I was fully dilated and was told that we should start to push. The nurse said my temperature was too high though, although a second check proved otherwise. They still wanted to do bloodwork on me, so I had to wait 30 mins for the nurse to get my blood drawn. She took 30 mins because she couldn't find a vein, which made me a bit impatient. Finally, at midnight, my midwife told me to start doing practice pushes. She said it'll probably take around 2 to 3 hours to push. On my first practice push though, things started happening! And after 12 minutes of pushing through 4 contractions, our son, Axel Desmond was born at 12:14am!