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So Monday night we took a trip to the hospital just to get checked because I, at that point it was a 10 for me, 10 out of 10 pain level. So we decided to go to the hospital and get checked to see if I was dilating at all and when we got there she said that I was dilated to a 1 and that she was gonna come back and check me in an hour. She ended up coming back like 10 minutes later and sent me home. So my whole family's over here. So we went home and I was able to get some sleep. They kind of subsided around 5 a.m. and I was able to sleep. But then Tuesday came around and I woke up with them really bad, had them all day long, was tracking them. They were coming between 7 and 3 minutes apart and then they started getting consistent and coming about 5 to 3 minutes apart. So Tuesday night we went back to the hospital. This time we left Scott at home because we didn't want him to go if we were gonna get sent home and they would only allow one person in the room and my mom was really, really like the biggest help because she had been through it before and she knew what to ask and you know everything. So mom and I went back to the hospital. It was what? Like 2 in the morning. And so we got to the hospital. She checked me again. I think I was still dilated to a 1. Maybe a 2. I don't remember. And so she decided to keep me for about an hour to monitor me. She had me walking around and at this point my contractions were so painful that every time I would get one I would have to drop to the floor in child pose just to get through it. So we ended up getting sent home again because I just wasn't dilating. So we got sent home but my contractions were still awful. Like they were at least 3 to 4 minutes apart. Super painful but no dilation. So Wednesday morning comes around. We call my doctor and we tell her you know that I'd been to the hospital twice that they kept sending me home. She was really angry that they kept sending me home. She said even if you weren't dilating the fact that you were contracting so bad I would have kept you. So it wasn't really the nurses that made the call of getting to stay or leave. It was the doctor that was on call and those two doctors that were on call those two nights didn't want to keep me. So Wednesday we went to my doctor and I was having contractions 3 minutes apart. Super painful. Awesome. So we went to the doctor and she decided to strip my membrane again because she had tried a few days earlier and this time she really got in there because I was dilated to about a 3 and she was able to get up in there to strip my membranes but it was so painful. I was screaming bloody murder. I think that that part was more painful than like any other thing. Any contraction, any experience throughout the whole thing that was the most painful part and I started gushing blood all over the doctor's table. Scott was crying hysterically. My mom was crying hysterically. I'm screaming at the top of my lungs so then she the doctor calls the hospital and says Charlotte is coming in. She's dilated and she actually lied for me. She's like dilated to a 2 so that when I got there they would think that I had progressed so that they would keep me. Hi sweetie. And so when we got to the hospital they monitored me. They checked me. I wasn't dilating so they let me walk around for like what an hour and every time I would pass a chair I would get a contraction so I would just sit and breathe through it and then keep walking and I would just like try to get from chair to chair throughout the whole maternity ward but I was contracting what every like minute two minutes. It was bad. So finally they decided to keep me and they got me into a room. We got some laughing gas to help me through the contractions just until my anesthesiologist got there. They got me an epidural within what an hour? Yeah I remember we demanded that. Less than that. We got an epidural within an hour of being admitted and I forgot to mention because my mom just reminded me we the nurses didn't seem like they wanted to keep me. They weren't going to admit me and I told them I wasn't leaving. I said I'll sit in your lobby until you admit me so and my mom was like a huge advocate. She was telling the nurses we're not leaving so you need to admit her because she's been going through this for three days. We're done like she's finished. She needs something for the pain and so anyway they got me the epidural within an hour and it was so magical. Once I got it I was like in heaven and it didn't even hurt like I was more scared of the epidural than I was like giving birth or having a c-section or anything and it was like the best. Just knowing that my pain was gonna go away instantly like made it painless and you were even telling jokes. Yeah I was super jokey and super funny but once I got my epidural they had me laying on my side with the peanut between my legs to help me dilate more because I still was only at a three and so I had to switch sides a couple times. They were pumping me full of pitocin. I already said that I had laughing ass. So they had me switching sides and I had pitocin going through me for about three hours but cash wasn't liking the pitocin and because I was laying on my right side the epidural started to only work on the right side so I was starting to feel the contractions again throughout my left side and it was starting to get like uncomfortable and so they thought okay well we'll move you to your left side and then to your middle but as soon as I moved to my left side his heart rate began to drop and it started freaking everybody out. They had nurses coming in and checking monitors and they're like okay well we need to get you back on your right side so I like pushed a little button to get more epidural dose through my IV and it wasn't working and every time I would switch to any side but my right side his heart rate would drop so they took me off pitocin for a while had to give me oxygen and his heart rate would go back up but I still wasn't dilating and by now it was like eight o'clock at night and we got admitted around noon so eight hours had gone by and nothing was happening. The only thing was that his heart rate was dropping no matter where I was laying no matter what side and I wasn't dilating and he wasn't responding to the to the pitocin so because of his heart rate dropping they decided to do an emergency c-section on me and I think I was prepped and ready to go in like 10 minutes and yeah oh yeah and when they broke my water he had more there was marconium in there so he had pooped in there and my placenta was no longer a safe place for him to be so they needed to get him out so we got sent to the OR they got me um the anesthesiologist actually took the epidural out of my back and put in a spinal um a spinal block I guess they did a spinal block and I actually knew my anesthesiologist I did theater with his son all through like middle and high school so that was super awkward that he saw me laying there on the table getting prepped and he was like oh my god I can't look I was like it's too late you've already seen it just do it so I got the spinal and I think he was out within 10 minutes and it really freaked me out because when he first came out he didn't cry for like 30 seconds so of course I'm panicking but finally he cried and he was perfectly fine he came out set six pounds three ounces 19 and three-quarter inches long and with a full head of hair daddy got to cut the cord so it was a stressful hour like the first few hours was fine but then that last hour was pretty stressful and um so I did end up getting at that C-section um and now almost three weeks later I'm basically healed but that first week was painful the C-section was not comfortable I couldn't get up and down out of the bed so Scott was changing all the diapers I was doing all the feedings and it was just really uncomfortable I don't know what it's like to do a natural with meds birth um so I couldn't tell you a comparison but I do know that um the C-section wasn't really that bad and my scar is very small and the reason that we all believe that this is how this is why this happened is because I have a tilted cervix so instead of cash coming through the birth canal straight down he was coming at an angle and that's why I wasn't dilating so no matter what I would have done I probably never would have dilated past the three so next time if we have any other kids we will just do a scheduled C-section so that mama doesn't have to go through all that pain but nothing so anyway that is my birth story um I hope I kind of I think I explained it pretty much how it happened um but he's here he's healthy and mama's good mama's happy thank you guys for watching and I'll see you in the next video bye hi guys it's char I just wanted to say thank you so much for watching my video today and for supporting my youtube channel by subscribing don't forget to click the little bell next to the subscribe button so that you can see when I put up new videos I hope you have a magical day