My Water Broke or Did it?

I went on Maternity leave on September 30th. I wanted some time to myself to just relax and prepare for  AJ who was due on October 8th, but he had other plans.

The morning of October 6th, I woke up to go to the bathroom and when I came back up "something" was still trickling down my leg.  I assumed it was water leaking and went to tell hubby who was getting ready for work. While I was standing at the bathroom door telling him this, it just came coming.
  It was around 6am and I called the Doctors office to have one of them paged. Dr. G was the one that called me back, I described what was happening.  He said to head over to the hospital and he would see me there in a little bit. 

We arrived at the hospital around 9am and were set up in the room.  Dr. G came by a few minutes later and checked on me. The water was leaking and we started the Pitocin to get things moving.  The contractions started a few hours later and when they became unbearable, I asked for an epidural.  After the epidural, I felt great other than having to be moved from one side to the other and not being able to get out of bed.  


 After hours of waiting, I was finally dilated enough to start pushing.  The nurse came in to do "practice" pushing and then told me to stop and we had to wait for the doctor.  It was the most horrible feeling of having this pressure and the little one wanting to come out and I could not push.
It felt like forever until he came in. 


 Dr. G finally arrived and we began to push.  After a few more pushes, AJ was born at exactly 9:00pm, weighing in at 7lbs 2oz and 19inches long. 

 We were so excited to meet our little guy.  He was beautiful!  They put him in my arms right away and then he was taken to be cleaned, while I had to get my 2nd degree tear fixed up.  Not fun, but I felt great at the moment.  I began calling and texting friends and family and didn't feel much pain. Once I was a little relaxed I began to be in severe pain and asked for pain medication.  The nurse also said that I was bleeding a little too much and it took longer for us to be moved to the  mommy and baby room.  That night was horrible. The nurse told me that the first 2 times that I needed to go the bathroom I would have to call the nurse.  I couldn't sleep because of the pain and called the nurse to help me go to the bathroom.  I got up and went to wash my hands and began passing out.  That was the most horrible feeling I've ever had in my life. By morning I was feeling slightly better, but still pretty weak and uncomfortable.  I didn't even have the strength to get out of bed. I don't know how all these women feel great after giving birth, because I was feeling horrible.  Don't get me wrong, I love my little guy and he was worth the pain, but not something that I wanted to reflect on.


The nurse brought little AJ in to see us and he spent the day and night with us.  We were so in love with him.  The following morning he was circumcised and a few hours later we were released from the hospital.
I'm so glad that hubby was able to stay with me for a few days and help out, because I felt horrible when I came home.  It was a pain just to walk down the stairs to get a bottle ready and sitting down was unbelievable.  I had no appetite, I didn't sleep well. I wanted to breast feed him, but I just couldn't get him to latch on. I began to pump, but was not getting enough, so I had to supplement with formula.  After two weeks, I began to feel a little better.

 The first 6 weeks were hard on both of us, but we finally got a routine going and little AJ began to sleep better through the night and gave his mommy some much needed rest.