Quote Originally Posted by luckies4me
Thanks!

They broke my water with Dylan and I started contracting immediately, but my labor slowed down so they gave me pitocin to speed things up...about 3 times. But that was with the first, and this is the second and well you know what they say....

So I've never had it from the get go. I figure it would be the same as having my water break, since you start contracting soon after? I'm just a big wuss when it comes to pain, so I want to it go the easiest way possible. I sure hope he just breaks my water. I tested positive for GBS so I need antibiotics during labor, so the only bad thing is I need to go to the hospital ASAP if my water breaks.

I labored for 17 hours with Dylan so hopefully this will make things go a lot quicker. I was so tired after and can't imagine spending all that time doing it again. Did anyone get an epidural after the pain became unbearable? I only got to 5 cent. with Dylan before I couldn't take it anymore. I feel like such a wimp.

Of course, I still haven't packed my bag.

Oh and thank you to everyone who replies. It's nice to be able to talk to people about it. Even though I've been there done that, I'm pretty nervous about the whole thing. As I'm sure you can tell.
Oh goodness, get that bag packed! As far as the epidural, I guess everyone handles pain differently. I never expected to make it far at all without one, and I made it to 8cm. I am sure I could have gone without it if I wasn't given a time line...my anstheologist (sp?) had to go to a C-Section, and so they said that if I didn't get the epidural then, I wasn't going to be able to get one at all since he was going to be tied up in surgery the rest of my labor. My next one I'm going to take a Bradley class and try natural, but the epidural was a pretty good thing...not sure if I'd be able to go all the way. Making it to 8cm was above and beyond my expectations, and I'm glad to have had the chance to even labor since Quinn was breech until just a week before my scheduled induction.

Oh, and you think you're a wuss with pain, I actually passed out when I had my ears pierced, and labor wasn't even so bad...I guess when the reward is so great, you forget about the pain. I forgot about it instantlly.

I can't wait until the little one gets here, I am excited to see pics of him Good luck, and hopefully it'll be a quick labor!