5 months late, but..

I went to the hospital at 40w 1d to get induced. (Not dilated at all) 6am I arrive and I’m in bed with my first dose of medications by around 7/8.

Husband and I take naps, eat some snacks, watch TV, use birthing balls etc.

4pm I’m bored so I lay on the couch with him to get out of the bed some, my water immediately breaks.

Right after my water breaks the contractions start coming in closer and stronger, 4cm now so we order food to be on the safe side because labor is unpredictable.

5pm-8pm exercised a lot, breathed (and cursed) through some contractions, asked for an epidural around 930pm.

Received epidural and went down for a cozy epidural nap around 1030pm. I wasn’t feeling the contractions much, but I was feeling enough pressure to where they’d start to wake me a little.

Midnight the nurse comes and I tell her I feel contractions in my butt. She excuses herself and walks in with my GYN - 10cm.

They prepare everything and I get in position and ready, within minutes there is my newborn on me.

Very anticlimactic, but mostly sharing because the bad labor & deliveries can tend to stick with you the most.

I hope your births are not traumatic, you and baby are healthy and you have a great care team.