Teagan was born at 1:03pm 12/10/05. She weighed in at 7lbs 5 ounces and is 19 1/2 inches long. She is beautiful.

I got my VBAC!! It was amazing! I gave up going natural after 6 hours of labor (total of 12 hours labor) due to the fact that I had been vomiting since 2 hours into the labor and she was posterior which was causing me the most intense pain plus I had some really weird contractions.

Okay the whole story:

As had been very obvious, there has been much confusion for me recently about losing my mucus plug and bloody show, well it got worse Friday night. We were out walking around the stores trying to induce labor and I felt a lot of wetness in my underwear. I went to the bathroom and looked and my underwear was wet and it was not pee but I wasn't leaking anymore, so I just assumed more discharge. I had no real contractions so didn't think anymore of it.

Fast forward to 1am where I'm lying in bed trying not think of having the baby, get up to go the bathroom and feel an even bigger pop! Run to the toilet and there is still no huge leak of fluid as I had with my son but then I had a huge contraction (yep no mistaking those!) and realized what was going on. I wake up DH to let him know, but he goes back to bed since I'm planning on laboring at home. I go and call my MW and Doula. My MW was fine with me laboring at home until I felt ready to go the hospital. She called ahead and reserved me a room. I then called my Mother who said she would head on over to keep an eye on Alex.

During this time, I had a few contractions but nothing terrible. About 45 minutes after my water broke, I started to have some very intense contractions. I decided to wake Chris up so he could time them for me. They were coming about 5 minutes apart.

My mother got there about 2:20am and all hell broke loose. All of a sudden my contractions started to come every 2 to 3 minutes apart, they would peak start to fade, peak again, start to fade and peak and then fade..then they started up again 2 to 3 minutes later. So to me it felt like I was having 3 contractions for every one. Then to make matters even more fun, I started vomitting. I couldn't stop. It was horrible.

My Doula got there about 15 minutes later and was in disbelief how fast my contractions were coming. She thought I was in transition since they were coming so close and with the vomitting. We stayed at home until 3:30am and then headed out to the hospital.

Obviously I was not a happy camper. I was not expecting to be vomiting like this. The only thought that kept me going was my Doula saying this meant that I was really close.

So we get to the hospital, while they were trying to check me in L&D, I have three more contractions. All the nurses started going nuts trying to get readings, they think I'm in transition also and am going to have the baby any time. Well imagine everyone surprise when they finally get in to do a check and I'm only 3cm??? I'm not ashamed to say, I broke down crying. I could not believe it.

I made it until 6am when they gave me a shot of nubain, which I thought was heaven. It took the edge off the back labor I was having but I still felt in somewhat of control. At 7am they checked me again, I was only at 4cm. This whole time I'm still vomiting, I'm still having horrible back labor, I could not stand anymore because my legs were shaking so badly. I said screw it, I want my epidural!

Epidural man came at 7:30am and he was great. He did a very nice job. He kept saying I was going to feel pain here and there but due to all the intense labor I was feeling, ha! It felt like nothing. It was a good epidural because I could still feel the pressure from the contractions, I could move my legs and body.

So it took me from 7am to 9am to get to 6cm. Then my nurse checked me at 10:45am and I was still at 6cm. She was afraid I was stalling, so she had me roll over onto my side for a bit. My MW came at 11am checked me and I was 10cm. My body is so weird.

I started to push at 11:30am and it took forever since she was posterior. I just could not seem to get her under my pubic bone. I finally started to push while on my side, and I really made great strides. At 12:45pm my MW told me that she was going to have to call the OB when I was pushing past 2 hours. Since we could see Teagans head, we knew she was coming down, it was just going slowly. My MW did not think it was going to be a problem but she wanted me to know. Apparantly that was all the incentive my body needed and Teagan was born 18 minutes later at 1:03pm Threaten me with an OB and see what I can do? LOL. It was so amazing pushing her out. I could feel it all. It was the most empowering and primal thing I have ever done in my life. Amazing. I was crying, my doula was crying, my husband was crying. Teagan came out crying. It was so cool.

The whole time I was pushing my MW was massaging and stretching that area. She also used a lot of hot cloths and oil to help things out. It must've really worked because I only had one tiny tear which was so small it didn't even need to be stitched.