Birth Timeline

March 12, 2011 (37 weeks, 2 day)

6:30am - Arrived at the hospital for a scheduled induction due to rapidly progressing pre-eclampsia.
7:30am - Completed paperwork, changed into gown, administered IV, started pitocin.
9:45am - Started feeling uncomfortable contractions.
11:30am - Dilated 3cm, water broken.
12:30pm - Requested and received epidural.
2:30pm - Dilated 5cm, intense pressure.
3:30pm - Dilated 10cm, intense pressure, nurses started preparing room to deliver.
4:05pm - Started pushing.
4:20pm - Four 30 second pushes and an elapsed time of 15 minutes later, E was born weighing 5lbs 14oz.

Although it wasn't the labor and delivery I had planned, I still enjoyed it. It's way too soon to toy with the idea of another baby but I am looking forward to my next pregnancy, labor, and delivery.