Everything was moving along great. Almost too great! This is of course where reality was about to set in. At 11:30 am I wasn’t progressing past 7 cm so they decided to break my water. This was exciting as we were hoping this would get the ball rolling again. We knew epidurals could slow labor but stopping it wasn’t going to help us deliver the baby! Well, everything started going downhill from here… once they broke my water they realized there was meconium in the waters when they broke it. This meant NICU was going to be in the room for delivery. At 12:20 after no progression they put me on potosin. I was ok with this but it wasn’t great. At 12:38 I began spiking a fever (99.7) which concerned the staff. Again, not a panic moment but not great. The baby was starting to get “tired” from labor and started having fetal distress every time I contracted (basically the heart rate dropped dramatically with each contraction). I then went to internal monitoring and put on O2. It was started to not look good for both mom and baby. at 1:30 I was taken off the potosin as the risks to the baby were becoming too great. The emotional decision was made that we would be having a c-section to get the baby out and quick. This was very scary and emotional for both Tanner and I. They very quickly drugged me up and took me in for surgery. We were very scared but knew we were in good hands. Right before we went into surgery we got a huge surprise… Tanner’s sister CC flew in to St. Louis on a whim for the birth. She got to see us before we went in and gave us comforting words.

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