Pre-Labor
Well...On Friday evening June 1st I decided that it would be a good idea to take a walk, they say walking help trigger your body going into labor.
That evening we went to bed and at about 3:00am June 2nd I woke up with contractions. Now I have been having tons of braxton hicks contractions so I really did not think much about the contractions but it was odd that they were strong enough to wake me from a sound sleep. I tried going back to sleep but the continual contractions kept waking me up. At about 3:30am I decided to start timing them. It was odd that these contractions were coming so frequently. By 4:30am I decided to wake up my brother. The contractions were every 5-6 minutes apart for over an hour. My brother said I should call the doctor to be safe especially since I was going to have to have a c-section, so I did. My doctor said that I needed to head over to labor and delivery right away because I should not be having contractions that consistent for over an hour...So I decided to get up, shower, put my make-up on and do my hair! lol I really did not want to go in because I truly felt this was a false alarm but on the other hand the baby was still breech(They think this is because of my ex hitting me and pushing me while I was pregnant) so I knew it would not be safe to wait until the contractions were excruciating and only 2-3 minutes apart. I was apologizing to my brother the whole way there because I really felt like this was a waste of time and I knew he had to be at work in at 7:00am but he told me not to worry and it was better to be safe than sorry.
We finally arrived at the hospital and they hooked me up to monitors. At this point my contractions were actually getting stronger and becoming mildly painful. I was now having them consistently every 2-3 minutes. The nurse decided to check my cervix to see if I was dilated...and let me just say that was sooo PAINFUL!!! I figured the one good thing about having my stomach sliced open and having a c-section was at least they were not going to violate me and do the dreaded cervix checks! Well, after I was violated she looked surprised because I was only dilated to a 1.5! They decided to wait 1 hour and then they were going to check my cervix again!!! Yes twice in one day...The second time around it hurt just as much and once again I was still only dilated to a 1.5. Now my doctor decided to start me on fluids through an IV and their goal was to stop the contractions. If you get dehydrated contractions can start so they were going to see if hydrating me would maybe slow them down. Well, after 2 full bags of fluids the contractions were still coming 2 minutes apart. My doctor came in and decided he would now check my cervix!!! Yup...3 checks in like 3 hours I was almost in tears. He too concluded that my cervix was not dilating or effacing. My doctor then decided to do a sonogram to check the baby's positioning. Sure enough she was still breech with her head in my ribs. My doctor then went on to explain that since baby Brylee was not head down my body could not be naturally dilating (because the pressure of the head being down helps the body dilate). Anyways, I had to make the decision to try getting a shot to stop the contractions (which they typically don't give women after 35 weeks) or to go ahead with the c-section today. I was completely torn and had no clue what to do. My doctor then said lets give it one more hour and if your contraction continue at this rate and keep getting stronger then we will deliver the baby today. I agreed that that was the best decision. Well, 1 hour past and the contractions continued every 2 minutes and were becoming more painful as time went on. All of a sudden they came in and started to prep me for the c-section. I did not realize that it was all going to happen this quick, I hadn't even told my family or friends the baby was coming today! It was 9:30am at this point and they told us that the c-section was scheduled for 11:00am!
Delivery Time
Before I knew it, I was being wheeled to the cold, scary, OR room. My brother would meet me there after I received the epidural. He was also going to call my best friends Jordyn and Amy. I was completely freaked out because this was not how I envisioned giving birth to my child but the situation was out of my hands. I had a breech baby who was apparently coming and a vaginal delivery was out of the question. I had no clue what to expect with a c-section but I was about to find out. In no time at all I was numb from the waste down, the curtain was hung so I could not see what was going on and they were about to begin. What I was not expecting was to periodically begin to pass-out throughout the procedure. My blood pressure is already low so the anesthesiologist had to continually give me medicine to bring up my blood pressure etc throughout the entire surgery. I was also not really prepared for how much pressure and tugging I would feel even though I was not feeling pain. I felt like I was being pulled and stretched every which way (which I probably was). I was definitely not expecting to hear the conversations go on between the doctors, nurses, etc. At one point I did begin to panic when they talked about an artery they could not get to stop bleeding! That conversation went on for what seemed like hours but I eventually heard them say "the bleeding is under control" and boy was I relived. All I know, is that I could not have gone through this without my best friend Amy by my side (My brother couldn't handle it, and decided to leave the room and wait with Jordyn). She would talk with me, and help me make "to-do lists" so that I could distract myself and not panic about everything going on. Come to find out,there were definitely reasons for me to panic but luckily I was not aware of the problems until later
My Surprise Baby
Brylee Rae was born Saturday June 2nd at 11:39am. She weighed 8.2 lbsand was 21 inches long. Baby Brylee is without a doubt my miracle baby! Like I mentioned above, I could basically hear everything the doctors and nurses were saying (except for the moments when my blood pressure would plummet and I would began to pass out). I heard them talk about her being breech and then I heard them say she was stuck. luckily I did not know until later that because she was bottom up and not coming out they had to make my incision a little longer than normal. I did hear them say something about the umbilical cord but luckily it was not until later that I found out that her umbilical cord was wrapped not once but twice around her neck and also around her arm! After Brylee was out I did not hear her cry for quite some time. I kept asking if everything was okay and everyone kept assuring me it was. I am still not exactly sure why there was such a delay in her crying but thank God she is a healthy baby girl. So come to find out Brylee was a tangled mess! Because her cord was wrapped all around her there was no way for her to turn back head down (so she remained breech)!!! If she would have turned with the cord wrapped twice around her neck it actually could have been fatal.If she was some how able to turn with the cord like it was and I had decided to go ahead with a vaginal delivery then things could have once again been very dangerous/fatal. My doctor also informed us that 
