In my day you labored in one room, delivered in another, and ended up in a third. With my first one I never saw the first because when I went to the hospital I was ready to deliver myself and I walked to my room. They wanted me to use a wheel chair, but I like to move when I'm in pain.

Now that I'm in a calmer state of mind, the baby is progressing well Thank God and my daughter is almost fully recovered. The contributing factor may have been that her water started leaking the afternoon before and they wanted to rush the labor to avoid possible infection (which did happen. In my mind it was because they had her start to push too soon and for too long which in turn dropped her immune system, coupled with the fact she had not slept or eaten in days by the time she delivered) and/or to reduce stress on the baby which did come 5 weeks early.

Good thing that my time of having children is done. That Pit sure did make things more difficult for all involved. Now that things are looking brighter (baby may be able to move from the NICU tomorrow ), I can logically see both sides of the issue. I don't know why children wish to be born at 2 am. I can see wanting them to come a little sooner when the medical professionals involved are more alert. But GOOD NIGHT that Pitocin sure does make things a lot more painful. With the exception of the C-section I had all of my children drug free and I would have been screaming for pain management too. My daughter has had the misfortune to experience a lot of pain in her life. I have never seen her act such a way before. She had 100+ stitches removed from her face and head without so much as a Tylenol.