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Hello everyone, things have been a little busy here, but I find I actually have a little time to share my birthstory, so I thought this was the best time to let everyone know how it went. Now I didn't have the birth experience I had planned and wanted, but our little boy is here and healthy. 

I started this all by going in to be induced on Thursday 11/29 to be induced as I was 41 weeks and I had started to have high blood pressures and signs indicating I was going to develop pre-eclampsia near the end of my pregnancy. 

On  Thurs night they placed the cervedil, which remained in for 12 hours, at the 12 hour mark, about 9am friday morning, when it was removed I had only progressed to 1 CM dilated and 80% effaced, which was a big change for me as I had minimal changes before. Later that morning they gave me a dose of another medication they administer down there, and 4 hours later I had dilated to 1.5 CM, but was having steady weak contractions the entire day. A few hours later, when I still had no change, they placed a foley catheter and inflated the balloon on the end to force me to manually dilate. Two hours and a lot of very hard contractions later (at this point I was in active labor) I had dilated to 4 cm, and they started my pitocin drip. 

It didn't take long for my contractions to get from hard but tolerable to very painful, despite hanging out in the bath tub, so I adandoned my plan for a natural birth and got an epidural. Thank God I did! The pain relief was almost instantaneos, and I was actually able to get a couple hours of sleep over night, as did poor DH. At about 630am on Sat Dec 1st the Midwife checked me and I still had not progressed more, so they decided to break my water. Shortly after that things got moving pretty fast, and I was finally fully effeced and dilated by 1pm, when I started pushing. Three hours later, I had made some progress, but it was minimal, I was only able to get the baby's head to plus1, and I was having some serious nausea and sciatic nerve pain, despite the epidural and additional boluses and IV pain meds. The OB doctors were consulted and it was determined that the baby was face up and they were unable to surgically assist with the vac or the forceps, and the call was made for a c-section. 

At 406pm, on Sat, Dec 1st, I gave birth to our son, Collin Ryan, via C-section. Apparently not only was he face up, but he was crooked, and the sholder was being pushed into the birth canal along with his head. He weighed in at a whopping 8lbs 7oz, and was 20 inches long. We are still in the hospital, and will be staying till Tues or Wed, but he is healthy and doing well, and I am recouperating. So far we seem to be making good progress with breast feeding, and he's much more alert now. I don't have too many pics yet, but here are the few I do have. Sorry I don't look so hot, this was right after arriving on the post partum unit after my C-section, so I was still feeling the affects of the medications I got for surgery.

sorry you didn't have the birth experience you were hoping for, but it seems like the right call was made! he's a doll! congrats!

Wow congratulations!! Sorry you had to go through the c-section after all that work, but he's a handsome little man :)

Thank you everyone! He is a cutie, and has stolen my heart, as has my husband, seeing him be such a wonderful father, as I knew he would be. 

@BirdofaFeather:  ,@xstine515:  Yeah sometimes the best laid plans change, but that's why I did go into this with a plan, but an open mind as well, and the most important thing to me was to keep Collin and me healthy, and that was achieved, though my poor husband was a bit of a mess until I woke up more after the C-section with worry over me.

Super cute! Congratulations :)

Geez that last picture made me cry happy tears and I don't even know you! Congratulations! He's perfect!

Thanks again everyone!

I'm still in the hospital, get to go home tomorrow. One of the biggest annoyances is that I'm anemic, and while it's finally holding steady, it isn't getting better, so my hemaglobin is 8.1 and I get a little light headed a bit easier then normal, and my BP is still a bit high, though it is somewhat better, its not back to where my normal is.

@vintage2010:  I'm impressed mysellf, but I figured since I'm stuck in the hospital for 4 nights after my C-section, I might as well take advantage of the fact that I have this free time and the nurses to help me out before we go home and things get really hectic!

I couldn't resist sharing some more photos!

Awww, he is so cute!! Congratulations!  Thanks for sharing.

@PurpleUnicorn:  Luckily they had wireless monitors that were also water proof, so I only had to watch out about not getting my IV wet. It was great, and DH had a cup so he could pour water out on the part of my stomach that couldn't get fully submerged.

@PurpleUnicorn:  Yeah I was very pleasanly surprised by that. They def. have to, so worth it. I'll bet it was, that would have driven me crazy to have that but not be able to use it.