Shift 1

She came back and I got into the hospital bed. She put a fourth of Cytotec inside of me to soften my cervix. She said she’d be back in two hours. Preferably I shouldn’t go to the bathroom, but if I needed to, I could do it after the first hour. She showed Trace how to disconnect me from the baby’s heartrate monitor, and I was also connected to the blood pressure monitor.

After about the first hour and a half I asked Trace to help me up to the bathroom. I think she came in soon after and gave me another dose. It wasn’t long after that I was in so much pain. I remember feeling the first pangs of pain around 3:00 and thinking, “I can wait until she comes back in at 4.” Well, by 4:00 I was in so much pain and I was upset at her because she didn’t come back and check on me. We made it until 4:30 and then buzzed her because I couldn’t take another second.

She gave me stadol for the pain, which immediately made me dizzy. My parents came back at 5:30 and I remember being so uncomfortable that I was short with them. I felt guilty, but I was hurting and drugged up and so uncomfortable and all I wanted to do was be comfortable and have Trace hold my hand.

At 6:15, they gave me the Pitocin. The pain increased and I was desperate for relief. At 6:40 they gave me more stadol and I asked for the epidural. At 7:15 the anesthesiologist came in, apologizing. Whoever was on the previous shift had just left without telling her about me, which in retrospect makes me a little upset, but in the moment I was just happy to see her.

Alycia T nurse

Room 6 Cytotec 9pm and again 4 hours later

Labor drug at 6am

Alycia and second nurse to get IV switched arms still couldn't get it after 3 sticks. 3rd nurse came Iszcha? Eyesha did it on the 4th stick right arm

950 Cytotec

1150 check up

2am second dose cytotec 

Power surge Contractions started 3am

330am power surge Heartbeat monitor went down. Called nurse to fix.

437 Stadol for pain

530 Linfords came in 

615 pitocin 

640 stadol and called for epidural