Anyone else's baby decide to come so fast the med team diddnt believe you at first? 😅

I had a great delivery team for sure, but I was a first time delivery, I had an induction, and I had an epidural, so they told me over and over we would be there for a while. 20 min after my epidural kicked in I felt the most intense pressure of my life and I pressed the call button. The nurse strolled in while I was yelling at my husband to get down there to catch our baby himself! Within 2 min the room was packed and the nurse was yelling for someone to run to get the Dr there faster while she was getting ready to catch. Dr barely got his gloves on in time to make the catch 😂 a nurse even had the audacity to tell me not to push like I had a say in the matter 🤣

Crazy enough, my mom has nearly the exact same birth story when she delivered me!

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A friend of mine is a labour and delivery nurse and the first time she was making her rounds by herself she ended up delivering a baby 😂
The closest I had was being fully dilated and my water not breaking. They called all the nurses in and went to wake up the doctor. They told me I can push if I wanted. My first push broke my water as the doctor walked in the room and she said “well that woke me up! Let’s do this!” She in fact did not do much lol

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yes! my doula didn’t even make it to the birth center in time 😅everyone told me it could be “days” before baby was born because my water fully broke but i had no other labor symptoms. it was great! my husband and i lounged around in my room at the birth center, ordered breakfast, then all of a sudden i was like “she’s coming!” i didn’t even have any cervical checks by that point. 12 minutes later i was holding baby!

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Yep, with my first we broke down on the way to hospital and had to call an ambulance. I arrived and was having very regular contractions, got into the room, sat on the bed and a couple minutes later felt a bit of a drop said “I feel like I need to push”, the midwife I think was just trying to calm me, as a first time mum and just been stranded for 45 minutes😅 said “ooh I don’t think will be there yet” but examined me a couple minutes later and I was 9cm, a whole 10lb 6oz of my baby boy was born within about 40 minutes of arriving at the hospital. Safe to say I was in shock for a WHILE but still home for tea that night with a missing car we had to abandon. With my 2nd I tried to stay at home as long as possible but with her literally had just enough time to fill the pool up for her to be born in, as soon as the midwife said it was full enough for me to get in, I got in and the next contraction that was honestly about 30 seconds later her head was out😅

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