My labor story :)

Finally have a moment to share my labor story....the quick version. If anyone reads this and has more questions, I will fill you in more completely of all the details. Although I was VERY tired and only had 4hours sleep in three days, I can still recall that precious day I met my son. The rest of the time in the hospital is a blur, but I can remember seeing my son for the first time :) Best day of my life...
I gave birth on April 18th, 2010. I was due on April 12th...and finally got induced at 8am. I had been having labor contractions the night before, but decided to go in for my induction just because I wanted to finally have it over with! I started at 2cm dilated and 100% effaced. The effacement was what my contractions had been doing all night long the night before! I had only gotten one hour sleep!!! The nurse checked me and after only a short time I was 4cm! Then my doctor broke my water. I could get up, but before I knew it I was very uncomfortable and could not find any relief! It felt like I was having CONSTANT contractions!! Then I was puking! The nurse told me she needed to monitor my contractions and the baby's heart beat for a little bit but I could not lay down. She told me that I had to have an electrode put into his head and I did NOT want that at all...I know that should be used as a last resort and instead of doing that to my baby, I opted for an epi. My epi was completely painless and I loved it. I could still feel everything in my vagina...which made things still very painful, but I could not feel anything in my stomach anymore. It was a good thing that I had had the epi too, because soon after settling down with the monitors on, they found out my pitocin had been turned up too high and quickly turned it down. It HAD been giving me constant contractions...I had been right! :) From there on out it was smooth sailing. The next time she checked me I was 6-7cm...and then about 45mins after that I was 9cm!!! And about 20mins after that I was already 10cm!!! It took me nearly 2hours to push my son out, but I believe it was because I was scared to push at first (didn't want to poo on myself...lame I know, because I ended up doing it anyway! haha!) and then I finally started trying to REALLY push but my baby had a big noggin! I gave birth at 3:20pm to a 8.6oz, 21.5inch long baby boy with a 14.5cm head! He is the most precious gift from God and I love him so very much! After that, my doctor was sewing up my second degree tears and my placenta wouldn't deliver. SO unfortunately I had to push for another hour to deliver my placenta while my husband got to hold our son. Finally it delivered but because it took so long to come out I had really bad hemorrhaging and had a HUGE clot come out....so it was pretty much like I had to give birth three times in one day! Despite the slight complications at the end, I wouldn't have wanted it to go any other way and I love my little man more than life itself!