It very nearly happened to me as well with our first. My wife went into labor around 1am and she felt things were going quickly. Triage just told her to take a bath and take it easy as it could be hours. She woke me up around 4am and said we need to go. We get in the car and make it to the hospital. The triage nurse was really dismissive of my wife… That is until she examined her… My wife was fully dilated and effaced. Our little boy was born 45 minutes later. He is 18 and in college now.
That’s crazy! I have heard similar stories on first where staff are dismissive though. First ones are usually slower so they build this silly assumption. My poor niece was over 24 hours. Nightmare!
We had two more after that and both times they brought her in early to induce so she wouldn’t have a repeat “unscheduled home delivery” haha.
Similar here. Our second was scheduled for induction and he decided to come 2 weeks earlier than that!
Side story on the birth of our first. My wife’s OB/Gyn actually made it to the delivery. When she entered my wife asked her if she could have an epidural… The OB/Gyn replied; “You’re going to have a baby, not an epidural.” My wife was too far along and getting an epidural might have set things back. So yeah, she delivered our first old school.
Our second there was enough time for an epidural, but the anesthesiologist had a heck of time getting the needle in. He shook his head and said if it doesn’t go in this time I need to stop… Fortunately he was able to hit the right spot, so her second delivery was a lot easier.
This is awesome.
It very nearly happened to me as well with our first. My wife went into labor around 1am and she felt things were going quickly. Triage just told her to take a bath and take it easy as it could be hours. She woke me up around 4am and said we need to go. We get in the car and make it to the hospital. The triage nurse was really dismissive of my wife… That is until she examined her… My wife was fully dilated and effaced. Our little boy was born 45 minutes later. He is 18 and in college now.
That’s crazy! I have heard similar stories on first where staff are dismissive though. First ones are usually slower so they build this silly assumption. My poor niece was over 24 hours. Nightmare!
We had two more after that and both times they brought her in early to induce so she wouldn’t have a repeat “unscheduled home delivery” haha.
Similar here. Our second was scheduled for induction and he decided to come 2 weeks earlier than that!
Side story on the birth of our first. My wife’s OB/Gyn actually made it to the delivery. When she entered my wife asked her if she could have an epidural… The OB/Gyn replied; “You’re going to have a baby, not an epidural.” My wife was too far along and getting an epidural might have set things back. So yeah, she delivered our first old school.
Our second there was enough time for an epidural, but the anesthesiologist had a heck of time getting the needle in. He shook his head and said if it doesn’t go in this time I need to stop… Fortunately he was able to hit the right spot, so her second delivery was a lot easier.