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So, GS started the Pitocin drip around 7:45�ish. They started it as a slow drip. GS wasn�t feeling anything. We actually didn�t even think they had started the pitocin, so we asked the nurse and she said it was the other bag and that she had started the drip. She said she would come back every twenty minutes to increase the pitocin and once it was up to 20 units (or whatever it is called) she would have to have the midwife come and check everything. She seemed to be coming back every 15 minutes but it may have been twenty minutes, not saying anything to us but adjusting the drip and checking some kind of chart in a cabinet just behind GS to her right. GS started having some nausea after about the 4th time she increased the pitocin. Towards 11:30-11:45 GS asked about the epidural. The midwife came in and examined her and said she was 100% effaced and 4 centimeters. So, it was a good time to have the epidural. The nurse came back in and told us only one person could remain in the room while the epidural was being done. So, my husband, my mom (she had taken my daughter home earlier around 6:00ish) and I left to go sit in the waiting room while they did the epidural. GS� DH stayed with GS. After we were in the waiting room for several minutes we saw the anesthesiologist run out the door to the stairway next to the elevator. I waited a few minutes longer and decided to go check on GS. I went to her room knocked and opened the door a smidge and could see GS was not in her bed, I could tell she was off to the side of the room where I couldn�t see her or in the bathroom. Her husband asked me to give them a few minutes. I thought this was weird that she wasn�t in bed, since she had just had an epidural and it wasn�t safe for her to be out of bed. I went back to the waiting room with my DH and my mom. We waited another 5 or so minutes, it was around midnight. GS� husband came to the waiting area and told us that GS needed to speak to me. I went through the door and her husband said something like �Oh, shit�. This worried me and I was a bit afraid I might have missed Mitchell being born or that GS was going to tell me she hated us, wanted to keep the baby or something. I walked into her room and she said, �There is something I need to tell you�. This literally terrified me. I thought I was going to walk into the room and she was going to already be holding our baby and tell me she couldn�t give him to us. I went to her beside and she said they had done a drug screen and it came back positive for amphetamines. She said she had had some pain/ discomfort earlier and so she had taken a percocet (which I was with her when these were prescribed for a severe migraine several weeks earlier) so, she said the drug screen detected the percocet and she had failed the drug screening. She was extremely upset. This was around 12:05. The nurse came back in and seemed even colder than before. Previously she had been very curt with us when we had questions and honestly, never even acknowledged any of us or introduced herself as all the other nurses that attended GS had. GS asked the nurse about the epidural and then she had a horrible contraction. The nurse said she would need to exam her. So, she busied herself getting gloves on, lubricant etc. GS cried again for the epidural. The nurse said during her next contraction she would need to exam GS� cervix. So, she came over to GS �bed and when GS started to cry that another one was coming the nurse started doing a pelvic exam. GS cried that it hurt and asked her to please stop. She did. GS cried again for the epidural and told the nurse she was really having pain and she was afraid it was going to be too late to get, she asked if she could get something in her IV, anything to help with the pain. The nurse did not even acknowledge this request. She said she needed to exam GS. So, she got gloves on again, lubricant, and when GS had another contraction she started her examin again and said she was �complete�.