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The Day You Were Born

On Monday, May 27, 2019, I went to the doctor for our 39 week checkup.  Dr. Foster told me that we was going out of town on Saturday, and if I felt like I was maybe going into labor to call the office on Friday and let him know so he wouldn't go on his trip.  I felt fine the rest of the week, but was anxious that you would come when he was out of town.

I made it through Friday without anything special happening.

Then, at 3:45 on Saturday morning, I woke up to some contractions.  I wasn't sure what they were at first, but decided to get a contraction app and time them.  They were already steadily 5 minutes apart! 

I wasn't sure if this was real labor or false labor, so I tried to slow it down by getting in the bathtub.  After about 40 minutes in the tub where contractions didn't slow down I woke Dad up and told him we might need to go to the hospital.  We gathered what we needed for the hospital and headed in.  Dad remembers it taking 22 minutes to get to the hospital.  We got there about 5am.

Once there, they put us in the triage room and hooked me up to monitors.  At this point, the contractions were 3 minutes apart and Dr. Foster made it to see that I was 3 cm dilated.  They admitted us to the hospital and we moved to a labor and delivery room at about 6am.  The nurses said I should get about 1cm per hour and you would probably be born sometime that afternoon.

They changed out my monitors for wireless ones and started an IV.  Dad went and got our things from the car.  Contractions got to be about 2 minutes apart.

My water broke sometime between 7 and 8am.  They got a birthing ball for me to sit on.  After sitting there for a while, I felt like I had to push.  Dad went to get the nurses who didn't think I could possibly be ready! 

They checked me and I was 10 cm - ready to push!  A bunch of people rushed into the room to get ready for you.  I started pushing at 9:12 and you were born at 9:30am on June 1, 2019.




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