I guess since she is the reason I have decided to record my life on the Internet, I will start with her entrance to this world. I was anticipating the day for 9 months but didn't even expect it. I was used to sleeping until around 12pm everyday during my late pregnancy so when I woke up at 10am that Tuesday morning, I knew something was up. I had some weird kind of pains, didn't even realize they were contractions. After about 30 minutes of trying to count my contractions using contractionmaster.com I realized I couldn't. I called my mom who kept telling my to call the dr. (who for some reason the phone line kept saying they were busy and I couldn't get through). So I called Brian and told him he needs to be on standby because I'm having contractions. Nothing really even felt concrete at this point. So, I took a shower and before I was done I couldn't hardly stand anymore. As soon as I got out of the shower I called Brian back and told him he needs to come home now. Again, still didn't feel like I was going to become a mom on this ordinary Tuesday. Brian gets home and changes out of his work clothes. We start gathering everything that I had on my list to bring to the hospital and headed out the door to drop Dusty off at my mom's around 12:30pm. By this time I am in so much pain I really didn't think I would make it to the hospital. We get to the hospital and start filling out the paperwork at 1:30pm and they hook me up to the monitors and check everything out. I was literally the woman on the TV screaming and making all the moaning and groaning. LOL. I kept saying something is going to come out. I didn't have much pain, all I could say was PRESSURE!!! They said I was 4cm dilated and that they were going to keep me. I thought to myself (DUH!!!!) So I had Brian call my mom and let her know. They asked me if I wanted to walk up to the room or be wheeled up, I just looked at the nurse like she must have just popped out of the coo-koo clock. I could hardly breath and she wanted me to walk. CRAZY! We get up to the Labor and Delivery room and all set up. The hook up the IV's as soon as we got there so they could get the epidural sooner. I was still acting like the ladies on TV and demand they check me again. I was at 6cm. As soon as the epidural lady walked in they checked me again and I was 8cm. By now pretty much everyone had made it to the hospital. Soon after they put the epidural in they checked again and I was already 10cm...time to start pushing. I gave several pushes but then needed a break (I was kind of scared because my midwife hadn't even came into my room to see me yet. I wait about an hour, and visit with the 2 people they let in the room at a time and then started feeling pressure again and said I was ready to start pushing again. At this time everyone was taking bets on when she would be born. My guess was 7:33pm...I don't think Brian even got to see or experience anything because he was running back and forth to the bathroom every minutes to re-wet the washcloth to keep me cool. Such a great husband. Soon my midwife finally made it to my room and as soon as she got there she dropped the table and suited everything up. LOL. I thought some emergency was going on or something. She kept saying "OK, next contraction you can push" I wouldn't wait for the next contraction for the life of me and told her I will push when I'm good and ready, I can't wait lol. About 5 minutes later my mom leaned over and told me "4 more good pushes and she will be here" I didn't believe her. Needless to say after 3 pushes, the midwife said "one more push" I pushed with all my strength and there was her beautiful head. She was finally here and I was so relieved. It wasn't too bad after all.
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