We’re having a baby…TODAY!?!?

The end of a long week, it all started of Friday November 2nd. I noticed some changes and I was a little concerned, I called the Dr and they said things were good and if things changed, to call. As of late Saturday I started to get worried that something was going on. We spent the day getting the baby’s room finished, packed our bags for the hospital, packed Honey Bunny’s bag, and we put our car seat bases into our cars.

Around 4 o’clock, I was a little more worried about things, so I called the hospital and explained what was going on. The Dr told me to come in and they would check things out, we arrived at the hospital around 4:30 and went straight to Triage. Once we got there, they ran some test and I figured the Dr would come back in, say everything was fine and send me home. Not the case, the Dr walked back in and said my water had broken, and then he proceeded to tell us that we were having a baby. We were shocked to say the least.

They then wheeled me over to labor and delivery, got me all set up and hooked up to lots of stuff. Both Tom and I called our families; they were on their way to Lubbock. My sister Amanda came up around 9 Saturday night with some magazines and sat around with us for a while. My contractions started around 7pm and were not that bad, around midnight, we decided that we needed to get some rest.

The contractions got stronger as the night went on, needless to say, we did not get much rest. Starting early Sunday morning the Dr started me on some meds. This was to help speed up labor…by 8am Sunday I was only at about a 1.5-2. Things were moving super slow, as the day went on my contractions were really getting stronger. At about 2pm Sunday, I needed an epidural. I went as long as I could, by this time I was very tired and worn out. The epidural helped lots, I kept progressing and at this time it was just a waiting game.

Tom and I at this point were very anxious for the baby to get here, time went on and we waited some more. We could see the light at the end of the tunnel, finally. At around 2:40 am on Monday morning, our baby finally decided he/she was ready. I ended up pushing through about 7-8 total contractions and our baby girl popped out, 42 hours and 50 minutes later at 3:20am on Monday morning the 5th of November. This was the most incredible experience, and it was the hardest thing I had ever done.