Saturday was a busy day.\u00a0 We had been invited to two different birthday parties and then Tim had a Men’s event at church that evening.\u00a0 We decided that we go to the first Birthday party and then see how I was feeling before making a decision about the second party.\u00a0 The first one was a blast, but I overdid it a little and my hips hurt so bad when we got home (from sitting on the ground outside) that I decided a nap (for all of us!) was a better option.\u00a0 After waking up I joked with Tim that he should take a picture of me because it was probably my last day being pregnant EVER.\u00a0 At about 5:00 Tim started to get ready to head to his Men’s event.\u00a0 I had been having contractions all day here and there, but nothing serious or out of the ordinary.\u00a0 But at about 5:30 I noticed that they started to feel a little bit different.\u00a0 I happened to say something to Chloe and she became instantly concerned and told me that I NEEDED to have Tim stay home.\u00a0 I reassured her that I would have plenty of time if it was the real thing and that I would bring Tim home if it got worse.\u00a0 So, we said goodbye to Tim (at which point I DID mention that the contractions were feeling stronger) and he headed off to his event.<\/p>\n
Just after he left I fed the kids supper and then Luke called to chat and see how I was feeling.\u00a0 I talked with Luke and Krista for the next hour on the phone.\u00a0 It was during this phone call that I started to time my contractions and noticed that they were getting closer and closer together–and increasingly more painful.\u00a0 By the end of the conversation I noticed that I wasn’t able to talk through them anymore–simply using “mmmm-hmmmm” and other sounds instead of words to mask my pain.\u00a0 It was then that I decided I needed to excuse myself and get Tim back home.<\/p>\n
I called him, then called the midwife and we figured out who would need to come and watch the kids.\u00a0 Jen was coming back to spend the night again, but at that moment was still at a wedding, so we called Alisa who came right over and helped put the kids to bed.\u00a0 They were so excited as I left knowing that the baby was finally<\/span> going to arrive.\u00a0 I finished packing my hospital bag and Tim and I hopped in the van when he got home.<\/p>\n We checked into the hospital right about 8:00 pm.<\/p>\n My contractions were about 2 min. apart.\u00a0 The nurse joked with us about guessing how dilated I was. We thought I would be a 5 or 6.\u00a0 I got checked in and hooked up to all the monitors and then they checked to see how far along I was.\u00a0 Three and a half.\u00a0 But my water still hadn’t broken, and I remember in the past that once that happens things progress quickly.<\/p>\n They decided that they were FOR SURE going to keep me in the hospital at which point I made it clear that I would like an epidural, which meant they needed to hook up an I.V.\u00a0 My midwife still wasn’t there yet, so I had to wait for her to arrive in order to give the ok for the I.V.\u00a0\u00a0 She arrived shortly (a new midwife who just joined the staff at St. Francis within the past month, so I didn’t know her, but she was really nice) and things started rolling.\u00a0 We joked about how my other babies all arrived at 40 weeks 4 days and how I was so close<\/span> to 4 days with this one… so we made a plan to have this baby at 12:01 am to make it match.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The next little bit is a blur.\u00a0 They got the IV in, ordered the epidural, there were many, many contractions, nurses in and out, the epidural guy came (and was a hoot by the way), then we waited for it to kick in, more contractions, then decided I needed to lay on my side with the “peanut ball” between my knees for a while since the baby was twisted a little inside of me.\u00a0 This was going to help turn the baby during contractions.\u00a0 But at this point we discovered that the epidural works based on gravity.\u00a0 Meaning the side I was lying on was feeling great, but the side up in the air was NOT feeling great.\u00a0 So, we got that fixed, switched sides and she checked me again.<\/p>\n Now it’s 11:17 pm.<\/p>\n At this point she could see the head coming out and asked me how important it was that I made it to midnight…<\/p>\n I laughed and said, “not that important…”<\/p>\n Interestingly I asked if my water had broken (I thought I maybe just didn’t notice). \u00a0 She checked and surprisingly, it had not.\u00a0 In fact the baby was pretty much coming out in spite of my water not breaking!\u00a0 So she broke it, I pushed for two contractions, and she was here!<\/p>\n It was a fast labor.\u00a0 I was checked in at 8:00 and had her at 11:23.<\/p>\n And that, is that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday was a busy day.\u00a0 We had been invited to two different birthday parties and then Tim had a Men’s event at church that evening.\u00a0 We decided that we go to the first Birthday party and then see how I was feeling before making a decision about the second party.\u00a0 The first one was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9432,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}