My real due date was August 9th. My body has made much progress in the last couple of weeks in preparation to give birth so I am not to surprised that I went into labor 2 weeks early. The only surprise is that my body has never gone into labor on it's own; I have always had to be induced. Sunday morning I started having painful yet sporadic contractions, went to church, they went away. They started back around 3pm and I started timing them around 4:30. Called the Doc at 7:30pm even though they were still anywhere from 3 to 7 min apart and not consistent; she felt like she was going to fall out and they really hurt. Got to hospital @ 8:30 was dilated to a 6 and 100% effaced. Got my epidural @ 9pm by that point I was dilated to an 8. The epidural was really nice. I enjoyed relaxing and feeling no more pain as I was told that I was having a contraction. It was time to push shortly after 11pm and after two or three gentle pushes she entered the world @ 11:14pm on July 27th 2008.
She is beautiful and perfect and thankfully healthy. She nore I slept a wink the first night as she fussed continuously. Thankfully after working through what ever it was she/we slept last night and now she is a happy girl so long as the is either latched on or being held. We feel very blessed!
After much agonizing over what to name our new little lady we have decided on:
