In Labor!

 
September 20, 2009
Two weeks early??? I started having contractions wake me up around 2am in the morning. They were coming between 7 and 10 minutes apart and hurt enough to wake me up every time, and eventually got to the point that I didn't sleep in between any more. I waited til Jeremy woke up in the morning to tell him. Contractions slowed down once I was up and about to 15 mins. apart. Nana took Lane and Ava to church, and I was very emotional about being separated from them. I was also getting very freaked out that my labor may be stopping completely. I was actually sobbing hysterically at one point. It all has to do with losing Carina and just wanting to hold my baby NOW...alive! Eventually I got past the hysteria and started cracking the whip. You could barely walk through the nursery and I thought we had better do something about it. (Poor Jeremy!) The contractions picked back up eventually and by 6 o'clock we were headed to the hospital and my midwife Marilyn would meet us there. It was her day off, so she says I picked the right day. (For those of you who don't know... I go to May-Grant. By God's design, Marilyn Derksen wound up delivering Lane and Ava and then promised to deliver all of my kids. How special is that? Love you Marilyn!) I was hurting pretty good by the time we were in there. Not to my surprise I was still only 3 cm. My body just does not like to have babies in a timely manner we have learned! By like 10 or 11pm I was ready for my epidural... sweet dreamy heaven. After I get it I always wonder why I waited so long! Thought we would have a baby on the 20th...