4am Contractions begin and are about 30 min. apart
7am Russ is awake and starts to keep track of the contractions
8am Eat breakfast
11:30am Eat a sandwich
1pm Go for a walk (swung on a swing too)
2pm Come home
3pm Shower and shave my legs
3:45pm WATER BREAKS!!
4:10pm Head for the hospital (stop at Subway..eat a sub in between contractions)
5:05pm Arrive at the hospital
5:30pm Labor in the bed hooked up to monitors and blood pressure cuff
7pm Labor on the exercise ball still hooked to monitors and the cuff
7:30pm Get in the birthing tub and labor there
9:45pm get checked...dilated about 8 or 9 cm.
9:50pm Have a huge contraction....and get the UNCONTROLABLE URGE TO PUSH!!
Start pushing...4 contractions later, at 10:11 pm EVE RACHEL is born!!
2 comments:
Wow I am so happy that you had the birth you wanted, good for you!!!! She is so beautiful, does she ever cry? She looks so content in all of her pictures!
What an awesome labor! She's so beautiful you two. Keep the pictures and movies coming!
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