I almost delivered my baby in the parking lot!
This is my first post since giving birth to my 3rd child, boy # 3, who was born three weeks ago today (Thursday). My little guy was born on May 1st (aka May Day). His name is Jack.
After experiencing some painful contractions for a few hours on Wednesday night, and poking my sleeping husband a few times, I knew it was time to go to the hospital. I wasn?t certain at first if it was ?the real thing?, as I wasn?t due until May 18th. We called my mom, my husband packed up the car, and as soon as Mimi (Grandma) pulled into our driveway, zipped off to the hospital. The drive was the longest 15 minutes of my life: the bumpy road made my contractions even worse.
We arrived at the hospital at 1:15 a.m., checked in, and I was wheeled up to Labor and Delivery. After quickly changing into my gown, I dashed to the bathroom, where my water broke, made it back onto the delivery table and the nurse checked my progress. I kid you not: She said, ?Okay, you?re going to have this baby in just a few minutes. You?re fully dilated.?
There was no time for pain meds or an epidural even if I?d wanted one. Little Jack-Man was born at 1:36 a.m., just sixteen minutes after I?d gotten to the delivery room. He was my little peanut, at 6 lbs 10 oz and 20 ?? long (kind of surprising, as my 8- and 11 year-olds weighed 8 lbs 4 oz and 8 lbs even, and were also early.)
Unfortunately, I got stuck with the one doctor in my group I was hoping not to get. Thank God the labor went quickly and she was ?outa there? after that. I got to see my favorite doc during rounds the next morning.
The little guy lost weight after birth, of course, but as of this Tuesday was up to 7 lbs 8 oz. I now have the task of growing three young boys and have been thrown back to a vaguely memorable time of late-night feedings and diaper-changes. As my 11 year old experiments with algebraic formulas in Math class, my 3 week old is busy testing the latest baby formulas (Sadly, I am unable to breastfeed this time around). Life is busy. I just keep reminding myself of how quickly it all goes and that this is the very last time I?ll watch one of my babies grow up.
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Dan says...
Congratulations!
Dawn says...
Congratulations! Glad things went well and you didn’t, in fact, have the baby in the parking lot!
Good thing you woke hubby in time!