Dec. 26

For the second night in a row, I didn't get any sleep because I had contractions. Just like the night before they got closer together and more intense. So once again I called the doctor and they had me go in at 4:30 am. They could not get to my cervix, because the head was so low to check me. They gave me a drug in my hand again to help with the pain. By about 10:30 or so the doctor came to see me. She was able to get to my cervix and I was only dialated to 1 and 100% effaced. She decided to strip my membranes to see if that would help. I went from a 1 to a 3 from her doing that, so they admitted me. I think Justin paniced a little bit realizing it was actually going to happen that day. My mom and sister had just stopped to see me, so he ran out to tell them. After they put me in my room, they hooked me up to an IV and the doctor broke my water. Not too much later I was getting an epidural. I was nervous about getting it, but it wasn't bad at all. After that the contractions weren't bad at all. The doctor came and checked me at 5:00 and I was completely dialated. So at about 5:15 I started pushing... the next 2 hours were not fun at all. I didn't think I was going to make it, but at 7:27 he was finally here!