Our life: JACE!!!!!

Labor started about 11pm Thursday night. Contractions were strong and quickly became regular and about 5 min apart. I was pretty sure this was it, but wanted labor at home for a while before we went to the hospital. So, I woke Nick up when I was sure this was going somewhere. I notified the L & D unit that we'd be coming in. We took showers and got our stuff around and by this point my contractions were about 3 min apart and I was pretty uncomfortable. By the time we got to a room to get checked out, I was sure we'd have a baby in just a few hours. Brenna was so fast and easy that I thought this would be similar. I was wrong.

I was told that even though my contractions were 2 min apart and I was having to 'breath' through the contractions that I was only dilated to 2 and 75% effaced. They debated about just sending me home, having me walk for a couple hours or admitting me. We ended up walking around the hospital for 1.5 hours, which was awesome since I was contracting every 2 min. I'm sure it was quite the spectacle. Luckily it was just past midnight so there were not many people at the hospital. I did manage to throw up along the sidewalk during our stroll. Nick was wonderful the entire time and kept me going. I probably would have found a seat outside and sat for the entire time.

After our walk, we went back to the unit and I had dilated to 4. They admitted me. I got my epidural (Thank God) pretty quickly. It completely numbed my right side, but only about 90% on the left side. I had a great deal of relief and that was great. I got some on and off sleep for a few hours and managed to dream about Candy Crush....hehe. There were a couple times that his heart rate dropped and people came in to reposition me, but otherwise it was pretty uneventful.

I started having some significant rib and back pain on my left side and when I was further dilated, determined that LB was not looking toward my back like he was suppose to. So, we tried to turn him and when that didn't happen just decided to go for it and deliver. 3 good contractions, about 10 minutes later.....Jace was born!!

Here I am, ready to get this going!