March 18, 2008

Contractions started last night and continued throughout the night. Tues morning got up and showered and headed to the hospital to be assesessed. They checked me out and said "well it's still early labour. You can go home and come back when you cannot talk through a contraction"......so we went home. Tried to rest at home. Chris went to work and my mom came to stay with me. By the time Chris got home I was in tears, the pain was excruciating. My mom said "ok Chris it's time to take her to the hospital"...into the car we got and we were on our way. The drive down our street to the hospital was very very very long and painful for me. The longest drive of my life actually. It normally takes approx 7 minutes, but it felt like days. I could feel every bump and who knew about the advanced light going the opposite direction from which we were going. I never even realized that there was one until this day. When we finally arrived at the hospital I could not get out of the car because of the painful contractions, and wanting to push...already. Chris had to wheel me into the birthing ward in a wheelchair...what fun. Go figure that the lobby of the hospital was packed to capacity(so it seemed) and I had to wheel past everyone. There was no time for health cards or anything. They took me to a room and checked me out.....the nurse said to her co-workers "ok she's fully"....I started bawling and said "does that mean i won't get my drugs?!??" and all the nurse said was "yes, it's time to push"............ less than 2 hours later and alot of pain, we had our beautiful boy Logan. I cannot believe that I survived the whole delivery. It was traumatizing!!!