The Birth Story - Part 1

We are so excited to let you know that we have a new family member....a baby boy!!!!  He arrived Monday evening, Aug. 26th at 7:09 p.m.  His arrival though...is quite the story.

It all started on Wednesday, August 14th, in the evening.  (Now, I'm going to warn you that this blog post has a lot of TMI, so if it bothers you, bow out  now...)  I had to go back to work on the 12th, so I had only been back for a couple of days.  When I got home that evening, I felt rather "slick" down there, so decided to check things out for myself.  Sure enough, at the bathroom check, I discovered that I had lost my mucus plug!!  YEA!!!!  The following day I went to work and had terrible lower back pain and cramps...all day long, no matter what I did or didn't do.  I called my doctor to give her the update and she confirmed, I was in prelabor and could go into REAL labor any minute....or in a couple of weeks.  Awesome.

So...fast forward to Friday, Aug. 23rd.  I had felt good all day (which at this point in my pregnancy was a rarity).  For the evening we decided to head downtown to go to the Buskarfestival.  A fun annual event downtown where "street acts" perform everywhere along the streets...a fun, fun event!!  We headed downtown, got dinner, walked around watching several shows....acrobats, magic, pogo sticks, and many more!! When we walked past my favorite ice cream shop, of course we had to stop! We got our ice cream, I sat down, and whoosh...wet.  My underwear was SOAKED!!  I just sat there a minute to make sure everything was done, then went to the bathroom.  My underwear was wet, really wet, and it certainly didn't smell like pee...but it also wasn't like when my water broke with Miss M....no HUGE gush!  I put on my extra pair of panties (yes, I always carry extra underwear when pregnant!) and went out and told Hubs, his first question with a huge, ornery smile, "Did you pee your pants?!?!"  Very funny.  So we finished our ice cream and decided to walk around some more.  Within a few minutes of walking around, it happened again!!  I didn't have any more underwear, and at this point, Hubs was starting to get nervous, so we decided to head home.

Once we got home, I cleaned up, put on another pair of underwear, and it happened again!!  Much less, but still again.  I decided to call my doctor to see what she thought.  She quickly said to come in and get it all checked out.  Great.  So we went to work ~ getting Miss M to bed, feeding dogs, packing last minute hospital bag items, and calling someone to come over and watch the girl. We had some issues in this area.  Our original plan was not answering phone, so we started down the list of others.  Finally found someone to come over and, almost 4 hours later after first "wetting" incident we were headed to hospital.  Once there, I was hooked up to machines and started testing.  I was having contractions...but only the Braxton Hicks.  After an hour it was decided that it was NEGATIVE for amniotic  fluid and I was sent home.  Okay....fine....whatever.

Saturday woke up and had a normal day...except Hubs was nesting, big time.  He went to the grocery store and bought A LOT of food and made 14....YES FOURTEEN frozen meals and did other little "to-do's" around the house.

Sunday morning I woke up with terrible low back pain and cramps....again.  This time when I went to the bathroom it was "the bloody show".  Great...here we go again....

I took some Tylenol and then headed out the door because I was meeting a family for pictures bright and early.  Hubs thought I was crazy and not over pleased that I was going to keep the appointment.  My whole day was the same....cramps, backache, and bloody show.

Hubs had his fantasy football draft and was asking my opinion if he should go. I of course said, go, nothings going to happen....again.....it's the same prelabor stuff.  I did say, maybe don't drink a whole lot, just in case.

Stay tuned for part two soon!!!