Sunday I went to church, a place I had the sunday before swore I would not be at the next Sunday. walking in was pretty ridiculous, everyone looking at me and saying, "You're still here." ha, yea, still here...and pregnant, obviously. Well my parents had been in town since Wednesday night and so after church we went to eat with them and Uno's and I got something with jalapenos in it, again, doing what someone else had told me to do, eat spicy food. after lunch we went home and I took a quick nap since I hadnt slept the night before bc i was so uncomfortable and Justin's coughing kept me up all night. I slept for almost 2 hours before justin came in to see if I wanted to go with him up to BW's to watch the Jags game. I told him to go ahead and I would meet him there. I first went on a walk with my dad and Fred and then headed up. I got there around 6. At 610 I felt a little cramping, It just felt like a menstrual cramp and so I noticed the time and then ignored the feeling. At 618 it happened again, and then at 624, every 8 minutes for the next hour I felt this. I finally told Justin and he asked if I wanted to leave and I said no, its only the 3rd quarter, its not really hurting and im sure its nothing. We decided to just sit it out and went home after it was over. We didnt say anything to my parents bc I really didnt know what it all was and we just went upstairs and watched some more tv, me and mom later watched Desperate Housewives, all while having these "Cramps" and then around 1130 i tried to go to sleep. I dozed a little bit and then at 130 was wide awake with heavier pains. They started to hurt more all the way around my back and stomach and so I watched the clock and these were about 6 minutes apart. Finally at 315 I called my midwife since I had now been feeling this consistently for 9 hours and Justin said if I didnt call he was just going to take me to the hospital. I just really didnt want to get there and be sent home bc it was false labor or something but it just didnt hurt that bad so I thought this could not be it...oh but it was =) finally!
we left about 20 minutes later and were at the hospital around 4. we got all ready in our room and just waited for everything to get started. I began to have pretty bad labor pains around 7 and my midwife got there at 9 and checked me and I was almost 6 cm. I was all for the epidural, which Im not a huge fan of bc i dont like feeling out of control of my body and all weird, but I needed some sleep since I hadnt slept since Friday night and it was monday and i knew I had a big activity coming up. They put that in at 1030 and I finally got some sleep =) I woke up at about 12 and my mom and dad had brought Justin some lunch from Moe's and he was sitting on the chair eating this massive burrito. I sat up and told Justin i felt like I needed to push and he said, "well push." I said, "I cant push, you're eating a burrito." Well the nurse came in and I told her and she got the midwife and we got to pushing at 1223, and at 113, my new best friend came into the world and I have never been so glad to see anyone in my whole life! Justin and I were both crying our eyes out of course, and just staring at her in amazement. She is the most beautiful thing ever and we made her and are basically in love with her.
So here are the stats! she weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 20 inches long. Born at 113pm on 10/13. Her name is Kennedy Paige Manny, and this is our story =)
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