So the story goes that I started pretty hard cramping pains at around 9:00pm when I was getting ready for bed. By now I've heard so many stories of women getting turned away at the hospital that I decided to just wait it out and go to bed. I could barely wash my face without hurting. Then I decided after 5 minutes in bed to go and watch tv or something to distract me. Alex (the stinker) was just sleeping in the recliner this whole time and didn't suspect anything. So when he woke at 11:00pm I told him he could go to bed and I would just wait it out. He was sweet and told me to call the hospital. By now I was contracting around every 2-3 minutes. Soon it was around 1:00 am and I thought we should go to the hospital. When I arrived I was at 
a "4" and 90% effaced. Unfortunately I had a little fever running. So immediately I was put on strict Swine Flu precautions. (Oh brother!!) The epidural ended up not being in the right place. My legs got so numb that they could not function fully until June 25 2 days later! I felt everything until around 10 cm when I demanded a bolus. The anesthesiologist finally arrived after being paged hours before that. At 7:30am he gave me a bolus. Then I waited for the doctor to finish his C-section. Gracie was "right there" and we waited. When the doctor arrived, Alex was instructed to come deliver Gracie because he was a med student. (It was my idea.) So the nurses held my legs and I only pushed 4 times and out came Gracie June 23 at 0835 am!)
Here is Dearie and me hanging out in the Labor/Delivery room.
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