Labor...

The time: 3:47 AM
The Location: Bed

Synopsis: I'm awoken from sleep seeing Michael, my husband, walking out of the bedroom towards the shower. I stopped him to make sure he knew it was only 3:47 and not 6:00 so he didn't need to be up for work already. Well, he couldn't sleep so shower it was. He comes back in the room and I have a contraction. Nobig deal; I've been having them for weeks inconsistently.

It's now 4:30 a.m. and I have 3 contractions very close together...Hmm, I think maybe I should start timing. All in all, I have 32 contractions in 2 hours and the doctor says to come in and get checked.

We arrive at the hospital at 8:30 and Dr. Virtue breaks my water..contractions start coming closer and stronger. I realize I'm having more and more back labor and it's something I really can't deal with anymore. My awesome nurse, Marilyn, gets me some medications and everything is fantastic.

Things start progressing and the orginial medicine wears off. I then get my epidural. Boy is that stuff good until...my left side completely wears off and the button to get more meds quit working.

More to come...