I had not-so-patiently been waiting for you to make your arrival for weeks. I was walking everyday that was above 35 degrees, I was bouncing on a dumb exercise ball, I had eaten Chinese food... I'd even tried Castor oil. I was convinced that you weren't going to make your debut without medical intervention. Your dad and I decided to take advantage of what was hopefully going to be one of our last movie nights alone and rented Catching Fire and Dallas Buyers Club. I couldn't really focus, I was exhausted and couldn't get my mind off of you and wondering when you were coming. I was having very infrequent contractions, but had been for a week so that was nothing alarming! They started to change though, not any more painful, just different. I just wanted to be left alone, so your dad laid down on the floor while I took up the whole bed and half-heartedly watched Catching Fire. Your dad was getting annoyed because he had to work in the morning and I was keeping him from sleeping, but I knew deep down that he would not be going in the next day. The contractions went away and I let your dad go to sleep. That's when I noticed that I was leaking a little bit of fluid... Again, nothing that seemed concerning, it didn't seem like much of anything at all. I told your dad and he too was not worried since he'd heard it before. He went back to sleep and I just laid down, restlessly getting up to check for any changes every so often. At some point I fell asleep, but it couldn't have been for more than 20 minutes or so. I kept convincing myself to wake your father up, then would convince myself that it couldn't be my water that had broken since there was so little of it, and that I could not be in labor since I hadn't had a contraction in hours. I decided to wait until the sun came up and then go in if anything changed....
Nothing changed but I decided that we needed to go to the hospital to see what was going on. The nurse was very rude and quite honestly I'm still waiting for that first hospital we were at to send me a survey so I can express my mind in a non-crazy way. The doctor told me there was no way I was in labor, but guess what! He was wrong. I made him test for amniotic fluid and that is when we found out that you were on your way!
We left in the early afternoon for the hospital that I would be delivering you at. It was a busy day in L&D! I was put in a small side room until a large room was ready. They hooked me up to a machine to monitor your heartbeat and went to tend to other patients. I listed to country music while your dad read, we both assumed it would be a while before we met you. The doctor asked for me to be checked soon after, and I was already at 4cm! Everyone figured things would move slowly still though with you being my first baby and all. Around 3 a delivery room was finally ready for us. I went for a walk first and that is when I had my first really painful contraction. Your father and I quickly rushed back to the room, I made him blow up that exercise ball again and tried bouncing but it didn't seem to help. The nurse checked and I was at 9cm! I moved around, and kept ending up in the bathroom or leaning against the bed during contractions. The nurse asked if I needed to be checked and she was surprised that I was ready to go! I pushed on all fours for 5 minutes or so until the doctor got there, then for 20 minutes and you were FINALLY here! You, Miss Marigold Kathryn were born at 4:00pm on March the 15th of 2014! I will never forget the look on your dad's face, or how warm, wiggly, and beautiful you were.
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