So, this blog is the introduction to my daghter, Sophia! She decided to come a week and a half early. It is now 9:30 AM. I have been up for nearly 24 hours. Yesterday, Tiff and I decided to have a movie night, during which some things transpired and Tiffany lost the rest of her Mucous plug. No big deal, that only meant that anywhere from a day to a week we could go into labor...Well as it turns out, it was hours. We were done with the movie at 11:30, and decided we needed to go to bed. Tiff was hunky dory, and so I felt like it'd be a while before anything happened. And by a while, I mean days. I played on my computer before I went to sleep.
So, here's the fun part, at about 1:30 AM, I am blissfully drifting (finally) off to sleep; and what should I discover...Tiff's not in bed, in fact, she's in the bathroom, and she's been in there for half an hour. She comes out completely in pain and breathless. I ask her what's wrong and she tells me it's contractions and they've been lasting a while. I say okay, and the next time she has one, I timed it...30 seconds. Okay, there's one, I thought, still half asleep, five minutes later...Another one, counted it, same amount of time. Five minutes later... On it goes. So for the nex two hours, I'm trying to go to sleep, but they just keep coming. So, we put in a movie, and all through it, she has these contractions, and we decide to call the hospital. they say wait...so we did. An hour later they're lasting longer...A full minute now, and so we call again. Again, told that we should wait. An hour later, the pain is pretty terrible, and so we call and say we're coming in.
Driving in the thick haze, we hope that this is real, Sophie kind of lets off a little, we're worried. We got to the hospital, and the nurse came in and checked Tiffs progress. She dilated about two centimeters more than earlier, but no more effacement. So the nurse told us that we were going to have to wait an hour to recheck,to see if progress was being made. After an hour and a half, we finally learned that we were six centimeters, and more effaced, not exactly sure how much more tho. Now two hours later, we find we're seven centimeters, and fully effaced. Water has yet to break, but man it's coming quick. So, here's to life, and the miracles it brings.
