One Year Ago This Day October 27, 2007

It's hard to believe that it has been a year since Hayden was born. On Monday, October 27th, I kept looking at the clock reflecting on what we were doing at this time last year. At just a few minutes before 10am on a Saturday morning I got up to empty my bladder which I had been doing a lot of and thought that I was leaking. I was scheduled for induction in 2 days but found that Hayden wasn't going to wait for the doctors. I called Jeff and said "I get to say it, I get to say it!" His response, since he was at work, was "what are you talking about?" I said I thought my water had broken and he should come home. I was so excited because I thought that since I was going to be induced I wouldn't get to say "Honey, my water broke". Twenty minutes later Jeff comes running through the door and looks at me as I had just gotten out of the shower and was straightening my hair and applying makeup. "We don't have time for that! We need to go now! I was driving 90mph to get here!" was his response. I told him we had plenty of time as first babies are so sloooow to get here and I didn't want to spend hours in the hospital bed not able to eat or drink. I then started barking orders to go make the bed and fold the clothes so that everything would be tidy when we returned home. Never to argue with a pregnant woman, he rushed off to accomplish the tasks then took a quick shower himself. Around 11 we were packing up Linus to take to my brother and sister in law's house. On the way I was pleading for Jeff to please stop and get me a diet coke but he refused saying we really needed to get to the hospital. I think he secretly feared that something would happen and he would be stuck with his wife in labor and no doctor to deliver his son and he would be left on the side of the road delivering a baby. Well by the time we got to Mason and Kellie's I was starting to have contractions and was in mild discomfort. I told him to skip the coke and lets go to the hospital. As we pulled into a parking spot I hopped out of the truck to have my water really break and gush down my capri's. I started to laugh and cry and told Jeff I certainly could not walk into a hospital looking like I peed my pants. He assured me that people would realize my water had broken as I did look the very pregnant part. It was a few minutes after 12 when we got to labor and delivery and by the time I changed into a gown I was in quite a deal of pain. I requested my epidural only to be told it would be some time as labs needed to be drawn and and IV started. I had never experienced pain like this before and couldn't imagine delivering this baby without drugs. At 1:13 (yes, I remember it to the minute) the anesthesiologist told me I needed to get control of myself or he would not be able to place the epidural. That's all it took for me to calm down and lay still as a long catheter was placed in my back and delivered the best medication I could have ever asked for. Just a few hours later Hayden was painlessly brought into this world at 4:36 pm. He weighed 6 lbs 14 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. You can be assured with the next baby I will be at the hospital at the first sign of labor.