The Story

Many people have been asking about the story of Kelsey's birth . So the blog seemed like a good way to tell everyone at once. Last Friday morning around 2am, I woke up with contractions. However, I was not really sure they were contractions, so I just kept laying in bed. Finally, around 4am I woke up Matt because they were not going away and seemed to be getting stronger. We began timing them, and they were 10 minutes apart. At around 7am, they were between 5 and 7 minutes apart, so we called the doctor and they told us to come in. Once at the hospital, the contractions had slowed back to 8 minutes apart. We were 4cm dialated at this point. They called our doctor and he told us we could either go home and wait for the contractions to get closer together or he could break my water and get things going. So we opted to have my water broken at 8am. Unfortunately, my contractions did not get that much closer together, so they put me on pitocin to speed up the process. Well, did it ever! I went from being able to handle it to give me an epidural! I had really wanted to try it without any medication, but at 5cm dialated and contractions every few minutes that were much stronger than before, I gave in. It sure helped though. The rest of the labor went much more smoothly. At 1:00pm I was fully dialated and she was born at 1:21pm. Overall, it was a pretty smooth labor and delivery. Mattey was amazing and I couldn't have done it without him. The miracle of watching your child being born is incredible.