At 5am on Sunday, Feb 2nd, two days before my scheduled cesarean (since Stella was still breach) my water broke. I knew I needed to hurry but we took 15-20 mins or so so I could shower, dress, and grab my things while Scott got the boys to the car. The contractions got progressively and exponentially worse each minute--what started off as seemingly normal at 5am became excruciating by 5:30am. At 0545, Scott dropped me off at the emergency entrance and they wheelchaired me upstairs to labor and delivery and checked...I was "complete" or 10 cm dilated with a breach baby and they had to call in the anesthesiologist and doctor right away! Because of the dangers of natural child birth for a breech baby, a c-section was necessary and the stress level increase in the room was noticeable in all the nurses and doctors' voices since we were already running out of time. I began crying when the doctor told me I had to be completely put under as there was no time for the normal epidural they do for c-sections. They rolled me into surgery and two minutes later I was asleep; thankfully I woke up around 8:30am to the news that everything was fine and we had a healthy baby girl!
Here's all of us about 2 hrs after surgery (my friend Peggy took the boys around 10am for the rest of the day):
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