Surprise - Stella came early - WAY early!!!! I wanted her to come out, but geez, I was not prepared for the 4th....I guess that is lesson #1 with kids - expect the unexpected!!!! HA =)
If anyone wants to know - my water broke at about 4:45 am on the 4th. It was quite freaky, and not something that was anticipated. I really didn't have contractions at first, so I was not really sure what was going on in there. Once we arrived at the hospital, around 5:30, we went into triage in the maternity ward and they confirmed my water broke, and said I was 2cm, so I was moved to a room where everything would happen. They started the Pitocin drip around 8 I think (I am not quite sure, it could have been 9, I was tired!)....that stuff is the worst medicine ever. I quickly decided to get the epidural - very good idea =). After the epidural was placed around 10:30/11 everything started to speed up. They checked me at 1pm and I was 8ish cm dialated, they then checked me around 2:15 and I was almost 10cm. The nurses had me start to push around 2:45 and we did 4 or 5 sets of 3 before the doctor got there - which was apparently too many because around 3:15 they told me to not push when I felt the urge - that is hard to do! The doc arrived and we did one set of 3 and her head was out. On the second set of 3 the rest of her arrived!!! Stella was born at 3:29pm Jan 4th 2010!!