Our little girl is here!

Telling this whilst its fresh in my mind!

At around 1:30am last night I started feeling radically increased fetal movement after a couple of days of not much going on. I was 39 weeks 6 days (due the 17th) and figured I would be making it to my due date and probably going past again. The movement was really intense though with little to no breaks. Being the crazy person that I am I decided to google and read that sometimes increased movement can be a sign of distress such a cord wrapped around baby. I felt bad but to err on the safe side I called the on call doctor at my clinic after about an hour of the movement. She called me back annoyed and tired and basically told me that increased movement was a very good sign unless I had pain or bleeding and I should go back to sleep and not worry. I felt relieved. The movement didn't slow but I was able to sleep for a few hours. At around 6am though I started feeling very strange. I felt like I was having menstrual cramps that would tighten my tummy. after a couple i decided to time them but they were very quick and only lasted about 30 or 40 seconds with 6-7 minutes between them. This went on for about an hour. By 7am my husband was waking up for work. I debated telling him to go since contractions were so sporadic but they started to really become borderline painful. I told my husband who was shaving and he called out of work and started trying to time my contractions which were now coming about 5 mins apart and really starting to hurt. We texted his mother who came over quickly to watch our son who was just waking up. I grabbed my bags and realized that I was having my contractions really close together but the were super short. I thought maybe that meant it was not quite time yet but continued to get ready. Then I realized that I could hardly speak or move through the contractions. I was in denial because it was only around 8am but it was time to go! We grabbed a towel for the seat and got in the car. We called my doctor who was on call it so happened and she realized when I couldn't finish my sentence with her that it was go time! By the time we got to the hospital I was already a 5 and having very strong contractions that were about 5 minutes apart. They asked if I wanted an epidural and I said yes if the timing was good and wouldn't slow down labor. They said not to worry. By around 10:30am the epidural was placed and I stopped feeling anything. Baby was still sunny side up and floating a bit so we positioned me so that I could help get her to turn. She was very active the whole time and made the nurses laugh with her wild movements. I was a 6 by then and the nurse said to just rest and we would change sides I was laying on in 30 mins. Once we chased sides age said that I could rest but to let her know if I felt any kind of pressure like I had to have a BM cause that could mean it was time to push. I called my parents and told them that I was well and predicted I would see my baby in about 6 hours. Just then I started to feel the pressure of BM and hung up on them and had my husband get the nurse. When she returned and checked me I was 9.5 with bag of waters floating and burst outside me. I was in shock. I had the teeniest bit of a lip of cervix but they said I was so soft and she was moving down so quickly that they felt I would only have to move on my back and she would drop low and resolve it. She had turned by this point and they were right after I moved it was go time. My doctor came in and has me take a deep breath and push, "a lot of hair" she said, push, "come in she's almost here!", push and she was out! Born at 12:31am, one stitch with barely a tear. She weighed 7 pounds 15 ounces and she is as sweet as can be.