Short n sweet

Here's the run-down as quickly as I can give it...

Wednesday the 6th I was having contractions the whole day, we knew we would probably be heading to the hospital that night.  We headed to the hospital at 1:30 am (thursday morning) when my contractions were 5 min apart. They weren't really painful yet, but knowing how quickly I had dilated last time I knew we should give ourselves plenty of time.  When they checked and I was only at 3cm, they sent us home and said "we'll see you in a few days" and told us to get some sleep.

As soon as we headed home I started having contractions every 3 min and they became really painful.  We called the hospital again and they said to walk around, take a bath, and hopefully the contractions would go away.  Huh???  So when they continued to get worse and worse, I told Nick at 6:30am that we HAD to get to the hospital.  Just then my water broke, and we headed downtown to the hospital at 7am.  Thank goodness there wasn't much traffic.  I told Nick, "I don't care what you do, just get there FAST and NO bumps please!!"  I knew I was probably too late for an epidural, and at this point I was just praying I didn't have to delivery a baby on the freeway!

We got checked in, they rushed me to the delivery room since I was fully dilated.  I was begging for an epidural, but it was too late.  2 or 3 pushes later, out came Eleanor at 7:45 am and everything was just peachy.  I felt like a warrior woman when it was all over.  I must say, no epidural was not too bad.  I was grateful the delivery went fast, and I felt awesome after I delivered.

Since we didn't have enough time to grab our camera, Eleanor's first moments in the world were captured by our phone's camera.

Fresh out the oven!

The car ride home

First day home, Uncle Sam and Aunt Mere came to visit

Grandma Harker came to visit too!