Many thanks to Awnya, who was kind enough to share the story of the birth of her little boy. He’s just a couple of years old! You can visit Awnya’s felt business here. They have great stuff!

The contractions started at about 3am. These were serious contractions, but a few times before I would be having some pretty good ones and they would just fizzle out after about 3 hours, so I went out to the couch to wait. After about an hour and a half of TV and nothing changing, I decided to take a warm bath. Sitting in the tub was really nice and very soothing…but the contractions started to come a little harder. I decided it was time to go to the hospital.

Without bothering to get dressed, I woke up my husband and let him know it was time. We quickly dressed and scooped up our 2 kids. My husband took them to the neighbors house and I pulled the car around. Let me say, it was not easy to drive and have a contraction! We got to the hospital and the receptionist didn’t believe I was in labor because between contractions I was still able to laugh and be fairly pleasant! When she saw me have a contraction, her eyes got really big and she shouted “We have a live one here” to the other nurses….I was then ushered to a room where the nurse verified that I really was in labor and not only that, I was dilated to an 8 and 100% effaced with bulging water. (This was about 6:15am) Then moved me to my labor room and my Dr. arrived. They gave me a little bit of some kind of drug in my IV because there wasn’t enough time for anything else. The Dr. then broke my water and 3 pushes later my son was born. I had been in the hospital just over an hour when he came. He was perfect in every way and started to pee on the Dr. (as if it was his fault that he was just born!)