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Laurel went to the doctor a couple days ago, and she had started to dilate a little. Yesterday she wasn’t having many contractions, so she spent the day rearranging things in our home, went to lunch with her friend Cami, and watched me play softball. She felt OK physically. We stayed up till about midnight rearranging things a little more. Well, around 1 AM she started having contractions. They came regularly enough and were hard enough that by about 2:30 AM she decided it was time to go to the hospital. Actually, during that time she got up and took a shower, so when we arrived at the hospital, I think the receptionist was skeptical that she was really in labor because she looked so nice. They evaluated her and found that she was dilated more and confirmed she was having contractions every 3-6 minutes. We got up and walked around for about 15 minutes, and she kept having contractions with increasing intensity. So they talked to the on-call doctor and decided to admit her. So now she’s dilated to about 3.5, and they’ve given her an epidural already.

The picture below was taken just barely. She looks great, doesn’t she? This experience so far has been calmer than I expected, but part of that I’m sure is that she is a good sport. And I’m sure it will get less calm as we go.

I’ll try to keep you posted.

Posted on June 13th, 2008 under family, pregnancy • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback