Will this baby come 3 1/2 weeks early?

If this baby is anything like Zach he will be coming tomorrow! Zach came as unexpected early surprise and he continues to surprise us everyday! I will give you a brief rundown of his delivery. To begin with i had gone to education week the week before and had been walking around BYU campus several times over so I think that contributed to the early birth! The day before he came, which was Sunday I noticed that my belly had dramatically dropped. That night around Midnight I felt just a tiny bit of water. I got up and searched on google about water breaking. (As you can see I didn't read a lot of pregnancy books!) It said that if there isn't anymore fluid in a half an hour it is probably something else. Well after waiting nothing else came, so i thought everything was fine. The next morning which was Monday I told Timmy to go to work because I was sure everything was fine. I got a little more water so I called my mom and she said to call the nurse. The nurse told me that I should go to the hospital immediately. So I threw on some clothes, didn't eat anything or take a shower because I was fully expecting to come back home after this little inconvenient visit to the hospital.

I drove myself to the hospital and found out that my water had broken but I was only 1 centimeter dilated. I hurried and called Timmy to tell him the news and he rushed home to pack the baby bag for the hospital fully to expect the baby to come as soon as he walked through the door. It unfortunately didn't happen that way, it was a long waiting game. I had gone into the hospital at 10:30 am and didn't have Zach until 1:24 am. They put me on potossun and when the nurse said that I should be in a lot of pain when a contraction happened, I quickly got the epidural. Even though I wasn't feeling that much pain, I didn't want to take my chances. In fact the epidural man became my little buddy and I saw him a total of four times!

By 11:30 pm I was ready to push, and so I halfway pushed for the first half an hour because I wanted my little boy to be born on an even day and not on an odd day. I don't know what my thing is with odd numbers, I just don't like them! However I should have tried a little harder because I ended up pushing for two hours, because Zach was coming through the wrong way. The doctor finally came and said that he was going to use the forceps to turn him around and that if I didn't push really hard he was going to have me go in for a C-section. (This was the same doctor who said that if I ate any sugar or salt I would gain three pounds the next day. I didn't like this doctor!)

Zach came within a half hour after the doctor showed up! and it was an incredible experience. Zach looked so beat up with bruises on his head and a lot of red marks over his face. I actually thought he looked like a little grandpa! There was so much to take in, and little did I realize what a great adventure this boy would take me on. I love him with all my heart and can't wait for him to meet his little brother. Except this little one cannot come tomorrow because Timmy is at scout camp!





This is my favorite picture of Zach, because he looks so tough and is already featuring the Zach face.