This morning at just after 3:00 a.m. my wife woke me up and told me that she thought labor had started. She had been having contractions for about an hour, and everything led her to believe this was no false alarm.
In true poetic fashion, after she told me she was having contractions I asked her if she thought she could sleep through them for a while. How is that, the next biggest moment of my life was starting, and I wanted to hit the snooze button. I guess have more work to do on myself than I thought.
I snapped out of my fog and started trying to be the support partner my wife needed. We left the house at just after 8 a.m., grabbed a coffee and hit the hospital. I know another selfish move by me on grabbing the coffee..... You should have seen the barista's face when I asked if she could get the coffee a little quicker because my wife was having contractions. I don't think she believed me, and no they didn't have a free cup of joe policy for husbands whose wives are in labor.
So we get to the hospital, contractions are around 5 minutes apart when my wife is sitting down, 3 minutes when she is standing. Our birth plan called for us to labor at home as long as possible. Hoping to arrive at the hospital with my wife dialated somewhere around 5 cm, when they checked her she was 7-8 cm!!!! A tornado of nurses hit the room like we were going to be pushing in seconds, and it wasn't that long later we were.
My wife must have pushed only 6-8 times and our beautiful daughter was born, 8 lbs 14 oz, 21" long.
I watched my wife deliver our beautiful baby daughter without the aide of any medicine, just on her resolve and committment alone. This is where the real story begins, so I will leave that story for another day.
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