I was 4 days over due, and had been having contractions off and on for 2 days when I told my coworkers I wasn't coming back the next day. The President of the company is an extreme introvert kind of awkward person. He started freaking out asking me if I was having the baby right then. The next morning I had the urge to bake, so I made cinnamon rolls from scratch. I never did get to eat any, dang it!
My OB had a student with him, but I didn't know that. I was up in stirrups with the business end facing the door. Student comes in to ask of OB is in there. I wad like "hi I am Veenie :: points to business end:: this is my unborn child, and you are?" The nurse thankfully got him out of there quickly.
When my husband gets nervous, he throws up...a lot. He threw up the morning before he proposed to me, that's how I knew it was happening! He was so nervous and so freaked out by seeing me in pain during labor that he COULD NOT stop throwing up. Bless his heart,the nurse almost sent him to the ER bc they thought it was a virus. I knew better and I still tease him about it.
I was induced and overnight they gave me morphine and Ambien to sleep. I woke up and thought I peed myself, really my water broke. My nurse took me to the restroom in my drunk like state and I remember telling her, "Whoa I haven't felt like this in a long time, this is great."
I thought of another one that's a little more personal. DS's due date was carefully planned. As a holiday baby, DH didn't want his kids to have to ever have their birthdays compete with a big holiday. DS's due date shifted around between January 28-31. We thought we were golden. DS had other plans.
I went into labor on 2/9. We were chatting with our MW and she said she thought it would be neat if he was born on 2/10/12. She liked the date, and we all agreed. She then said 2/12/12 would also be nice, but of course he would be born before then. I bitterly replayed this conversation in my head as I watched the last few minutes of February 12 tick away while I was still in labor.
At some point a MW then pointed out that this baby was almost a Valentine's baby. This hadn't occurred to me. I forgot there was another holiday coming up. He was supposed to be born in January, so Valentine's wasn't on my radar. I was crushed. All our careful planning ruined. Stubborn baby.
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