#30

On Tuesday September 25, 2007 I was 9 months pregnant and sitting in the living room playing a spider solitaire on the computer it was around 9:30pm. I got up from the computer and headed up the hallway to my bathroom to go take a shower and get ready for bed. I got out of the shower dried off got dressed and headed to bed. I sat down on my queen size bed turned on my television and laid back in bed barely seeing my television over my huge belly. I thought that the baby kicked me in the bladder and made me pee my pants a little bit so I got up out of bed and went to the bathroom but I did not have to go to the bathroom so I went back to bed. Well next thing I know it happens again so I go down the hallway to my sister's room and by the time I had gotten to my sisters room my pants were soaked. My mom had already went to bed around 8pm so she was well beyond passed out. My sister runs down stairs to my parents room to wake my mom up screaming “Celania water just broke!!!!” My mom comes up stairs half awake not knowing exactly what's going on. She looks down at the hallway at me wearing soaked pants tells me to go get changed and we'll head to the hospital. I go up to my bedroom get changed and get things packed to head to the hospital. My sister, mom and I get in my parents vehicle and head to the hospital and its a good thing I wasn't in full blown labor because my mom did about 50mph all the way from Eureka to Peoria. We get to the hospital and I have to go in threw the emergency room because it was after hours. I get sent straight up to the maternity floor to get checked out turned out that my water had broke but I had a hole in the top of my sack so it was leaking. They put me in a room and around 2am I was in full blown labor contractions and all. I wanted the epidural right away after I had my 2nd or 3rd contraction so they give me the epidural and I'm fine until about 6am when it starts wearing off and I'm feeling the contractions 100% so they give me some more medicine. By 10:30am the epidural had completely worn off again and once again I was feeling every contraction and by this point they are within seconds of each other. At 11:41am on Wednesday September 26th 2007 I gave birth to my beautiful blue baby girl. She was blue because her umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck. They stitched me up and took Elizabeth to the nursery to get her cleaned up and get all of her vitals. I was moved to a private room from the birthing room and I did not let Elizabeth go back to the Nursery at all the whole time we were at the hospital other than to get shots. I tried to breastfeed but that did not happen as planned so the whole time we were at the hospital I did not get any sleep at all because my newborn daughter did not sleep. Actually I did not get actual sleep until she was about 3 months old. So from September 25th when I woke up that morning to September 29th I did not sleep at all. I slept every time she did until she was about 6 months old when I started working again.