Welcome Home, Rose!

Okay, yesterday I must have jinxed myself by saying no baby had arrived. Later on that day, I started feeling contractions, and sure enough, they resulted in a baby! For those of you who would like to hear the birth story, here it is:

Around 4-ish I was getting really mild contractions. Nevertheless, they were more consistent than the ones I had been feeling up until that point. Around 6-ish, they began getting more intense and closer together. I really was quite able to manage up until about 8 or so. I vomited a couple of times and was feeling yucky. I told Sevak that I wanted to go to the hospital, and he was like, "are you sure?" I kind of doubted myself because my contractions were only about 6 minutes apart. However, we ended up going and arrived at 9:00. At the hospital, I learned I was 4-5 cm dilated, which was nice to hear. About a half hour later I was 7-8 cm dilated. I had planned on going au naturel, but during one contraction, I was surprised to hear myself say (okay, yell) "epidural!" They said that in order to do that, they needed to draw blood, and I was already progressing so rapidly, that I might not even make it in time. Well, I got some other medicine instead. I forget what it was called, but it sort of relaxed me [follow-up note: it was Nubain]. Shortly afterward, I learned I was fully dilated and I started feeling the urge to push. I kept yelling, "pressure! pressure!" They wheeled me into the L&D room, the doctor rushed in, I pushed for about 15 minutes, and Rose was out at 10:55! I was surprised at the relative ease of the delivery.