Everyone has been bugging me to write down the events surrounding Colemans birth before I forget them, so here it goes:
I was working a graveyard shift when all of the excitement occured, I had not been feeling well for a few days but just figured that it was normal pregnancy pains, afterall I still had 6 weeks to go. I was in the middle of taking a patient to x-ray when it happened. There we were standing in the middle of the x-ray room when I felt something warm run down my leg. Thinking that I had just wet my pants I "gracefully" excused myself to the bathroom. So there I am standing in the middle of the bathroom in a panic. At this point the nurse comes to check on me and to see why I left my patient in the hall (don't worry the patients mom was with her). The nurse informs me that my water has in fact broken and that I needed to get to the hospital because the baby was coming. By now I am freaking out because it is not time and my husband is an hour away in Ogden. So they wheel me upstairs (which I am sure looked real good me being pushed in the wheel chair, while my patient and her mother follow behind). At this point I call "T" who is also in complete shock, but says that he will hurry to Salt Lake so that he can be with me. So next comes the hard part, where to deliver. Obviously driving to Ogden is out of the question, and I was not willing to deliver at Primary's where I am sure they have no idea how to deliver a baby. It is finally decided that LDS is the closest hospital so we will go there. A couple of girls at work were nice enough to drive me there.
Once at the hospital I am ushered into a delivery room, where I am hooked up to an aray of monitors. The look on the nurses faces echoed my own fears. 34 weeks is just too early. There was some discussion on whether to stop the labor and put me on bedrest or to deliver the baby then. They finally decided to start me at 12:30am.





2 comments:
Yay for the big story. Seriously that may not have been a cool way to start out labor (especially since you were so early) but you've got a great, unique story to tell people...turning from the nurse to the patient in a matter of minutes. Seriously though, Ash you're awesome. I can't imagine how hard the last couple of months have been for you guys with all that you've gone through.
okay Ash, its time for a new post :) I want to see the pictures you had done of Coleman!
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