Gavin's Birthday

This morning Gavin Michael entered the world. After having contractions since Monday (my birthday) we finally decided on Wednesday evening about 10:00 pm that it was time to go to the hospital. I was concerned that I wasn't really in labor because I was technically still 12 days from my due date. But once we arrived at the hospital, the nurses checked me and said that I was staying to have this baby!! Things progressed in a somewhat textbook manner until about 2:00 am when I was at an almost 8 and stayed there until about 6:00 am. The nurses said that the bag of waters was still partially in tact and holding him in. His head wasn't able to descend until that bag of waters completely broke. At about 6:30 am it did indeed break completely, and for the next 15 minutes I was having to breath through contractions instead of what I wanted to do...PUSH. Finally the doctor arrived at 6:45 am and I told him I had to push and sure enough Gavin Michael was born 6 minutes later!! The doctor (not my OB :( - who had just left for a hunting trip that evening) was parked in a handicapped parking stahl, good thing he didn't waste time driving around looking for a legal spot to park!