Double Birthday Surprise!

I woke up on April 29th 2010 and began to plan for my husband's birthday. I was going to make Key Lime Bars instead of a birthday cake and was going to visit Red Robin for dinner, because Alphonso loves their burgers. I had been up half the night with irregular contractions, but was doubtful about their significance...

A couple of hours later my mother was driving me down to Kaiser in Fontana to have a baby. Guess those contractions were a bit more significant than I thought. When I called Alphonso, I tried to be as cool as a cucumber, because he is prone to panic. lol... Unfortunately my cool-headed illusion didn't fool him. From across the room, my mother heard Alphonso say "I feel like I am going to f**ing die." I hadn't heard my mom laugh that hard in a while.

We arrived at the hospital and I was almost 4cm dilated, but they made me get up and walk the halls for an hour to get labor really moving. It was torturous walking down the halls while contraction after contraction came, but these weren't bad yet, I had no idea what I was in for...

After an epidural, and 12 hours of labor that ranged from comfortable to intense pain, a 2 inch episiotomy, and stress over the baby's fluctuating heart rate, Amy was born at 11:24pm on her Daddy's 26th birthday. Happy Birthday Alphonso. Sorry I couldn't have gotten those Key Lime bars made, I was kind of busy...