The beginning

I just read Katie's birth story for her little Kayson
and it made me want to share my story!
After I started writing it all down I realized it is pretty long..
So you will get to enjoy it over a couple days.

Here we go!!

Since I was a newbie to this whole "baby-having-thing" I was a little nervous that I would not know labor when I saw it.  Ha!

Thursday, May 6th, around 3 am I woke up to use the bathroom like normal.  As I was taking care of business I had a pretty bad pain in my back.  It went away after a little while so I didn't really think too much of it.  I got back into bed and hoped I could get back to sleep quickly.  Just as I was starting to drift away I felt the pain again.  I looked at the clock and it had been about 10 minutes.  I thought my little goon was maybe just sitting funny and causing me some pain so I tried another position and settled in to sleep once again.  Twelve minutes later my friendly little back ache was back.  I remembered something a good friend of mine had told me about labor, it usually starts with a little ache in the back.  I decided to walk around a little to see if they would stop.  Nope.  I got back into bed and just sat there watching the clock and playing on my phone.  About every 10-15 minutes I was having what could only be contractions.  Logan finally woke up and was wondering what I was doing.  After I told him I thought I was going into labor he decided it would be a good excuse to miss work - slacker.

I tried going back to sleep again and again but only got to sleep for about 1/2 hour.  Since it was a Thursday I was, of course, planning on going over to Kari's.  Since Logan stayed home I took him over with me and we told her the news.

*Side note*  We did not tell very many people I was possibly in labor because I knew it would take a while before things really got started.  And because I just love keeping secrets. ;)

Kari wanted to help me speed things along so out shopping we went.  She was looking out for me and decided I needed some freezer meals (which I totally forgot about until just this second...  I know what's for dinner tonight!!)  Like I said before, I knew this early labor stuff could drag on for quite a while so I wasn't timing contractions or anything silly like that.  That wouldn't fly with Kari though.  She started timing me and I was contracting about every 4-6 minutes, all still in my back.

While we were finishing up the freezer meals we had a little scare.  My mother wanted to stop by and see some material we had bought.  By this point I was having a hard time hiding those painful little buggers.  Luckily I am just that good and my poor mother had no clue what was going on. :)  Love ya Ma!

Next up on the list to get Cassie to the hospital was a walk around the block.  Walking definitely helped speed things along.  By this point I was having to slow down and breath about every 2-4 minutes.  Kari and Logan were both trying to talk me into going to the hospital but I was not in too much pain yet so we held out a little longer.

*Side note #2*  I was very against going to hospital "too soon."  I WAS NOT going to be one of those people who get sent home because they are not far enough along.  I was planning on holding out as long as I could and then a lot longer.

That evening a very good family friend was going through the temple to get ready to be married the next day.  I really really wanted to be there for her during this exciting time.  I argued with Kari and told her I would be fine to go and promised I wouldn't have the baby in the temple.  She told me I couldn't go.  It was getting time to meet my mom and dad to leave for the temple so I had to ruin the fun and spill the beans to them.  Dang it all..

Logan and I headed back home where I decided to try a warm bath.  I was able to get some sleep while soaking and pass a bit of time.  When I got out things had started to get a little more intense so I told Logan to make sure everything was packed up and ready to go.  Before we left for the hospital I asked Logan to give me a blessing of comfort.  I am so glad I did because I could feel that blessing working all night long.

Around 7 pm I finally gave in.  We got loaded into the car and set off for the hospital!

Sounds like a good stopping place for today.

Here is a picture to reward you for all that reading :)