Elijah’s Birth Story: Part 3
They got me back to bed and the anesthesiologist got there shortly. While she gave me the epidural, I sat on the edge of the bed with my forehead pressed into John’s. Thankfully I didn’t move, despite having a contraction during the time she was giving me the epidural. I…
Elijah’s Birth Story: Part 2
At this point, it was kind of surreal. I said yes, and one of his nurses walked us over to the hospital registration desk. There, the German-only speaking nun got us registered in between the incessant phone calls she was taking. It seemed that the registration took forever. We then…
Elijah’s Birth Story: Part 1
I had been having Braxton Hicks contractions for weeks, and March 31st didn’t seem any different. It was a week past the day John and I believed was my due date and 3 days after the doctor’s calculated due date. I was really motivated to finally get our little guy…