A slideshow of the earliest hours of Will's life...

So, here's a slideshow of those hours of pre-labor, a little bit from actual labor, and then delivery and post-delivery. Enjoy! More recent baby photos will be posted soon! (to see the captions click the little bubble icon in the bottom left corner...)



OK, I have to admit something. I wasn't in labor for 32.5 hours. It was more like 19.5. I was counting the time from when my water broke until delivery. Hard contractions didn't start for 13 hours after that (and that was after having interventions to make contractions start!). Anyway, it felt like a really long labor to me. But hey, I was a first-timer. And as for "the labor story" I promised, I'll give you the short version...water broke at 3 am. Went to hospital around 10 am. Got checked--no effacement or dilation. Waited and tried to get "things moving." Checked again at 3 pm. No change. Had to decide whether to induce or not, and it was looking VERY likely that induction would be necessary at the 24-hour mark anyway (which would have been 3 am Monday). Had two doses of misoprostal and began to have really painful contractions...which lasted all night. Asked for epidural at 7 am (which I really didn't want). Little progress still. Had pitocin soon after. Finally things started to happen! Started pushing a little after 11 am and Will was born at 11:33 am! Yahoo!