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My Birth Story

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    November 13, 2019 1am Getting ready for bed when Wes was moving like crazy and morphing my belly into unusual ways. 🤰🏻 2:30am Couldn’t sleep due to period type pains 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3:00am Started tracking contractions. Immediately they’re 5 minutes apart and 1 minute long. ⏱ Decided I wouldn’t wake up Bryan until they’ve been going on for an hour. 3:30am I started feeling pressure in my cervix and then a GUSH of water that soaked the entire bed. I woke up Bryan and we headed to the hospital 🏥 4/4:30am Arrived at hospital. Told they don’t have Labor & Delivery, but since I’m in active labor they are going to transfer me to my OB hospital...IN A HELICOPTER! 🚁 they checked our vitals and I was only 1cm dilated. 5/6am Bryan heads to hospital so he can meet the helicopter there. It’s a 45-60 min drive away. The helicopter arrives and they check mine & Wes’ vitals again, 2cm dilated. We get carted to the helicopter and we strapped down the entire ride. It was such a cool ex...