365 days ago...

it's hard to believe that a year ago we were on our way to new london family medical center!

last year, the 14th fell on a wednesday. the entire week (or so) was so bitterly cold; it was the coldest week of the year, and since it was incredibly frigid, wednesday night bible study was cancelled.

mom and sarah came over just before supper. mom had called earlier in the afternoon, offering to come and stay the night, "just in case". she already knew that school would be cancelled because of the cold, so she and sarah were free to come over. i thought it was unnecessary, since we'd been timing contractions since the beginning of december, so there was very little chance that we'd be going anywhere that night. i still had three days before my due date, but felt overdue. i was huge. like a bus.

anyway, we thought that even though it was unlikely that anything would happen that night, it would still be nice to have mom and sarah here. cole was tickled pink! he went to bed a wee bit late (only a little late) and around 9 pm, i made the call to the hospital. i'd been having contractions about 5 minutes apart for an hour- i was hesitant to call because we'd been timing those buggers for so long, i was sure it was another bout of braxton-hicks trying to disguise themselves as the real thing just to get a rise out of me. (totally gave false labor pains too much credit there, huh?) the nurse said that we could come on in, she'd let the e.r. know were were going to be on our way. i wanted to take a shower first, and then we gathered up our bags, which had been packed since christmas, and after promising to call with updates, we were on our way.

after getting admitted and settling in, i was hooked up to the monitors, while kelvin crashed on the couch in our hospital room. the nurses told me to try to sleep, but i was too excited and just paced the floor. all night. i tried to lay down a few times, but couldn't sit still....

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....come back tomorrow for the rest of the story!

:)