Welcome to the family

On Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015 we welcomed to our family Riley Joseph. Here is my birth story.
It started Thursday the 2nd when I went to my appointment to check on the baby. I had been having irregular contractions off and on for weeks so wasn't to surprised when the physician assistant said that I was dilated already but was surprised that I was at 5 cm.
Well throughout the day I was having contractions closer together and into the evening they got closer. They even got to 2-3 min apart and I almost decided to go to the hospital but they ended up dying down at 4:30 am.
Friday they were pretty much gone but still had them sporadically. I did my usual house work to get things ready incase I need to leave for the hospital. Well nothing happened so I went to bed and was woken up by contractions around 3:30 am (Saturday) so I decided to walk around the living room and kitchen and to also wait for lacy to get here. Lacy got here and the contractions kept up but I was able to sleep through them but I just stayed on the couch. Throughout the day the contractions were going but not regularly but were pretty close at times but not too strong. Every time I would eat something I would get nauseous. So I asked Spencer to deal with dinner. After dinner the girls decorated eggs for Easter then we sent them to bed. Lacy and I put the baskets together for the kids. While doing that talked with my mom on the phone she suggested I go into the hospital just in case I had dilated more and my contractions pick up. Because we didn't want my water to break at home because we didn't think I would make it to the hospital in time.
We called Spencer's mom to come over to watch the kids and headed out when she got here with Haleigh.
I got to the hospital and was taken up to the labor and delivery triage to get monitored. They checked me and I was still at 5cm (I was disappointed because I had been contracting for 3 days). They called my dr and he said to give me my first dose of antibiotics  (I tested positive for group b strep) and to walk the halls for an hour.
After the walk I got checked again and still no change. The dr said put her in a bed to get some sleep and I'll call around 5 am to check in.
As I was in the bed trying to get sleep the contractions were slowly getting stronger, when my dr called sometime after 5 am I had only changed 1/2 cm but he caved and told them to start me on pitocin and he'll come in and break my water. He got to my room and broke my water at 6:30 am and my contractions were starting to get really intense. As I was breathing through the contractions I was telling spencer that I might cave and get an epidural. He said first have the nurse check you and see where you're at. She checked me and I was already at 9 cm (this was about 7:05). At the next contraction the nurse said let's see if we can push you to a 10 and we got there. Spencer woke up Lacy so she can help hold my legs and she wanted to cut the cord. About 5 pushes later Riley was born. They put him on me as they were wiping him off. Then took him away to get weighed and cleaned up.

Riley Joseph weighed in at 8 lbs 8 oz and 20 3/4 inches long and entered into this world at 7:12 am. Yes only 42 min after my water was broken. Spencer being the numbers person he is counted 18 contractions from the time my water was broken at 6 cm to the time Riley was born.