As the icing to our cake- I’ve often called Jillian that before- here’s Jillian’s story. On September 7th, 2008, I had visitors! From the outside world! (If you don’t remember, I was on hospitalized bedrest after my water broke at 29 weeks. You can read the rest of Jillian’s birth story HERE and HERE ) my visitors were wonderful. Even though I was only supposed to have 2 visitors at a time (unless the visitors were my family) I had my friend Bree, Helen (and her son Gareth), and Anna and 3 of her 4 children with her. It was chaotic in my room to say the least!! At that point, I was contracting every 10 minutes, and I really wasn’t too concerned. Figured they’d stop.
That night, Jillian’s heart rate was up to 190 beats per minute for 25 minutes. She finally settled down and I settled into a very horrible sleep! Everytime I would roll over, I would contract. Hard to stay in one place when you’re 30 weeks pregnant!!
The next morning, my doctor came in to do an ultrasound. My cervix was still nice and long and closed. Fast forward 1.5 hours and I paged the nurse. I was contracting every 5 minutes and I had to concentrate through them. My nurse came RUNNING because I never called. She paged the resident and the resident debated on checking me. Since my water had broken, they weren’t supposed to check me anymore. They decided that they needed to check me, and boy! Was I glad!!! I was already 3 cms and Jillian’s foot was in the birth canal.
I call Adam. I tell him to get his ass to the hospital. He asked if he had time to shower. I said “No. You should have been here 10 minutes ago! Oh. And if I’m gone? I’m in the OR” So, Adam hauled ass to get to the hospital. Meanwhile, another IV was placed and I was put in a wheelchair. By this point, the contractions were one on top of another and I was sitting on only ONE of my butt cheeks. Apparently that’s a tell tale sign that you’re close to delivery. I couldn’t talk to anyone in the hallway. All I was doing is leaning, panting and trying to fight the urge to push. By the time they got my spinal in place 25 minutes later (or less, it really was a blur) I was 6.5 cms dilated. And at the size Jillian was, I could have easily pushed her out, if she hadn’t been breech.
For a girl who wasn’t supposed to go into labour (I was going to have a scheduled c-section on November 4) I moved quickly and efficiently. If only my body knew that human babies are supposed to bake for 40 weeks. 
What an amazing story Cheryl! So glad you both are safe and healthy.
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