At 1:30 am on April 2nd, I woke up with labor pains and knew Sam would be arriving soon! I woke up Seth and we were both so excited we could hardly stand it! He instantly found his stopwatch and began recording the time between contractions. For the rest of the night, we drifted in and out of sleep and caught up on our recorded TV shows including one of our favorites, the Biggest Loser. The next morning, we headed to our doctor's office.
The doctor told us to continue to wait until my contractions were closer together. We grabbed lunch at Jimmy John's for lunch and then drove home. I called my cousin Rachel, who has five children of her own, and she told me the secret to speeding up labor was walking...so walking is what Seth and I did all afternoon. At one point, about a mile away from our house, I became so exhausted we called my mom to pick us up and take us home. We ordered pizza and watched American Idol. Then, we knew it was time to go to the hospital. The nurses were waiting for us when we arrived to wheel me to the birthing center.
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