Today Casper is exactly one month old! Time to get back into the blogging mojo and type down his birth story! For once I’m not expecting any visitors today, so I should have enough time to put it all down.

It all started on the evening of October 16th. M. and I were watching some lame ass show on the laptop in bed. For the millionth time that week he asked me if I was having contractions yet. I told him I didn’t.. but wait.. what was that? I had no idea if it was or wasn’t, because I didn’t really know what it was supposed to feel like! In any way M. probably thought I was joking because he fell asleep not long after. I stayed awake all night, because it turned out I was having contractions. The next morning, we started timing them. They were irregular and too short. So I sent M. to work as usual on Friday. Our new neighbors had decided that that was the day they would do heavy construction in their new home. So not only was I troubled by contractions all day, I also had to listen to drilling and hammering from 8.00AM to 8.00PM.
My mother stopped by around eleven that morning. When I told her what was going on, she tried to force me to get M. home and call the hospital. But I wanted to put that off as long as possible. I even started to doubt if I had made the right decision choosing for a hospital birth instead of a homebirth. It didn’t really matter, because of my high bloodpressure I no longer had a choice, I had to deliver the baby in the hospital. I sent her away. The same thing happened when M. got home that evening. He was quite upset that I hadn’t fully told him what was going on. But I just wanted to be by myself as long as possible. I did make sure that Dixie and Elmo had filled up food bowls and fresh water before we went to bed around 9.00PM. One last stop at the toilet before I would hop into bed. But wait.. that is an incredible amount of pee. Surely that couldn’t all be pee? My water broke while I was on the toilet. I opened the door and told M. that maybe it was time to go to the hospital afterall!
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