I woke up this morning at 1am and started to have a few contractions. Walked around the house a bit, ate an apple, and decided to go back to bed but they were about 3 minutes apart already although not terribly intense. I woke up my DH and told him that maybe we should call his parents to come over to stay with our 2 year old. Since I was GBS+ I wanted to make sure I arrived at the hospital at least 4 hours prior to delivering. We arrived at the hospital around 2:30am. After getting checked in we were in a monitoring room for about 20 minutes and then they checked me and I was 7+cm at which point they started moving a little faster. While sitting on the side of the bed the nurse put on the hospital braclet, was asking a few questions, and then started my IV. I felt like I was handling the contractions pretty well up until this point but I figured I was just getting annoyed with all the interruption and distraction from completely relaxing through the contractions. I told my DH to start filling up the tub as I knew that would give me some relief. I walked over and stepped in and squated in the water. Right then I had another contraction and I got up and leaned forward on the edge and out of no where had a sudden urge to push. I reached down and could feel the baby crowning! DH yelled that I needed to push and a nurse and Dr. came running in. The nurse was trying to get me to come out of the tub and when I told her that there was no way that I could get out of the tub the Dr. was really good about just stepping in and saying that she'd sit on the side of the tub and I was standing with one leg up on the ledge. She slide out seconds later with the next contraction. So there I was standing in the tub having just delivered our little girl and I look up and about 10 people are standing there watching the excitement. It was wild. The time from them giving me the antibiotics to her birth time was 6 minutes. I'm still in total shock with how fast it all went. She was 8 lbs, 3 oz and 21 1/4" long. About 1.5 lbs bigger than my son. I didn't tear at all this time which I'll attribute to delivering her standing up. She is a great little nursling and we've had a fun day just snuggling and napping with her. We wanted to go home at the hospital's minimum of 6 hours, but because I didn't get the antibiotics in they suggested we wait the 24 hours which is fine.
About an hour before she arrived...
About an hour after...
crazy fast! congrats and enjoy! 
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