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or so we decided to just watch them and be patient since there was no way i was going back to the hospital just to be sent home again they started coming closer together but were still not very regular one would happen after 10 minutes then 7 then 12 etc i was having a harder time talking through them but it was still doable josh and i decided that we d get the kids to bed see what happened and if it kept up like this we d call a babysitter and head over again at 7 30 i decided to call my sister lindsay and get her advice i knew she had at least one baby that they almost didn t make it to the hospital for because she wasn t sure about when to go in i told her what was going on and she told me that i probably wanted to wait until they were more consistent and coming about every 5 minutes or less she said it was good that i was having a hard time talking through them though since that was what gave her the indication that they needed to go to the hospital i thanked her and said that hopefully i d be calling later with some good news about her new niece almost immediately after we hung up around 7 40 the contractions started coming really fast i d get one about every two minutes and they were lasting a minute or more and really hurting i thought they d been hurting before but i was wrong all i could do was bend over and moan loudly i felt bad because we d already put scott in bed and he started crying when he heard my moaning and josh had to keep going in and comforting him nate also looked pretty freaked out after about 5 or 6 of these contractions i finally said okay josh i really think we really need to go let s call someone and they can finish putting the big boys to bed so josh started trying to find a neighbor that could come over and be with them we d had several offer to help when the time came but nobody was answering their phone i was getting more and more frantic because i could tell we needed to go now josh was trying really hard not to swear in front of our boys that s a big deal for him he almost never swears as i kept gripping the arm of the couch and moaning finally we called a neighbor who was a last resort because her family had been sick all week and she hadn t gotten any sleep taking care of them all she sent her teenage son who had babysat for us before over and i grabbed my purse and a towel in case my water broke i headed out to the van but for some reason josh told me that we d take the jeep instead which turned out to be a very good thing as i was hobbling out there i noticed our neighbor s son coming around the corner at a slow pace right then i had a really strong contraction and let out a ridiculously loud moan and i noticed that he sped up quite a bit we took off in the jeep right about 8 00 and before we d even gone a couple of blocks i was feeling the urge to push which really freaked me out the hospital was about 20 minutes away and i knew we d never make it i told josh or rather yelled hysterically at josh that i had to push and there was no way i could wait 20 minutes i had no idea what to do but josh remembered that there was an instacare facility in springville fairly close by so we headed over there i didn t know if they were equipped to deal with a birth but they were going to have to be we pulled up to the instacare and then realized that it was not a 24 hour facility they were closed josh pulled on the doors and knocked but we knew it was no good okay honey you need to call 911 this is happening right now it s too late to go anywhere else i was really scared and in a lot of pain but i honestly felt really bad for josh at this point i m pretty sure he never thought he d have to deliver our baby however he was surprisingly level headed as the emergency dispatcher talked him through what to do he opened up the back of our jeep helped me move there and stripped my lower half down by the way the back of the jeep was facing a busy street with lots of cars goodbye any semblance of modesty or privacy and i laid down on the towel with my back propped up against the backpack we d brought for the hospital stay then he checked to see what was going on and sure enough there was her head this was about 8 10 and i think it was only about one minute later that a police officer showed up to help and josh hung up with 911 another minute and an ambulance pulled up with a team of fire and rescue workers from springville city one of them took charge and started directing me to push during contractions they didn t think it would be safe to move me at this point so they pulled out a bunch of sterile equipment and set up right there in the jeep i was lying there with my private parts exposed screaming like crazy and sobbing while about 5 or 6 men crowded around helping but of course by this point i couldn t have cared less after several pushes and lots of yelling from me my water broke then i think around 8 20 a nurse showed up and got behind my head telling me i was doing a great job and so forth and much to my relief held a couple of ice packs on my neck and helped me sip some water a gp doctor showed up about the same time and took over the doctor and the nurse actually came out of the instacare although it had been closed and locked up for the day they were there finishing up and helping a man they were only still around because they were having a hard time getting the man s iv to stay in when they finished up they came out and saw all that was going on and jumped in to help the man they had been taking care of took some photos nothing close up fortunately and gave his information to the nurse so he could email us the pictures if we wanted here is one of the pictures he sent us so you can get an idea of the scene the doctor said i needed to get my feet up for a little better positioning but of course we had no stirrups so we put my feet up on josh s and one of the emt s chests and i pushed against them then came the hardest part the baby was crowning and the doctor told me that i needed to stop yelling and instead hold my breath and focus all of that energy on pushing as hard as i could i don t know why it was so difficult for me to not scream through the contractions but it took everything i had in me if i d so much as whimper he d remind me to not make noise to hold my breath when a contraction came and i m pretty sure i broke down and said something like i can t do it i can t do it i can t even tell if i m pushing when i hold my breath i can t do this but everyone kept reminding me that i could do it and i realized that i pretty much had no other option but to do it so on the next contraction i held my breath and pushed with all my might and then then i felt the worst worst pain i have ever felt in my life like something was trying to push it s way out of me through a hole that was way too small which of course was exactly what was happening but in the moment all i could picture was a freaky looking little alien with sharp pointy appendages emerging from a hole it had ripped in my body and i remember yelling what is that but no one answered me because duh it s your baby launi i really didn t think i could handle it for one more second so even though i wasn t contracting i held my breath and pushed her head came out quickly followed by the rest of her body and oh sweet blessed relief i really didn t feel any pain at all despite what had just happened i just felt totally exhausted and so happy that it was done she was born at 8 29 pm just one hour after i had called my sister to get advice about when to go the hospital meeting mom the doctor got her nose and mouth suctioned out and cut the cord and then they wrapped her in a clean blanket and handed her up to me she had been crying but was completely calm in my arms she was all wrinkled and still totally covered in the white cheesy stuff that protects their skin in utero but she was the most beautiful thing i have ever seen we got the placenta out and then they gave our baby to josh for a minute while they got me onto a gurney he had to hand her back pretty quickly though because we didn t want her to be out in the wind we both got loaded into the ambulance and josh followed in the jeep so he would have a way to get home to the boys eventually the emts kept asking how i was doing and i must have seemed pretty out of it because they put an oxygen mask on me i kept pulling it off to take sips from my water bottle and they d put it back on me i think i was really dazed by what had just happened and so tired the ambulance took us to uvrmc because that was the closest hospital they called in my midwife jen and i told her i was sorry i didn t invite her to the party i was a little worried because the doctor at the instacare had said i had a 4th degree tear meaning it goes all the way back to your rectum but when jen checked me out it turns out it was only a 2nd degree tear whew i still needed to be stitched up of course and i had no medication in me so jen gave me a few local shots of lidocaine and that was the second worst pain i had been in that day seriously didn t hold a candle to pushing out my baby but having needles stuck in the most tender part of your body after it s already sore is definitely not pleasant i can only hope that it was better than having to feel the stitching up would have been after her bath after i was all taken care of josh went down to watch lauren have her bath i called lindsay to tell her what had happened she was totally flabbergasted and even felt guilty like she should have told me to go to the hospital right then but really how was she supposed to know what was going to happen and if i had gone right then we wouldn t have nearly so cool a story i then called my other sister leslie because she had been planning on coming down for the birth and i was gonna have to disappoint her she was totally shocked about the whole thing as well and both of my sisters insisted that mom was literally not going to believe me that she d think i was making it up my parents had been out of the country on vacation for several weeks they had no email access for a few days and they weren t getting my texts or phone calls so they didn t even find out about lauren s birth until a couple of days after the fact big brothers and little sister josh asked me if we were to have another child would i want the epidural or would i go naturally again not like i did this time hopefully but in a hospital and honestly i m not sure obviously it was scary and really hurt a lot but it happened so fast and my healing has been remarkably faster and easier this time around with my boys i was really sore in my feminine parts and took percocet for several days this time i have hardly even noticed anything down there i ve just been really sore and crampy in my abdominal region all i ve taken is extra strength motrin they told me i could have lortab if i wanted it but i never really felt the need also i remember with alex the first time i tried to get up after giving birth i was dizzy and falling over and needed lots of help for the first few days this time when i had to get up to go to the bathroom a few hours after giving birth i got right up and was totally fine by myself so with going naturally i had about an hour of really difficult contractions and a few minutes of terrible pain in exchange for feeling great and healing quickly in the days after with an epidural i didn t have to feel all the pain of labor and delivery but i was sore and really uncomfortable in the weeks following i really don t know which i d go with the natural way seems to be almost a no brainer because who d rather be in pain for a week or more as compared to a few minutes or an hour but the intensity of that pain is still very fresh in my mind and i m pretty sure i never want to feel that way again maybe a few years will dull the memory or maybe we will just be done having kids and i ll never have to make the choice either way we are really happy to have our baby girl here it s crazy to have four kids but it s going well so far lauren is everything wonderful wrapped up in a sweet tiny package and we are all totally smitten with her we re enjoying these few weeks when she s still just a newborn as i know they will pass so quickly if you need to find me i ll probably be on my couch snuggling with my daughter posted by launi at 10 02 pm 9 comments saturday june 29 2013 10 months later scotty is darling and getting huge he has just started waving bye bye and loves to scream and laugh we started him on solids at around six months but he absolutely refused any regular baby food rice cereal smashed bananas whatever if it was pureed he would gag on it so we started him on small chunks of food instead and he has been loving that nathan is 3 now and he knows it he is a very busy guy and keeps us busy too i was super proud of him when he potty trained a few weeks before his birthday it only took a couple of days and he was staying dry at night too completely different experience from the nightmare that was training alex thank heavens nate makes us laugh by making up words like snuggets which is apparently where our food goes after we swallow alex graduated kindergarten in may and has been loving summer he just lost his first tooth yesterday and about time the thing had been hanging wonky and loose for the last six months and was starting to get shoved back up into his gums by the new one coming in he will turn 6 next week and maybe if i keep this bloggin feeling i will post the party pictures we got a kitten about a week ago and have been loving her sweet little personality we named her mei mei and we have a blast watching her attack the grass and anything else that moves josh and i celebrated our 8th anniversary in april and we still like each other and everything josh also turned 30 that month and i gifted him 30 things that took some creativity i tell ya and now the photographic evidence of our family s awesomeness the cheeser and his brother eight years cutest baby ever kissin cousins this is my sister lindsay s darling daughter hailey alex and his kindergarten teacher miss mindee the tooth miss mei mei josh and the boys with his massive costco birthday cake word to the wise do not purchase this cake unless you have about 20 people to help you eat it that thing is ridonculous posted by launi at 7 19 pm 3 comments saturday september 15 2012 scott desmond leavitt a mere two days after my last post our little boy arrived scott is a name we had liked for a long time we had actually planned on giving that name to nathan for a while near the end of my pregnancy it just started to seem more right and once he was born we were sure also scott was one of the top performers on my highly scientific facebook poll his middle name desmond is my paternal grandfather who turned 90 this year and now for the story of his birth you may recall that with both of my previous births my water broke in the middle of the...