how it all happened

so, i figured i should add some info as to how sirus was born. on sunday around 4pm i woke up from a nap. i was having some conractions, which i had been having pretty regularly every evening anyway, but this time, they felt a little different and they kind of hurt, but not a lot. they were every ten minutes and not getting closer and not getting any stronger, so i just sat there and kept track of them. ALL DAY LONG. eventually eric came home from his bike race and i eventually went to bed. i was able to fall asleep so i assumed that meant they must have stopped or something, until 2 am when i woke up to the contractions being a bit more painful, but still only 10 minutes apart. i layed in bed for an hour trying to decide what to do. around 3am i decided i was going to call my mom and ask her to come down - just in case. i was going to let eric keep sleeping though - no need to wake the bear. just then i thought i felt something leaking - was i my water? was it that other mystery fluid that seemed to be haunting me all through this pregnancy? i got up to go to the bathroom and when i did i disovered that no, it was not water at all but blood. and a lot of it. and then a giant blood clot the size of my fist came out. i kind of freaked out and woke eric up and told him we had to go to the hospital. i made him look at the blood clot then asked him to call my mom while i called the doctor. my mom came and we left for the hospital. by this time contractions were starting to hurt pretty good.
we went to triage and they hooked me up to a monitor and i dripped blood everywhere. then they sent in the intern. not the stupid one from before but an a different one, an insensitive ass hole one. my contractions weren't showing on the monitor so he was saying i wasn't having any. then he checked to see what was going on and said he thought i was only about 2 cm dilated. at that point i totally lost it and started crying pretty much histerically. how could i be 3cm earlier in the week and now only 2? and why was i in so much pain if i wasn't having contractions? the nurse then checked and said i was 4 cm and i asked her why no one beleived me and if i wasn't having contractions then something was seriously wrong and they needed to figure it out. we think they had a talk with the intern because then he came in and was all trying to be nice. they finally admitted me and once in the birthing suite my contractions were showing up on the monitor. since i was bleeding the way that i was, i wasn't allowed to walk around which made the contractions a little tougher. i told them right away that i wanted an epidural. by 730 the epidural guy was there getting me hooked up. by 8 i was at 5cm and feeling great! eric and i started calling people to let them know i wasn't coming to work, and to arrange stuff with my sister so my mom could be at the birth. the nurse said she thought it would be around noon, so we told my mom to try to be there by 11. eric took off to make some calls on his cell phone and to get a snack. a little before 11 i asked the nurse if i could roll over. she checked me mid turn and said i was totally dilated and baby's head was right there! she told me to call eric and get him back asap and she would call the doctor. she had me do a practice push and then had me stop because baby was RIGHT THERE. when the doctor got there - my actual doctor who i really like and was so happy that he was the doctor there that day - he had me do a practice push again and then had me stop right away. eric got there just in the nick of time! i pushed through 3 contractions and out came sirus!! my mom missed him coming out but she was there for his first moments, so that was good, too. sirus was pretty purple for a while so they gave him some oxygen then they took him from me and put him in the warming bassinett so he could stay warm and use the baby oxygen mask. he took a while to get pink but he was crying a lot so he was breathing fine. what a cutie, i couldn't beleive how small he was!