Hallie Rose - the arrival
My Account of Hallie Rose - the delivery (warning: may contain graphic "woman" details.) I had not yet had any false labor contractions (that I could tell) and had had a doctor's appointment on January 3, at which time my doctor told me that I did not look like I would be giving birth any time soon and I could schedule an appointment to have them ripen my cervix if I was worried about going way past my due date (Jan. 5 or 7, depending on which doctor you asked). I asked when the earliest I could schedule that would be and she said the 15th... and I was like, isn't that kind of way past my due date? So I told her I'd just wait and see what happened. The next morning, January 4th, at around 4:30 in the morning I was cleaning up some blood from passing the mucus plug, and bleary eyed, I stumbled back into bed. As I tried to fall back asleep I noticed that I was having mild, menstrual like cramps. This is where it begins. It was a Saturday, which meant it w...