hi all as you all know had my baby boy august 26 2014 here's my story on Monday august 25 I had my 37 week appt I was 37+3 weeks on told me I was 3cm 100% effaced and to stay close to the hospital when I left I felt really crampy the entire rest of the day decided to relax and take it easy went to the restroom where I noticed a white mucousy substance in the toilet with a tinge of blood in it I know its normal to bleed a little after cervical exams so didn't think anything of just drank tons of water I couldn't sleep at all Monday night stayed up the entire night feeling nauseous on Tuesday august 26 I still felt crampy but didn't think anything of it well around 5pm my mom came over just to chit chat after picking up my Los from school for me because I wasn't feeling week around 5:15pm started having contractions around 10 mins apart at around 6:00 they were 7 mins apart so I took a shower and told my mom she did exactly what I didn't want her to do start to panic my so gets off at 6:00 so I decided to wait around until he got home well he got there at 7 by then contractions were 5 mins apart not slowing down and definitely getting stronger so I decided to gather up some things for my Los and sent them with my step dad and sister my mom and so accompanied me to the hospital I felt really nauseous so stopped to get a 7up once we got to the hospital it was 8:15 contractions were 4-5 mins apart by 8:45 they had me on the monitors and nurse checked my cervix I was 5-6 cm dilated she called my ob he was there by 9:15 checked my cervix again he said I was 6-7cm dilated and that he is going to break my water because I am definitely in labor @ 9:36 my water had been broken they took blood work and told me I had to wait 20 mins for that to come back and I could get the epi well pains had gotten really bad then but I was patient by 10 they told me they had called the anithisiologist and he had to come from home which would take about10-20 mins I was in so much pain and ccrying my eyes out at this point contractions were almost less then a min apart and before I knew it it was 11:00pm nurse came back in to check and said I was complete they called the ob to come back to the rm I felt a lot of pressure and I told them I needed to push Dr said wait just a min as he got dressed I pushed 2 times and baby boy came out at 11:12pm weighed 6pds 1oz anithisiologist never made it and I did it naturally I wouldn't change a thing and it was definitely unexpected hes worth the pain also had no rips cuts or anything and was discharged the very next day on august 27 :) we are home healthy and healing