Avery's birth story

Since her birthday was just about a week ago and since it’s not written on here anywhere I thought I would take the time to change that. All day on Nov. 19th this year I kept looking at the clock and thinking back to what I was doing at that time 4 years ago. First let’s start with the big important fact that I will never forget. She was a WEEK late. Her due date was Nov. 13th 2005 but that came and went. My doctor’s policy was they would not induce until she was a week late so we had an appointment set up for Nov. 20th. All week though I kept waiting for her to make her grand entrance as I had since after we hit the 38th week. I guess she was just nice and cozy where she was. That year the 19th was on a Saturday and I woke up with some contractions. They were not too bad and not too regular. John went and got me a starbucks and some breakfast as we waited. Around noon we decided it was time. It was just about that time that G&PP arrived too! We left for the hospital but looking back on it all I still don’t think I was in labor or if I was it was very early labor. They emitted me though (I think they were just being kind since I was almost a week late and being induced the next day they figured they might as well start that day). They gave me pitocin and the wait began. We watched football all day. It was actually a very nice day with my family. By about 10:30 that night we were ready to go. I pushed for a little over a half an hour and was rewarded with the most precious baby girl imaginable. We did not find out the sex with her and John called “it’s a girl!” before the doctor even did! Thank goodness because we still didn’t have a boy’s name.