I've always believed that God laughs when we make plans. Sometimes it simply is better to accept that things are completely in his hands and it is up to us to live our lives with those plans.
Last week I had issues with high blood pressure. I was limited at that point on what I could do for the remainder of my pregnancy. This past Sunday I was hospitalized with an infection and small kidney stones (neither are good especially when pregnant). I came home Monday and tried to take it extremely easy. The goal was to make it to 37 weeks until I made a return trip to the hospital. At that point I was nearly at 35. Since I had Sophia at 37 weeks and 2 days, I was comfortable with that plan and just planned on being pregnant another two weeks!
Well, Tuesday Kris left for a conference for the Air National Guard for a week. I felt much better and just knew I would still be pregnant when he returned. Once again those were my plans...
Wednesday I woke up feeling better than Tuesday! However, that would not last for long! Around 9:30 I had my first contraction and knew fairly quickly after that I needed to get to the hospital. Since Kris was in Tennessee, our back up plan was put into full swing. I called my mom and told her to pick me up. By the time she got to my house, I knew it was real labor. I also knew that it was real enough that they would not stop it once we got the hospital.
When we arrived (around 11), they admitted me and there we were in the same room Sophia was born. Kris immediately started working on flights home. At first they thought I may be able to hold out until he made it to College Station. Of course, someone else decided other wise. I received an epidural at 2:02 pm and he was born at 2:35. Once my labor started it happened fast.
Since he was born two weeks before full term, I was not sure what to expect. However, at the point of labor I KNEW this was completely in God's hands. I knew by 2:20 that Kris would not be there for the birth and I called him. Kris gave me a pep talk and told me his only concern was me and the baby. We hung up the phone and the next call I made to him was a little over 20 minutes later right as he boarded his flight home to let him know our son was here!
By 7:30 that evening, Kris was able to meet his son for the first time, Sophia was able to meet her brother and we were one happy family.
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