Aug 13th

9:30pm:  Jaime is having contractions every 3-5 minutes apart lasting for about 1 minute

10:00pm: Jaime goes to bed and tries to get some rest. Mark stays up a little bit longer in the TV room.

11:00pm:  Jaime comes rushing out asking for help since her water broke ("about 3 gallons worth") all over the bed, hallway and bathroom.

11:30pm: Ginny, our wonderful next door neighbor, comes over to watch the sleeping McKenna and Lilah until Poppy Rich or Aunt Jeni can come over to stay with the soon to be big sisters while we are in the hospital.

Aug 14th

12:10am: Arrive at Evergreen Hospital Maternity Center and are checked into the triage unit to confirm actual labor.

12:40am: A confirmation of actual water breakage and actual labor.

12:50am: Still in triage, 4cm dialated

1:00am:  They admit us into the hospital and assign us a beautiful room (2150)

4:00am: Jaime says she thinks she'd like an epidural soon.  5-6cm dialated

4:20am:  Epidural is in.

5-6:30am:  Lots of messing around with the doses for the epidural, finally she can't feel much below the waist.  (Really, she can't feel anything below the waist)

6:40am:  10cm, time to push

6:52am:  Addison Emelia is born.  8lbs, 4oz, 21-1/4" long

Side notes:

-2 nurses had to hold Jaime's legs in a certain way and the Doctor had to actually stand up on the bed and pull the baby out as her shoulder was stuck and they had lost heartbeat monitoring for the baby.  It turns out that the umbilical cord had a "true knot" in it that everytime Jaime pushed it would cut off all supplies to the baby.  (A "true knot" is supposed to be good luck, however)

-APGAR was 5 at 1 min and 9 at 5 minutes

-The episode of Lucy going to the hospital to have her baby on "I Love Lucy" was playing on the TV in our room during the birth.