Antonia Zenaida

Meet my beautiful baby girl, Antonia Zenaida aka Toni. I can't get over her. It's absolutely overwhelming! But there is quite a story that leads up to all of this. So this blog will be quite LONG. Grab something to eat, now. haha!





SUNDAY

It all starts on Mother's Day... you know, the day I posted TWO blogs because I was so anxious??? I knew it would be happening soon. Well later that night, I was watching Desperate Housewives (after I DVR'd it of course, so I could fast forward through the commercials). Anyway, Susan in Desperate Housewives water just broke and she gave birth to her baby. Well I finished the episode and STARTED to watch Ugly Betty b/c I hadn't watched that recording yet. Well just as I started that episode, I felt my water break. At first I thought maybe it was discharge but it kept coming and I knew there was NO WAY I had loss control THAT much. So here I am running to the restroom and saying, "uh-oh" repeatedly on my way there. So Junior, of course, is all nervous and asking what is up. I tell him I'm not peeing but it's just coming. So he starts getting nervous and rushed and trying to get everything together. Well really, he's aksing what I need before we leave. Well I already had the hospital bag in the car, there was just a few items I wanted to bring that I was still using. Fortunately, I made a list of those items the night before so I would remember what I needed. Mind you, I'm fairly calm about the whole thing because I wasn't having contractions or anything so I knew it wasn't like I'd be having the baby right then and there. Plus, I needed to change out of my wet garments and I still needed to call my doc. So I called her around 10:10p to tell her my water broke and she asked if I was having contractions which I wasn't. So she had me hold while she called the hospital to let them know I was on my way. Interesting thing was I could hear her tell the hospital on the other line that this was her third call to them that day. What a mother's day, huh???



OK, so we're on our way to the hospital and I have to tell Junior that he doesn't need to rush so much that it's ok b/c I'm not even having contractions yet so we have plenty of time to get there. Which was a good thing anyway because we needed to get gas. haha! So we're in the car and I then I realize, duh... I should have brought a towel. After all I'm leaking here. But I thought it might be ok because the it had kind of slowed down and I figured maybe since I was sitting the baby's head was sort of keeping me from leaking too much. Well I was wrong because on our way there I started leaking more. I had a sweater in the car so I just sat on that.



So we get to the hospital and as soon as I step foot out the car, my water just starts gushing out! Seriously, I didn't think I'd be one of those whose water breaks and gushes out like they portray on tv. In fact, from what I've read, only about 15% of women experience that. Most women are usually either already checked in

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