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Most of the visitors were well intentioned people who expected to visit a new mom and her baby not someone still in labor after being in the hospital for 36 hours.

Ah! That makes more sense.

Still, when you hear the poor thing is still in labor, wouldn't you go home and not bother her? I mean, she's pretty busy!

Dazed... we sound like two peas in a pod... kind of...

I started having contractions at 23 weeks and was on bed rest too. Looking at your next few kids, I'm kind of glad I only had one. But then again, we had to go the in-vitro way just to get pregnant with our DS.

So the whole story would be:
Four years of trying....
Celebrating a successful IVF... (yahoo!!)
Terrified upon finding out that we had one in the uterus and one in the fallopian tube..
Followed by emergency surgery to remove said fallopian tube...
Celebrating that I was still pregnant with DS...
Terrified by contractions at 23 weeks...
Bed rest...
And an emergency evacuation of the whole town at 32 weeks due to a raging forest fire. Spent 4 weeks on bed rest in temporary lodgings in a strange town while not knowing where my OB had evacuated to...
Returned to town to find that my street had been the final fighting line of the firemen... the other side of the street burned to the ground while our side survived... 244 houses lost in all.

I think someone rewarded me by only making me go through 3 hours of labor! But at 36 weeks DS was really ready to come out.

Just thought I would make you 20 hour labor people feel better!

Ebeth, that's amazing! I'm glad you have a wonderful son after all that.

oh Ebeth your story gave me chills! YIKES!

It is definitely a story to tell DS and his kids some day. Quite honestly, I was so focused on staying pregnant that I didn't really think about it at the time. I just took each day as I found it. Sometimes amidst all of the scrambling about giftedness, IQ scores, and school decisions, I occasionally need to remember to stop and thank God that DS is here.

I think I'll go hug my son now!

You made me smile! Thanks!

Ebeth - yes me too!!! I have a photo album of all the u/s DS8 had in utero lol. The other two had many as well but no where near as DS8. I even have him on video! They love watching it.

oh cool!

LOL! "Now where did that mouth go? I know I left it around here somewhere..."

My funniest story about DS7 in utero was when I was about 9 months pregnant (So I still had a month or so to go! Ugh!) and my DH laughed explosively, right next to my belly, at something really funny.

DS did the "startle reflex" in a BIG way. We could actually see his hands and feet hit the sides of my belly! And boy oh boy, could I FEEL it!

After he was born, we joked that they could skip the hearing test. We already know he could hear quite well, thank you!