Congrats Kirst!! How cool that our little ones share a birthday!
My birth story:
I started having painful but irregular contractions on Monday night. I called my OB the next morning and he told me to let him know when the contractions were 3-5 mins apart for over an hour. Well...I decided to work from home that day just to be safe, and as the day progressed, the contractions slowly became more and more regular. Luckily, my husband came home early that day from work, and by 6:00 pm, we both realized that this was likely the real deal. My contractions were 5 mins apart and incredibly painful. We headed to the hospital and called my OB. By the time we got to the hospital, my contractions were 2-3 minutes apart. They triaged me and discovered that I was already 7cm dialated. I got the epidural and it only took on 1 side, but I didn't care at that point. At this point, it was about 8:30 ish, and because I was GSB+, they wanted to get at least 4 hours of penicillin into me before I started to push, so that meant trying to hold off hopefully until midnight. At 11pm, I was dialated 10 cm, but felt ok to wait...so I kept my mind off from things just talking about anything unrelated to babies and birth
By midnight, I got the greenlight to start pushing, and after about 10 pushes, Asher was born at 12:17am. He was put on my chest, and the first moment he looked into my eyes and stopped crying when he heard my voice, my heart simply melted. He is such a sweet baby, and I am very blessed to have him.
Best of luck to all of you ladies yet to deliver...hopefully the pushing goes as quickly as mine (and kirst's!) did!!