My baby, Liadan Elizabeth (pronounced kind of like leedin), was born November 2nd...in the GAS STATION PARKING LOT!
I sat down for dinner, had one pretty intense contraction but kept eating

Then had another more than 10 minutes later, but it was painful and long. So I decided to take a shower and see what would happen. In the shower the contractions came on fast so I decided to go to the hospital...this was a half hour after my first contraction. So we got our 2 1/2 year old dressed and in the car (my friend who was supposed to watch her in this event was out of town for this one night because her brother passed away).
We were in the car an hour after the first contraction....the hospital is 30 minutes away. My contractions were about every two minutes in the car and then I got the 'urge' to push, which was more like there was no stopping it. We were already going through red lights and decided to pull over and call the ambulance 20 minutes into the trip. So we pulled into a gas station and I could feel the baby's head descending and my water broke...yes in the front seat
At this point a nurse had come out of the store, put my seat back and was trying to get me to take off my pants...in view of several onlookers. I even looked up once and saw a lady looking through my windshield WAVING
So the baby was crowning when the ambulance arrived and I had to climb onto a stretcher that way...and with no pants on! First there were two guys holding up 2 towels to block the view and finally someone put a sheet over me.
After about 3 minutes in the ambulance Liadan was born, an hour and 27 minutes after the first contraction.
Wow. Nothing at all like labor with my first baby...and glad I didn't bother to write out a birth plan

Still crossing my fingers that no spectator cell phone videos come out! ugh
By the way...
Love everyone's pictures!
Congrats TLH!
Nyn, hope to hear news soon, exciting!