Everyone wanted Shelby to be born July 4th. How fun it would be to have a baby with a holiday birthday people thought.
It wasn't going to happen. It just couldn't happen. We could not allow it to happen.
Here's why:
Jeff worked at Bald Head Island. The only way on or off the island is by ferry once an hour. Then there would be a 40 minute drive (not counting horrible traffic for the holiday through Southport, home of the NC 4th of July festival) to our home then another 20 or so minutes to the hospital. If I spontaneously went into labor, I was calling 911.
Then there was the issue of Shelby being breech. Little did we know at the time but my previous uterine surgery would cause me to dilate fast and go immediately into active labor. When my water did break, I started contractions immediately that were three minutes long and two minutes apart. This is when they have you start practice pushing sometimes. In the hour and 1/2 that it took after my water broke to having her out, I was almost completely dilated on my own. Thank God my doctor didn't have to battle holiday traffic to do a c-section.
This was so not an option. So thank God my water broke at 11 pm on July 5 when Jeff was home and their was no traffic.
No, Shelby wasn't born on the 4th of July, but it was just as good!
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