What a day!

The day had come to have my latest arrival. If I knew then what I know now being a labor and delivery nurse I would not have gone along with an induction for this baby, but I wasn't an L&D nurse then so this was my thought process.  I'm in nursing school and need to time labor and delivery between exams and clinicals, and if we plan on an induction than the guys would be there, no need to worry about them missing the big event. As you read on you'll see that everything worked out and she was born healthy. That being said, it did take a little intervention to meet her.
We arrived at the hospital at 8am sharp. The plan was to break my water and see what happened. I was already 2cm dilated and she was low enough to safely break my water. The guys met us at the hospital, again the looks on their faces said it all. They looked excited, scared, over joyed, anxious, and simply in love with their daughter that they dreamed about for so long. I had decided to not have an epidural, I was also going to breastfeed her in the hospital and knew that an epidural could slow the nursing process. I wanted to give her one last gift of a medication free delivery. I succeeded. After my water was broken, we waited, and waited, with no success. As with my oldest, and the first set of twins I needed pitocin. Once that set in I was on my way. I labored and gave birth in the same room I had Tommy and Sam in. I thought, "This is a weird coincidence.", as fate would have it I would later go on and have my last two biological children in that same room. When ever I have a birth in that room, speaking as a nurse now, I at some point remember one of their births.
Her labor was beautiful. It was silent. Now that's my recollection of it, my husband and the guys may have had another version all together. I went with every contraction, and let it go as soon as it ended. She was born in the evening around 6pm. Clay delivered his daughter. The midwife that was with me let him take over at the last minute. I have a picture of him all ready to catch her...simply lovely. They placed Grace on my chest, she was picture perfect. She looked exactly as I expected. She nursed right away and I felt as if nothing could be better. She was healthy everyone in the room appeared to just have a soft glow around them.