The Beginning

So...this process is much different than what we went through with either of the boys. Here's the rundown of what has gone on.

• 3:00 pm 10/16: Water broke at home (after the water broke, both Dr. Reid & Dr. Blanke were contacted and each said that Cooper needed to be here in the next 24 hours). There were no real contractions following the break.
  
• 5:00 pm 10/16: Visited Dr. Blanke. He checked and she had made no progress. So...he said that there was no reason to rush to the hospital. He said to walk and move around but then to get some rest. We were instructed to go to the hospital by 6:00 am 10/17 if nothing happened through the night. We left Blanke's and went to the mall to walk then went to small group for a little bit.
• 9:00 pm 10/16: Water #2 breaks (apparently there's more than one bag of waters), still no contractions following.
• 6:00 am 10/17: Arrive at the hospital after a long night of NOTHING. (Holly V. was our nurse)
  
• 7:00 am 10/17: Dr. Blanke comes to do a Check-point-checky. The hope was that if there was still any water there to break he would break it and that would send her into labor. There wasn't, so...we had to start pitossin.
• 7:30 am 10/17: Placed in Room 1506
• 8:00 am 10/17: Pitossin started.
• 8:45 am 10/17: A noticeable pop. It was another rupture.

It is now 9:30 and contractions are starting to come more regularly and stronger. That's good.