We got to the hospital at around
6:15am PDT Monday morning. Jen was set up with her iv by about
9am. We watched "The Departed" on the DVD player while the potosin did it's work, and Jen was having contractions by the time all the major violence was happening in Scorsese's Oscar winner. She seemed to progress slowly through the morning, the doctor did not break her water after a morning check, and a
noon check. We made it through Harry Potter 3 without paying much attention to it, and Jen got her epidural at some point after Quidditch. The doctor broke her water around
2pm, which was soon after James Bond followed Goldfinger to
America, and then contractions got very strong while James and Pussy Galore had their tryst in the barn. Soon after “Project Grand Slam” is foiled and Goldfinger gets sucked out the side of a jet, Jen was having very serious pain and the Doctor increased the drugs in her epidural. After fifteen minuets of some grueling contractions with no real decrease in pain, the nurses decided to check her again. They had checked her cervix about 1 hour previous and she was at 5cm -2 station, now she was 10cm +3!!! They had her do a short "test push" on the next contraction and I saw the baby's head! Her doctor had had to run across the parking lot from her office, she got there in record time. Once all was set and ready, Jen pushed through 3 contractions and we had a Casey!!! His head was not that deformed because he had moved through her pelvis like a roller coaster on the first drop. Later we watched "Casino Royale" while Casey got acquainted with his digestive system.
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