During my pregnancy I felt great and everything was going good besides some minor swelling in my feet. One particular thing that I will always remember was sitting down each evening and watching the little one in my belly stretch out. I could feel his feet pushing out on the one side and his butt and back pushing out the other. My whole mid-section would go lopsided. This would go on for an hour some evenings and I started looking forward to it each night toward the end of my pregnancy.

I went into my 36 week appointment at Morning Star Birth Center feeling good and continuing to prepare for our little one’s arrival. During my  appointment we had discovered that I was experiencing some high blood pressure. The midwives monitored it while I was there but it was not going down. 

On April 2, 2012 pressure waves woke me up around 6:00am. I had been having Braxton-Hicks since February and even thought I was in labor the weekend before when pressure waves got as close as 4 1/2 minutes apart! They later slowed and it appeared to be a practice run. But something felt different that morning.