My baby girl decided to come right on her due date! 40 weeks exactly at 11:54pm on July 29th.

It was a completely natural VBAC much to my dismay.

It all started Monday morning at 3am.

I woke up to mild pains in my stomach that I thought were Braxton hicks. But as the morning progressed, so did they. I began to time them at 4am. They were approximately 50 seconds long, and anywhere from 8 to 15 minutes between. I continued to time them until 6:30am. They were still around a 1 minute long but coming at 6 to 10 minutes. Still not quite close enough, but I figured I would still go to the hospital.

My spouse and I got ready and headed out at 7am. I decided we should grab some breakfast since we would likely be at the hospital for a long time. By the time we got our breakfast the contractions had stopped!

So I said nevermind, and we headed back home.

Another contraction came around 7:30am. And another at 8. I was so confused but I knew they were close enough so I went for a walk. 45 minutes past and I didnt get a single contraction. I went and laid in bed and decided to stimulate my nipples, after a couple seconds of playing with them, I got a really bad contraction! And then another one five minutes later.

But then they stopped.

My day continued like this. I would sometimes have contractions as close as 5 minutes apart, but as far as an hour apart if not more. It was frustrating but really not bad at all. I was able to hangout at home, chat with my family eat, relax, nap. All in all it was a really laid back day. I was CONVINCED they werent real contractions. But by 7pm they started to come a little more regularly. About 20 minutes apart for a while, then between 8:30 to 10:30pm they were anywhere from 7minutes apart to 22 minutes apart.

The nurses at L&D told me not to bother coming in until my contractions were regular and closer together.

But at 10pm, they were not regular at all but they were painful. I had to breath through them and I was getting alot of pressure in my vagina.

Finally I said fuck it and told my spouse we should go to the hospital. He was playing a ranked game of league of legends which can sometimes take up to 45 minutes to play. He said, "Okay, did you want to go right now then? I can shut this off."

I said, "No, finish your game. They aren't even close together and we will probably be sent home anyways."

He finished the game and then we head out the door. As we were heading out my contractions were very suddenly closer together and I had two on the way to the hospital. The hospital is only like a 10 minutes drive from my house.

Just as we pulled into the hospital, my water broke all over my car. My husband dropped me off at the hospital doors and went to go park. I got up the labour and delivery at 10:55pm.

I told them my water broke and how I was having really irregular contractions. They sent me to the bathroom to get changed and pee etc.

I live in a small town with a small hospital, so we dont have a whole lot of workers there. And as I was getting ready I could hear in the room next to me was a women who was getting ready to push. I could also hear the nurses talking about another lady down the hall who would be pushing in the next half hour or so.

My contractions were suddenly ALOT closer and more painful. When my husband made it to our room, I had to get him to push on my back because it hurt so bad.

It was almost 20 minutes until a nurse finally came in my room to see me. (They were obviously really busy). As soon as I saw her, I was like "Can I get some drugs like now!"

She said, "Yes forsure, I just need to pop next door for the delivery of that baby and I'll be back to check your vitals and see how far you are to see what we can give you."

I said okay, but fuck I wanted it now!

10 minutes past and she came back, and had me lay on the bed so she could check me.

"Hmmm it's really hard to tell... your so thin. Hmmm... I dont know, just a second. Ummm... okay 6cm I seems."

A contraction hit me and dear god I needed to push!

"I need to push!!"

"No dont push!"

"I'm going to push"

"Dont push!"

"IM PUSHING"

and the contraction ended.

The nurse ran out of the room, and a doctor and midwife came in. The doctor checked me and I was 9cm! I had had only one contraction between that apparent 6cm and 9cm.

2 contractions later I was 10cm and was allowed to finally fucking push!

A pushed a few times and my doctor showed up! She took over for the other... and after pushing for a mere 17 minutes, my baby girl was born.

Successful VBAC.

No Drugs.

Rainbow Baby.

7lbs1oz of pure sweetness.