At 8 pm tonight.....

....it will be five years since my labor began with Makily.

I had felt crummy all day long.

Had Braxton Hicks the majority of the day.

I laid in bed around 8 o'clock thinking my BH would go away. I watched a surfing documentary on MTV. They featured a girl that was surfing and her arm was bitten off by a shark. She recovered and STILL surfs.

I remember thinking how brave she was.

By the time the show was over my "BH" were getting more and more annoying. I decided on a whim to time them.

To my surprise they were three minutes apart.

I almost panicked.

Allen was on the road. I was home by myself.

I called my Mom and Dad, then called the maternity dept at the hospital. They asked me if I had felt Makily moving, I told them not as much as usual.

They said I should come in just to be checked out.

My parents came and picked me up and took me there. I called Allen while I waited for them and he immediately started to head home.

I didnt know it but it would be 48 hours until Makily was born.

48 hours of LONG anxious labor.

I had no idea that would pale in comparison to what was about to happen to us.