Hospital Trip on Wednesday

so basically, long story short... my very significant other dang near gave birth to our son wednesday evening... at first, i was hesitant to believe that what she was feeling was contractions, but in hindsight, am very very glad we went it...
even though the nurses initial estimate of 2-3 centimeters may have been on the high side, according to our midwife (who is a great woman... so glad we have her), i still felt it come over me like waking up out of a dream in the middle of a conversation... totally on that "oh shit" gaping jaw senario...
her mom and her moms boyfriend hung out with us for a few hours, but when it was decided that we were staying overnight... they took off. a long night of hourly wake up calls to check her contractions... there was not much sleep and tattered nerves. they put her on medicine to help ease the contractions, and sent us home... thankfully. nothing like hitting the bed after a scene like that.

essentialy, not to go on and on about things... we made it through it, rough around the edges, but standing tall none the less. she is now on two weeks of bedrest... but thats another story entirely. i will save that for another time.