Arriving 6 days early (much to my surprise) Peyton Isabella van Leeuwen made her grand entrance into the world.
I had gone to the doctors the day before and wasn't feeling overly well and was put on sick leave until the baby was born. I left work on the 15th feeling slightly out of sorts having to leave so quickly but we had been operating on a day by day basis so that everything was in order if I left suddenly.
At 3:30 in the morning on the 16th my water broke and I started having some very mild contractions every 10-20 minutes or so. I called the doctor's office at 9am and they told me to go to the hospital to be checked out to make sure that the baby was doing okay. We arrived to a very busy hospital, was checked out and it was decided that I was going to stay. Since not much was happening, I waited in triage and the discussion on whether to start medication to help my labour along began. At 5:30 in the evening, real labour began (all on its own) and by 6 I was in my room. I received an epidural (which did not work as things progressed so rapidly - much to my dismay).
At 7:14pm, Peyton was born weighing in at 8 pounds 8 ounces (the smallest of the girls by over a pound) and measuring 20 and a half inches long. Another healthy baby girl and we couldn't be happier!
