Birth Stories - Grace

Here is part three of three (so far) for my birth stories. Part one (Maggie) can be found here. Part two (Mike) can be found here. This one is fresh in the memory being less than a year ago. I tell you Lynn has become a pro at this thing, and God blessed us with an uneventful pregnancy. The worst part was arguing with the doctor for all of the "tests" as we are in our late 30's. We kept telling him that it didn't matter to our decision so what was the point of extensive (and expensive) testing. That frustrated him some, but we figured it was our baby. We ended up going for screening (nothing more invasive than a blood test of Lynn's blood and family background interview), even then we thought it was a waste of time. It came back that our odds were much lower than average. But he still wanted to do an amnio and some other tests. We said no thanks. At the end, Lynn had a week of low level labor, but it seemed this little one didn't want to come out. Well on the night, I had my bowling league. Lynn called about half way through our third game. She asked how much longer I would be. I said about 20 minutes. She said she thought it was time and that I should not dally on my way home. Well, at that moment I was not as dumb as I can sometimes be, and I figured it was a bad idea to finish the game (this is a lot different than the Maggie story). Oh, for those who care, I was rockin' on the lanes that night. Well it was a good that I left when I did. It took 5 minutes to get home, and 15 to get to the hospital. This was late on the night of the 12th and we were really hoping to beat the 13th. Well, the doctor (who lives very close to the hospital) barely made it. We were in the hospital for about 30 minutes when Gracie showed up. The doctor rushed in as the baby was crowning (just in time to catch and handle post birth issues). It took Gracie a while to finally decide it was time, but once she was on the way, there was no stopping her.