A long journey for GRVO

Tuesday at work Jenn called me and said that she was having irregular contractions. I was then on high alert. Wednesday morning Jenn was having regular contractions and at 7:30 in the morning I said what am I doing today? She said your not going any where! So I spent the day with Jenn as she had contractions that were any where between 20 minutes apart and 5 minutes apart. We went for a long walk in the late afternoon which helped a little, but not enough. We got some advise from our Bradley Method instructor that we should call our midwife and get her advise as well as to what we should do, because by now, Jenn had been in labor for 18 hours with no advances. So at 10:45 we went to the birth center to talk to Becky, our midwife. We got to the door and no one came to our knock. At about the same time a mini van came sceaming into the parking lot and I thought it was Becky. Nope, it was Susan, on of the nurses. She let us in and we got cozy in a room waiting. Another mother had called just after we got off the phone with Becky and by the time that we got there, she was pushing and sceaming. So when Becky could pull herself away and come check on Jenn, Jenn was dilated to a 4 and almost effaced completely. Because Jenn had been awake for going on 20 hours she needed sleep. Jenn got a shot of morphine and some other muscle relaxers to help her get some sleep. We got home after the shot at about midnight. Jenn was already asleep when her head hit the pillow. I stayed up another hour to get the bags together, and shower, and get as much in the car as I could to be ready to the following day.
Jenn slept for about 5 hours and at 6 she said I think my water broke. So we got up, and headed to the birth center (which is only about a two minute drive.) Again when we got there, there was another woman pushing out a baby, and again she was right across the hall. And again we were waiting for Becky to get a break and come check on us. Susan was there all night cleaning from the baby at midnight, but she was chipper when we got there, and got us ready. Around 8 Becky was doing a check on Jenn and she was dilated to an 8 and just waiting for her body to say push. So we just waited and worked through each contraction. 10:50 is the noted time on the medical report as to what time Jenn started to push. She was in hard labor pushing labor for over an hour. At 12:13 Thursday afternoon, little Gabriel Richard VanOrden was born at 5 lbs. 1 oz. and 18 in. His apgar scores were 8&9.