how many emails in your box - jun 19th 09- memories of jun 19 1989

20 years....20 years ago today I went into labor with daughter number 3. I had gone outside to wash the car and I felt very wet in a certain area...so I called the dr and told her that I have "foam" coming out!!!! this is funny.....actually my water broke and the deodorant pad I was wearing foamed up..so she has me come in for a looksy and tells me I am in Labor. I had been having small contractions.

But before she calls me in....I get a phone call from the claims office to help them on a claim(I was a claims processor). I go hysterical laughing...that the only time they called is when I was in labor. I had been processing claims at home as well. They would bring the claims to my house and then pick them up in the mornings!! (pre computer processing and HIPPA laws).

I was sent to the hospital and drove myself there with my 4 year old daughter..the other one was in school still..but it was the last day. I go to register and the nurses were like what are we going to do with the 4 year old! Her father was on the way and had picked up Laura the 8 year old.

LOL..well they doped me up on the useless Demerol and all I did was hallucinate...I kept telling " Laura" to shut the door. She wasn't even in the room! I was in so much pain. I didn't deliver until about 11:30 that night. I remember pushing and being told to stop the the cord was around the neck...do you know how hard it is to stop this natural process! I had been wondering why they were "cutting the cord" when she wasn't even out yet....then prior to that she was in a transverse lie....she was sideways..the dr told me .."don't worry...we can turn her"....what!! fortunately she turned on her own..but the cord got wrapped.

This was my first baby without my mother around. I was missing her so much. I stayed a total of four days in the hospital. On one of those days...my mother did come....I had a room across from the nursery....it was visiting time and I looked up and saw my mother standing next to Jennifer..looking down at her...she looked at me...smiled then disappeared. I also had been going thru a sort of not caring about this baby...I guess the hormones were going goofy. When I saw my mother there...it changed instantly.

Well I guess this is the long version of Happy Birthday to my daughter Jen...she is now 20 and no longer a teenager.