Insurance through Hyrum's work kicked in October 1st (whew!) and our little girl was due October 16th. I was praying she'd come after October 1st, but before the 13th so that I would be able to go to my sister's wedding on the 20th. I was also praying that we'd be able to watch General Conference. God is aware of each of us and our situations and prayers are answered!
We watched the Saturday sessions of conference at home and ate lots of treats. Conference was wonderful!!! Here are my boys eating jerky :)
Hyrum went to the priesthood session and I thought I'd started having real contractions at 9 PM but they went away within an hour. More Braxton-Hicks...or so I thought.
At 2 AM I started having contractions that felt different than the Braxton-Hicks I'd been having for the past month. They weren't regular and they went away for a while too. By 3:30 AM Hyrum was helping me time them but they were still very irregular and varied in intensity and duration. Some only lasted for 10 seconds and some came within a minute of each other. By 4ish I decided we better make sure everything was in the car and ready to go just in case this was the real deal. Hyrum woke up the neighbors at 4:30 AM and they came over to watch Brigham (sleeping, thankfully!) while we left for the hospital. We got to the hospital by 4:40, in our room by 4:45 and our little Teanne was born at 5:04 AM.
Next time...I think we might want to leave a little earlier, just an idea :)
Teanne Mitchell was born on October 7th at 5:04 AM. She weighed 6 pounds 10 ounces (a whole pound bigger than Brigham!) and was 18.5 inches long. She and Meagan (and Hyrum and Brigham) are doing great...although we've been working with Brigham to get over some jealousy issues! We didn't even miss Sunday General Conference! Perfect timing Teanne!!! More pictures to come!
