Introducing Atley Mae Wood!

Little Miss Atley Mae Wood was born at 4:38 p.m. on Monday, November 22nd and she is 2 weeks old already!  I truly cannot believe how fast time flies!  She was 7 lbs 1 oz and 19 1/2" long. 
The story of her birth started on Sunday morning at 6:45 a.m.  I woke up to a few trickles of water and I literally thought I had peed in my pants.  I was embarassed but I didn't know how it could happen.  At 8:30 a.m. the same thing happened so I knew I couldn't have just peed again.  I began to think that it could be my water breaking however, I quickly doubted myself because I thought it would be a continues trickle or a sudden gush.  I didn't want to go into the hospital and for them to tell me, "Honey, you just urinated on yourself!"  I am sure every woman fears that.  Aaron wanted me to call the doctor but I assured him that if it happened again I would call.  We went on to church and had our whole day hanging out and nothing happened.  Later on that night we came home from the Thanksgiving Praise Service at our church and I had a few more "trickles."  I called the doctor and he suggested that I come in to the hospital and they could test it to see if it was truly amniotic fluid or not.  At 2:00 a.m. we arrived at Genesis and from that point of our arrival my contractions started about 2-3 minutes apart.  They tested the fluid and sure enough, it was my water.  They quickly admitted me into the hospital and I was pretty comfortable but I was only dilated to 1 1/2 cm at that point.   My contractions slowly started to spread to 4-6 minutes apart so they decided to start me on potossin.  Um...I didn't like that very much.  I wanted to say no thanks but I had a feeling that they would do it anyways!  Finally, they checked me and I was at 4 cm and I said, "I would like an epideral...like right now."  They called the doctor and he arrived about an hour later so I was at a 5 or 6 and my contractions were coming now every minute.  It was so hard to sit still while he did my epideral because I had about 10 contractions!  Not fun!  Finally at 3:30 the doctor checked me because I said that I started to feel pressure a little bit.  I was at an 8 and she was still at a -1 station.  I thought for sure that I would have to push for a while because with Alivia I was a lot lower and I only had to push 3 times.  They assured me that after your first child your baby doesn't drop until delivery.  They said that I would not have to push that much at all.  Well, they were right!  An hour later the nurse came into the room and my mom, mother-in-law, Aaron and I were just hanging out and talking and she asked if she could check me.  I said sure and then before I know it she was pushing the emergency button saying, "Help, Help now!" and talking in codes!  I did not know what was going on but she looked at me and said, "The baby's head is out!"  Aaron and I thought immediately that she was crowning and that it was just time to push, but no...Atley was litterally laying in-between my legs out all the way to her shoulder!  She just had me push to get the other shoulder out!!  So, the nurse literally delivered Atley and the doctor came flying in with about 5 other people at that point!!  I was in shock!  I am still in shock to think that happened to me!  You know those stupid shows, "I didn't know I was Pregnant" well, they are going to have another show called "I didn't know I delievered" and that will be even more idiotic and that is me!  Seriously! 
Atley was admitted into the NICU the next morning because of the fact that my water had been broke more than 18 hours and the risk for infection for the baby increases and also for the fact that because she delivered so quickly she swallowed a lot of amniotic fluid and never got the chance to release it.  I was crying so much when they told me that they were going to watch her, run some tests, give her an I.V. and hook her up to monitors.  It was hard to see your newborn go through that.  We are so blessed that she is completely healthy and all her tests came back good!  We brought her home on Thanksgiving morning and we were truly thankful to God that he protected her!