I was expecting my first child on March 14, 1996. I was overdue, and going to my doctor twice a week and he was checking to see if I was dialated everytime. The evening of March 24th, I started having some pains. I wasn't sure if they were contractions or not because they didn't hurt very much, but I timed them anyway. They were very irregular and stopped after about 4 hours. On March 26th, I had a doctors appointment. I went, as usual, but when the doctor checked my cervix this time, he said I was dialated to 5 cm and better get to the hospital. We stopped and called my mother before we went on to the hospital cause I was scared to death :) I got to the hospital at 3:20 p.m. and they got me in my room, and IV in and everything. I had lots of visitors, and wasn't in too much pain for the first hour or so. After that they started getting really bad, and at 7:00 p.m. I got an epidural. I went to sleep after that and was woken up at 9:00 p.m. by a nurse telling me! it was time to start pushing. I tried to tell her to leave me alone, that I wanted to sleep, but I couldn't :) My doctor came in and got the bed ready and I started pushing. At 9:19 p.m. out came my beautiful baby boy, 12 days late. We named him Hunter Andrew, and he weighed 8 lb. 2 oz. and was 21 1/2 inches long.