The beginning

I knew something was going on from the beginning. I had been having a horrible headache all day at work and just felt crappy. On my drive home I started to experience some vertigo. Because we lived in Yucca Valley at the time and I had to daily make the trip up and down the 62 highway so I was unsure if my vertigo was from the pressure of my commute. After I picked up the kids from daycare I called my then-husband to meet me at the ER. When we get there I let them know that I had a horrible headache. The nurse was going to give me a shot of pain meds but I asked her to first run a pregnancy test. I wasn't late. But something in my body was off. Also, we had been trying for over a year and the month before had undergone an infertility procedure which would make me more fertile after months of no luck the regular way. It apparently worked cuz the nurse came back saying I was pregnant. We were beyond shocked that it worked on the first try but VERY happy. A couple of months in the headaches and vertigo got worse. I complained to my OB doctor who sent me to an ENT. They told me due to the fact that I had several ear problems as a child and I didn't have a normal ear drum, it couldn't handle the fluid gain from my pregnancy. I knew that was wrong from the second they told it to me. First, this was my second pregnancy and I didn't experience any of these symptoms with my first baby. Second, I could just feel from within that something was wrong. I didn't know if the problem was me or the baby. By four months pregnant I could barely walk without the assistance of my eight year old daughter Jordan. I wasn't allowed to drive anymore because thanks to the Vertigo I scratched the right side of my car trying to park in my own garage. After that incident I wasn’t allowed to drive the long commute to work. My job found this nice girl who also lived in Yucca Valley who was willing to carpool me to work in Palm Springs everyday. What an angel she was. I didn’t have any friends my age in town so it was nice to have someone to talk to on the way to work. Her and I still keep in contact to this day. We did that for a couple of months until the vertigo got too much for me to work without assistance. I was walking holding onto the walls. It was no longer safe for me to stand on my own so I had to go out early on maternity leave at seven months I believe.
While I was laid up one day I read an article about how OB doctors were just recommending C sections to gain extra money from insurance. However, it's considered major surgery and has a longer recovery time. So I was convinced to give birth vaginally.
Because I was having complications my doctor scheduled me to give birth on the day he was working. The night before my husband and I drove down the 62 and spent the night in Palm Springs close to the Hospital. The next morning I’m taking a shower getting ready while Mark is filming and narrating the start of such an exciting day and the first of many contractions start to hit and my mucus plug comes out in the shower. The contractions start to get stronger