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Sunday August 5th during the night I was having regular contractions that were still about 10 minutes apart so I "slept" on a separate twin mattress in the living room. Shane had given me his phone to borrow, because he had downloaded an app
onto it that would help record the contraction history. He came in during the middle of the night, because he was worried I was going to have the baby without him. I reassured him I would definitely wake him up, but I handed him the phone to see the record. Oh man he was excited!- A few minutes later I checked on him in his room and he was packing away getting all prepared for when it was time to go. : D I did not get much sleep that night. The next day was Shane's birthday and he did a good job taking care of me and cooking me breakfast (Probably not the way a birthday should be celebrated). Then that night we had invited a bunch of our friends over for a BBQ birthday party at our house. Oh man that was tough, but a lot of fun catching up with friends. Shane let me leave half way through and go lay down inside. 
On August 6th at 2:00am Shane and I finally headed to the hospital. Shane helped me through my contractions by talking to me and telling me mission stories. After a while he ran out of stories and decided to read to me. He decided to read a star trek book (I don't like star trek so I had no idea what was going on in this story, and it took way too much effort to focus on those strange words, but it helped that he would talk just keep talking.) After about two hours at the hospital I got to have an epidural. It made life wonderful!- and I got to sleep for a while. The doctors kept coming in and telling me that they were almost ready to deliver Daphney and I would get all nervous, and then something (like another girl taking forever to have her baby before me) would make it so that we would have to wait again. Finally around 12:30 we were able to begin pushing and after MUCH EFFORT Daphney Rose Dooley was born at 1:36. She was 19 inches long and weighed 6lbs and 10oz, dropping 7oz by the time we left the hospital. She is so small and cute!! | ||||
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Price Canyon- 2ft by 3ft |
Everyone keeps asking me what I am filling my life with now. And honestly I am still trying to figure that out. I have been desperately trying to figure out what a good latter day saint woman would do with her time now. I often wondered to myself why church leaders have not lately been more explicit on this subject. I would quickly follow if only they would spell out how I should live. However, this silence has become one of the greatest treasures in my life. I am having to personally seek out the Lord's will for me and my family. What does the Lord want me to do with my life and where should my priorities lie now? The freedom to search out this question while frustrating on some days has honestly been and continues to be a great blessing in my life. How wonderful it is that our church believes in personal revelation.
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