So Here's the Story...

On Friday September 14, 2012 Sloane Mendenhall made a dramatic entry into this world, and here is her story...
I woke up at 4:15 a.m. feeling my first contraction, another one came a few minutes later so I knew this must be the day! I got up to take a warm shower thinking that might help soothe my contractions.   Since I had been induced with Laney I thought "Man, I don't remember them hurting this bad with Marli".   Well by the time I got out of the shower the contractions were getting a lot stronger and closer together.  So I told Reno he better call his mom to come be with the girls.  So at this point,  in my mind I'm thinking "I'll just get ready, gather my stuff so when his mom gets here we can go".  How quickly things can change - All of the sudden my contractions were REALLY STRONG and one on top of the other, I hardly had a break to even breathe! My mindset now switched to "I just need to get some clothes on, and get to the hospital for my epidural, (haha!).  So I made my way to my closet where I put on some clothes (luckily a skirt).  Then when Reno came up from putting stuff in the car I said, "We need to say a little prayer and then GO!" (still just thinking how badly I want my epidural:)).
Well by the time I made it down the stairs and into the garage my water broke and my body started automatically pushing! I honestly thought I was going to have my baby on the floor of my garage!!  Luckily Reno was not going to let that happen, he quickly got me into the car and raced to the hospital. It literally took us one, maybe two minutes to get there.  By the time we pulled in the parking lot I could feel the baby coming.  We pulled up to the main doors where Reno jumped out to get help then I called him back saying, "There's no time! Get back here, she's coming!!"  So he quickly ran back and then there, in the front seat of our car, Reno delivered our beautiful baby girl only 45 minutes after my first contraction!  As he held her in his arms we both looked at each other and I said "Did we just have our baby in a freakin' car???"  Shortly after the nurses came down, wrapped up the baby and cut the chord then rolled me on a stretcher up to Labor and Delivery (where I neither labored or delivered haha!). 

 First family pic

 8 hrs old!

 These girls are smitten with their baby sister

It still feels like a dream at times, and Reno and I can finally tell the story without getting a little shaky, but this is definitely an experience and a moment that the two of us will never forget.  Reno was so amazingly calm through the whole thing and handled everything like a champ.  There is not anyone I would have wanted or desperately needed by my side through this whole thing more than him! We are so grateful that, all things considered, everything went well and our baby is perfectly healthy and perfectly beautiful.