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Well I'm a bit late on my weekly post but it seems we decided to take the term spring head to a whole another level. Little Sophia was born on 3-11-2012  she was 4 pounds and 4oz and 17.6 inches born at 10.23. Earlier that night  I stated having what I thought was Braxton hicks so I was counting them and  started realizing that maybe they were actually contractions hoping they  weren't we headed to the birth center to find that I was indeed having  contractions every 3 to 4 minutes at that point and was dilated to 5. A few tears later the doctor thought it might be a good idea to give  me so steroids to help the babies lungs and an iv was started and  they said after 20 minutes I could have an epidural. They then moved  me to my room where labor progressed very quickly my water broke as  soon as we got into the room and a few pushes later she was here.  I went very fast so needless to say I didn't get the steroids or  epidural. We could barely believe how fast