Birthday - Picture Growth Chart of my one and only!

It was January 6, 2003 at 4.30 am and I was having one on-going labor pain! I thought to myself, if labor back pain comes & goes or does it stay there for a long time?? Being a 1st time mom makes it difficult to wonder if this is it! Although most women report that labor is painful, most physicians have surprisingly little understanding of the nature of labor pain. Pain is a subjective experience involving a complex interaction of physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, and environmental influences. I've no way of knowing the measurement of how painful is labor pain when this nurse over the phone was asking me such question. To me, it's an on-going cramping maybe due to uterine contractions? Per my last 2 visit to the obn/gyn, I was told I will have a c-section because the baby is in breech position and they've scheduled it for January 11. The nurse that I've talked to over the phone contacted my Doctor and she told me that I need to come down to the emergency room soon and Dr. Rogers will be doing surgery on me around 9.30 am. I was scared and was fearing the unknown... the usual case for all those preggies out there. I forgot to concentrate and focus on my breathing techniques..hahaha. To make this long story short, it went smoothly for me except the part where I was throwing up a few times due to the epidural anesthesia involving injection of drugs through a catheter placed into the epidural space. Apart from that, it was almost a perfect process.