The short story: It was a whirlwind crazy delivery. Jill had contractions both nights before and thought we were going to have her then, but then everything slowed down when morning came. Then at around 12:30 am Jill's contractions started again. 1:15 water broke, 1:45 and a taxi ride later we were at the hospital
(Jill is having contractions and groaning in the back and about the time we are almost there the driver turns around and says as though it is a casual thing to have a foreign lady in birth pains in his taxi, "Wow, your Chinese is good. So where you guys from anyway?" (If he had been slower he might have delivered the baby in his taxi.)
We got up to the room and endured our worst but thankfully fastest birth experience to date. The doctor had been great before, but during the actual delivery he was barking orders to Jill and was most unhelpful. Thankfully at 2:25 am the baby popped out... and I do mean popped out....like the doc, nurses everyone missed her and she almost fell off the bed. Thankfully some of the pads under Jill caught her!
Then there was a whirlwind of activity where they weighed, measured the baby, made me run her up a floor to get her Hep B shot. I came back and the doctor was basically yelling at my wife and wanting her to agree to something she didn't want. I had to warn him to stop yelling. We finally agreed that the procedure wasn't needed and everything calmed down. We held our sweet baby and the doctor turned back into a normal caring man. He actually mopped up the floor himself, which is unheard of for a doctor here.
We brought her home the next morning and have been trying to figure out the operations manual ever since. Thankfully she is a close model to our other children, but apparently she came with some new features and programming that Jill and I are still working on.
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