The birth was surpirsely easy, but every women are different, I was fine with pains but I need the sleep because none of us went sleep the night before due to a severe thunderstorms that caused the cars' alarm going off in the parking lot until 2:30 in the morning and I couldn't sleep because of the lightening, and Jason was a little scared because the windows were rattling badly - he said "i hope we still have windows tomorrow". It finally sudised at around 2:30 and we finally went sleep, but we had to get up at 5 30 to go to the hospital. So I was so exhausted by 11 am and asked for epidural so I can sleep. I slept until 5 pm, then the doctor checked me and was disappointed that I was still at 6 cm (I was 4 cm dilated when I checked in the hospital and once I got pitcotin, it dilated to 6 cm immediately) They thought I will have a short labour but apparently not. Anyway at 5 pm, the doctor said if I wasnt dilated to 10 cm by 6 pm, then we would have to consider about c section. But by 6:15 when the doctor finally came in and gave a yelp. Said that I'm ready to give a birth. by 7:30, Jake made his grand entrance :) To see the pictures - you can look in my photo albumn and check it out.

Anyway, here is my favourite picture of Jake at 5 and half weeks - just before he goes in for his first swim in the pool at my father's house.