Hi, my name is Jordan Daniel Joseph and I was born on March 13, 1993. I'm my mommy's first child and let me tell you about the day I was born.

My mommy and daddy watched a couple of movies on the Friday night and went to bed around 10:30 as my mommy was getting oh so tired. Just as she was dozing off to la la land, she heard an odd "pop" sound and an odd feeling in her spine in her lower back. She shrugged it off only to awaken at 1:00 in the morning with an incredible pain! She had false labour the weekend before and knew that if she got up and walked around and if the pain went away, it would be false labour once again.

But the pain didn't go away. She was having contractions every 5 minutes and walked from one end of the living room to the other where they had a parrot that just kept watching her. At 1:30, when the pains hadn't stopped, she decided to wake up my dad. He got all grumpy in his sleep and asked why the heck my mom was waking him up. In a quiet and calm voice, my mommy replied, "cause I think I'm in labour". Well, my dad LEPT from the bed, still somewhat groggy and headed for the bathroom to put his contacts in. Meanwhile, my mom got all her stuff together that she would need for the hospital.

They got to the hospital at 2:10 a.m. and went to a labour room to be checked out first. Sometimes they send mommy's home when it's their first. When they check my mom and saw how far along she was, the nurse got an odd look on her face and asked if my mom was able to walk down to the delivery room. Meanwhile, my dad said it was like someone kicked an ant hill with nurses and interns rushing around.

My mom managed to walk down the hall to a delivery room where there was 3 students, 2 doctors and a couple nurses all there watching my birth. My mommy didn't make ONE peep. The doctor was amazed! I was then born at 2:45 a.m. ... 35 minutes after my mom and dad had arrived at the hospital. I hit my face on my mom's tailbone and had a huge purple bruise type mark on my forehead that disappeared by morning when everyone came to visit me for the first time. I've got a lot of 3's in my birth, as I was born at quarter to three, in the 3rd month on the 13th day, of 1993! The nurses pointed this out to my mom.

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