Tyk! My water broke!!!

My babies are a week old!!! I have to write about how I went into labor the night before because it truly is the perfect story and I don't want to forget it!! 

Friday night we were planning our day for Saturday. Our friends Kory and Kenzie were getting Sealed in the temple on Saturday and we were planning on going. I remember thinking to myself, "oh no I'm going to be clear down in Salt Lake. What if I go into labor? I'm far away from the hospital I will be delivering at!" I think I felt like this because I wasn't feeling very good on Friday. The day before I was definitely nesting, and I had decided that I needed to scrub down the whole kitchen. So I did, along with the sink in our bathroom, the mirrors, swept the floor, and cleaned up all of the sewing stuff that was everywhere in the dining room. I was lifting things that I shouldn't have, and ultimately doing things that I hadn't done in 8 weeks. At the time it wasn't "nesting" in my eyes. I just wanted a clean kitchen, and I was sick of the sewing stuff out. Now I see 100% that that's EXACTLY what it was. So on Friday my body was feeling it! 

Saturday came and I felt a ton better. I wasn't worried about being in Salt Lake anymore, and come to find out the Sealing was actually in Bountiful! We went to the Sealing, and it was so beautiful and special. We even took pictures afterward with the group, which took a lot of walking and a lot of standing. Multiple people asked when I was due, and that was always such a loaded question for me. I would tell them I was having twins and that would change the whole scenario in their eyes, and then I'd just say "kinda any day." After the Sealing Kory and Kenzie had a little BBQ that we went to. On the way there we had a little bit of time to kill so we stopped at Sonic to get a drink. I had been craving peach stuff all week, so I got a peach ice cream slush. Oh my... it was sooo good! While we were in the car driving back to the BBQ, I told Tyk I wanted the babies to be born on the 23rd. Today was the 22nd so that would be tomorrow. He asked me why and I didn't really know why. My birthday is on the 23rd and I've really always loved that number. I also said that if it wasn't the 23rd then it needed to be the 28th because that was my grandma's birthday. She would've been 89 this year! Or it had to be May 8th. That's grandpa Belnap's birthday and he'll be 92 this year, and still kicking it strong! I can't say I knew that the babies were coming, but I knew something was different and the babies were coming.

We got to the BBQ and most of the time I sat at the table with the girls and we talked about the IVF process. By the time we left there and finally got home it was about 4:30. The Supercross was that night at Rice-Eccles Stadium at The University of Utah, and Tyk and I had decided months ago that we weren't going because we didn't know how I'd be. Well once we got home, Tyks whole family was there and I felt bad that he wasn't. We were sitting on the couch and I was scrolling through Facebook. One of our friends had posted that he and another kid had extra tickets for the night if he knew of anyone that wanted them. I didn't really say anything about it and Tyk was scrolling through the channels on the tv to pull up the broadcasted race. Well it didn't take long for us to realize that the race wasn't being broadcasted on the regular channel that it is on and we couldn't watch it. I felt horrible, so I just told him to go. "We can get a ticket for you and I'll be fine here. Woods has an extra one, I'm going to text him." Tyk just kept saying "no no I'm not leaving you by yourself." I texted our friend Woods to see if he had a ticket left, and he didn't. Tyk was not going to go without me, so I decided that we should both just go. I told him I felt fine and that I really wanted to go. He said "and what If you go into labor?" I said "then I go into labor, and I couldn't be closer to a hospital at that point." It's funny how my mindset had changed about going to Salt Lake from the night before to now, but I wasn't really worried at all. So I tried another friend that had a pair of tickets. While we were waiting for him to get back to us about a price and location of the tickets, he sold them. So on to KSL... Tyk had said the only way we were going is if we could get tickets in the middle sections of the stadium where there were actual folding seats rather than benches. We found some from a guy that was already at the stadium and we were on our way. On the way down, Tage called us and said "you're not really coming are you?" And we said yes we're already in Salt Lake. He didn't believe us and we were passing Temple Square, so I snapchatted him a picture of the Temple. We stopped at McDonalds drive through so we didn't have to buy food at the stadium and we headed to the stadium. 

Tyk dropped me off at the front gates where Robin met me. I was prepared to endure the night with a jacket and coat, pillow to put behind my back while I was sitting, my hospital water mug of course, and a blanket. We got me all set in my seat, and Tyk showed up shortly after. I had told him earlier that day that people were beginning to stare at me like I had some kind of disability with how big my belly was. And it was really true! I would walk into a store or really just anywhere and people would just stare at me! It started to bother me a little bit and made me a little self conscious. So while I was waiting for Tyk to get to our seats I felt like that was happening, but I guess what can I expect... my belly really was huge! 

The event began to start and they always have a big opening for the show. So there were big flames of fire going off, and big booms that scared probably the entire crowd the first time it happened. By the fourth or fifth one I was used to them, but baby boy just about jumped right out of my stomach from it scaring him! It was sooo cute that he jumped to where I could feel him. I felt a little bad that it scared him so bad, but it was pretty funny and it was a good sign that he wasn't deaf. The races began and as time went on, I got more and more uncomfortable. At this point, my belly really laid on my legs if they were together. It would then be so pushed up in my ribs that it would hurt and I couldn't breath very well. So I liked to sit with my legs way apart to where my belly could sit in between them. Well this wasn't an option because there wasn't enough room and I was beginning to feel it. I told Tyk that my pants were too tight and then I went to the bathroom. When I came back my pants were still hurting me and I told Tyk that I was going to go find some scissors so I could cut my waistband.

I went down into the food area and found a worker man. I asked if he had scissors. He said no and asked me why. I told him and another lady that was standing there that I needed to cut my pants because they were too tight. They laughed at me and then the guy said he thought he might have a pocket knife in the office. So we went into this office with 3 other people in there. The room was crammed with strollers and there wasn't much room around them. He handed me a pocket knife and I asked one of the lady's in there if she would help me. I definitely would've cut my belly if I tried to cut them by myself. Before we started cutting, another lady said "why don't you take her to first aid, they will have scissors." I don't know why I didn't think of that, but I was really grateful for her genius thinking because that pocket knife thing was going to be a scary mess. The guy took me into first aid and they had scissors right away. I told them I needed to cut my pants because they were too tight and they all just kinda looked at me like I was a little nuts. I told them that I wasn't going to have to wear them much longer so I didn't care if they were cut. The lady helped me cut them and it was a pretty good feeling of relief! As I was about to walk out, one of the ladies said "your band is hanging down" and i just said "oh well, I don't care!" Lol!! I went back up to my seat and Tyk asked if I found scissors. I told him yep and I showed him the slit in the side of my pants. About 10 minutes later I decided that my pants we're still too tight and I had tyk rip one side more. By this point my pants were about to fall off if we ripped and further, so I had to be comfortable with what it was. 

As the races continued on, my back was killing me and I asked Tyk how many more races there were to go. I was counting down... I was ready to go, well my body was. So the final race began and it was an intense one! The whole crowd was standing up and at first Tyk said that he'd stay sitting with me. That didn't last very long haha, which was fine by me. I wanted him to be able to see the action. I was trying to feel if I was having contractions at all but my belly was too squished for me to tell. I was having sharp pains in my lower pelvic area every so often though. These had started within the last week and it was like a stabbing pain all of a sudden down by my pelvis and then it'd go away. I wasn't too worried about it all week, just figured it was body gearing up for delivery soon. The race was getting closer to ending and the rider in first place, Dungey, was about to get passed by Tomac. This was a big deal!! They were tied for the points lead for the championship and Tomac had come back from a bad start where he was in like 12th place. The crowd was cheering as Tomac got closer. I wanted to see, so I stood up and watched the pass. It was exciting and I was cheering probably bigger than I should have been when it happened. I sat back down, felt a couple of stab pains, and then I was fine. The race ended with Tomac taking first and taking the points lead only a couple minutes later. Now everyone was beginning to make their mad dash toward the exit trying to get to their cars as quickly as possible. Tyk and I sat for just a second and let it clear a little bit. Really, I was stressed about how I was going to get to the car. Tyk had parked at least a mile away, it's almost 11 o'clock at night, and I didn't want to have to wait for him at the stadium to get out of the parking lot and drive back to the stadium to pick me up. So I thought maybe I could walk to a cross street while he went and grabbed the jeep. Hopefully I would make it there by the time he got out of the parking lot. But that really was unrealistic for me. It was two blocks away and uphill... ya right. 

We still hadn't figures out what we were going to do and these people on our row needed to get by us to get out. I stood up and let them pass. Next thing I knew, I was peeing my pants. I whispered to Tyk that I was peeing my pants and he was so sweet and said "really babe, I'm sorry! We will get you to the bathroom as soon as we get out of here." Well the pee didn't stop. It began to gush out and I then realized that it wasn't pee coming out, it was amniotic fluid. My water had broke!!!! I turned to Tyker, gasped, and said "Tyk my water broke, my water broke!" I kept saying it over and over, and I started freaking out. This was the worst possible time of the entire night that my water could have broke. EVERYONE was leaving the stadium and in a hurry to get home, not just us! As I kept saying this over and over Tyker finally looked straight at me and with the calmest voice said "I know, it's going to be okay!" I remember looking down at my pants at this point and see a full on stream of fluid coming from my knee onto the stadium floor. All I knew was we had to get moving. We started for the stairs and they were packed with people. The couple that we had just let by us was right in front of me and I just said "excuse me can I get in front of you my water just broke." They stared at me for a split second and let us by. I was pretty quick down the stairs and I was just dodging people to get by them. As I walked I could just feel more and more fluid coming out. It was crazy, and I was soaked!! Tyker called his mom whose seats were on the other side of the stadium and told her my water broke. Robin replied and said "Shand's water broke? Oh no, you're kidding." And she really thought for a second that Tyk was. Well as soon as Tage heard that my water broke he knew his car was the closest and took off running. As we were still walking out, I called a friend that lives on campus, Josh and Camree, to see if they could come get us and take us to our car. She told me sh was on her way and be right there. We finally were to the main gate of the stadium. As we walked out to 400 South, the Main Street up and down from the stadium, had been CLOSED DOWN!!! All cars had to take alternate routes... Ha! What a mess. We had no idea what to do at this point. I called

Camree to tell her about the street closure and we started walking down 400 South thinking that the first cross street below we be best for her to get to us. As I'm talking to her, we find two cops and I decide to go up to them and ask for help. I said "Excuse me, hi, my water broke and I need to get to my car as fast as possible." At first they both just looked at me, and then said "okay well this road is closed. No one is getting down it." Thanks ya jerks, for being so helpful. So I said it again "well my water broke, and I'm pregnant with twins. I need to get to the hospital." I swear the first time I said it they thought I was kidding. Then the one looked at my pants and saw them dripping. His eyes went wide, and he was ready to help. He first turned to the other cop and said "her water broke and she has twins! What do you think is best?" The other cop continued to be kinda a jerk and said "call those guys right there. That will be the fasts way." As he pointed to the Red Cross ambulance. Tyk and I both just kinda sat there for a second, all of this happening while Camree was still on the phone. The helpful cop said "okay tell me what I can do for you." I told him that I had a friend coming to get us. She just needed to be able to get here. He asked where she was at and what car she was driving. He then wackied to all of the cops and told them to let her through because

She was coming to get a woman in labor. He asked what hospital we were going to, and when we said McKay Dee, his eyes got big and is mouth about dropped to the floor. Cam was still having a hard time getting through, so I let her talk to the cop. As I had been talking to the cop, Tyker had called Tage to see where he was at. Tyk says Tage answered the phone out of breath from running uphill to get to his car as fast as possible. He told him he was in the car now and asked where we were. Tyk told him, and now it was a race to see who could get to us fastest. I'm watching up the road for a sight of either of them, and all of a sudden this car with its flashers on is coming down the hill. TAGE TO THE RESCUE! 

As he pulls up, Robin and Kyla are finally out of the stadium and have found us too. I hopped in the front seat and then realized I didn't have any form of ID because my purse was in the jeep. I told this to Tyk and he then realized that we hadn't figured out who was going to take our car home. Luckily, Robin had road down with Tage and Kyla and Gregg met her there. So Tyk told her she needed to go get our jeep and bring it home. She has no idea how to get to where we parked, but Tyk had fortunately pin dropped the location to Josh, Camree's husband earlier. So Robin walked all over campus, following the "compass" to find the jeep.

Now we were on our way!! We got stopped by the trax's for a good five minutes as soon as we got in the car. After that it was smooth sailing! Tage was the perfect driver for this situation, and as he was driving down 400 South he told us how he got there so fast. I guess an officer stopped him at the top of the hill and Tage told him that his wife's water broke and he needed to get to her as quickly as possible. The cop said back to him that he thought that he'd be driving a Honda Accord, not a Ford Escape. Tage then said, "okay it's not my wife it's my sister-in-law, but really her water broke." Lol! This made me laugh, and the cop let him through.  We got out of downtown Salt Lake fast enough, by some running of red lights and swerving around cars, that the traffic was light once we got on the freeway. Tyker and Kyla were freaking out as we were doing it though. Tage would get to a light and Kyla would yell "Tage you have to stop!" And Tyk would chime in with a "Ya Tage!" He would do a little yield to make sure no one was coming, and we would speed through. On the freeway, he was probably going 95 and we were all worried about getting pulled over. Tage said that he wasn't going to stop if he was being pulled over. And Tyk and Kyla started freaking out again, ha! They both were just saying you have to, you have to. I think I was the calmest one at this point. So I just said "Tage you'd have to stop. If you didn't, it would turn into a high speed chance. So you could pull over and I'd tell the cop, officer my water broke, I'm having twins, and I need to get to the hospital. And he'd then escort us there." Tage then said "THAT'D BE SICK!" Well there were no cops in sight, and we made it from Rice-Eccles Stadium to the hospital in 35 minutes!!!! 

It's funny when we talk to Tage about the experience. He said later that day that he knew he'd be the one driving me to the hospital when it was time. It's funny how we have those feelings, thanks Holy Ghost! And honestly, he was the perfect one for job. If Tyker had been driving, I would have been yelling at him the whole time probably... let's

Just say, his a little more cautious in most things than Tage. There were some other funny things that had happened leading up to the labor too. When we got to the stadium and settled in our seats, Tyk had sent out a couple snapchats about us being there. He sent one that said maybe Shand will go into labor tonight and we'll have Supercross babies. And another one he did where he was looking at the track saying supercross and then moving the camera to my belly and say babies. It's was super funny that we had both of those, like he deep down inside knew they were coming too. Since he sent those snaps, he decided to continue with the story when my water really did break. So we have some of the drive to the hospital recorded, and I'm super grateful for that for memories sake! 

It was such an eventful day all around for Tyker and I! I love every minute of it now that I look back, and even then it was pretty special how it all went down!

To be continued into my labor!

Thanks for reading! 

Love,

Shandee