A Molly Story Part 3- Meet Molly

Thursday morning Rustin woke up early to leave for work. He had to be in San Antonio early so he could move a family to Oklahoma. This would be his last out of town job for a while, but he'd be back late Thursday night. When I woke up on Thursday morning I was having contractions but my water hadn't broken so I wasn't going to worry. I went on about my day running errands until about 9:30 when I realized my contractions were getting really close together (5 min.-ish). I called my mom and had her come over just to sit with me for a little bit. By the time she got here about 15 min. later I was throwing up and my contractions were only about 4 min. apart. So she tossed me in the car and we headed for the hospital.

Rustin was about halfway through his job and drove the load on to Brownwood where his sister, Elisa, and brother and law, Clint, live. Clint hopped in Rustin's truck to finish the job and Elisa brought Rustin to the hospital. By this time I'd- had my epidural and things were going ok. Rustin got to the hospital about 2 o'clock and there wasn't much wait time after that. We spent a few min. visiting with my parents, my aunt Terri, his mom & sister and my grandparents before things really got going.

I moved along rather quickly and by 4:30 Dr. S had been paged and my wonderful nurse Brandy was getting me ready to push. According to my mom Dr. S came busting out of the elevator and flew down the hallway toward my room. 5 pushes and 9 min. later (4:58pm) Molly Ann Mahan entered this world.