The right place
The Gerber Memorial hospital turned out to be a nice place. The nurses who assisted Nicole reassured her and provided her with all the care she needed. As the hours passed, the contractions got worse and Nicole slowly began to dilate. Matt stayed by her side the whole time.
It was very hard for Nicole. She hadn’t had much rest for four days because she had been suffering so much from the flu, and she was now also in enormous pain because she had already been in labor for hours. Nicole was very firm in her decision to do everything naturally, but after thirty painful hours, she chose to take some pain medication and an epidural, hoping that the labor would go faster.