At 28 weeks I had gone to the doctor's for a routine prenatal visit. I told the doctor that I had been feeling a lot of pressure in my lower abdomen, and was feeling concerned. The doctor told me that the baby had dropped, but that can happen sometimes.

Two weeks later I was out shopping with my niece when the pressure started getting worse, and my uterus felt like it was tightening, so I went home and lay down. Halfway through the night I felt a hard kick and felt my water break. I rushed to the washroom, and concluded that I needed to get the hospital. I woke up my husband, who thought I was being silly, and made him take me to the hospital.

The hospital told me I had probably just peed myself, but checked anyway. They quickly noticed that my water had, in fact, broken and that I would need to be transferred to a hospital with a level 3 neonatal unit. After trying to get me into two other hospitals that were full I was airlifted to a hospital over three hours away.

At the new hospital I was kept in delivery for the day, and when the labor didn't progress I was allowed to go to the maternity ward. I stayed in the maternity ward for a little over a day, with constant checks, and they said that my water was rebuilding itself.

The next morning I felt another big kick, and a large gush of water. I immediately went into full-fledged labor. Two hours later, and after about 10 minutes of pushing, my daughter was born. She weighed 3 pounds, 6 ounces, and seemed a little purple. She was rushed to the NICU and was put on a CPAP for two days. She also was being tube fed, on an IV, and heart monitor and living in an incubator.

She ended up spending two weeks in the level 3 neonatal and was then transferred to my local hospital for two weeks when she began bottle feeding and was able to move out of her incubator. At a month to the day she was born she was released from the hospital weighing 4 pounds, 11 ounces.

She is now a happy, healthy 3-year-old. The only problem she has is mild asthma. We were so lucky, and I am thankful every day for my healthy little girl.