Better late than later! Remi's birth story

Remi is a third child and so she has not been forgotten, but maybe things are taking longer to get written down.  (So sorry)  As a seventh child I always am a little sad that there are not more pictures of me or "things" from my childhood.  So I am still attempting to not leave any of my children lacking.  So here go the story.  It is was quite simple and non eventful.
As soon as Robert and I new the approximate due date of our third child (Nov 4, 2013) I had a feeling she was going to be an October baby.  Sure enough she is!
Mom and Amy got to our house on the night of October 28th.  I teased that with the other 2 girls they came the very next day after mom arrived and so Remi would be here the next day.  I was feeling like it was about time for the baby to come anyway.  Sure enough she did come that next day after my mom got there. 
I was awoken as usual having to pee sometime before 4:00 and 4:30 AM.  I got up and peed and had some dischage and then went back to the bed.  As I lay there in bed trying to get comfortable and such I began to have lite pains.  Because of my labor and delivers with Kenya and Jasmin I did not really know what a contraction felt like.  As I laid there for a while I began to think maybe that is what was happening.  As I lay there trying to drift off to sleep again I would be awoken from falling asleep by these pains.  So I then began to time them.  The pains were coming about every 20 minutes but not lasting very long.  They were uncomfortable but nothing what I thought labor pains would  be like.  I tried to let Robert sleep.  After this had been happening a while I woke him up and we lay there for a little while talking about what if I was starting labor or not.  He eventually got up and head of to his seminary teaching class.  The contractions had slowed and so we knew it was not happening right then.  I called Dr Hopkin in the morning and told him.  He suggested just waiting to see what happens and then coming in if I felt like I needed to.  So when everyone else was up (my mom, Amy, Kenya and Jasmin) we headed to the grocery store.  I wanted to have everything in the house for when the baby came.  I also thought that walking around might send me in to labor.  We went to Fred Meyer and Kenya and Jasmin got to play in the their little play land as we walked around and got what we needed.  No more contraction, but I started spotting and have a lot of discharge by the late afternoon.  I decided to get my bags and head to get checked at the doctor.  This was about 3:30 PM.  He told me something has happening and I might just end up heading home just to come back in a few hours.  I decided to just check into the hospital and get put on something to speed it up.   We left and called Robert who left work and went to get Kenya and Jasmin to come down to Rexburg too.  I was checked into the hospital by 5:00 and getting ready to have this baby that night.  I had progressed in dilation from the last check until at the doctors and then again another cm by the time Dr Hopkin got there less than an hour later.  @ 5:44 my water was broken and then they began to increase the medicine to speed up the contracts.  Not much else happened for awhile.  Everyone else got to eat dinner and hang out for while.  Having Kenya and Jasmin in the room is fun, but boy they (mostly Kenya) sure asked at lot of questions and wanted to talk and be with me.  I loved that!  But it sure did make it hard to rest at ALL.  Then I got an epidural and only Robert was allowed to be in the room.  This nurse was strict and abrasive.  She did a fine job but was ALL busy and didn't want anyone to talk or be in the room.  Strange!  When everyone got back in the room we tried to put those girls to sleep on the coach as I rested and waited for the baby to come.  Just after 11PM I was dilated to a 10 and they called Dr Hopkin in.   Because my epidural had been so recent I could not feel a thing and they had to tell me when to push.  Then I could not tell if I was pushing or not and wasn't pushing as hard as I should have been.  The doctor asked if he could just help her out and he grabbed (I think it was the vacuum) and helped her out.  At 11:31PM out came baby "Pumpkin Face!!!" 
She was such an amazing baby.  Hardly cried or fused and was so healthy!  Just Robert stayed the night.  The next morning everyone was up to visit again.  Mom and Amy left mid-day and the girls stayed behind with us.  Remi had high bilirubin and the dr thought about keeping her another night, but then let us go home and I had to check her the next day at in Idaho Falls.   Again we had a hard time naming her.  We decided on Remi but didn't knw about a middle name.  After a while (shorter than it took us for Jasmin or Kenya) we decided on Remi Alexandria.  PERFECT!  After we got our dinner and the name finalized that night we headed home as a family of five.  I was again release early because of a great labor and delivery and a wonderful doctor!  We were home before bedtime for the girls that nigh.  (Just barley over 24 hrs in the hospital from check-in to check-out with an extra person, not bad if you ask me!)
Truly an easy uneventful (in the best way) labor and delivery!  Quick easy and amazing results! 
Remi had no other visitors in the hospital other than what was already mentioned, but more than 20 in her few weeks of life.  Friends, Neighbors and MANY that we did not know from the ward we had just moved into 3 months before.
Her bilirubin continued to get higher/ not lower in the first 2-3 days and so she was put on a bili light.  She had to sleep on that light and it to a LONG time! I was thinking maybe a day or two, but it was longer than a week.  (I don't remember exactly how long.)  Poor thing!