tunnels

I often joke that there were many things about the labor process that Ada did not like and that is why she purposely dropped her heart rate, resulting in the fastest exit from the uterus as possible. Recently we have discovered one more thing to support this theory.

Ada has an extreme fear of tunnels. Her buddy Derek gave her a pop-up tunnel for her birthday and every time we open it up she screams and cries and runs away until we put it away. We thought maybe she didn't like the color, or the material, or the fact that it popped up. However, one of the mother's from her daycare donated a sturdy padded tunnel that had all of the kids going crazy climbing and crawling. All but one that is. Ada screamed, and cried, and ran away to the corner of the room to play with all of the other toys. Not even looking at the tunnel. Pretending that the tunnel didn't interest her. If she could talk she probably would have said something similar to, "Tunnels are so last year, I'm too cool for tunnels. I'll just be over here with all of the non-tunnel toys".

When I heard this story I instantly thought of all of the reasons why Ada purposely dropped her heart rate during labor. It wasn't the contractions, or the dark, or the water breaking, or the lack of oxygen. Nope, she took one long look down that tunnel and decided, "No way am I going through that thing. There HAS to be a different way out."