Crazy Dreams

I'd heard from many of my friends that when you are pregnant, you have the most vivid, wild, colorful dreams. I only kind of believed them until the other night (2/29/08)...I had the most vivid dream that I can ever remember having.

I dreamt that my water had broken, but I didn't realize it until I called my doctor and explained that I felt like I kept peeing in my pants. I'd always imagined that your water breaking was somewhat like a water balloon puncturing...but contrary to this belief, it can happen slowly. Anyways, I was roughly 30 weeks at this time (which is about 6-10 weeks too early), but because my water had broken 4 days earlier and I just hadn't realized it, the doctor couldn't do anything to stop the labor due to risk of infection. She told Brian & I to go to the hospital, we were having a baby.

So we arrived at the hospital, got checked in and proceeded to endure hours of labor (not sure how many). After the baby was born I was soooo exhausted that I fell asleep instantly. When I awoke hours later, I asked Brian whether we had a boy or girl, to which he replied "I don't know". Apparently, labor was exhausting for him too and he fell asleep when I did (not a good sign:)! So....we decided to walk down to the nursery and see Baby Riley. When we arrived, "Baby Riley" was not posted on the kids cradle, but the number "75008" was there instead. Also, Baby Riley was a girl (who I can still see an image of in my head) that we named Lydia.

I've been trying for weeks to understand what "75008" stands for, but can't come up with anything...I welcome thoughts/suggestions/opinions. The "008" is fairly easy because it's 2008, but "75" doesn't mean much to me yet. Could be the baby's weight? Don't even think about saying that the baby is going to be born on July 5th because that means I'll be 7 weeks overdue....definitely not happening!!!