Wow I cant believe it has almost been 3 weeks since our sweet baby boy joined the world. Let me tell you its been a whirl wind and trying to get the hang of this mommy thing is rough but we are getting it down, hence why I have had the lack of post.
It all started with our baby boy being 4 days overdue. Not to mention they had scheduled to induce me on my birthday {oh how I didn't want that to happen} On June 7th the contractions started. I tracked them for a few hours and they were so irregular and inconsistent that of course it was false labor, I went to bed and in hopes of them waking me up, they ended up going away. Here it is June 8th, still no baby and of course I am super anxious and getting irritated. What is taking him so long? I then decided he was going to be a mamas boy because he wanted to stay in there for what seemed like forever. That afternoon around 4:00 I started to get contractions again. I didn't think anything of it because of what had happened the day before. I ignored them for the most part and when JD got home I suggested we go out to dinner, I was craving a steak.
We went to dinner and during dinner my contractions were getting stronger. I started timing them at dinner and they were still pretty irregular. JD started to freak out, "do we need to get dinner togo?" we made it through dinner woohoo. Then about 10:00 that evening they started getting stronger and stronger. I started timing them again on my phone with a contraction timer {so awesome} eventually after about an hour and a half my phone alerted me it was probably time to go to the hospital. I called the 24 hour nurses hotline and the first question she asked me was "please tell me your in labor?" I laughed because she saw his due date and realized I was overdue. I said "I sure hope so". Sure enough she said I think its time for you to go. We took our time packing the rest of our bags and got to the hospital about 12:15 June 9th. I was taken up to a room to be monitored for several hours to make sure I was fully in labor. I was hooked up to all the monitors and could hear his heartbeat which is music to my ears and I already miss that sound. When we got to the hospital I was only 2cm dilated. I then had to walk around for an hour to try to get things moving along. After 2 hours I was dilated to 3cm. They then put me in a actual delivery room and once again hooked up to all the monitors. JD said babe you look like a TV{hence all the wires coming off of me}. 6am rolled around and the nurse came in to check me again and I was at 3.5cm she looked at me and said your not going anywhere. We were both relieved. This is really happening.
Alright so my intentions were not to use drugs, but as soon as I got into active labor the pain was unbearable. The only thing that made it comfortable was being on my knees and slouched over in the bed. My mom would hold my hand and JD would rub my lower back during a contraction. At this point they were a minute apart lasting a minute. The pain was only for a minute but it seemed like it was an hour. I didn't realize such noises could come out of me, I can only imagine what I sounded like. {to me I sounded like a rawring mama lion getting ready to push a tiny cub out of my oh so tiny parts}
I then pushed the button and said "Epidural PLEASE" I caved but I wanted to be able to rest and be able to push my brains out when the time came. The epidural arrived and lets say having me slouch over the bed while I am having a contraction and telling me to stay still was questionable, but I did it and the anesthesiologist was A-mazing. He was quick and I didn't feel a thing ;-) It was by far the best decision I could have made for me and my sweet baby.
By this time it was 9am I was 4cm and resting thank goodness. Watching the monitor was amazing. Being able to see my contractions but not feel them was a very cool thing to see. They were reaching the high 60's to 90's on the scale wowza.
Two hours had passed and the doctor came in to check my cervix. Much to our surprise I was 8cm dilated. WHAT?? I was so excited and couldn't believe how fast things were progressing. I then realized I really needed to take a nap. I ended up passing out for about a half hour. My labor thus far had been everything I didn't know I wanted... the only times that were scary was after they broke my water a few times Hudson's heart rate would drop and the nurse would run in to turn me on my other side or once it got so bad that she had me get on my hands and knees and added oxygen, which was super scary for me, but thankfully everything was okay!
2:30 rolls around and the doctor comes in to check my cervix again, I was 9.5cm and so ready to have this baby. It is truly amazing what our bodies can do. It did all the work for me I just had to push. My epidural was starting to wear off so I could start to feel more pressure from the contractions, which was a good thing. I could also feel with certain contractions his little head dropping further down into my pelvis. It was the most amazing feeling. 3:20 its time to push, mind you the nurse told me it would take about 2 hours to push since it was my first baby, at that point I didn't care I was in the moment and so ready to meet him. Once the pushing started, I was surprised at how natural it came to me, TMI but it really was like I was having the largest bowel movement of my life. Hudson was almost out when the nurse said to wait for the next contraction and he should be out in no time. The Doctor looked at me and said "you know what? Your so close, just push now" I pushed without a contraction and out came baby boy. 24 minutes of pushing and we finally were holding our amazing baby. The doctor was in shock about how well I pushed my little man out that he said to me that I could be his patient any day. That made me feel super human. I loved that!!
I was in shock, I couldn't believe what had just happened after 9 almost 10 long months of pregnancy, I was finally holding Hudson. I was totally in the moment that the nurse says "oh my god, he is peeing on you" all over my cheek {yeah that wouldn't be the last time} I didn't care I just was glad he was healthy and happy and I was okay!
Then it was just us, I was able to breast feed and hold him skin to skin for the first hour of his life. It was such a surreal hour of our lives. We created him, we made this human. He is beautiful and the most amazing miracle.
The first time JD got to hold him!! So in Love
Our little miracle
