Saturday, July 11, 2009

I am the luckiest...


I happen to be the mother of the most beautiful child in the whole world. Sorry all other children of the world, you are still good look'n. The process started on Sunday night. While hanging out with our friends Zach and Hope, (Hope also was my birth coach) i started to feel something happening. We chose to stay up and play some games, laugh and eat nasty tasting chicken fingers. every ten minutes or so I would pause and enjoy the wonderful feeling of a contraction. After staying up until 2 am we decided to hit the hay... well try at least.

For the next 6 hours i had contraction anywhere from 2-8 minutes apart. The hospital told us to stay home until i have a contraction every two minutes for an hour... i didn't even know that was possible. Then around 8 am i gave up. I was done laying on the floor in pain, it was time for the drugs. Jake and Hope packed up the car and we headed to the hospital. Little did I know i wouldn't be getting any drugs for a WHILE longer.

Things went SLOW! I was only dilated to a 1 when i arrived so we had some work to do. I walked, I lunged, and i utilized the big ball. Then... NOTHING happened. So the doctor did some magic work and then i was at a 2 ! Around 2:00pm Monday they decided to give my a mix of meds, morphine and something I can't remember. It was supposed to help me sleep, cause lets see i hadn't slept in about 35 hours, it didn't work. I still felt the pain. The next step was to WALK and to walk a lot. Stopping every 3 minutes to have Jake, Hope or my mom press on my back with all their strength. I had pretty intense back labor. Still NOTHING changed so we decided (the doctors) that around 10pm Monday i would get another dose of morphine and hopefully fall asleep and then be induced at 6 am tuesday. So 10pm came around I got the shot (in the butt, not fun) slept about 1 hour, maybe and then every 2-3 minutes i experienced the worst pain in my life. Jake would press on my back while i held onto the bed bar and cried for it all to end. I called the nurse, told her my pain was to much. so then the drugs finally came around 12:30 am Tuesday morning. I was given an epidural ( they had to do it twice) then patosin to induce labor. I FINALLY fell asleep. Then at 3am the nurse came in to check if i have dilated any more past a 2 and when she checked she looked up and said.. 'we better call the doctor, your ready to go.' The best words i could have heard. So I waited a little while and around 3:40 am i started to push. After about two minutes they told me i needed to roll over and stop pushing, the doctor wasn't there and i was to close. So at 4:02 am the doctor walked in I pushed and at 4:05 am Little Nash Dakota Edward Ladd entered our world.
He was 7lbs and 3 oz and 20 inches long.

I was in shock... I was now a real life mother. It was beautiful! I am the luckiest lady in the whole wide world. Every moment i thank God for giving me Nash. I thank him for the opportunity to understand a little bit more the love he has for all His children. I will be forever grateful of the family I have been blessed with. I have a loving, compassionate humble husband and a baby boy who shows me the love of God.