Evil contractions
Ready now
Such a sweet moment
Colin and Roman
Nothing like Daddy's love.
On July 20th of 2012 I gave birth to the most beautiful baby boy! So here is the birthing story before I forget because at the moment I am consumed by sleepless nights, crazy kiddos and poopy diapers. On July 19th there was a really bad storm and the lighting woke me up. After I went up to bed something just did not feel right. The contractions were coming on stronger and faster and for a moment I thought this was it. I knew days before that I needed to have my bags packed and to be ready but for some reason that slipped my mind. After trying for an hour to get the contractions to stop I finally woke Colin up and we called Mariah. This was going to be it. We frantically grabbed our bags and ran for the door(literally) with the exception of Colin running back to the door several times. Mariah was very gracious and spent the night with the kiddos and then took them back to her place in the morning. Once we got the hospital Dr. Couret was on call. She was one of the Dr.'s that I had wanted which was awesome. The contractions were still going but were not as strong but she decided to move us to a room since I was already 2 cm dialated. After we were admitted I felt much better about going in. I could not believe that this was it. I labored for the rest of the night and then in the morning I opted for the epidural and they started the pitocin. Once I got the epidural it was smooth sailing from there or should I say quick sailing. My Dr. had two surgery's that morning. She went to one came back and nothing had happened so she broke my water thinking that she would have enough time to deliver him after and little did we know she DID NOT. After they broke my water she left and then I felt the sensation of something moving down i.e. Roman. I asked Colin to look down there and sure enough there was his HEAD already out with no Dr. in the room. Thank the Lord that Dr. Emery the Dr. that I had seen when I went into preterm labor was walking through the halls she literally walked in and the nurses were yelling at her to get ready that he was coming out. 1 push later and there he was my sweet little boy. With my two previous children I didn't bond right away. I was 21 with Christian and scared to death and he pooped on the Dr. so they took him right away. With Avah it just didn't happen but with this sweet guy it did. They left him on me for a good 10 or 15 minutes and it was the most amazing feeling. I cry just thinking about it. Finally I could have one of those moments. The feeling of holding this child for the first time was always what I had dreamed of. Roman weighed in at 7lbs even and was 20 and a half inches long. He has been such a wonderful addition to our family and his brother and sister were so excited to hold him and love on him. There was only one person that ever told me that everything would be okay with having 3 kids and that he would just fit right into the family. She was so right and I am just so thankful that she said it. We are now at 3 weeks and we are enjoying our time with our sweet boy! Thank you to everyone one who has brought us a meal and helped out with the children we can not thank you enough ask Cory i've already sent her two thank you notes for the same meal :-)
