He's here!

Oh the joy of being a new mom. He already melts my heart, and everything! Here's the story!

Wednesday, I get sent in to L&D for an NST. He seems fine, and therefore, i'm sent home, but with a follow up at my doctor, 2 days later.
Friday, the doctor actually said, blood pressure looks a lot better. And, then a follow up on Monday. I get there Monday, and they do my blood pressure, and the nurse told me, it's high, and i'll send the doc in to talk to you about it. He comes in, and says, why dont we do another NST, and this time monitor your blood pressure as well. So, he tried to send me to Utah Valley, and I told him I'd prefer Timpanogos. He sent me straight there and almost as soon as i'm showed to a room, the nurse comes in and tells me, she was on the phone with doc, and he is pretty sure, that with blood pressure that high, that i'd just be admitted and induced. Well, to me, i was like, why didn't he tell me that in the office? But no worries. I was perfectly fine. Excited really. Monday as opposed to Wednesday like we had originally thought? Can't wait!
         Well, omg, We started the Cytotec, and those exams, and insertions, FYI, are completely painful. Idk, if i'm sensitive or not, but 1 of them put me to tears. Cytotec is instered every (if I remember right) 3 or 4 hrs. Then, after about 4 of them, that's when they start the Pitocin. The Cytotec ripens the cervix. Pitocin induces actual labor by creating contractions etc. Well, with all those doses spread so far apart, Monday was spent with only the Cytotec. Tuesday, at 5:30 AM, we started Pitocin. Now, keep in mind, i'm a first time mom. So my cervix, was completely unfavorable. Making it so much longer. So, If i remember right, (drugged) around, 7:30 pm, (back on Monday) they were convinced I needed pain meds. I started getting doses of something, and everytime I got them, i threw up. It was such a...lame compromise. Throw up for a little bit, but then have no pain, or not throw up, and be in pain the whole time. Well, I waited as long as I could for each dose, but then, decided it was always worth throwing up, to be out of as much pain as possible. Well, so after a few hours on the Pitocin, on Tuesday, they were convinced, dilated at 1.5, that i needed an epidural. It would help me with me getting my exams, to see how dilated I was, and i wouldn't be so miserable. (If that's the logic, why did they wait so long!) Anyway, so I got the epidural, which, btw, I had really wanted to do it as natural as possible, but by then, the pain was excruciating enough, that I just couldn't handle it. I love that i got the epi BTW..and within..i believe, 20 minutes, i was back to my old self. Sure, i couldn't move my legs by myself, or do much at all, but i was...Happy! :) And, i believe that took a lot of stress off of nurses, and off of McCord. Who, FYI, was there the Entire time, and so supportive and wonderful. Anyway, after i'd gotten the Epidural, I kept getting the cytotec, and finally pitocin was started. Now, i believe after i was finally dialated to a 5 i finally got my water broken by the doctor, and then after that, i was dialated one more, each hour. So, by the time i was a 9, i was so tired, and ready. Bored too. i was on FB like the whole time. So, once i was a 10, the nurse, whose name was Earlene, came in and said, i needed to start pushing, and i pushed for maybe half hour. Then another nurse comes in and says Doc is delievering over at Utah Valley, and needs me to wait. Well, Earlene tells her, well i'm worried about the heart rate. I'm like, uh..thanks for telling me? What the heck. I could hear the heart beat the whole time, but i didn't think that it was dropping or anything. But apparantly that's what was going on. So she turned me on my side, and left me alone, to go talk to the doctor. Turns out, there was a pretty good snow that night so even when he did leave Utah Valley to come deliver me, it was going to take him 3 times as long because of the bad snow. Anway, he finally gets there at like 3:45 and i Start pushing at 3:55 and he's out at 4:02. The whole time, Mccord, is extremely excited and he's all his head is showing, his head is almost out, and you're doing so good and oh my gosh he's out. It was the most exciting feeling ever. After i was done and he comes out, i was just so happy! The nurse was telling us his stats, they were pretty excited that he was 7lbs even, and he was getting cleaned up, and the nurse asks if McCord wants to pass baby to me so i can hold him, i make mccord take a picture, and then nurse asks if he wants to go with him to the nursery and he's like, yeah. Now, i'm a pretty anti-crying person, but i watered up when he was born, and so did mccord. That alone was like the happiest moments of our lives. I am so excited to be a mom and Mccord is excited and happy he's a dad. For the first like, week, everytime Xander moved, both of us would aww all over him. Yes, we think he's the cutest thing ever and we can't get over it.

A special thanks to Dr. Drewes and Nurse Earlene who were the ones there for me when i was giving birth. That was the most fun part of it all. Pushing, and then seeing him, and holding him. Thank you God for allowing me this special priviledge and everything. I still can't get over how amazing my son is. I would do anything for him. I can feel it. I know mccord would too.