He's Here!!

Zachary is here!! He came in to the world on March 13th, 2010.

Following is an attempt to abbreviate our day of his arrival.

My Mom flew in Wednesday night. Thursday we went to my OB appointment/ultrasound. While there the Nurse Practitioner stripped my membranes. I labored off and on that day. The next day, Friday, my water broke about 11:45 a.m. We got our stuff and went to the hospital. (Let me just say I hate the feeling of peeing your pants and having no control to stop it.) On our way there the contractions got stronger. After getting to the O.B. Triage they checked me and I was 4-5 centimeters dilated and 90% effaced. They decided I was in labor and to admit me.

After they took me to the labor and delivery room, the nurse came and introduced herself and did the run down of everything she has to do and then asked me if she could get me anything. I asked her how soon I could have my epidural. They had to draw some blood and do some lab work first to see if they could give it to me. About an hour-and-a-half later the nurse came in to tell me they could now do the epidural. I was still kind of nervous to get the epidural. It wasn't as bad as I had imagined. I would totally do it again in a heart beat!!

In the hours following, the nurses checked about every three hours and I went from 5 centimeters, to 8 centimeters, to complete. At 11:00p.m. I started pushing. At first I was nervous for JC. He did great though! I ended up pushing for an hour-and-a-half and Zachary was born.

I was exhausted but when I heard Zachary cry and they put him on my stomach, it was as if he and I were the only ones in the room. I held him and just cried. What an amazing experience to be in the room to witness that part of Heaven.

I stayed in the hospital for two days and was antsy to get home. Zachary was doing good and the nurses said I was healing well so they discharged us.

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