The Arrival of Gavin

Lets start with last weekend. On Friday night Mike & I did a lot of walking...We went to Costco & bought some "bulk" stuff for the house...then on the Home Depot to get some blinds for the finishing touches on Gavin's Room...which I will blog about later. Then on the Walmart to go Grocery Shopping because we wouldn't have much time together to do it Saturday.

Saturday Mike went to work & I hung out with my friend Jessi...who is still preggers...Sorry girl, I promise, Madi will join us soon! We went & got Glitter toes, went shopping to literally finish up my last minute "baby" needs & then went to Lunch. Saturday night Mike & I just relaxed.

Sunday we got up, went to Church, came home & made dinner for Ben & Sarah & then played Rock Band. Just a normal typical weekend. Lets get to the good stuff...Sunday night I had a hard time going to sleep, but this had been normal the last week or so...my mind would just race about this impending birth & what it would be like & what would happen when he came. Monday morning about 5am I had these small cramping pains in the lower stomach...they woke me up, but I didn't think to much about them because they didn't hurt. I had 2 of them between 5 & 5:30. At 5:30 my alarm went off & the is when I started timing them. They were about 9 minutes apart, but again, didn't hurt. At 6am I told Mike what was going on & told him I was going to go to get in the shower & see if that made them stop. I got in the shower & they didn't stop & started hurting. After the shower, I let Mike know they were continuing to happen & starting to hurt, so we made some phone calls to work & our moms.

By 10am, they were about 6 minutes apart, so we called the Dr.s office & he said to go to Labor & Delivery. We got some last minute things for our bag ready, asked our next door neighbor to help us take care of Bear while we were in the hospital & about 10:30am we started heading down there & I sobbed like a little girl before we left because I knew that when we came back home...nothing would be the same. We got to the Hospital about 11:30am & got checked in & in a room. They checked me & I was only dilated to a 2&1/2. They said they would give me an hour & check me again. My contractions were coming about every 3 minutes by then. They checked me again at 1pm & I hadn't dilated hardly any, so our nurse called the Dr. & came back & said they were going to send me home. I kinda had a feeling it was going to happen, but luckily, Mike's cousin Felisha lives about 3 minutes away from the hospital, so she said we could go there. About a minute after the nurse left our room to get me some meds to help with the pain, my water broke...it was divine intervention! We let the Nurse know & they admitted us. After that, my contractions were bad...I kept telling Mike I didn't think I could do it. It took a hour to get my epidural! After that, it was smooth sailing!

At about 5:30pm I was dilated to a 10! At 6:30pm it was time to start pushing. I had waiting about an hour to start pushing because the Dr. wanted me to be able to feel more & after I had puked all my ice chips up, they decided I was ready! There were few complications...After one contraction, Gavin's heart rate dropped so I had to have oxygen, but it came back up & was no longer a worry. After that, I had a blood clot appear & the Nurse was concerned about, so the called the Dr. & when Gavin was coming, he ruptured the Placenta & it started to come before him. Dr. Glenn gave me 1 last contraction to push to get Gavin out before he would have to get him himself. After an episiotomy & me pushing with all my might & Mike, My mother-in-law & sister-in-law all showing there support, I pushed him out & heard him cry for the first time...I cried! I couldn't believe I did it! He was finally here. All 7 pounds 19 inches of him.