My baby's birth story

My baby girl's due date was March 18th. On this day 2 years ago she graced us with her presence :)

My entire pregnancy with her I had a bleed in my placenta, so I was high risk the entire time. Which was scary at first, but she was a fighter and I did all I could to keep her healthy! I had went into labor at 30 weeks so I went to the hospital and my doctor was able to stop her from coming. I was terrified, but so happy she decided to stay put!

I had many doctors appointments and ultra sounds following, which was always nice to see her and make sure she was growing and healthy. At 38 weeks I had went into labor again, this time I was thrilled! I knew we had made it to the safe point so I called my Mom ( J was at work). She came over and brought my beautiful Granni. My Mom helped me get the older kids ready for bed and helped me pack my bag. My Granni stayed home with the older kids and Mom took me to the Hospital. I called J on the way and as soon as I got there. He didn't want to leave work if it wasn't true labor. So the doctor hooked me up to machines and said your contracting great, but we are going to stop it and see if she will hold off until your due date. I was so disappointed, but knew it wasn't meant to be with J being at work, my in laws weren't available to come up and my 78 year old Granni was with the kids! So we went home :(

I had a doctors appointment that following week and she scheduled an induction on March 18th! I had never had one of my babies on my actual due date, so that was kind of cool! I planned for my wonderful sister in law to skip school and sit at home with the kids that day. Well it was really just Wild Man cause the girls were in school. J, my mom and J's parents were there all morning with me, we had to be there at 7am. I had the pitocin in by 8am and things were moving along nicely. Later in the afternoon my sister in law showed up to hang out with us as well. It was a really nice time chatting and laughing with everyone while I labored.

Finally the contractions were more than I could take and I am all about an epidural so we called in the anesthesiologist! She was wonderful and had me hooked up quickly. The sad thing is it was about 12:30pm and it wasn't working. I could barely talk or move the contractions were so bad. They were coming so quick, one right after another and they lasted for what felt like forever. So I called in the so called " magic woman" again and she was arguing with me about the epidural working. Finally I told her I can't handle it and she needed to either put more meds in or re-do it cause I was miserable. So she just added more meds in, which didn't help at the time at all!
Wonderful Dr. Davidson came in to check me and said well they hurt so much because her head is right there and you are more than ready to push! My Mom, J and J's Mom stayed in the room while my father in law and sister in law went in the waiting room! Dr. Davidson got already (she did this super fast) and all of a sudden my epidural kicked in and I couldn't feel to push.

It was not a good feeling to be popping all the blood vessels in my face trying to push and she said I wasn't pushing correctly. So we waited a few minutes for "crazy magic lady" to come back in and turn the epidural off! It never helped, but I wanted to see my baby, so I gave it all I had... 3 hard pushes, a vacuum and wallah... she was laying on my stomach!

She was beautiful, she looked so chubby and so colored. She had perfect skin, but a huge cone head :( All of my babies look Indian when they come out, tons of black hair and tan skin! She cried and cried. The nurses did everything in the room, so she never left my room our entire hospital stay. I loved that about that hospital. She was a whopping 8lbs 6oz 19in. long!!! She completed our family at 2:20pm

Our whole family and all of our friends came to the hospital to welcome her! I finally had the feeling of being complete after she was born. I had never experienced this feeling after the births of my other children and that is why I never did anything permanent! 6 weeks after my beautiful baby was born I had a tubal! So we won't be having anymore babies, but I am thrilled to watch them grow and see who they all will become.

Baby girl, Happy Birthday! I love you so much, you are such a beautiful little girl who I love with all of my heart and soul! God made you perfect and knew you would be the perfect child to complete our family!