Zoë's Birth Story! I had what I would consider an awful pregnancy.. My "morning" sickness was actually all day everyday sickness! It did not suppress or stop. I threw up every thing I ate literally until she was born! I didn't have preeclampsia but I did swell like you would not believe! I couldn't wear tennis shoes bc my feet would swell so bad, I wore mostly sandals especially to work and there were night where Cody would have to do everything he could just to get my shoes off! Days where we thought we would have to cut them off LOL I haven't had my own car for almost a year now..so there were also days where I had to walk to work or home from work.. Let me tell you being 36 weeks pregnant walking literally a mile to work would take me about an hour.. It was awful and the summer heat made it a million times worse! looking back I am thankful for all that walking bc I think it made my labor and delivery easier! Zoe was dropped at around 7 months! The day I went into labor was honestly the best day of my life and also the funniest bc being a first time mom I didn't know what to expect! The morning of August 11th, at around 6:30am Cody had literally just left for work and I was off that day but of course I was up going pee..well after I had finished I went to stand up off the toilet and I felt a little bit of a trickle come down and I had thought maybe I didn't finish peeing bc I peed my pants so often my entire pregnancy it was nothing new lol so I walked to my laundry room changed my pants and was going back to bed. Well I went to to lay back down in bed and I felt like there was a bubble in my pants so I stood up next to the bed and maybe a tiny bit more of fluid had came out so silly me I thought hmm maybe the pressure of sitting down on the bed caused more pee so I went back to the laundry room threw a load in the washer and then jumped in the shower.. As I'm in the shower not even kidding, I could FEEL water just pouring out of me over and over again like someone was pouring water bottles out so I'm like umm is this my water is it not I'm not sure lol so after my shower I was calling Cody and letting him know my water might have broken but im not sure so I'm gonna finish doing a load of laundry and pack my hospital bag and then I'll call him if I start feeling contractions.. Well I never started to feel contractions but as I was walking around with a towel between my legs every step I would take it was like water bottles still being poured out so I'm like ummmm maybe this is my water lol so I called Cody again and I'm like yeah it's defintley my water bc at this point I've soaked 5 big bath towels and Cody is of course freaking out and im still not having contractions so he comes home to get me and I'm just chilling packing my back sitting naked on a pile of towels lol and then even my entire labor I never felt contractions up front I had back labor really bad tho! I had Demeral which helped a little but once I got that epidural it was smooth sailing. I know a lot of moms want to at least try natural but let me tell you, there's no shame in my game I did not feel a damn thing. I didn't even know Zoë's head had came out I was literally leaning over the bed vomiting and I had been pushing for 10 hours and the nurses and the doctors weren't even prepared bc of course I was vomiting and next thing I know Cody says ummm her head is out!!! And the nurses and doctors turn around and are like oh yeah it is!!! And everyone started rushing around and then there we were 1:49am August 12.. 20 hours of labor, 10 hours of pushing we had our 8lbs 0oz 20&1/2inch baby! Miss Zoë Elaine♥️♥️