BIRTH STORY TIME!

On March 15, 2016, 12 days past my due date, I woke up at 3:30am with contractions. I was scheduled to be induced the 17th, and I wrote it off as a cramp. I stayed home until 7am, and I was timing them at 2 minutes apart. We went to the hospital, but we were both expecting to be sent home. Something felt different, but I just figured it would be nothing. 30 minutes into being hooked up to the machine, they were telling me I would be admitted. By 9am, I got my epidural. The contractions had me bunched up in bed and barely breathing. I slept throughout the day, and at 11:30pm I felt pressure in my butt. Kind of like I had to poop immediately. I was checked and was 9.5 cm dilated. They started prepping the room for delivery, and at 11:50pm, they went to check me again and saw his head in my birth canal. He got a little stuck, but the hospital respected my request to just let me naturally tear instead of having an episiotomy. At 12:28am, March 16, 2016, Cam and I welcomed our first baby boy, Kingston. He was 21 and 3/4 inches long, and weighed exactly 8 pounds. He has made our relationship stronger, and our lives so much better. Cam was so supportive the whole time I was in labor and pushing. I wouldn't have been able to do it without him.