Holden Noel Chavez. Born 8-13 at 4:34pm at 37 weeks and 1 day. 7 pounds 5oz. 20.5 inches long. He's got a cone head, slight bruising on face and arms, and has a hairline fracture on his shoulder bone (the pediatric doctors never seen it on the shoulder before). But he looks much better today than he did yesterday! Friday my contractions were every 20 minutes, I couldn't tell if they were real ones or if that's what Braxton hicks felt like. Saturday they got to about 5-10 minutes apart but weren't consistent. Sunday morning I woke up from the contractions and got to about 3.5 minute contractions at home just from walking down the street and back. Immediately told my husband we needed to go to hospital once they hit 5 minutes but got to 3.5 by the time I got out of the shower. The moment I got into my hospital gown, my water broke all over the floor at around 930. Then they checked me and found out I was 5cm already at 11. I decided to do the epidural because the pain was unbearable. After that it was a really easy ride to 10cm at 230. Began pushing st 330 and he came out 430. So only an hour of pushing which was still terrible because it felt like I couldn't get him out no matter how hard I pushed. He came out with the cord tightly around his neck, and it was so tight she couldn't just pull it off and had to cut it right there while I was still pushing. By the time he came out, he was completely gray/blue and lifeless. Nicu came rushing in to bring him back in the side of the room. Not that anyone told me what was going on. I knew something was happening because they should have put him on my chest, but they didn't want me to freak but My husband said he saw how blue he was and was limp not moving. They were shaking him and trying to get him revived. It was probably 10 minutes before they brought him to me then said they might take him if he doesn't continue to improve every 30 minutes. So that really scared us afterwards. Imagine if I didn't push him out on that contraction, he would have went another minute or more without oxygen. I was distracted and couldn't see from my bed and just upset they weren't giving him to me. Internal tear that had to be stitched but so happy he's here with us. Wish us luck, we have no idea what we are doing!!