I had a doctors appointment on March 14th...Dr. Hughes told me that I was dilated to a 2 and casually asked if I'd like to have a baby that next Friday. I was so caught off guard, but quickly told him yes with tons of excitement in my voice. He told me that he'd do it sooner, but he was going out of town. This made me super nervous because I thought it would be just my luck that I'd go into labor while he was gone. Well luckily I made it all the way to Friday. I took the Thursday before off work so I could clean my house, catch up on laundry and run some last minute errands. Friday morning came...we all got up, got ready and met my dad at the Hospital to drop Avrey off to him at 7:00 A.M. Once we dropped her off we headed up to Labor and Delivery, got registered and they took me back to my room. Once I was all settled in my nurse walked in and crazy enough it was the same nurse I had when I had Avrey (nurse Christi). Everything was going great the only thing that got a little discouraging was that I was progressing, but at a very slow rate. Finally around 12 Dr. Hughes came in and broke my water. Once my water was broke I got my epidural a few moments later. I did get a little nervous with my epidural because I was told it would take about 15 20 mintues to kick in and after about 20 minutes only my right side was numb. I kept pushing my button and finally my left side went numb. After that it was a lot of waiting and I mean a lot. We watched every show you could think of...Rachel Ray, Ellen and even some March Madness just for dad. Kailee and my mom were with me pretty much the whole day and then Debbie and Spen came up later in the afternoon. It was nice to have some company while I waited. Finally a little bit before 6 the nurse came in to check me and I was a 9 1/2...she had me push a little bit and just like that I was a 10. They called for the doctor and before I knew it we were ready to go. The doctor came in and I started pushing...the nurse started counting and only got to 5 before I was told to stop pushing. He was here! Baby Beckett was born at 6:09 P.M. and came out screaming. He was so perfect in every way. He was way smaller than Avrey 6 lbs 15 oz and 20 inches long. Once everything was cleaned up we were ready to let people in and it felt like everyone was there to share our special moment. Around 7 I was finally settled into my room and I made Dallas get me some Olive Garden since I hadn't eaten all day...and it was DELICIOUS!!! We immediately fell in love with our little man and we just can't get enough of him. We are so grateful to have him in our family and Avrey already loves being a big sister.
*Kailee did my birth story pictures and they turned out better than I could have expected.*
these pics sure are fab!
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