In hopes not to bore with you with the birth story, I added lots of pictures, so don't feel bad to skip right to those!

On March 7th, I had a scheduled induction so of course I didn't sleep at all the night before. I traveled from bed, to couch, back to bed that night trying to get some sleep but it was hopeless. How does anyone sleep knowing they are going to have to go through the labor the next day?
Thank goodness the hospital called right at 5:30am telling me to come in at 6:30am. So I took a shower, got dressed, put on makeup and ate breakfast (a huge plus about induction is you can do all this pain free!)

I arrived at the hospital and they started me on pitocin. (I have to mention I was dilated at 1cm. Every doctors appt up this point I wasn't dilated at all, so it was  a relief to hear I had progressed just a little.) Around 11:30am my doctor came in and broke my water. He let me know that in a hour I would enter active labor. At that same time he broke my water, they increased my pitocin. Things started to get a little more intense, so I got the epidural around 12:30pm.....which by the way is the greatest thing ever created(besides cadbury eggs!.....why am I so addicted to those things?) Unfortunately after an hour I could feel all the contractions on my right side. Since the epidural works by gravity, they told me to stay on my right side. After 2 hours, my nurse came and checked me and I was still 3 cm dilated. So they turned the pitocin up again. A little later, no progression, so they maxed out the pitocin level and I laid trying there trying to stay calm through each contraction. From 12:30-6pm I had not progressed AT ALL. Can I just tell how emotional I was at this point.I cried and cried thinking of all the worst scenarios that was going to come. I was for sure they were going to have to do a c-section because my body wasn't progressing.
My doctor then came by around 6pm to check things out. He wanted to track the intensity of the contractions so they put in an internal monitor which they said sometimes has an effect of irritating the cervix, so the cervix will naturally begin to open up.  My doctor was also concerned that the position of the baby was just perfect that his head wasn't putting pressure on the cervix to help it along. But I didn't want to change positions because  the contractions were so intense if I laid on my left side, so I asked that the anesthiologist to come in and redo the epidural since I wasn't getting relief. This guy was so awesome, he came in right away and adjusted it so it would flow through my right side. By this time I could change positions and help this baby a long to delivery.  By 9:30pm I was at a 6 and now I began to feel all the contractions on my left side. It was like I was going through natural birth on one side of my body this whole labor. (my body must not take well to the epidural because this happend with Evelyn too) Anyways, I progressed from a 6 to a 10 in a matter of 20 min.  Wow, that  about killed me right there. But again, the anesthiologist came right in and helped ease some of the pain........aren't anesthiologist great?


So I started pushing around 10:10pm and at 10:50pm this little guy arrived. I can't even describe in words the emotions I was going through when I felt him come out. More than anything, it was such an emotional labor than a physical one for me. And so to see this little one come out so perfect and beautiful, I couldn't help but to cry over and over again. And  Bryan can attest that I couldn't stop crying all night. I  just feel so blessed that everything went so well and that he is healthy as can be. I think I take that blessing for granted way too much.


THanks everyone for your love and support! I also have to give a huge THANKS to my sister who was lifesaver in taking Evelyn not just one but two nights after getting the word that Christian was going to take a lot longer than I expected. And a huge thanks to my mom for staying with me and letting me sleep all the time while she  makes meals and watches Evelyn. She is heaven sent!!!

Poor Christian is not happy with his cone head. I had pushed half of his head out while the doctor was gone, so  the nurse ran and got the doctor before I could push him all out. So his lovely head shape came from that......but it's completely normal now and Christian is finally content with the shape of his head:)

Don't you love the chunkiness of his body!!

He is a male version of Evelyn......anyone else agree?