Sunday, May 9, 2010

Mother's day at the zoo

For Mother's day we went to the zoo with family. I caught a few moments of Aiden on video that I had to post. He is such an amazing little boy. I love watching him grow, everyday is something new. I am so blessed to have two wonderful children that just make our lives complete.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Where's Aiden?

One Crazy Baby Story!

Well the pregnancy went longer than I thought, but the delivery sure didn't! It was Saturday night around 9:00pm when I started feeling what I thought were contractions. How quickly I had forgot the real pain of labor. They were about 5-8 minutes apart, and by 11:00pm I was ready to go to the hospital to at least be checked out, I thought for sure I would be admitted. We called Nana in from Sweet to sit with Aiden, and headed in.
When the nurse checked me, I was no more dilated than I was Friday afternoon! 3cm was all. To top it all off the "contractions" had tapered off, so we went home to get some sleep. By 2am we were home and in bed. The next morning I woke up at 7am to take a walk, I took another walk that afternoon with Paul and Aiden, and we took yet another walk when Sandra arrived back at the house. Still no signs of labor. Sandra and Paul decided to go to Home Depot because well...obviously Miss Olivia was not coming today. That was at 4pm...
At 5pm I decide to start dinner. Then at 5:13pm I had the most excruciating contraction I have ever or will ever experience. 15 mins later, another one. When Paul walked in at 5:30 I desperately trying not to scare our son. Needless to say it was time to go to the hospital.
When we arrived the nurse kindly asked if I would like an epidural and I responded with "yes, please." Then she checked me and basically said... never mind. I was dilated to 8cm and there was no time. They no sooner rolled me to the delivery room, got some blood drawn and my water broke! No pain meds for me.
Olivia was born at 6:48pm 7lbs 15oz. She came out so fast, they had to work to get her breathing, but other than that she was perfect! I will never forget that day as long as I live.