The pain of Labor!

Well Hello there! 

I've decided to create this blog not only to give me something to write my memories down on and give family a chance to read about our day to day, but also give people an idea of what being a new mom is like for me! (I also don't want to keep bombarding Facebook with every cute picture i take of Bruin!)...So here goes nothing. 

I'd like to start with my labor. I promise I won't get into intense detail. I was due on Randy's birthday 9/1. On Sunday, 8/28 I was minding my own business watching something football while Randy was napping. At 4:30 pm I thought I peed my pants! I sat there for a second and said, "nope, this is it" and went over to wake sleeping beauty. "Hey RANDALL...umm, I think my water broke." My husband, who i believe was in denial that we were having a baby up until this point, asked if I was having any contractions. When my response was no not yet he said, " ok well i'm gonna put in a load of laundry and then we can go."...So, I decided I'd shower while he did his thing. 

Well, we arrived at the hospital at 7:30 pm and still without contractions. (I didn't think I was actually in labor) After the nurse confirmed my water broke and I was at 3 cm, they put us in a room and said we were the only ones on the floor so we had everyones complete attention. My nurse said the midwife wanted me to sleep since I wasn't having contractions so she was giving me a sleeping pill and if contractions didn't start by 4:30am they would give me pitocin. Randy took this as a perfect opportunity to eat so he ran downstairs for some subway. When he came back up I had had my first contraction and they were coming strong and fast. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore and said I needed an epidural although i had planned on going all natural (YEAH RIGHT!!!) The nurse said that she had to check my progress before the epidural and said i was 6 cm.WOW!  And they sent randy out of the room because they couldnt do the procedure with him there. Ten minutes later the jerk of a man came and gave me my shot, which took about ten min. and INSTANT relief. AMAZING. The nurse said she had a strange  feeling and wanted to check me again.  Her eyes became HUGE and uttered the words every pregnant chick is waiting for, "YOU'RE READY TO PUSH!"....ummm excuse me? this was at 11:00pm. 3 and a half hours after i arrived! They ran to get the soon to be daddy and my midwife joined in on the fun too. It was really happening. Now let me tell you, that pushing was so easy peasy. I didn't feel a thing. 27 minutes later Bruin Roscoe Arbogast arrived. They immediately placed him on my chest. Papa Bear and I were in pure shock and the only thing i could think to tell this new little guy was, "OH MY GOD YOU LOOK LIKE A LITTLE MONKEY!!" (Randy says that's one of his favorite moments of the entire pregnancy, labor and delivery) Bruin had his cord wrapped around his neck once and body once but we were lucky to have everything go absolutely perfect. 

And like randy says, the pit crew came in next and got everything cleaned up before we even knew what was happening. They let me breastfeed and then took Bruin for a bath a shot and some fun (I'm guessing). That pretty much sums up my labor experience. It was better than i expected ... I was truly terrified about the whole thing during my entire pregnancy.