My little miracle

My little miracle! She's here and I'm so in love. I been waiting for so long to meet her and I never thought it would happen like this. So I went to my 38 week appointment on Thursday and was told I was finally 2cm dilated and 50% effaced but the Dr. told me my cervix was so high that she could barely reach it. My friend had invited my boys to her son's birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese on Saturday. So I took my boys to the party even though I was tired and not really in the mood.

My oldest asked me to play a shooting game with him and me being the mother that I am I decided to play just to put a smile on his face. We played for about an half an hour or so and the entire time I'm having contractions, not painful but noticeable. Next thing you know my water breaks, so I go to the bathroom I clean up and protect myself and I go back to playing because I have no intentions on going to the hospital that early.

After a few hours I decide to head to the hospital just to be safe because I had Group B strep and I knew I needed antibiotics to keep the baby safe. I arrived at the hospital at midnight and after a long night I gave birth to my daughter about 11:00 a.m. Sunday.

I completely abandon my thoughts of going natural because of the pain being so bad, I think that came from the pitocin. But I went from 4 cm to 10 cm is within an hour after getting the epidural. The actual labor part was the hardest pushing her out took a little while because of the fact that I took some type of other pain medication before the epidural which had me completely wiped out and being numb made it so hard for me to push but I finally got her out only to find out that she was the third one of my children to have their umbilical cord around her neck. But I'm grateful and thankful to God that I have this beautiful little girl in my life because we also found out that she had a true knot in her umbilical cord. Which meant that at any time she could have died inside of me. So I'm blessed and I will never ever forget how truly wonderful it is to be her mother.