My story 💚💚

Let me give you a testimony of God’s love and mercy💜

Friday morning April 26th I woke up with pain across my belly. I brushed it off because we had an amazing baseball game that Thursday night and I got a little worked up 🤣

7 am when I got up and got around I realized Bea wasn’t moving. Super unusual because since 25 or so weeks she moves around like crazy when I get up in the morning it’s like clock work. 8 o’clock Daron texted me to see where I was and check in on me. 8:30 I texted mom because I don’t feel right the baby still hasn’t moved and my back in hurting. I drink Gatorade, coffee, eat a waffle with syrup. Fixed Copey and Crimson breakfast. Me and Copey get a shower and still nothing. 10 o’clock I called UAMS and talked to the triage nurse she advised me to come in due to the decreased movement. So I start to get more worried. I start to pray that everything is fine and maybe I’m over reacting. Mom comes to get us and we drop double trouble off with Daron. (Thank you so so much) Mim keeps me talking so I’m not in a panic I’m steadily hurting but I feel her move like three times on the way to Little Rock. UAMS is big and I have no idea where to go thank goodness mom kinda knew! We get into L&D triage they look me over as hook me up. I tell the lady I’m hurting she says well it’s because your having contractions. 😳 what?! I know what everyone is thinking she’s had 15 kids she should know what that is but I had no idea I was having contractions bc my main focus was Bea wasn’t moving right. The lady checks me your dilated to 3...again what?! That a change from three days ago. We stay an hour and half and I’m a four.... we are staying to have a baby 😳😳 y’all I wasn’t ready to hear all that. I don’t have my babies before 40 weeks and I haven’t even got to talk to Dr. Wendel yet about our plan because that appointment isn’t until Tuesday the 30th. I call Chris to tell him I’m in labor and he was wrong about me being dramatic 🤣 Mom calls Jenny who goes into panic bc she is 11 hours away from me. We get moved to the room with the best view on L&D hallway. I don’t want them to do anything to me because Chris and Jenny aren’t there...and they agree! All they do is hook up some fluids/penicillin and we wait. Me and mom just sit and talk my contractions get stronger and more frequent throughout the evening. Chris finally makes it about 7:30. So they start my second round of antibiotics at 8:30. I’m dilated to a 5 so we start pitocin at 9:10. Everything goes well for a while. About 11:15 I ask for the epidural not because I was in terrible pain but my contractions where 4 mins apart and you have to be super still to get one which is hard when your contracting. 11:30 I get my epidural. 12:15 it creeps up and I feel like I can’t breath so they turn my meds off for a while. I start to hurt and we turn them back on at 1:30. 2 o’clock everyone started to change. I got faint and nauseous. They thought I was progressing but I was only a 5 still just thinned out. I guess I lose consciousness for a bit and the nurses are literally throwing me around from one side to another to on my belly. Bea’s heart rate dropped I’m not sure If I can take my next breath. All I can do is pray. Fading in and out but as soon as I come back I’m praying God gets us through. I say please Lord let her be ok let us be ok. Give the Dr what he needs to fix us. There is about 10 people in my room my mom, Chris, Cathren and Sonya have seen my nakedness 🤣 but things start to improve they get me on oxygen and prop me up on my side and Bea starts to level out. They stop pitocin. Decide to break my water because they can’t keep Bea on the monitor and put in an internal monitor on her head. Y’all water breaking wasn’t the word for it. It was Niagara Fall flooding. The nurses joked that they should have brought in there waders it was ALOT! This was about 2:45. My sister gets there at 3 ❤️ Jenny is the labor coach. My doula. They start the pit back on sometime shortly after then. Slow and easy so they don’t make Bea stressed. I’m so exhausted I can’t stand it but every time I try to sleep I can’t breath so my pulse ox would tank. I told Chris how much I loved him because I felt like I wanted him to know just in case I went to sleep and didn’t wake up. It’s weird the things you start to come up with when things like this happen. 5:45 the nurses come in and I’m a 7. I start to feel better. They joke that they won’t get to Bea because the shift is over at 6:30. I guess she heard them because after they left my contractions where intense. I had an epidural still but these where still good ones. She’s gonna come to meet the best nurses I’ve ever had during delivery. Alene and Merci. 6:10 I put the button and tell them that I’m gonna have this baby real soon. Lol they come in a break the bed apart and call try dr tell her I’m fully effaced and a 9 but I’m ready. I’m worried about Chris passing out at this point because he has tried to do that in the past. Then it starts. I can’t control it. My body is ready for her to be out. Merci tells me to practice push..... 😑 I know where this goes. She crowns with one push. They are calling the dr and the neonatal team. I say she is coming!! I push twice through a min long contraction she is here. Alene didn’t have her gloves on yet Merci has the best reflexes ive ever seen and I for some reason was grabbing for her. I was afraid she would fall because it was happening so fast. She’s on my belly and barely crying I’m trying to rub her back and get her cry the Dr and the neonatal team get in there .Jenny cuts the cord. I hear a lady say the baby is already here. They take her behind a curtain. I can’t see or hear her. I keep asking Chris about her because she isn’t crying. Placenta is out not tears nothing at all👍🏻 they bring her to me and she is doing just fine. The nurses laugh about how quick she came and how I caught my own baby. Y’all it was crazy really. I stayed with Bea the whole time we were at the hospital. She had xrays done to look at her bones for skeletal dysplasia and blood drawn. She is perfect other than this concern. I’m still feeling so blessed 96 hours later. I was so afraid of things happening to her during or after birth but she is FINE! I firmly believe God had his hands on us. Relying on my faith has been the best thing I could have done... the only thing I could have done. Having a nurse with the name Merci (Mercy) wasn’t an accident. Everything that happened the way it did was a plan. I am being proactive and we are getting scheduled for appointments as soon as we can for Bea. We don’t have a diagnosis but that doesnt matter. She is perfect to us! I’m soaking in all her baby loving. I’m sorry in advance for being over protective with her but when you have been so worried about someone and finally see they are ok it’s hard to let go. She has the best brothers and sisters a girl could ask for💕 no way she is going to cry longer than a few seconds without someone helping.