I want to start off by saying that last June, my husband and I went through an early miscarriage and I debated on whether or not I wanted to try again. I was terrified that it would happen again. But boy am I glad that we did 💓

Our story starts out on May 31st 2019, I started having some extremely painful contractions that were consistent to about 10 minutes apart, we went in to the hospital to be checked and I had not progressed at all since my appointment the week before. Being that this was my 3rd baby, we had all expected this to to a lot quicker. I went home and laboured in excruciating pain for the next 2 days. On June second, at 39+5 I woke up to my bloody show, yay!! This meant progress! I laboured for another few hours at home & tried to get some rest. By noon on the 2nd I couldn't talk through the contractions anymore so we decided to head in. When we got there I was checked and happily had progressed to a 4! They wanted to be sure this was it as my contractions were still sitting at 10 minutes apart, so we walked for 2 hours & by the time we got back to triage I was a 7! I got the epidural at 7-8 cm, and then things started to slow down a bit, I decided to sleep but couldn't feel anything at all & was very uncomfortable and I felt that something was off. They broke my water at about 10:30 pm Midnight hit and I was 9 3/4 cm dilated, waiting for just a lip to dilate & for me to start feeling the urge to push. I was starting to get frustrated at around 2, wondering why this wasnt happening. At 3 the doctor comes in wondering basically what is taking so long, as soon as she came in babies heart rate started to drop significantly. She watched the monitor for a few minutes & then checked me, babies head was about an inch from crowning & I felt nothing. No contractions, no urge. Nothing. Babies heart rate continued to drop to under 100 bpm with every contraction, she decided baby needed to come now & we couldnt wait any longer for me to be able to feel so for the first time I was going into pushing without being able to when to push. I was terrified & worried that I wouldn't be able to do it without feeling. 6 minutes later on June 3rd, 2019 at 3:25 am our team green turned into team blue when our little boy, Daelen Gerald, entered the world at 8lbs 7oz & 21 inches long.

We are so absolutely in love with him & big sister and brother cannot get enough of him 💕If you have made it this far, thank you for reading 😊💓