Baby was born July 29th ❤️❤️ LONG story! But lots of pictures 🥰

So, long story. I went into the hospital July 28th at 9:30 pm because I was having contractions that were about 5-6 minutes apart but coming in consistently at that point, and my stomach would get rock hard!

We get to the hospital and I’m only 2cm, but definitely having contractions. Which felt like strong period cramps. They told me I can either stay and see if I progress, or go home to labor. We stayed until 1:45 and I progressed to a 3. Decided to go home and labor. So we get home and I try to sleep but I’m in soo much pain. I remember every time I would get a contraction I would tense up, and squeeze something soo hard and try to breathe through it but it hurt sooo bad.

By 5:30, middle of the might I CANNOT take it anymore. I’m in tears, trying to get through these contractions. So I wake up my boyfriend and we head to the hospital. They check me at 6:30 andI’m 6 cm dilated and admitted. Thank god. I used the laughing gas for awhile and it did help somewhat, but I needed the epidural! 9:00 comes around and I’m at a 7. I finally get my epidural and it wasn’t bad at all! Contractions were waaaaaaaaaaaay worse. I start finally feeling better, even though my left side was a lot more numb then my right. Noon rolls around and I’m at an 8! I ended up throwing up a few times, took some nausea meds. Eating ice chips. I couldn’t feel contractions really but had insane pressure in my butt. 1:00 comes around and I’m at a 9 almost 10 they said and they have me start practice pushing. I remember being soo scared to push. So many emotions. I had a nurse holding my left leg and my mom and my best friend holding my other leg, with my boyfriend comforting me from above. Even though I had the epidural, pushing HURT so bad! The pressure is unreal. A few times I was thinking I couldn’t do it anymore. I mentally kept telling myself just keep going keep going he’ll be here soon. I pushed for an hour and a half and my little love finally came out! I wanted to do skin to skin right away, and do delayed cord clamping. But he came out not crying. I remember laying there so scared like why didn’t they put him on me like I’ve been telling the nurses I’ve wanted this whole time. Why is he not crying? Is he okay? I kept saying is he okay about 20 times sobbing, everyone tells me he’s okay he’s okay and he FINALLY cries. Longest 2 mins of my life. They lay him on me and I completely lose it. Completely. No words can describe when they lay your baby on your chest that you’ve been carrying for 9 months. My whole heart. I’ve waited for him for so long and I finally have him, nothing else matters. The doctor said he was having a hard time breathing because he swallowed a bunch of animotic fluid. We had to stay in the hospital for 2 days to make sure his breathing was all good before we got to go home. I didn’t tear at all thank god, totally thought I did. If you’ve gotten this far thanks for reading, now here’s some pictures of my labor, birth, and my newborn who’s now 3 months old and the best thing that’s ever happened to me!