Carter Ray finally made his way into the world Wednesday September 14 about 11:45 weighing 8.01 pounds and 21 1/2 inches tall! I was scheduled to be induced being 40 weeks and 3 days pregnant 4 cm dilated and 75% effaced already. Having that being said everyone has believed this would be a very short labor and delivery, only a couple hours. We got to the hospital at 5:30 on Wednesday and immediately started pitocin at 6:15 once I was set up to start contractions and labor by 6:30 I was given my epidural and things were begging to happen very quickly after this. I was dilating about a cm to a cm 1/2 every hour and my water was broken very quickly after being there just because my body was progressing so quickly. After reaching I think 6 cm they took me off the pitocin because my body was apparently laboring naturally on its own so I would be in the hospital even it I wasn't scheduled to this day. But God knew I needed to be induced and I am very thankful that is what I did. Anyways, after they stopped the labor I was still progressing just my contractions were way to close together and they said I needed to slow it down. The doctor turned the medication back on and things went back to normal. Once I hit 7 cm my epidural ran out for about an hour or longer and the true labor pains hitting me without any medication was one of the worst pains in my life this is when I knew God was looking out for me because I could have no labored at home on my own and waited to get the the hospital. Finally I relaxed and once I reached 8-8.5 cm my body stopped dilating and stayed there for hours. By this time it had been a long day for everybody already. But I was thankful to have so much support by my side by so many close people and I could have not done this without any of them. When I finally started to dilate my pain stated getting worse and I started having the shakes very badly around 8 ish I was ready to push! The pushing was the most pain of my whole entire life by far and I had just Richard, my mom, and a nurse in the room which was all I needed. Keep in mind I had not slept the night before because I was too anxious! My body started to give our after pushing for so long and I had no energy in me. I had thrown up with nothing in my stomach and every time I pushed it got harder and harder. Carter was a little to big to fit through the pelvic bone in my body and he never made it past the bone. Everytime they said he was not past that bone I wanted to scream because he was not making any progression what so ever, even though we could see his full head of dark hair he was still too high and didn't not want to come past the bone by then my only options was to push for more hours to see if I can get him through but that would had been very hard on his body or c-section. I knew I didn't have it in me to push much longer. The doctor took what seemed like a life time to get me into the the surgery room because the doctor there was delivery 2 other babies before she could take me in and the whole time my medication was out and I was feeling every pain the the whole world while waiting on her. The medication has worn off sometime during the pushing. Finally they sent me to the surgery room and started surgery at 11 o'clock at night. They had  not given me enough time to let the medication fully set in until he was already out, I felt a lot of the cutting and what was going on and to me it was horrible I couldn't believe how bad this hurt. But the medication was in full effect once he was out so when they stapled me up and fixed the cut I was completely fine and Carter was finally here. They tried to let me hold him in the surgery room but the medication they gave me after surgery was over had put me out and I had the shakes so badly I couldn't hold Carter and I couldn't see him properly which Me so upset because I wanted so badly just to hold him. The wheeled me back into my recovery room shortly after and I finally got to really hold him in the room. Finally! My labor was a total of 18 hours! As soon as I held him and really god to see him every bit of pain was gone and worth it. He is such a calm baby and doesn't cry hardly at all and is very relaxed he is officially my whole entire world! We had trouble latching on but around 5 o'clock this morning we finally got around to it and did wonderful and Iv never been so exhausted in my life but I still can't sleep when I can be spending time with this sweet baby. I am so blessed and happy right now. 😊