He's here!!?! FTM 35weeks

💙Desmond Rowan DeVries💙 made his grand entrance into this world this morning!! 5lbs 7oz, 19 inches long, Born 7-3-17 at 7:00am exactly. At only 35weeks and 1 day he is a little early and needs prayers for his lungs to work properly. He is a sweet lil guy though. I cried so hard when they put that miracle on my chest! It was so amazing!! I am Looking forward to more photos but for now he is in the NICU. 😘❤️ Soo FTM here!! did I expect this or what was to follow?! Not completely! Although I have had a hard time keeping myself from having false contractions, and on 7-2-17 I started having real ones!! My water never broke!! so as a first time mom, I was in denial for 2 hours but for one hour I had timed my contractions and they were consistently 5min apart and with the gas like pains in my lower back, I couldn't deny that we needed to head to the hospital. We got checked in, started watching the monitors and then they checked me. I was already 3.5cm and 75% effaced! Not long after the nurse told me they are admitting me and I was gonna have a baby very soon! (Queue the emotional waterworks!) They got me into my labor room and my contractions got worse so I asked for the pain meds my nurse offered. They did NOTHING but make me feel sleepy and loopy. I went through many more severe contractions and asked for the epidural. The epidural is amazing but it sucked to get put in :( and in the end it was too focused on my left legs nerves so that leg was dead for a longgg time lol. They checked me after and I was at a 6! An hour or two more and I was almost completely ready (9.5cm) and YES my water had STILL not broken on it's own! So they broke my water for me at 6:07am. I started pushing at 6:38am and had our boy at 7:00am!! A total of only 14 hours of labor, 22 minutes of pushing. I gave that pushing all I had and with the epidural it wasn't that hard to do! He sure was ready to be here!! I am doing great, again, thank God for epidurals. However, baby doesn't have fully developed lungs (doesn't have that one chemical produced within them yet) so he is struggling a bit and it is SO hard not having him near me. I am able to visit him though. Can't believe my little man is here.. wish I could hold him in my arms! I am thankful for everyone especially the nurses and doctor, proud of myself and my lil guy but this is a much different situation than I expected :( Praying and trusting he will be fine ❤️