So baby boy was originally due on Valentine’s Day! Which i was against the whole time 😂 I think it would suck to have a birthday on a holiday 🤷🏽‍♀️ His big sister was born at 38 days and 5 days so i guess that he would be born February 5th. But later down the line i felt he wasn’t going to make it to February, maybe he’ll be born late January. When we got the December i felt that he was going to come either at my baby shower or the next day 🙄 which was January 18th.

So, the Friday before the baby shower my belly DROPPED! (I don’t know if anybody remembers the pictures i posted) Most people kept telling me that it didn’t drop or it looked a little lower...some even told me that it looked higher. I was only 36 weeks and i had just started to really show lol. Regardless, I noticed that it kept looking lower n lower as the day at work went on. My manager and coworker kept joking about delivering him there. I told my sisters i wanted to take my maternity pictures on that Sunday. My boyfriend and mama ended up taking them for me 😂 Thursday I called out to run around and get last minute things, plus finish putting the decorations together and pre decorate because i worked Friday. Friday came and went, I didn’t really feel any different the whole day! Saturday morning I woke up and got ready for the day. I went and go the final stuff from the store with my daughter in tow. I got to moms house and got the living room ready for the baby shower. The baby shower was small and was made up of just family which was fine i wasn’t expecting a lot of people to show up. Most of my friends worked the weekends and don’t get off until super late. I didn’t get home until 11 and promised myself to pack my hospital bag in the morning. Right before i got into bed i rubbed my stomach and said okay son you can come today.

I woke up at 12:45 with cramps in my lower back! I didn’t really think anything of it until they kept coming back and they got stronger! I couldn’t find my boyfriend, so I called my friend who had just got off of work. She told me to find him or she’ll come over just in case I have to go to the hospital. It took a while to find him, I’m not going to say where he was just know it was ridiculous 😂! I tried to have him massage my back in hopes that the contractions would end. I never experienced Braxton Hicks, so i thought that’s what was going on. At 2:30 i called the hospital and they told me to come in because they heard the pain i was in when a contraction happened. Turns out i was 1cm dilated but i was only 36 weeks and 2 days so of course they didn’t want me to deliver. At 5 the nurse gave me some fluids because she thought i was dehydrated from all the moving around I was doing. At first the contractions were getting farther apart and they were getting less intense! But right before the bag ran out the got worse again! The nurse came in and asked how i was doing and i told her. She checked me again and I was at 3 cm, she told me that they were going to see what my body was going to do and went to call my doctor. About 30 minutes after this I had to go pee. While i was sitting on the toilet i called the nurse for help and told her i felt the need to push! At 7 I was 4 cm dilated and they took me to the room! I called my mom and two sisters, they were going to be in the room, and i called my dad, he was in class so he wasn’t going to come. My sister and our friend showed up right before i got the epidural, i wasn’t expecting her to be there but it was fine. My mom and my other little sister came at like 9. My nurse was great she laughed at all of our jokes and kept asking me if i was really in labor because i wasn’t acting like it! At 9:30 i was 7 cm dilated and i was going to have my water popped at 10 when my doctor got there. I was at an 9 at 11:40 and his head was still up high! So the nurse had me do some pushes to get him to come down. When the doctor came in he guessed son was going to be a low 6 pounds. He was born 1/19/20202 at 12:32pm weighing 6 pounds and 13 ounces and 19inches long lol. He ended up having jaundice and needing to stay a day longer to be on the Bili bath then be on a Bili blanket for a couple days when we went home. At our next appointment he weighed 7.5 pounds and was jaundice free and at 2 weeks he weighed 8 pounds.

4 weeks vs 2 days old