Leon D. Soto 07/26

My baby boy is finally here and I’m so in love ! It’s like nothing else in this world matters but him ! I started labor July 24 8pm, it started off as frequent contractions but not super painful I ended up going to the hospital but I was only 1cm dilated so they send me home. 2hrs later the pain started increasing and getting more bad so I went back and then I was 3cm again they sent me home. About another 2hrs later the pain became so unbearable I was in tears I couldn’t walk or stand when I was getting the contractions, so I went back in the 3rd time and I was 4.5cm so they just decided to keep me at that point. I got an epidural and it really helped with the pain by a lott, the epidural wasn’t as painful as everyone told me it would be because I wasn’t aware the numb you before doing the epidural so in all it just felt like a tiny pinch. Hours pass by and I’m just dilating slowly so they put me on pitocin and the pain of the contractions started coming back even though I couldn’t feel my Vag, legs, or feet what so ever, but eventually it started working again hours later. It was about 33hrs of labor, when it was time to push it just felt like one really long contraction that wouldn’t go away and it turns out his head was right there so they had me start pushing, I was probably pushing for 30-45 min. He was born July 26 4:10am 6pounds 10oz. I gave birth at 39weeks and 4days. I cause a tiny fever for being in labor for to long and the fever only lasted about 5hrs max, they sent him to the NICU and he’s been there so far for 2 days today we find out if we can take him home with us but he’s super healthy, he might be allergic to whole milk cause the formula they’ve been feeding him he throws it all up so they said when I do give him formula to give him Soy formula but it makes sense to me because while I was pregnant I started having allergic to whole milk products.

He looks just like mommy 💙