Friday, December 3, 2010

Birth Day

Since I am going to try and dedicate this blog to chronicle my life as a mom, I may as well start at the beginning. And since it was one of the most exhilarating, exciting, and wonderful moments of my life, I would like to share it all with you; Landon's birth. Be prepared for a LONG post.

The day I found out I was pregnant was one of the most exciting yet horrifying days of my life. Even though we were trying to bring a life into this world, it's still a scary thought, the thought that you are solely responsible for another life from the moment you conceive. I had thought about the day I would give birth almost everyday throughout my pregnancy. I have to admit, I was pretty scared, but in a way I was looking forward to it. I just told myself, "Millions and millions of women do this every day, how bad can it be?" And it wasn't bad, it was extraordinary.

I had actually been having contractions for two weeks before I actually went into labor. The contractions didn't hurt per say, but they were doing what they were suppose to be doing. I had been doing everything I could do to induce labor, those last few weeks are not fun at all, and I wanted the baby out, now. I bounced on a yoga ball, walked several times a day, took EVPO, everything.

At my 37 week appointment, I was already 3cm dilated and 70% effaced. I had been having contractions all day, and they were about 15 min apart. Around midnight that night, I got Austin out of bed and told him we better get to the hospital, because my contractions were about 3 min apart and were getting pretty strong. We calmly walked out of the house with our bag and slowly drove to the hospital. A picture much different than portrayed in the movies. When we arrived, the nurse checked me and I was still only at a 3. She told me I would probably be sent home since I hadn't made any progress. I remember thinking to myself, "If this isn't the real thing, then how will I ever know when it is?" The nurse was just bringing us our discharge papers when my water broke. I looked at Austin and told him he better be ready. At about 5am, I got my epidural. The contractions never got so bad where I couldn't take it, but I knew more pain would come, so I went ahead with the epidural, and boy I'm glad I did. I wasn't making much progress so they gave me pitocin, which in turn made my contractions right on top of each other , which luckily, I couldn't feel. At about 1pm, they told me it was time to push. I was most scared of this. I guess I was afraid I wouldn't have the energy to push and I would push so hard I would pass out. Of course, none of this happened, although it was tiring, I only pushed for 30min and at 1:37 pm, Landon Lee Burns was brought into this world.

As soon as I saw him, I started to bawl. I was so enamored, and in love, that all I could do was cry. They didn't put him on my chest right away and took him to clean him off, which I was pretty upset about, but forgot about it as soon as they put him into my arms. It was love at first sight.

From that moment on, my life would forever be changed for the better.

And I can't wait to do it again.





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