We met the dr., took the birthing classes, prepared the best we could. Two moments stuck out to me the most through this season.
1) I remember asking the dr., about half way through the pregnancy, "How will we know if there is something wrong?" His response, "You will ask yourself that for the rest of your life." He is so right! At that point, I felt like a mom for the first time.
2) In our birthing classes, we were given 3x5 cards with words written on them (music, relaxation, pain control, breathing, lighting, healthy baby, c-section, etc). Our project was to put in order of what the priorities would be during our delivery. Of course we, as well as every one else in the class, put healthy baby as their first priority. What we had learned in a previous class was we can plan and organize all we want but the majority of births will not go as planned. I'm so glad I kept that in mind...
Our original due date was December 15th, we were happy with that. Not too close to Christmas was nice; however when the dr evaluated the measurements of our little tyke, he said it looks more like December 27th!
So, here we go...
I can distinctly remember, the moment. I woke up and went to the bathroom. Half asleep as I always am in the middle of the night for however many times I wenr to the bathroom. But this time it was different... Needless to say, we were on our way to the hospital. The first thought that things weren't quite right didn't dawn on me until we were half way to the hospital and I was realizing these contractions were really close together in a very short period of time. I thought I had hours before they were going to be like this. We finally get to the hospital, get settled in, going back to the thought of feeling ok, we have time, stay calm, we have a long night.
Not so much...
The admitting nurse, feels my stomach and does her test (to make sure I'm really going to have a baby). She gets this strange look on her face, and asks, "Are you sure the baby is head down?". My oh so confident answer, "oh yea, the dr just last week said we are ready to go". She said, "ok well, let's get an ultrasound, just to see where the baby is headed". That's when everything changed...
We went from having a long night to we need to get this little baby out, now. His head was up by my ribs and my water had broke over an hour ago.. this was not a good situation.
Going back to the two things I remembered most throught the pregnancy season...
All came flooding back!
Erik Boaz Livermore was born December 16, 2009 weighing a whopping 5 lbs 14 oz 19 inches long!
