A Year Ago Today

A year ago today I went to my final doctor's appointment before giving birth to Cam. My appointment was at 1:00 and at this appointment the doctor checked my cervix and to our surprise I was dilated to a 6! I wasn't even having any contractions. It had been a very frustrating couple of weeks because I had many false contraction and even went to the hospital once to only be sent home. I was shocked to hear that I was dilated to a six because with my other 2 boys when I was ditated to a 3 my contractions were a minute apart and very intense. The doctor decided to send me over to the hospital and put me on pitocin to get things going. Now, I'm a believer that the baby will come when he's ready and wasn't sure I wanted to do potocin but the doc was worried that with my history of fast labors that if I was to go into hard labor at home I wouldn't make it to the hospital. This I truly believed and didn't want to risk it. So, at 2:00 I checked into the hospital at 2:45 was put on pitocin. At 4:00 asked AJ to get the nurse because I felt the urge to push. She came and checked my cervix and I was only at a 7! I ordered the epidual and while the nurse was away getting the paperwork the next contraction my waterbroke. I again sent AJ out and in came running the nurse. She checked me again and I was a 10! In ran the doctor. He only had time to put one glove on and caught Cam at 4:15. Very fast and very intense. This was the second birth I had natural, and there are no words to describe it. I was like the lady in the movies who was screamin loud enough for everyone in the hospital to hear.

I'm so grateful that Cam came into our lives. He is such a loving and good little guy. And I might say, very handsome. We love him very much and want to wish him a Happy 1st Birthday!