a sweet boy birth story

The Saturday of Easter we woke up to take Penelope to the Easter egg hunt at the local high school and I was feeling great but had a lot of pelvic and hip pain but that was something I had been feeling for the past two months. I woke up at six in the morning and started to clean up our place because as we all pregnant mamas know that in that last trimester it starts to get really hard to sleep.We got to the Easter egg hunt at eight-thirty and I started to feel pain in my back and in my lower abdomen area but just brushed it off as false labor since I was not due for another month. The more we stood there waiting to get the eggs the more intense the contractions felt but still I just brushed them off and would hunch over and complain then ignore them. I kept running into people I knew and they would say to me "When are you due?' and I would respond with "I think I might be in labor ha" So after the Easter egg hunt we went to drop off Penelope with my father in law so they could take her on another Easter egg hunt with family while we went and did some things because we were suppose to be moving the following weekend. I told Travis that if I kept feeling this way that we would go to the bank buy our couch and then go to home and pack our hospital bags. ( we hadn't done that yet because everything was in boxes because of the move and I still had a month to prepare.) So we got to my father in laws and I told Travis I needed to go inside and just sit down for a few minutes because the pain was pretty intense and my contractions were about three minutes apart. My father in law says to me you need to go to the hospital you do not look okay. But I kept telling him I am fine this is nothing compared to how I felt with Penelope. So my father in law asked to give me a blessing, After the blessing I heard a loud "GO TO THE HOSPITAL NOW" so off to the hospital we rushed! The hospital we delivered at is under construction and the valet parking was closed due to the holiday so we had to park in the parking lot. As soon as we parked I ran from the parking lot to the elevator we looked like crazy people from the movies hahaha ( insert crying laughing emoji here) The two young boys probably in there early 20s at the information desk started to panic as my husband asked for a wheel chair and the kids kept freaking out asking like is she gonna deliver right here? My husband rushed me to the fourth floor and we checked in I couldn't even speak but somehow I managed to give her my info. So they wheeled me to my room and the nurse was all casual and like oh here is your gown go to the bathroom and we will have someone check you when you are ready. So I pee and lay down and the nurse checks me and all the sudden I here "SHE'S AT A NINE AND HAS A BULGING BAG!" Travis and I looked at each other and started to freak out. There was no other way to put it other than he is coming any minute. My sweet husband started calling everyone telling them to rush to the hospital and that I was about to start pushing. This is at about 10:30 and all the nurses start rushing in my hospital room it seemed like six or seven nurses in my small hospital room were trying to get my iv in and asking me questions giving me shots all sorts of different things were going on. One of the nurses told me that they had contacted my doctor and he was on his way but he did not think he would make it. But they informed me that they have another doctor that can deliver me. I was so scared I was not prepared to give birth I wasn't prepared for any of this. The doctor who was giving me my epidural ran in and was so awesome ( I am lucky I was able to even get an epidural) but they wanted to give me one as soon as possible so they could slow down my labor and stall till my doctor got there who was about 40 minutes away from me. My doctor showed up about thirty minutes later and broke my water and I started to push right away! While I was pushing my doctor couldn't find my contractions so he turned of the epidural and I could feel EVERYTHING! I was not prepared for a natural birth (That is definitely something you have to prepare your mind for mentally.) I pushed four or five times and All I feel was my gooch was on fire. I felt so nervous to meet him but all the sudden he was here at 11:11 he was finally here! He was crying right away which is a good sign when you are delivering a preemie. He was gasping for air and All I could see was this tiny baby laying on the table and then he was gone. He was in the nicu for about two hours and during that two hours I couldn't comprehend what had just happened. It was like all the sudden I wasn't pregnant and I didn't have a baby my husband was gone everyone was just gone and it was just me and my mom and mother in law and I was laying there just in shock trying to figure out what just happened. I had a tare in my uterus which caused me to go into labor early.  It was nothing l had even slightly expected or ever thought was an option. I had everything planned out I was gonna have a photographer who showed up right after I delivered cause of how fast it went. I was going to have my hair done, my lashes, my nails and make up it was going to be planned out with Penelope I had the perfect delivery and day planned out in my head. My little boy had other plans he was ready to be with his mommy.  After a quick labor and two hours in the NICU I got to be reunited with the boy I once knew before I came to earth. As he cuddled up on my chest I remembered why us mothers suffer all that pain. He was so familiar I knew he was mine and he knew I was his. There just is no better reward then to have the most perfect living thing straight from heaven as yours. I love him I love him unconditionally and I love that I am his mom. I am so blessed that hes my son. Although I had things planned differently for that day I wouldn't of wanted to wait any longer to meet him. I am so young to be a mom of two but I wouldn't trade any of this for anything different because there isn't a better time for children there never will be. There is something about creating something together that makes me fall more in love with my husband. I have so much love for my family and if this is what life is like I am glad this is my life.

RIVER WAYNE JOHNSON
Born March 26 2016
Time 11:11
weight 6 pounds 1 ounce
height 18 inches long