Grayson, as known by many as Peanut, came into this world after being a bit stubborn for mama. As I have posted before, Ella weighed 7 lbs 6 oz and got stuck a bit at delivery so our goal for "Peanut" was to deliver before he/she was too big so we didnt have any issues. Grayson liked to lay sideways pretty much my entire pregnancy, you could actually see my belly was sideways. I thought that was a bit odd since I never noticed that with Ella, I just figured he/she liked to stretch out. I say he/she because we decided to not find out the gender until delivery. When we were pregnant with Ella, I told Matt if he let me find out on her we wouldnt find out on our next baby (not thinking he would hold me to my word! Oh but he did!) Fast forward 36.5ish weeks pregnant with Peanut. We went to have our 3D sono to get the estimated weight so we could have a better estimate on whether we should induce or not. At that time baby was measuring 7 lbs 2 oz. give or take a lb. We went to the doctor a every week for checkups and baby was head down at that point. At our 37 week appointment, I went in and of course Matt was working so I was by myself when I got the news that Peanut was Transverse and I would not be able to deliver vaginally if he/she didnt turn head down in next few days. I was devastated. I started praying non-stop and had family and friends praying and it worked! I looked up ways to get a baby to turn and so I spent a few nights doing different positions, crawling around on all fours, whatever I thought might work. Matt and I went back to the doctor the next Monday after I turned 38 weeks the previous Friday. I was so stressed out not knowing if he/she had turned or not and whether I would be sent that day to the hospital to start inducement or if I would be scheduling a c-section for the next few days. We got to the doctor and she brought out the sono machine and as she rolled it over my lower area, she said, "That's a head!" I cannot express to you how excited and relieved I was to hear those words. I think my doctor was alittle shocked that we got the baby to turn and just kept saying, "Good Job! You Rock!" She called the hospital and told them we would be on our way to start inducement in a few hours. Soon we would know if our sweet second baby was a son or daughter! We came home got our bags, ate some lunch and headed to the hospital. We started the process of IV's, paperwork, and all that good stuff. I started out at pretty much nothing, not really dilated or effaced because I had not had a head to press down to do anything. I had contractions constantly but without pressure I wasnt doing anything. So they put a magic pill on my cervix and it went to work. For most people it takes four doses for me it just took one. My body knew what to do and it went to work. Things were progressing pretty quickly at first and nurses was estimating having a baby before midnight. We got to the hospital about 2pm. Contractions started and I walked the hallways for a few hours, bounced and swayed on the birthing ball, sat in the rocking chair all to help with the contractions. If I layed down they were much worse so I wanted to keep moving. I began to dilate but took longer for me to efface. Midnight came and went.....They started some pitocin finally to help me out and things really started started taking off. Contractions really started to amp up and I finally decided to get an epideral when I was about 6 cm. At this point it was early morning and I was pretty tired, I was hoping the epideral would allow me to relax alittle before delivered. I definitely didnt know what was to come. I got my first epideral and nothing. Contractions were coming with a vengance and were so painful. After about 20 minutes and no relief, he came back and completely redid it. If you have had an epideral you know it's not a fun process! Only good thing was the contractions were so bad they masked the process of putting in another epideral. At this point I was in tears from the pain, I thought to myself I'm going to have to have this baby naturally. He came back for the third time and redid it again, this time he did a spinal/epi. The process of him putting it in deeper tissue was awful. It sent lightening bolt feeling down my leg and I jumped off the table. Thank God my husband was holding me because I still had a needle in my back. Well it was working! I then felt another twinge down my other leg and began to become completely numb from the waist down. It was such a relief and amazing feeling after laboring for so long. As soon I was able to relax I went from a 6 to complete in 30 minutes!! My nurse said if you feel pressure or need to push let me know. I thought oh it's still going to be alittle while. Then all of a sudden the pressure came and I started shaking violently. I knew from my delivery with Ella that when I start progressing quickly I shake like crazy. My nurse decided to check to see where I was and said, "Wow you are complete!" It was GO TIME! I had to wait about 20 minutes or so for my doctor to come in from a C-Section to deliver me. We started pushing with the nurses and my doctor came in and helped coach me, encourage me, and guide me to pushing out our sweet baby. They were all pretty excited to have patients that didnt know the gender of the baby because it doesnt happen very often now a days. I pushed for about 30 minutes max and as the baby was crowning my doctor said "feel your baby's head!" Wow what an incredible feeling! He or she had hair, which we were shocked, but excited!! As I'm pushing I will never forget my doctor continuously saying, "You are a pro, when are we having your next?!" (I lover her!) After a few more pushed out came our son!! As soon as the baby was out he was put on my chest I looked down and saw that it was a boy and yelled, It's a Boy!! What an amazing experience!! I looked at my husband and he was so proud of me and so excited to finally meet his son. Matt is such an amazing husband and coach. I couldnt ask for a more amazing husband. Matt cut the cord and I just snuggled with that sweet baby as he got to know his mama for the first time. We had a birth photographer in the room to capture the moments of us meeting our sweet baby and family meeting him as well. It was so awesome!! Grayson was taken to get weighed and we all guessed what we thought he would weigh. I never thought he would be 8 lbs 7.5 oz!! We were so worried about delivery and it all went great and he was a pound bigger than Ella! Guess my body just knew what to do. After an hour or so of bonding just us, Matt went and got big sister Ella. What a sweet time it was just our little family of four for the first time. Ella loves her brother so much and was just so sweet. Matt went out to the waiting room with our little fire fighter boy outfit and held it up saying, "It's a Boy!" Our photographer caught it all on camera and I cant wait to see it! Now we are a family of four, daughter and son and it couldn't be more in love and feel like life is just perfect :)
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