God truly does exist.

I know most of you have read about my journey with infertility. I've talked in length about my struggles to conceive and how once I finally did, it always ended up as an unexplained miscarriage. Life was rough. I wanted to be a mom. YEARNED to be a Mom. I had begun telling people I wasn't going to be able to carry a baby to full term and I was ok with it (because adoption was always an option). I was lying. I wasn't ok with it. That's like telling someone who has always wanted to be a doctor that they couldn't go to college x's 1,000,000. All the while, God had a plan. I should have known better :)

This is Emma Jane's birth story.

Dec. 13th
7:00 pm- Have Chick-fil-a as my last pre-baby meal. I knew I wouldn't be eating for a bit so this was very imperative
10:00 pm- Arrive at the Hospital (so nervous I start crying as soon as I go to check in)
10:30 pm- hooked up to my IV and Willy is allowed to come back to the room
10:35 pm- Cytotec was given to help induce labor
11:00 pm- SLEEP thanks to Ambien (remind me later to write the company a love letter)

Dec 14th
1:00 am- dilated to 3 cm
1:05 am- sleep
ALL FRIGGIN NIGHT LONG: blood pressure checks. My BP was really really high.
8:00 am- Dr. broke my water. Y'all this was seriously the most painful part of labor (other than pushing out the baby)
8:05 am- Pitocin drip started

9:00 am- sleep

12:00 pm- 4 cm dilated
12:05 pm- sleep
3:00 pm- epidural #1 administered (it didn't take)
3:30 pm- epidural #2 (still didn't take)
4:00 pm- epidural #3. It was like the gates of Heaven opened up and started singing. Obviously, it took.
4:30 pm- sleep
6:00 pm- dilated to 9 cm
6:10 pm- started pushing
8:22 pm- Emma Jane Thompson made her debut into the world


I'll spare you the details of the complications but I will say this: I will 100% be having a c-section if God allows me to have another baby. Also please note that I basically slept until it was time to push which is apparently unheard of. Whatever...I was stocking up.




Right before I left to go to the hospital:

*I love that little nugget more than I ever thought possible*