Reagan's Birthday... October 21, 2008

Well, it looks like Reagan listened to her daddy, who said all along that she would come 2 weeks early. Exactly 38 weeks, Tuesday morning, I got up at 6:30 to go to the bathroom and my water broke. I called the hospital and was told to come then, but I decided to get in my shower first, since I wan't having contractions or in any pain. I could sit in that hospital bed all day for all I knew, and what's 10 extra minutes? Wrong! I figured out what contractions felt like by the end of my shower, and Junior was starting the car before I was dressed. We were a half a mile down the road and I had already had 4 contractions, strong!

We got to the hospital around 8:20, and were in a room by 8:30. The nurse checked me at 8:45 and I was 100% efaced and 3 centimeters, epideral on the way. The epideral worked perfect, which I got at 9am, and it was smooth sailing from there. The nurse check me again at 10:45, only 2 hours later, and I was fully dialated! We couldn't beleive how fast everything was going. Here I had cards and books packed to get me through the day, and I just had enough time to get all the paperwork filled out.

We waited about 20 minutes for my doctor to get out of a meeting, and at 11:20, she was suited up and ready for pushing. The pushing really wasn't painful at all, and I apparently did well with it, because she was born by 12:20pm. I had a wonderful doctor, nurse and support with my husband there. Both of our mothers were there too.

I can truly say that this has been the most wonderful experience in my life. Both our lives. Junior says it was nothing like what he expected, and enjoyed every moment of it. It was such a comfortable, perfect, fairytale of a delivery. Every piece of it. Especially the prize at the end, that has my husbands hair, and my nose.

Reagan is really the prettiest baby we've ever seen. There are no words to explain the way we feel right now, but let's just say I've cried a whole lot of happy tears since she came into our lives.

The most wonderful experience of our lives... no question.