Introducing...

Friday, July 3rd, I was contracting irregular all day, at dinner around 9pm the contractions started to pick up and were coming every 10 minutes. We continued our dinner and went home, me still thinking nothing about it. I was up ALL night long in pain from the contractions, couldn't sleep a wink! I spent the majority of the night/next morning in the bath tub trying to help ease the discomfort.

The whole night/next morning they were coming around 10 minutes apart, every once in a while they would pick up to 8 or 7 minutes but then would fade back to 10. Around 3pm they all of a sudden picked up and were coming every 5-6 min apart so then my mom came over, helped us get everything into the car and we went on to the hospital.I was dilated 4cm & was 90% effaced when we arrived, they automatically gave us a room and there we were. I tossed and turned in the bed for hours from the pain of the contractions. I had the worst back labor ever!! I originally had planned to go without an epi, but the exhaustion and pain in my back lead me to do cave and take the pain medication. After I got the epidural I felt wonderful and slept for around 3 hours, when I woke up I was feeling the pain of my contractions again. The nice little magic button that is suppose to release more medication every 10 minutes was set to every 60 minutes and I now had a huge gap in my epidural so I could feel basically everything They tried to give me another one and it didn't take, so my plan of going "natural" seemed to be well on its way!

At around 4am on the 5th I was checked and was 9.5cm dilated and fully effaced but wasn't dilating anymore, so they decided to break my water and see if I progressed. I hadn't. There was a little lip of my cervix that wouldn't budge!! So they OB said we should start pushing and she would try to push it back while the baby came down. It worked and finally we were making some sort of progress and Logan was on his way!!I pushed for a solid 2 hours, because of the back labor and me still feeling everything it felt better to push! My contractions were long enough to allow me to push 5-6 long times per contraction. I decided I wanted to see what was going on so we got a mirror...it was the most amazing thing in the WHOLE world watching me push this little guy out! I could see what pushing was helping and what pushing wasn't & it really motivated me to get him out asap!

We noticed once the head began to come out that Logan was faced upward...causing most of my back pain!! There was another OB in the room flat out saying that I needed a section...uhm, hello, the child's head is almost out..you think we have time for that?! Luckily the next few pushes really helped, I got his head out and with the very next push his body came out. The OB wasn't expecting it I guess because she had to catch him bare handed.

I am one of the lucky ones who got to experience that brand new baby right on chest and let me tell you... it's AMAZING!! Everyone was crying, especially Justin and I!! :) Logan was by far the most gorgeous thing I had ever seen in my entire life, so of coarse like any woman should do after this hormone rollercoaster called birth I bawlled my eyes out and snuggled him as much as possible!

Logan Blane Winters was born on July 5th at 11:29am. He weighed 8lbs 8.2oz and was 21.5in long....hands down the most precious 8lbs I had ever laid my eyes on! We had people in the room that love him so much and Jack Johnson playing in the background. I swear it sounded like a football game whenever I was pushing, lol!! Justin, my mom, Chelsea, Melva and even my OB and nurse were rooting me on :) Quite the way for our little man to make his appereance!!