Birth Story

2am I woke up to my water breaking! I woke Noah up but I wasn’t sure what to do or how close labor was as I wasn’t having any contractions. I started to feel all the nerves which was making my body shake so I put on worship music & started to pray to get in a good mindset for going into labor. Praying that the Lord’s perfect peace would fill my mind & let my body relax. & that His love would cast out any fear! 

I texted my doula and asked if we should try to rest a little longer or finish packing the hospital bag (hehe) she told me to pack. Noah started getting all of our stuff together, getting Luke a bag put together, getting the car seats situated, & calling someone to be on alert to come stay with Luke. While he was doing all that my contractions started, they started out feeling like Braxton hicks (which I had been experiencing the last couple days) but began getting stronger to where I had to concentrate a little more through them. 4:30am everything was ready to go now so Noah and I laid down together to hopefully get some rest. Within 20 minutes I was telling Noah I feel like we should go sooner than later so by 5am we had the sweet couple coming over for Luke and getting out the door. 

By 6am we get to the hospital and into triage. They checked me and I was at 5cm. The contractions were coming on a lot stronger & faster by then that I was starting to work through them. They got us admitted and we got to our room. My doula showed up soon after and by the time she got there the contractions were coming so close together that I felt like I couldn’t rest in between them. I had a birthing ball up on the bed and the only way I was getting through them was by leaning over the ball & trying to let my body completely melt into it while Noah put pressure on my back. A few stronger contractions that came made it a lot harder to stay calm through. 

At this point I was feeling so exhausted & felt like if I could just get rest I would do a lot better so I asked about an epidural and we had decided that they would come in and get it placed but not start anything yet so that it would be ready just in case and that they would check to see where I was at. The anesthesiologist came into the room and they wanted to get me up on the bed so I did and right when I did I started to feel the intense pressure to push. They checked me, I was at 9.5cm and she broke my water completely, after that I could not resist the urge any more. The anesthesiologist slowly backed out of the room and everyone started getting the bed ready and at this point I realized there’s no going back that I’m doing it! 

Everything became so intense! I was trying to keep it together the best I could and use all the energy I had to push him out but sounds were coming out of me that I had never heard before (hahah) I had a good set of pushes and Noah leaned in and said “his head is right there! he’s almost here, you got this!” It felt like his head was in the “ring of fire” for so long and I just wanted him out so badly I started praying out loud in between pushes that Jesus would deliver this baby and maybe 4 pushes later his head was out! instant relief came and the rest of his body slipped right out! My baby was placed on my chest and like the verse says my anguish gave way to joy!

The Lord is so good. After I had time with Makai Noah took him to do skin to skin while I got all stitched up. We got moved to our room to rest and later that night my mom flew in and brought big brother Luke to come meet Makai .. it felt so right for the four of us to be together and see my 1st baby holding his baby brother.
We were able to come home the very next day! Everyone has been adjusting well, my recovery has been so much better this time around, Noah is super dad and has been juggling everything so well & Luke is such a good loving brother but has been dealing with a little sickness which has made some little big feelings around here. 
Thankfully my mom has been here to help and I’m so so thankful that she was able to come out and looking forward to Makai meeting all of our family!! I know in time we will get the hang of things and find our routine but for now our days are mostly cuddled up on the couch watching Christmas movies and taking in this time as a family of four!!