Nixon Grey. birth story

I was lucky and blessed to have another beautiful labor and birth.

My due date came and went, I had a scheduled induction for the following Saturday.
I went in at 8:00 am I got my IV and pitocin started at 9:30 am.
If there is one thing I have learned the second time around is don't expect the same thing will happen to you that happened the first time.
When I had Brighton once my water broke I went from a 2~10 in 3 hours.

Here I am with my last belly shot and waiting to get all hooked up.

They started me off slow, but at 11:30 I started to feel uncomfortable and asked for my epidural.
At around 12:30 I got checked and I was at a 4.
This was very dissapointing to me seeing that when I arrived I was at a 4.
They then broke my water and I thought for sure things would move really fast now.

I got checked again at around 3:00pm and I was at a 5! hmm... this isn't really what I had in mind.
but I was progressing slowly but surely so I was happy.

I started feeling really sick I threw up and could just tell now that my body was progressing fast.
At 5:00pm checked again and tada I was at a 10! yay!

My doctor had me do some practice pushes but I guess they didn't look good cause she said she wanted me to wait for him to drop a bit more.

She left and then about 5 minutes later I was really feeling some pressure and some contractions.
My nurse said whatever you do don't press the button for a boost of epidural.

I told her I couldn't wait a while to start pushing and not push the button. She said okay then let's start pushing. She didn't care much that my doctor wanted me to wait. So pushing we did.
And he was ready.

I started pushing at 5:15pm and I pushed for about 15 minutes.  I was so happy I listened to my nurse and didn't push the boost button.
I could feel everything it was so amazing to have control but feel no pain. Pretty awesome

My best friend Betsy was able to be in the delivery room with us.
 She got some memorable shots for us. Something I wish I would have had with Brighton.

So there you have it my beautiful baby boy.

Nixon Grey Webb
10/22/2011
5:31pm
8 pounds
20 1/2 inches long

When they told me how much he weighed I seriously thought it was a lie.
A little different from my last 6 pound baby.
And with Nixon I felt and looked smaller.
So strange how everything works.?

His name was chosen while waiting for his arrival in the hospital.
Daniel and I had decided on Grey but could not for the life of us agree on the middle name.
So we changed it completely.
Weird I know
I am really happy we did.
Even though it has taken some getting used to.
We love his name and it fits him perfectly