My Little Man

So, I have to show off my lil man! Heres a few...there will be a lot more to come! He is such a lil stud already, at a week and a half old! :)

Noah's Birth Story!!!

I Started having contractions at about 2:30 am on the 25th. I didn't know if it was real labor or not till I tried going to bed, and the contractions were so strong I couldn't sleep. I decided to get in the shower and eat some toast, then we headed to Labor & Delivery at about 6...but didn't get there till 7. We would've liked to labor at home longer, but it was a really bad snow storm so we decided we shouldn't. When I got there is was 4 & fully thinned & stretchy. We went to our room and my doula arrived at the hospital. I started out using the whirlpool tub, which quit working due to technical problems. Then I sat on the birthing ball for a while. Bouncing a little during contractions really helped. My doula did the hip press a lot, which is where her & SO each pressed one of my hips in during a contraction, that really seemed to help too. I was stuck at a 7 for a few hours, which got discouraging. I was finally ready to push at about 2:30 pm. We tried a lot of positions for that too...side-laying, squatting bar, laying over the bed, etc. But when it came down to it...the thing that worked best for me was god ol fashion laying down in the bed. Noah Lee was born two hours later at 4:42 pm. He weighed 8 lbs 2 oz. and was 20 inches long. It was so amazing. I struggled through the pushing part but the rest was okay. The pain was bearable and I deffinently encourage all you guys to do all-natural, society greatly exaggerates the pain, yeah it hurts...but you can deffinently make it through it! I wouldn't have done it any other way!!! And It feels amazing to tell all those people who said "you cant/wont do it" HAHAHHA. Now that Noah is here I couldn't picture our life without him! He is my world!