NIXON COLE CROSBY
September 23, 2012
2:27pm
6 lbs 15 oz
20 1/8 inches
My mom and me
Last pic of my big belly! Jesse sleeping on the couch with a pillow over his head!
It was our Primary Program we didn't know if Aida would be able to go or not so my mom brought her in her church dress
Here he is!!! Our tiny boy!
So much hair...no wonder I had such terrible heart burn!
So happy to finally meet my little boy...we waited so long for him!
I am so in love with him..I could just kiss him and stare at him all day!
Love my two favorite guys!!
Eyes open right away
Seeing her baby brother for the first time...she was shy cause so many people were in the room.
My sweet girl so excited to meet her brother
On my actual due date September 21st I went in for my dr's appt and was very disappointed to find out that I was only dilated to a 1!! I of course started bawling...I was so done!! My options were to wait it out, go ahead and have a C-section, or get induced but that wasn't really an option since my dr really didn't want to do that since I had a C-section with Aida and apparently it put you at a higher risk of rupturing your scar. So after Jesse and I talked I decided to wait it out and my dr would induce me that following Thursday if I hadn't had him yet. I went home and walked and walked and walked some more. The next day Saturday, I started having contractions, I continued to have them all day they were getting closer together but not more severe so I just assumed that they would stop. As the day went on I walked some more and they were definitely getting worse and worse. I tried going to sleep but every 10 minutes or so I would have a pretty strong contraction so sleeping was out of the question. By 12:30am I had had enough and told Jesse we were going to the hospital. When we got there I was only at a 2!! But my contractions were every 3-5mins apart. My blood pressure was high so they kept me in triage and checked me for preclampsia. We were waiting for 3 hrs to get the results back and finally he came in and told me that I didn't have preclamsia and checked to see how far along I was and I was at a 4 so they admitted me! It took the nurse forever to get all the crap on me and check us in all the while still having contractions every 2-3 mins! Finally about 7:30am they gave me my epidural! We were just about to go to sleep for a few hours since I was only at a 5 and my mom, sister, Aida and 2 nieces show up! We hadn't slept all night! So at that point I just stayed awake! By 11am Amber and Jesse's parents were there and we were all just waiting around. My left side of my stomach and back weren't numb from the epidural so they kept trying to lay me on that side to help the epidural work and kept having me press the button giving me more and more medicine...my legs were completely numb but it did nothing for my back it actually felt like it was making it worse! Every time I had a contraction it felt like a knife in my back...I don't know how these girls go natural...FORGET IT!!! Around 1pm the midwife checked me and I was at a 7 so she went ahead and broke my water...she told me that it would probably take a while to dilate to 10 and then I would be pushing for a few hours since it was my first vaginal birth. By 1:30pm my contractions were getting so bad I thought I was going to loose it! I had been doing so well before my epidural with the contractions as long as no one spoke to me or touched me but at this point I couldn't take it! The nurse came in and told everyone to leave except Jesse and then my midwife came in and when she checked me she said "oh no wonder you are having such a hard time...you're ready to have this baby" I had gone from a 7 to a 10 that fast!! They quickly got everything ready and my midwife was amazing!! She totally calmed me down since I could still feel everything on my left side, talked me through everything since I am a freak and thought about the worst case scenario for everything and before I knew it I was pushing our little baby out! I pushed for about 40mins and my family came in right at the end so they were able to see the birth. The knife I felt in my back was actually Nixon on some nerve which was crazy...as he moved down the pain went down with him from my mid back to my hip...STINKER! He came out with his fist up by his face so I tore a little even though his head was so tiny!! He was just perfect and I was in love with him as soon as I laid eyes on him! We only stayed in the hospital 1 night, it was so nice to be back in my own bed!
