He's Here!!

My handsome little man is here a week early! And the love I feel for him is so strong already! Quinton Kane Born Feb,6th 2010 at 7:42pm.Weighting in at 6lbs 9oz and 20" long.Early Friday morning I started getting strong contractions about 7 min. apart.I started to track them with my husbands cell phone that has a built in time watch.So they started getting a little closer and more painful so I decided to wait it out in a nice warm bath and see if they continued to be stable.
They got more sever and thought ok I should get my hospital bag and grab anything I needed to add to it in case this was really it! Yes I was in denial.
So at that point my daughter was awake I took my time saying by to her and off we went.Making one stop for gas along the way because we had a hour drive ahead of us!
There were times during the drive I thought oh god what if this baby is coming RIGHT NOW!
But we made it there and the hospital "Windsor Regional" also known as Met or Metropolitan.It was not busy there we went straight up to the 2nd floor and was then told to put a gown on and wait to be hooked up to the monitors for the contractions and the babies heart rate.By the time I was there my contractions were only 2min. apart but when the DR. checked to see how far I was dilated it was only 2cm.
The Nurse explained to me that usually they would send you home till you are at least 4cm. dilated because that is active labour but by the time I would drive home and then back it would be 2 hours later.
So there was no way in hell I would have done that.The Car ride alone was brutal with every bump I felt along the way. I was told to walk the halls and see if that could help me dilate more.
When I got back and checked out I was not anymore dilated but they wanted to keep me since my contractions were so close together.Luckily I was the one whom stayed out of the others in the room with me that day that were also only 2cm. dilated.
Off I went to my room where I would actually be having my baby and meet my son for the first time.I began to feel a little overwhelmed and nerves but also excited that this was actually going to be that day!
I was hooked up to a IV with saline and blood work went miserably wrong when a lab tech tried to take my blood from my bicep and never ended up getting any blood from me then.They ended up take the blood through my IV which looked kinda gross cause it was a big tube like what u see people give to animals?
Instantly I began to bruise on the bicep attempts.Which were now covered with cotton swabs and tape.
My contractions began to be worst then I ever remembered from my first but had to wait for the anesthesiologist which was very busy that day.Once they checked me again I was 4cm.dilated and they broke my water then.It seemed like forever waiting for the epidural guy to come and when he finally did people were trying to drag him away because there was a emergency and he didn't have the time he needed with me to try once more to get the epidural in place.So he left and I think he didn't get back to me for a hour? It was a long time and hard going through my contractions the natural way.
But all was good when he showed up and it started working.By then I had family arriving and it was almost that time.My nurses shift was over and in replace I had two new ones in her place. They topped up my epidural but the pain was so sever at that point I could still feel everything and it took 10min. for it to kick in.
Finally i had someone see if I was fully dilated and the girl was 90% sure I was 10cm but had to ask for advice from the other nurse with her.She was right and I had alot of pressure below to push!!OMG its time!

The nurses started setting stuff up and told me if I had the urge to push to do it and they would see how it goes.
So I pushed once and they looked and the head was right there.
they began running around more and the DR. came in and started setting up
I then pushed a few more times and they could see the hair on the babies head.OMG I was actually doing this now, and it was good pushes and fast.It was all of 5 min. before the head was out but right before I pushed the head out I felt the burn and knew it was about to really hurt! Man that part sucked! But I had to so I did and in 10min. altogether our son was out!
I could not stop crying I was so overwhelmed with it all I was holding him on my chest caressing his cheek to tell him Mommy is here.
My husband started to film the rest and we got some pics of him being weighed.
I was so emotional through it all and so happy he was here.
I am so in love with our family and never realized it could be so easy to love someone more then anything.I am in love all over again. My sweet little boy!:)<3