THE BIG DAY

Well the day had finally come. We went in on Sunday the 12th of June. We thought that we were going to be coming home with a baby that night or at least in the next couple of days. Well much to our not wanting we went home empty handed. It was kind of really sad because we thought this was the time. Well all we got were contractions that were a little stronger then before. The next day Mel woke up at 7 in the morning have contractions. They were feeling like the ones that she had been having before hand so see wanted to see if they would continue. After walking around the mall, around our house and every where else we could think of we decided that she was in labor because they did not stop all day. As we headed to bed at 11:00 pm the contractions were about 7 minutes apart and were lasting about a 1 min. after being woke up at 12:30 by Mel with contractions that were stronger then the ones before. The were getting stronger and closer apart. We timed them for the next couple of hours and at 3:30 am on Tuesday they were about 3 min apart and lasting about 60 secs. We then thought that it was time to go the hospital. We got there around 3:35 and went back around 4. We then walked for about two hours before we got admitted. They had a labor room ready for us at 6:20 am Tuesday morning. This is where the day became way to long. We were admitted at 5cm which we thought was pretty good. So the routines begun walking monitoring, birth ball, monitoring, walking. We did this for about 12:30 when Mel was checked. We had progress. She was at 7.5. We thought that thing were going great. That the little man would be here in no time. Mel had been doing amazing with the contractions and dealing with the pains of each of them. We had decided that we were not going to go with an epidural for this birth. At the moment we were on top of the world. Thinking that our little son would be here in no time at all. We kept laboring and Mel was doing great with each one that got stronger so did she. We labored until 5:30pm Tuesday evening. We thought he would have had to progressed some and that we should start getting things ready for him to come. She was checked. What did you know no progress at all we were still a 7.5cm. That really kind of took the wind out of our sails. After rethinking it we decided that he will make it we just need to keep going. Some time goes by and we decide that we need to break her water so that we can progress with this thing. Her water was broken shortly after 5:30 pm. Things started to get really hard after that. Mel hung in there and just getting stronger. she labored like this until 8:30 when she was checked again. This time is was ok news but still was not what we wanted to hear. She had progressed to 8cm. this was ok cause it was progress. So we had a little air in our sales but the time had been wearing on all of us. Mel got strength from some where and we were off for the next couple of hours. These next couple of hours were the hardest parts of the labor. Exhaustion was starting to set in. My mother-in-law and I were wondering if she would have to energy to finish what was still to come. After laboring till 10:15 pm Tuesday night Mel got checked again. This came with a big surprise. She was an 8. It felt like all the laboring that we had just did was for nothing. We had hit rock bottom. Ramona started talking to us about what we need to do. There was no way that Mel was going to deliver this baby without resting before she had to push. So at 10:30pm Tuesday night. Mel got an epidural so she could get some type of rest. By 10:50 pm Tuesday night Mel was sleeping and resting. It was amazing to see what an epidural can do for the women. She then labored with the epidural for the next two hours. The little man had made it. At 12:30 Mel was fully dilated and he was getting into place. She then continued to labor down for the next two hours. She was then checked again at 3:30 am Wednesday morning it was time to push. We had been waiting for those works for this whole night. The fun then started. Mel pushed and pushed and the little guy took his time comes out. At 4:30 am things had been going not so well when Ramona said if things don't start changing this baby might have to come C-section. I don't know if it was Mel that decided they didn't want a c-section or if it was Tyler because after that conversation he dropped and by 5:57am June 15, 2011 our amazing little bundle of joy was born. He weighed 9lbs 14oz. He was 22 1/4 inches long. Everybody says he has no Cluff in him but I guess we will see.