Happy Birthday Little one!

This morning I got up knowing that there were a million and one things that I needed to accomplish and I just wasn't feeling all that great. The yucky feeling started last night. So as dad and Christy worked in the yard today I sat on the couch with Treyven, watched TV, took a million baths and spent a LOT of time in the bathroom. I couldn't keep anything down. David called our neighbor and asked him to come over and help him give me a blessing. Around 8:30 in the evening I called the on call doctor line and left a message for the doctor to call me back. I was feeling severely dehydrated. Dr. Ott called me and told me to go into Labor Delivery and have them hook me up and give me two liters of fluids to hydrate me. So we called Grandma and Papa to come over to the house and be here with sleeping children and off David and I went to the hospital. We got there and around 9:20 they were hooking me up to an IV and the nurse checked to see how dilated I was. I was at a four. About the time that we got to the hospital I started to wonder if some of my pains were actually contractions. This became more clear as I lay on the hospital bed hooked to an IV. Quickly I dilated to a 6 and was moved from the triage room to a labor room and Dr. Ott was called to come in and deliver my baby. I went thru the dilation process quickly and declined an epidural. It was a quick labor but as I was in the moment it felt like it would never end and that I would not be able to push a baby out on my own. Dr. Ott and the nurses were amazing. They helped me to remain calm and focused. David Russell Bushar was born at 10:54pm!! Dad got to cut the cord. David was placed right on my chest so we could bond. I love that feeling when your baby is placed on your chest, it makes everything you just went thru disappear and you forget how painful and hard it was. David was having a little trouble with oxygen and was doing a lot of grunting. Two nurses from the NICU came in and did a breathing test and then David was placed back in my arms so I could nurse him. When I was done nursing he was fine, no more grunting and no more worries. David weighed in at 6 pounds 8 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. David was born face up and his poor face is all purple and bruised, even the whites of his eyes are bruised. Other than that he is perfect :) No visible birth marks and no obvious deformities. Later we were moved to a post partum room where we stayed until we were released.