Henry Michael
Born: March 7, 2011 at 12:52pm.
Weight: 8lbs 6oz
Length: 20in
My water broke at 5:30am, by 7:00am the contractions started. Luckily that 90 minutes gave Mike and I the chance to shower and to give Grandma time to head over to help Audrey off to daycare. When we got to the hospital I was dilated 3cm. We had to quickly decided weather we were going to follow through with the c-section or to continue on with a VBAC. By 9am we were well on our way to giving birth naturally, but with the ever loving support of an epidural! By the time I received the epidural (aka pure bliss) I was dilated to 5cm. The epidural lasted about an hour and then I quickly started to feel the contractions again. I now went from 7cm to fully dilated in 25 minutes. Things were moving fast; it was now time to push. After just a short sixty two minutes I heard the most beautiful sound to a new mother's ears and then he was laying on my chest. A beautiful experience, etched in my memory for a lifetime.
