Introducing...

Cooper Lee born 10/03/11 at 8:44 am 5 lb 12 oz and 19 1/2 in long!

The newest love of my life! I never knew it was possible to love someone as much as I love this little guy <3 Here's the story... On Oct 2 I had to work from 10:30a-7p and woke up feeling very sore and super tired. Something about that day just didn't feel "normal". I really didn't want to be at work AT ALL that day and had even told Justin that I was whiny and to forgive me. Around 3:30p I was contemplating asking the managers if I could go home early to rest and even talked to a couple of co-workers about starting maternity leave early because I was so tired. I got up to go to the bathroom and refill my water bottle and when I got about 5 steps from the bathroom door I felt an uncontrollable "leak". I went ahead to the bathroom and then called my mom to tell her what happened and ask if I should leave work. I called my friend Molly on the way home and told her, but she said I might have peed my pants and to just go to the ER to get checked out. I went home, changed clothes and then we went to the hospital. This was around 5p. They did a test and it came back that my amniotic sac had ruptured!! I was admitted and got to my room around 6p. From this point it's kind of a blur, but luckily my mom took notes, haha! At this point I was dilated 2cm, 50% effaced and baby was -2. They decided to let me progress on my own and Dr S came in around 8p to check me again. No change. He said that if I didn't progress by midnight they would start pitocen...I didn't progress. Once I got the pitocen I was hooked to the monitors, iv, and blood pressure cuff at all times. This sucked because any time I needed to go to the bathroom I had to call the nurse. At 3a I was dilated to 4cm, 75-80% effaced and baby was -1. I got a shot of NuBane at this point to take the edge off the contractions and that medicine hit me FAST! I felt wasted and started falling asleep. Around 5:15a I asked for more NuBane because my contractions were harder and closer. At 5:40a I asked for my epidural. Dr M came in at 6a to start the epidural process. He was done at 6:30a and around 6:45a it felt like my body was involuntarily pushing the baby out. They checked me and I was 100% ready to go! Since I just got the epidural they decided not to waste it and let me sleep for an hour. When they woke me up it was time to push and w/in 45 min to an hour Cooper was here!! I really am lucky because it was a very easy process for me. I joked with my husband afterwards that we needed another one, lol! It might have been the drugs :)