There are times in your life where you feel like you are incomplete. You feel as if a part of you is missing. My husband and I know the feeling all too well. Up until January 6, 2015, my husband and I felt as if our family was incomplete like we were missing a part of us. Our sweet little Riley Grace changed just that. We have found our missing piece to our puzzle, and now our family feels complete.
I remember it like is was just yesterday. That weekend I found myself bouncing on the workout ball all day hoping the doctor would put me in the hospital on Monday, January 5. My cousin and her family came to visit, and we did everything possible to try to make Riley come: ride down the bumpiest road, walk, and ate way too much jalapeño pizza. I wasn't due until the Thursday, but I was so ready to have her. I was anxious, exhausted, and miserable. On Monday I went to my checkup in hopes that we would have some progress. The doctor checked me, and I still was not dilated and only softened some. I was so disappointed. I mean come on I tried all weekend! I thought to myself she's never going to come! The doctor decided to put me into the hospital around 5pm that day and would give me medicine that would help me dilate. So after my appointment I took a nice relaxing bath then left for the hospital. My husband had to finish working so he met me there later on. As I checked in the hospital, everything starting feeling so real. I was getting nervous and anxious! Around 7pm, the doctor came in and gave me the medicine to help dilate. He explained to me that it probably won't be until late the next day that I would deliver. My husband and I were surrounded by our families, and we were so excited waiting for our girl. It wasn't until 3am that I started feeling contractions. They weren't too bad, but I have a very low pain tolerance so they gave me some pain medicine, and started the Pitocin. I was only dilated to 2cm! I woke up around 4:30am with more intense contractions. I was at 4cm! The nurse asked if I wanted the epidural then. I told her no thinking I can handle this just breathe through it. Well, 30 minutes later, I literally thought I was dying. I can't handle pain! I had no idea I had to have another bag of fluids before I can begin the epidural. I probably buzzed the nurse every 10 minutes asking if it was time yet. Once they gave me the epidural, it was a breeze from there!
Around 8am, I was dilated to 6cm. My labor was progressing much faster than the doctor anticipated. It didn't take long before I reached 8cm, and they broke my water. The doctor became a little worried because when the broke my water there was meconium. By 11am, I reached 10cm! I was so excited and ready to push when the nurses informed me her head was not down enough. I began to panic that I would have to have a C-section, my biggest fear. They reassured me that would be the very last resort, and her head should come down. At 12:30, her head was down, and I was able to start pushing! You can imagine just how excited my husband and I were. We were finally about to meet our little girl that we have waited what seems like eternity for. Pushing went so easy for me. At one point when the doctor told me to push, in the middle of a contraction, I heard someone else sounding like they were pushing. I turned to my husband to find he was pushing too! I stopped in the middle of a contraction, busted out laughing asking him if he was pushing too! We had everyone in the room including the doctor and nurses laughing! Our little girl made her appearance at 1:19! She weighed 7lbs 5oz and 19.5 in long with a head full of dark brown hair! Because of the meconium, I wasn't able to hold her right away. The nicu nurses had to check her first. While the doctor was continuing to work on me, I heard him tell the nurse to call his office and reschedule appointments for the day I will be in here a couple hours. My heart sank. I began to worry I quickly asked him what was wrong. He began to tell me I had a severe tear that went into my body. I barely tore on the outside, but I tore completely through the inside. He continued to tell me he rarely sees a tear like this only happens every couple months. He finally finished stitching me, and I was able to hold our sweet girl. We were overjoyed, so excited. Words cannot express how Jordan and I felt when we both held our little girl. From the moment she was born, she had us completely wrapped around our fingers. The sweetest moment was when she was laying in the incubator. She was crying and the moment her daddy began talking to her she quit crying and just stared at him. She was worth every pain, everything I went through she was worth it. If I knew what I would go through, I would do it all over again just for her.
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