CALE ARRIVES!!

On August 31, 2008, Cale Brooks swept us with his grace and beauty. The day prior to that, Saturday, my mom and I were doing some last minute shopping for him because my due date was that Tuesday, September 2, 2008 and we knew soon after that they would induce and we wanted to have everything ready. We were in the Toggery and I started to have some mild back pain, I just thought nothing of it thinking all pregnant women have back pain maybe mine is just now arriving on week 40, LUCKY ME! On the way home it started getting more and more intense and while we were crossing the river bridge I felt a contraction. WOW those things hurt! We got back to my apartment and I told Tyler I thought I was going into labor and then WOW another one of those contractions arrived as soon as I told him. We waited until they were four minutes apart and then headed to the hospital. By the time I arrived and got into my room the contractions were getting worse. I had dialated to 4 cm and boy oh boy I was ready for that epidural. As most of you know I was for sure on having him all natural, no pain medications whatsoever. But soon after the contractions my mind changed real quick. After the epidural everything started slowing down, including the labor. At about 2:00 a.m on August 31, 2008, I had fully dialated and the pushing began. After 2 hours of non-stop pushing, throwing up, and crying, baby Cale arrived. He weighed 9 pounds and 2 ounces and was the most pure, perfect thing I had ever seen. My own little Buddha!