Sadie’s birth story

I wrote this down in a notebook twice (lost it once) but i am finally putting it online so if i lose my other notebook i won’t lose the story along with it.

Sadie’s pregnancy was slightly unexpected but super exciting. Me and John both said that this one was a girl right after i took the pregnancy test at a Walmart in Arizona :). I felt pretty sick at the beginning but my goal this pregnancy was to be healthy and active. So i stuck it out at CrossFit my whole first trimester. That was hard, but when i was done i started running instead and that felt amazing until i got too far along to run and it started hurting, then i walked until i delivered. I tried to eat more healthy as well (which is the hardest thing for me) and by my last trimester i was feeling a lot better physically than i had ever felt with all 3 boys. It was a lot easier to sleep and move. But emotionally i was more sensitive than usual and i couldn’t fathom the idea of going a week past my due date like i had with jack. (which was my hardest pregnancy physically but easiest mentally). So i asked the doctor if i had to wait or if i could have an elective induction (my first one) and he actually agreed! He couldn’t do Monday may 1st, and i didn’t want to do may 2 because that is already Andreas and Benny’s birthday. I didn’t want to do may 3 because that is johns birthday, but the doctor was going out of town may 4th- may 7th. So i asked John if i should wait until may 8th or just do may 3rd. He said for sure do may 3rd because he didn’t care. I thought it might be a fun thing for them to share birthdays later on. So we waited for the call Wednesday morning (may 3rd) to head in to the hospital. We left around 930am, i got checked in and hooked up & officially started by 10:30 am. I was at a 2 when we started the induction. They left us alone for a couple of hours. By 12:30pm doctor carn came in to check on me and i was only at a 3. So he broke my water and let us keep hanging out. We watched modern family and just relaxed. (I got my epidural pretty early on) and i think i even dozed off for a few minutes. The nurse came back in to check me around 3:50pm and i was only dilated 4cm. At that rate i was expecting to have the baby at 8pm. But by 4:30pm (only 40 minutes after my 4cm check) i felt a big urge to push. I told John that if i hadn’t just been told i was at a 4 I’d say i was ready to push. The nurse came in and said that i was probably right. She checked me at that time and i was complete! She said i was ready to push but she’d call the doctor and we would wait for him. He said he would finish up his patient and then head over. So i told mary and Debbie (who had my boys) that if they wanted to come and bring the boys to watch then they could (they had seen their birth videos and Ty had been asking if he could watch sadie be born but i kept telling him no because it’d be a long day at the hospital. ) so they ended up coming and bringing the boys in to watch just in time for doctor carn to get there and scrub in. The boys were just in awe. Even jack. They sat so still and just watched. When the doc was ready, i got all geared up to push and right when i was about to push he told me to wait. I stopped pushing and then he just delivered the baby! Face up! She was my only one facing the wrong direction but she came so easily with less than one push. When i saw her face she was so perfect and beautiful! They laid her on me for a minute and then took her to get weighed and get a diaper on. Jack had been looking concerned for me so i told Mary to bring him to me and he just layed on my shoulder and cuddled while the doctor delivered my placenta. It was so sweet and the room was spirit filled and I’m so glad they were all there to share that special moment. I won’t ever forget it even though all of them will!  Im so thankful for families. We’ve been so blessed. Debbie and Mary took the boys out of the room while i nursed Sadie. She was so sweet and perfect! I nursed her on my left side while i ate and then switched her to my right side and that was when i noticed her cute little dimple! I was obsessed. She was so adorable and her eyelashes were amazing!  (Still 2 of my favorite of her features) she was 7 lbs 1 oz and 18.5 inches long and born at 5:07pm. The day could not have gone more smoothly or perfectly! It was everything i hoped it would be. We love our Sadie girl!!