A Beautiful Chunky Baby!

I had a very strange dream last night. I had gone to church ( we haven't been in nearly a  year) . I was sitting there in the pew when the baby made this huge motion, so much that it warped my belly. Then moments later, I gave birth to a baby boy. 

Then came the next stage, and I thought it was the placenta, but it was a very underdeveloped baby girl. She was maybe 20 weeks gestation, probably less and not alive. I recall feeling heartbroken, but at peace about it. It was about this time I woke up. Went to the bathroom and laid down, nodded back off... 

Over the next 30 minutes, I had 3 very strong contractions.. They woke me up each time. I had 3 more over the next 30 minutes. So 6 strong contractions in an hour.. Time to start tracking. Labor has begun. 

It was business as usual in the house. The children made breakfast tacos for breakfast, I labored. 

Hubby focused on me. By 8-9 the contractions were 3-5 minutes apart. Over the past week I have had mild random contractions but I still hadn't even lost the mucus plug. This is why I feel checking dilatation is a bad thing to do to expectant moms. It indicates nothing at all. Its such a wide variable. 

Quinten ran me a bath... I just wanted warm water available, I didn't know how or if I would even use it.. I just wanted it there.  

Of course , I did.... the warm water felt good but I had to move around

 Working through the contractions 
I cried through most of them... 
I told Joe a few times
"I don't like this part"
I don't.  I just want to get to the pushing part and the holding a sweet new baby part

 Going to Break here to warn you.. These are actual birth photos below.. I think they are awesome and I don't mind sharing.. If you don't want to see, click away from the page, or scroll past really fast! :o) 

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It was just past 10 when I told my husband to stop timing contractions.. There was no need for it. He likes to use the time for his own comforted mind, but there was not much of a break between them at this time. The urge to push was there

Lucas was attentive to me and I kept telling him the baby was about to come out

When the head was born,  I hear him say 

"Its a baby!" He was so excited 

Those familiar with birth, see what 's going on here?!

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For those that have no idea what I am talking about... My water never broke, till the very end.

The baby was born in the caul . I think that is so awesome. 

We welcomed our 10th blessing at 10:35 CST

We were 42+4 EDD
My prayers we answered and we had a 4 1/2 hr labor!

 Here is where the water came in handy! 

Placenta came at 10:48 

Our first photo didn't come out so I took this at 3:30

 Oh in case you were wondering.....

Its a BOY!!

Abigail cut his cord.

Notice its white... Thats when you are suppose to cut the cord!

I love this photo of us.. His eyes were glued to Daddy 

Mommy and baby are cleaned up and resting... 

We had to have another sponge bath and get a diaper on.. I just put this sposie on him for now as he has pooped 3 times since birth (5+hours ago) ! He was just naked wrapped in cloth and he pooped on all of our cloth wraps! 

He looks like a sumo wrestler :o) 

Welcome to our family little one.. 

What a beautiful blessing you are!! 

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