My Pregnancy and my Birthing Expierence

I have to admit my pregnancy was pretty easy going, the first symptom I had that made me come to the conclusion that I may be pregnant was when I broke out like crazy and when I say break out I mean EVERYWHERE! My back, my face, my shoulders, my boobs and even my butt! Horrific, I felt like a cyclopes. My own mother came in one day and looked me straight in the eye and said "You're pregnant aren't you?" I shook my head and said no. Here I am thinking BLASPHEMOUS, IMPOSSIBLE until it dawned on me, I may very well be pregnant. I went over my symptoms that I shrugged off as depression

1. Fatigue
2. Lack of appetite
3. achyness
4.  Midnight snacks
5. Random spouts of crying

Who the hell knew pregnancy symptoms were so identical to depression because I sure did not. By this time I was convinced I was pregnant and explained why I took out a already cooked chicken from albertsons stole the chicken legs, made myself mashed potatoes and chopped up some fruit; set it all out on a table lit a candle and listened to Beethoven Moonlight Sonata as I ate. It all made sense ! Now a way to get my boyfriend to buy me a pregnancy test.

As I waited for him at my front door to pick me up, I kept thinking of ways to ask him or tell him that I may be pregnant but by the time we both got into the car and passed a red light I turned to him and said "Babe I might be pregnant, we need a prego test" and to my surprise he replied with "Okay" and we went off to the store and bought the most expensive prego test on the market. First response and did we get a first response? Hell no, it more looked like it was indecisive, trying to figure out if I was pregnant or not. My boyfriend at the time kept staring at it then he grabbed my boob looked at the test and back at my boob "Yep babe, you might be pregnant" my response?  OH HELL NO, this cannot be right, we need another one. So the next day we went to the dollar tree instead and bought a bunch of dollar brand pregnancy tests and I peed on all of them and what do you know, instant positive. After our intiial shock, it sunk in. I was having a baby...and it was the most amazing feeling in the world. My boyfriend looked at me, I looked at him and we just embraced each other in tears. I was going to be a mommy and he was going to be a daddy. It was the happiest moment of our life at the time and boy was he anal about anything I did, don't eat this, don't eat that, WATCH YOUR STEP, bend with your knees do this do that it drove me stark crazy mad but secretly it was the cutest thing ever. 

Most of my pregnancy went smoothly until I hit the 24 week mark. Something was off, I felt not myself but it did not seem to stop me from being myself, I went about my day like it was any other and as night grew near, I started to feel weirder and weirder. Around 9pm my fiance and I were cudddling in bed having a great time I was happy we were laughing and then all of a sudden it hits me like a hurricane, this sudden feeling of awefull-ness I could not even describe, I was shaking uncontrollably because all of a sudden the room got so freaking cold and then my stomach, oh man I felt like I was going to barf my chest out and my back it was hurting like a son of a gun, and I kept thinking it was just the baby sleeping weird and that I was going to be okay until the shaking got worse, by this time I was not coherent and my fiance had rushed to get my grandmother and when she got in I had just blew chunks everywhere, I was so sick. They called the obgyn and they described it as potassium shock which means there was not enough potassium for my body to function, so my fiance rushed to the store and bought me some pedielite which did not help at all but it made them feel better. The night went on and I passed out the next morning I woke up screaming in pain my back was in so much pain, the worst pain I felt in my life. I called up my obgyn who instantly told me to go to labor and delivery and I did, they had an entire room set up for me. It turned out I had a severe kidney infection caused by the E.coli bacteria that had infected my kidney and the rest of my internal organs. The doctor had told me if I had not have gone in then both me and my baby would not be alive today. Thats a scary thought. I had to be hooked up to baby monitor, oxygen tank and a hear monitor for my heart

I'm so happy to be alive today. After that my pregnancy went great. As I got closer to my due date I did everything I could to get labor going and nothing worked! I DID ALMOST EVERYTHING except castor oil but I did buy some, I was in so much discomfort and was not ready to go past due but to my surprise, I went into labor on the 9th of december. I got into triage and was admitted, they were worried about my sons spuratic heartbeat so they broke my waters and put a internal heart moniter on him. When active labor hit me I was in a bunch of pain, I was not prepared for. I wanted to do all naturel, but that did not happen because i was not able to control breathing. They put me on epidural and after that it felt like smooth sailing and the delivery was amazing and out popped my baby boy a woppin 8 pounds 1.4 ounces

Here I am ready to deliver

 Breathe, just breathe....

 

Happiest moment of our lives.