Nhiya's Birth Story

 On December 8th, 2012 at 9:15 am, my water broke. At least that's what I figured happened. It was also the morning of my baby shower that my mom was throwing for me.

When my water broke, it actually relieved a lot of pain I was having, so we just went on with our day. I went to the baby shower while Alex went and helped his dad move some stuff.

About an hour and a half later, harder contractions started, but not hard enough to go anywhere. The guests kept coming. We opened a gift early, which was a birthing ball, and that was my throne for a bit.

Soon, the contractions started coming stronger, so we called the doctor and he decided to have us come in.

Since this was my first baby, they didn't believe me when I said my water broke. So they said they had to check me to make sure. I really didn't want to go home with the amount of pain I was in and knowing it could get worse.

 

They let me stay, we got a room and we called out Doula to come. Contractions got worse. I used breathing techniques and visualizations to help distract myself. 

 Things got way more intense, and I opted for an epidural. I didn't feel it, but it might have been because I was having a contraction while he was doing it and I was just focused on being still during it.
They gave me a tiny bit of pitocin to help me dialate faster. I got stuck at a 6 for a few hours. With in 45 min of them doing that, I was ready to start pushing.

  Alex was amazing the whole time! I thought I would be a grumpy crazy woman yelling and telling him not to touch me the whole time, but all I wanted was him by me holding my hand.

 Alex was amazing at helping. He got to be front and center, which he didnt mind at all. His voice was the only one I could hone in on while I was pushing. He would get so excited seeing her head start to crown and it would just push me more to push harder. <3

 Unfortunately for my dislocated tailbone, the epidural didn't touch that pain, so the whole time i could feel Nhiya pushing on it the whole way out. It helped me push harder to make the pain stop and know how and where to push better.

  I was so focused on pushing to make the pain stop, that when they told me to stop pushing and to look down, I saw Nhiya's head, and literally said to myself, "Oh yeah! I'm pushing out a baby!" It was the first time in about 10 hours that I had really opened my eyes to see anything. I was so focused on not letting the pain get the best of me.

After an hour and a half of pushing, she finally came!!!!!!!! She had swallowed a lot of amniotic fluid so she didnt cry for a bit. She had shoulder distotia (sp?) but other than that was a perfect baby girl!!

The new Johnson family!!!!!

New grandparents!!

 {NHIYA KAYE LOUISE JOHNSON} {12.8.12}{9:54pm}{8lb12oz}

Our family and love has expanded in ways we cannot even begin to describe. It is a truely divine and spiritual experience having a child. Not to mention a pretty big physical, emotional, and mental one as well. However painful and long suffering it is, Nothing outweighs the pure joy and mesmirization that comes when you finally get to hold in your hands a spirit that God has seen fit to entrust you with. And all the things you dreamed of becoming, parents, a mother, a father, finally get to happen. How amazingly scary and beautiful it all is.
   All because 2 people fell in deep abiding love!!!!