Baby Enzo

Lorenzo’s Birth Story

On October 24 I was 5 days over my due date with this little baby, and I finally began to have contractions at 9am every 5-15minutes until around 1pm when the contractions went from 3-8 minutes apart.  Mike and I were getting really excited that we will be having this baby soon and we started cleaning the house and van like crazy.  At around 5pm the contractions are getting more intense but not closer.  By 7pm I could not talk while a contraction was happening and I needed to breath through it.  I kept waiting for them to be closer together but by 10pm I said “Mike call your mom and dad, it’s time to go to the hospital.”  As soon as we got to the hospital  the contractions got closer together about 1-3 min. Apart.  When we had Roxy we also got to the hospital at 10pm, and I didn’t want to have the baby at 5am so I decided not to lay in the bed and walk around.  I kept walking around the room until my water broke.  My water has never broken naturally before and that was weird/awesome.  I then went on the bed and things started to get intense.  It’s midnight at this point and I said to Mike “I think we will see this baby at 2am”.  They had me turn around on the bed on my knees to even  out the pressure of the baby on my cervix.  I was given the gas and it wasn’t long before I could feel the baby coming.  I turned around and they began giving me fentinall for the pain.  I was breathing very heavily on the gas and starting to get really scared about this baby actually coming out.  I now am beginning to do very little pushes and they took the gas away from me.  Then I got serious and did one big push and the baby came out in that one big push.  The nurses were trying to get me to stop but I couldn’t, and I’m pretty sure I woke up the whole hospital with the loudest scream ever.  Lorenzo Fredrick McCullough was born at 12:39am on October 25 2015, weighing 7lbs 14.5 ounces.  They placed him on my chest and I held him for a little while before they needed to check him and count his toes.  I began crying from the shock of everything happening so fast and feeling so grateful to have this baby finally here.  Mike held my hand and got me ice, or water when I needed and was perfect in every way.  He was so clever by bringing his own hospital bag full of things to eat and drink.  Ones the doctor was finished with Enzo we walked over to our room and I got to do my favourite thing of lying in bed and looking at this new baby that I love so much. 

Enzo is now 8 days old and is doing amazing.  He weighs 8lbs and 2 ounces today and is eating and sleeping very well.  He is perfect in every way!

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