Kaden's Birth Story

I have been meaning to write this down for a while and since Kaden is already a year old, I figured I better do it now before I forget all the details!

I had a super easy pregnancy with Kaden. I had a few pregnancy related issues, but overall, everything was great. I wasn't even uncomfortable at 9 months pregnant! It was getting close to the end of March and I knew he would be coming soon, but I was perfectly content with being pregnant a little longer. I didn't want to rush things because as much as I couldn't wait to meet my little boy, I knew I would miss being pregnant and I knew that our lives would change dramatically forever. I was soaking up the last little bit of time I had just being a family of 2.

Kevin, on the other hand, wanted Kaden to be born ASAP! He was ready to finally hold him (something I had been getting to do for 9 months). One day Kevin informed me that once Kaden was born, I would not be able to hold him at all since I had been doing it for 9 months! It was so exciting to see how thrilled Kevin was to meet his son!

A few days before my due date, Kevin started asking me every day if I could "Please go into labor today!!!" I tried to inform him that it didn't work like that. I couldn't just tell my body to go into labor. He didn't care what I had to say. He wanted a baby yesterday.

Someone had mentioned that using accupressure is supposed to help a woman go into labor. So, finally, 2 days past my due date, on Thursday, March 26th, 2009, we decided to try accupressure. I was willing to try something that might help me go into labor because I knew how badly Kevin wanted me to have the baby. We looked it up on youtube and found some videos explaining what to do. So, we tried it. And it hurt. A LOT. The video that we watched showed a woman doing accupressure and then a few minutes later having a contraction. We did a lot of accupressure and not one time did I feel a contraction. I did a lot of complaining that night about how it was stupid and didn't work and it just kept hurting. So we just went to bed.

I woke up around 3:35 the next morning (Friday, March 27th, 2009) with a weird feeling. I didn't know what it was at first. But after a few minutes, I thought, "Am I having a contraction?". It was mildly painful and it would come on for a few seconds and then go away. I was still really tired, but at that point, I couldn't fall back to sleep because I thought I might be having contractions. So, I laid there for a while and counted how many times this pain happened. Well, after 6 times of this, I looked at the clock and realized an hour had passed. At this point, I realized that yes, I was having contractions, and that I may actually be in labor (although I still wasn't 100% convinced of that yet). By this point it was almost 5am. I wanted to wake Kevin, but I didn't want to get his hopes up yet, so I thought I would let him sleep since his alarm would be going off soon for work.

To Be Continued...