JAYDEN HAS ARRIVED!!!

Jayden Joseph Morton has finally arrived.. here is our story. At 40 weeks I still hadn't had one contraction. But at my dr.s appointment I wasn't dilated at all... I actually was still pretty closed up ={ so he decided if I didn't have him by March 9th on my own we were going to start me which by then I was 41 weeks. We went in at 6:30am and they put these pills up in my cervix to help thin them out (because literally my body wasn't doing anything on it's own) so we did those twice and they were helping but not really doing anything to get me dilating so they put me on the PIT and it got me contracting but it wasn't doing anything for the dilating part.. at this point I really was starting to feel really uncomfortable about the PIT and baby Jayden didn't like it so much either, his heart rate started to go really high so I finally decided that I didn't want to be on the PIT anymore and to take me off. During that my doctor came in and he gave me a few options to break my water or let me go home and relax for a little and see if I would continue to contract on my own, which baby Jayden was still pretty high and Doc, my mom, and myself (Joey really was leaving everything up to me just with the feelings I had about everything which was nice, he really wasn't in a hurry to get our baby here either and he wanted us both safe and healthy) but we really just didn't feel comfortable with breaking my water at this point.. SOoo we were waiting and watching baby for a little while longer and he kind of flat lined on us a little so my cousin Candace (who was my AMAZING nurse) didn't want to send us home because she was worried about baby and I so we just ended up staying the night and kept a monitor on baby Jayden. Well Wednesday morning the nurses that were there called Dr. Anderson and told him that the baby was doing fine and I was fine so he said to just send us home and wait for a couple of days and see what I do on my own and if nothing happend he was going to break my water Friday. Well we get home Wednesday morning around 9am and I took a hot bath and took the longest nap EVER and just really relaxed. I kept contracting on my own and by about 7ish or so they started to get stronger and about 3-5 minutes apart well I thought I would just toughen them out because I really just wanted to be able to sleep in my own bed for the night and I really was feeling bad for Joey because he gets so anxious and doesn't really love just sitting around so I wanted him to get a good nights rest. Well about 10:30pm I decided that we'd better get back to the hospital because I could barely even breath threw these contractions anymore. So we get there and let me just say that Tuesday I had that hospital pretty much all to myself and by the time we got back Wednesday night they didn't even have a room to put me in so we had to wait in the waiting lobby until they got a room ready for me ={ which I was getting so pissed because by this point I honestly could not even breath threw the contractions anymore AT ALL. They got me a room and they checked me and I still was only dilated to a 2-3 not quite a 3 yet and they called my Dr. and we decided to get me the epidural and have him come in and break my water.. I was so scared at this point because I knew that the baby was for sure coming and I was about to go threw the most unforgettable experience. So the epidural was AMAZING and I would never EVER consider having a baby without one =} they are seriously the best thing ever... but anywho I got the epidural around 3 or 4am and my doc came in at about 6am to break my water and I had dilated from a 2-3 to a 9 so he breaks my water and I was pushing by 7am. After a long 2 hours of pushing baby Jayden was almost there and I swore I couldn't push anymore (crazy how much pushing like that can just wear you OUT) but I was exhausted and just kept saying that I couldn't push anymore but my nurses and dr. just kept pumping me up and saying that he was almost there just one more push so I took one big deep breath and BABY JAYDEN was out and healthy =}} it was seriously the most craziest, emotional, breath taking, best experience ever and I couldn't have been more happy that he had arrived and neither could daddy. I'm so glad that I had my mom in the room with Joey and I because Joey was taking care of our baby and my mom took really could care of me and of course I just wanted my MOMMY, hahaha.. (Thank you mom for being there with us your such an amazing MOM, I LOVE YOU!)

Jayden Joseph Morton

His very PROUD daddy!

My little family with our amazing doctor.

(don't focus on myself, I was SOO swollen, YUK!)

We are seriously so happy and excited that he is finally here we couldn't imagine loving him anymore then we already do, he is so amazing and such a good baby already. We love you BABY JAYDEN!

Jayden

bathed and ready for bed.

Daddy and Jayden

My little family! =}