Brody is Here!!

Brody is here!!! i will try to give you the short version of everything that has happened in the past 2 days....

At 12:30 a.m. on Nov 21 i woke up having some cramping. I tossed and turned and tried to sleep for about an hour, but at 1:30 i decided to wake up brian because i knew that these were contractions and were definitely close together and were getting more painful. Brian stayed awake with me until 3:00 am when we decided to call the doctor because the contractions had been 4-5 minutes apart for the hour and a half we had been timing them. Dr. Woodruff told me to come on in to the hospital and that they would check me out to see if it was time for our little man to come! When i arrived at the hospital around 3:30 am, i was 3 cm dilated and 60 % effaced. So they decided to admit me! Around 7 a.m. the nurses change shift and we were so excited to know that my friend Jenna was working and would be my nurse! It was so nice to have a familiar face and someone you trust with you during this amazing time! I was also so excited to hear that Dr. Woodruff was on call....he delivered me and my brother and i was hoping he would be able to deliver Brody as well. He came in to check on me and told me that he wanted to deliver Brody so he was going to make sure i had him by lunch time because thats when he was getting off for the day. So he went ahead and broke my water to speed up the process. My contractions continued to stay really close together and were pretty unbearable before the anesthesiologist gave me my epidural. He was great.... i didnt hardly feel it! On that note...can i just say that women who want to give birth natually are completely crazy!! after the epidural i didnt feel a single contraction....it was wonderful! (Let me also say that, it doesnt take away ALL feeling. i definitely felt every pound of Brody's 8 lbs 14 oz body coming out! but it wasnt as much pain as it was a ton of pressure.) anyway.... i started feeling alot of pressure and new that it was probably about time to push....sure enough, when they checked i had gone from 5 cm to 10 cm in no time! it was time!! After pushing for almost 2 hours with my great coaches Jenna and Brian, i was exhausted. no matter what i did he was not going to come out because of how big he was. So Dr. woodruff came in and used the vacuum to give Brody a little help. Brody James Kohout came into the world on November 21, 2007 at 12:00 pm. He weighed 8 lbs 14 oz and was 22.5 inches long. He is doing GREAT!! I am so proud to be his mommy! Its amazing how much you can love this little person that you just met a few hours earlier. Hopefully we will be heading home tomorrow!