Jon "Staten" Laybourne

...Jon "Staten" Laybourne...

It all started on the 1St, we meet my Dr. at his office at 4:30 and he put in a Foley, to hopefully start the labor proses. He told me to go to the hospital if I went into labor that night and if not to go Sunday morning at 9:00am. So that's what we did, by the time I got admitted, and in the room it was about 10:00-10:30 he came in to check me and break my water and start me on pit. So here is what I'm thinking, my sister goes pretty fast right, and my sister-in-law (who I saw give birth both times) is the same...so in my head I'm thinking here we go in a few hour's my baby boy will be in my arms!!! Now cut to me...So I decide I want to wait tell I can feel my contractions before I got the good stuff as I'm terrified of needles, so it was a good couple of hours before I got it, Tay had to talk me into it. I was also scared the nurse was going to come check me again, and I wanted drugs for that! so I called for the "Feel Good Dr." and I must say I had that built up in my head to be much worse, I got to say he was one of my favorite people that day!!! So the nurse came back in and I'm thinking I'm at least a 5, oh no she checks me and and I was still a 3, (what I was when I went in that morning) A couple hours goes by and she comes back, checks again, oh about a 4, she says. I could not believe this was taking so long, and this whole thing continued all night! about 6 or 7 she checked me again and I was a 6+, the decided to start turning me every hour to hopefully get things going. Around 11 they came back in and I was an 8 finally a little after 3:00 am I was at a 10+2 and I started pushing. I pushed and pushed and about 4:45 she says your Dr. is on his way to deliver a baby so lets see if we can't get him ready to come out. So I kept pushing, I was so exhausted and almost ready to just give up, My Dr. came in at 5:36 and started pushing with me, I pushed 3 times and he looked at me and said okay we have to get this baby out, he had a bowel movement. All I could think was my baby is going to have to go the NICU (that's what happened with my nephew Mason) So I just gave a few more pushes, my Dr. pretty much had his hands all up there and just pulled him out! They took him over to the warmer and started suctioning out his his lungs to make sure he didn't get any inside, I was so nervous, and it felt like forever, but they soon brought him to me and i saw my baby boy! He was perfectly healthy, I fell in love at first sight...and even though it was the hardest thing I have ever done, I wouldn't change anything! I'm a proud mama!!!