Kody, Corby and Addison: The birth story

As many of you know, our precious angel from God is finally here! Let me start with the story and then we will get to the good stuff...pictures!!

Wednesday night we went to bed, not realizing that it would be our last night as a family of two! Over the past few days I had been having Braxton-Hicks contractions like crazy, but nothing consistent or painful. Well Thursday morning, April 7th at 4:18 to be exact, I woke up with a contraction like I had never felt before. It was in my lower abdomen and then went straight to my back. I got out of bed quickly to go to the restroom and as soon as I stood up my water broke. I got to the restroom quickly and yelled for Kody. I told him I thought my water had broke but I wasn't sure because it wasn't what I expected it to be like. So I brushed my teeth and washed my face all while timing contractions. My doctor had told me on Tuesday that if they were 10 minutes apart to go to the hospital. Well we started timing them and they were like 5 and 6 minutes apart and started getting really intense. We decided rather quickly that we should go to the hospital. Thankfully our bags were already packed and in the car. We got to the hospital a little after 5 am and went straight to the birthing floor. They got me in a room quickly and checked me. My water had indeed broke and I was already 5 cm. They started my IV, had me signing papers all while I was having pretty intense contractions. They knew I wanted an epidural, but before I could have one I had to have so much fluids from the IV first. Around 6ish they checked me again and I was already 7 cm. At 7 am my doctor got there and checked me and I was 8 cm. At that time the anesthesiologist came in and gave me my epidural. I'm so glad he did because they were really starting to get intense. Especially in my back! The epidural really helped take away the pain in my back! An hour later at 8 am, my doctor checked me again and told me that I was 10 cm and ready to push! I pushed for an hour and Addison joined us to make us a family of three at 9:00 am! I am so thankful that I had such a good experience giving birth and that God blessed us with such an amazing daughter! I still can't believe that she was 3 weeks early, but God knew and picked the exact day that she was supposed to be born! Addison was 7 lbs 5 oz and 20 inches long. She was the perfect size and is the most beautiful baby I have ever laid eyes on! I am so in love with her!

To add to such an amazing day...while I was at the hospital and in labor, probably around 7ish, Kody gets a text from my friend Sarah saying that she had her baby at 6:28 am that morning! As soon as I heard that I started crying! Sarah and I have been best friends since high school. Her due date was April 22 and mine was April 27. What are the odds that we would both go in labor on the same day??? She was 2 weeks early and I was 3! Isn't that crazy?? It was so neat sharing our pregnancy experience together and now we got to become mommies on the same day!

We delivered at the new Methodist West hospital off of I-10. They delivered their first babies on Valentine's day! Since it is a new hospital, everything was so new and nice and they are not very busy yet. Needless to say, I was the only patient on the birthing floor until the last night I was there! Everyone was so nice and friendly and very helpful! They took such good care of both Addison and me.

We got to come home on Saturday, April 9th! Kody took off work the whole first week so that he could be home with us and to help me with Addison. He is such an amazing daddy and has done such a good job taking care of her! It is so amazing to me how God has prepared us to be parents and how natural it has been to us! God is so good!

There is so much that I could write about, but I will save it for other post! Here are some pictures of our beautiful daughter!