Arrival.

We welcomed baby June last week and she has quite the story!

We've all been sick with this terrible cold for weeks now and miraculously were feeling a little better Sunday afternoon. We decided to take advantage of it and take Owen for a walk. A mile later we returned home sore but otherwise no worse for the wear. (or so we thought) Later that night around midnight Tim got violently ill. He  was vomiting every half hour for 7 hours and at the end was vomiting blood. To make matters worse I lost my plug that night and knew that I'd be going into labor in the next 24 hours. By morning we were so scared for Tim that we had a few men from the church come and give him a blessing. Thankfully Tim started to get better and was able to hold down water and ginger ale for the rest of the day while I cleaned and got everything ready in case we were going to be at the hospital soon. 

I'd been feeling contractions all day but didn't start timing them til later that night. Around 10pm they were 7 mins apart consistently but I didn't want to go in unless my water broke since Tim was so sick. Instead I called my mother in law and talked to her for another 2 hours while Tim slept. By midnight they were 2-3 mins apart and were starting to hurt. Finally I decided we should probably go in. We had a friend come over to stay with Owen and we were at the hospital by 1am. My contractions started getting fairly strong at this point as I remember having to stop in the parking lot a few times while walking to the hospital doors. Much to my surprise I was already a 5! It took me HOURS to get to a 5 with Owen so I was relieved that even though my water hadn't broken that it wasn't a false alarm and they were keeping me. 

The nurse informed me that she was going to help with a C-section so I could either have the epidural now or in an hour. Though I was in pain I felt I was okay and an hour didn't sound very long so I opted for the second. As soon as she left the pain escalated very quickly. By the end of the hour I was begging for the epidural. I had gone from a 5 to an 8 in an hour. The epidural was AMAZING. I don't know why on earth I thought I'd want to do labor without one. Since I was comfortable Tim fell asleep on the couch. An hour later the nurse came in to check my water and it immediately broke when she touched it. To her surprise June's head was already there! Still sick with my cold I coughed and she moved a little further! We quickly woke up a delirious Tim and with one push and about 2-3 minutes later she was born! It was amazing! I got to help pull her up and I didn't tear at all. Not a scratch! 

It was honestly a DREAM labor compared to Owen's and funny as it sounds, it was actually kind of fun. I'm still amazed at how easy it all was and how fast she came! I was only in active labor for about 4 hours instead of 22 with Owen! I chalk it up to the gallons of Red Raspberry Leaf tea I drank :-)

A few minutes old.

Owen meeting his little sister. He immediately tried to give her a binkie. :-)

She is such a good baby (so much easier than Owen was!) and we are just loving our little family. She looks a lot like Owen did as a baby- lots of hair and blue eyes!