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4th of July LONG birth story

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My EDD was July 8. Since I was a little girl I have always loved the 4th of July. By far my favorite holiday. So of course when I got pregnant and had the EDD of the 8th I automatically hoped and prayed for a 4th of July baby.OK. My sister lives out of state and she flew in on the 2nd.  On Saturday the 3rd she took me on a long walk and yelled at my belly "Taylor, Aunt Nano is here now so it's time to come out!!!" When I went to sleep that night I laid in bed and said "Please God let Taylor come soon." (I had never done this before) That was about 11 pm Saturday. Around 1 am Sunday morning I woke up to go potty, and said to myself... that's not pee. lolI came back into the bedroom and sat on the floor and got on my laptop to look it up to see if my water really broke.... usually I would sit on the bed to do this, why I sat on the floor I don't know, but thank goodness I did.... GUSH!!! I hopped up and ran to the bathroom, and called for DH, woke up my sister and headed out to the hospital.Got there about 2 am, got checked to make sure it was my water breaking, and sure enough... I was 3 cm dialated 90% effaced, and don't remember what station. They told me I wasn't leaving the hospital without a baby and that most likely it was going to be a 4th of July baby... I couldn't believe it!!!! :)Contractions started soon after getting into our room, my hubby was wonderful, made me get eye contact with him and breathe, he never left my side. Around 6 am I requested my epi, my sis and hubby were really proud of me during the epi as I had my 2 worst contractions according to the monitors, but of course held still as a statue. Around this time I started to feel great. Tried my hardest to get some sleep, and friends and family made fun of me since this is the time that I started facebooking on my phone and posting pics of my sis and hubby sleeping in the chairs next to me.  After I got my epi I was around 6-7 cm 100% effaced, and +1 station.Sleep.... Sleep.... Sleep....Fast forward to about 12:30-1 pm, the doc comes and checks me and I'm 9 cm 100 % effaced, and at +2 station, LO was in position and ready, just needed some more dialation. She said she'll be back in about an hour and then most likely we will start pushing. DH noticed that LO's heart rate had gone up and wasn't coming down, and sure enough about 10 minutes later, (10 minutes after checking me and saying I'm at 9 and see ya in an hour) the doc comes back in and says that the baby's heart rate had gone up, and since this is usually a sign of infection, she wanted to start pushing now. WOW ok... wasn't ready for that. I pushed myself to a 10 and pushed for about 2 hours.  Pushing was very frustrating becuase of the epi I couldn't tell what I was doing, but they said I was dong great so I kept doing what I was doing.  Towards the end of pushing I got a temp, 100.5, so the Dr. got even more worried about an infection cuz of LO's heart rate and my temp. So the pediatricicans are coming in to be ready for LO when she comes out, and she will have to go to the NICU for antibiotics till we get the test results back. OMG OMG. freaking out at this point, but just knew I had to push like hell to get her out so they can do whatever they needed to do.  Doc was so anxious to get her out she asked me if I opposed to suction. I said no way, get her out! I had trouble pushing her out cuz she was "sunny side up" but we didn't know that til she came out. She came out and was taken right away over to the table with the 6 pedis around her.  I heard her cry for the first time, and cried so hard! They let me hold her, DH cut the cord, and then she was gone. Taylor Leanne was born on the 4th of July at 3:13 pm, she weighed 7.3 lbs and was 20.28 inches long.  DH went with LO and my sister stayed with me while I got stitched up and all that fun stuff. 
Fast forward.... She is perfect!! No infections AT ALL, but I am thankful for the pre cautions! Better safe then sorry I say!!!She is 9 days old today, I can't believe it! and she is the love of my life!
I had always heard people say that when you have a baby that you fall in love with your DH/SO all over again, and I just couldn't comprehend that... but now I understand. He's amazing, and our daughter is something that him and I made together. 
I wouldn't change anything for the world! 
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