There could be so many titles to this entry..."Holy tidal Wave!" or "I'm in love with the Candy Man aka epidural guy" or "I should have ordered my epidural when then handed me the pitocin." I have a million of these so I just better jump right in a tell Eden's birth story-

It all started at my sis-in-law's house on a bright sunny day at 2pm. I had EVERY intention on getting all of my checklist done including buying the rest of Pack Meeting items and scrubbing down my house from top to bottom. Well, as luck would have it I stood up to go and I thought to myself-"Oh my goodness! I just peed my pants!" (That happens sometimes after having 3 kids and pregnant with your fourth...totally normal...really!) I went to the restroom and lo and behold my water had broken and Tori was thrilled! I was just waiting for the contrax to start and they didn't. Tori drove me to the hospital and we met up with Ted and I seriously couldn't get out of the car because it was a tidal wave! Ted looked down and was like "What the heck?!?" He found a wheel chair and we were off to triage. We get there and funny enough that they have to check to see if my water had broken-um-HELLO! I'm still gushing water out and they are doing there little litmus test strip on the many gallons of amniotic fluid that is coming out of me. At 5 pm they finally decide that this little one is not coming on her own and they need to give me pitocin. The first thing they asked me was if I wanted an epidural once they started and I said that I would prefer to do this no epidural and let me tell you...they were excited! I really mean that! They started the pitocin at a very small dose and told me that they wanted me to go as far as I could naturally. Did you catch that? "As far as I could go naturally." Red Flag!!! When the contrax starting coming I thought that I could handle it an then I had 5 contrax that were one on top of the other and I almost broke Ted's hand. I looked at him and whispered fervently "give me the epidural." I dilated from 4.5 to 7 all within those 5 contrax and heaven help me I couldn't imagine what transition would be like. Within 5 minutes the epidural guy was there. He was a no nonsense fellow and bam-badda-bing that needle was in and out. He had to work speedy because the contrax we on top of each other-CRAZY!!! It took everything I had to be still and then...it was like sunshine parting on the water and the heavens opened up and smiled on me! About a half hour later I looked at the nurse and asked her to check me because there was So much pressure and she told me that she would in a little while because I just got my epidural. Even though you might have an epidural-the pressure is VERY painful and no amount of numbing medicine was taking that away. She finally checked me and her facial and eye expressions were enough to tell Ted and I that it was time. She said "You are completely dilated and she's coming. I gotta go-I have to call the doctor." She was out of there SO fast and within seconds there were a bunch of people in the room and I was doing everything I could to not push for 30 MINUTES!!! There were two residences there and I was begging them to just let me push and I will sign whatever they wanted me to sign to give consent to deliver. Finally the doctor flies in and WATCHES the resident doctor deliver Eden. After 5 pushes she was out with no tears or stitches. She hardly cried and she just looked around with big eyes. She also was smacking her lips and trying to suck on everything! She was so peaceful that we immediately knew her name was going to be Eden. I had a rough go of it in the hospital with a fever and all the drama and IV antibiotics that came with it. I had to stay longer in the hospital and nursing is NOT working...again. I will pump like I have with all of my other kiddos until she decides to latch on.

Besides that-she is amazing! She has brought such a sweet spirit in our home. I love to watch Ted snuggle with her and have the kids "hands washed and ready" to hold her. It is SO hard to put her down. We have been waiting for her for so long and we just can't get enough!