From the Beginning:

On August 2, 2011 I took two positive home tests! Mommy just had a feeling she was pregnant and there they were, those two lines that made me SO happy :)

The next day, mommy went to the clinic to get tested and the results were "yes your pregnant!" I was already 5 weeks. Your daddy was surprised to hear the news, we both were. We weren't planning on having a baby soon, nor were we preventing the possibility either. So you were no mistake my dear child, but a great surprise :)




As time went on, mommy kept getting bigger and bigger.



Then the day came, November 18, 2011, we had your first ultrasound. Daddy and Mommy found out they were expecting, you-a baby girl. We were extremely excited!






This video here, I was already at least 6 months pregnant, but it was on Nov 27 that your movements became more noticeable to me. They were just the best feeling ever. You'll understand one day when you have your own :) On Dec, 26, 2011 I was laying in bed when you first started to visibly stick out on one side of my belly and did it in the morning too, I loved the feeling.As days kept passing by you moved more and more. And to be honest sometimes, mommy would get scared because she felt you weren't really moving as much or hadn't moved in a while, but always, just before mommy was really going to panic, you kicked me a few times to calm me down :)







Now here are few of the monthly pictures I took, out of order, but....

































...this last one here, this was on the morning before leaving to go to the hospital :) April 11, 2012.




Your due date was April 3, 2012 and you were born on April 12, 2012. Mommy had you at 41 weeks + 2days pregnant! We were so anxious to meet you and then the day finally came!!!




This is your birth story:(I just LOVE this picture of you, every time I look at it, every time I recall first meeting you, it ALWAYS brings a big smile to my face)...









Went in for a scheduled induction on April 11th, at 41 weeks + 1 day at 5:30 am, got checked and was still only a finger tip dilated (as I was at my 40 weeks check up) so at 7:30am I was given a pill to ripen my cervix. I was hooked up on the monitors which showed that I was getting contractions, but I just did not feel them, though I did get hot flashes and stomach tightening when I was getting them. They checked me again at 12pm and still no change in dilation! So they started pitocin, a drug to help start and make contractions. Got checked at 3:35 and was only 1cm! With that news they gave a try with the foley which they couldn't successfully put in. Tried again with the foley before 6pm and it finally worked. Sooner than later I started feeling the pain of contractions. At 8:50pm I progressed to 4cm dilated. Anesthesiologist was notified about coming to put in my epidural before they broke my water. It hurt when I got the epidural, I lost feeling and use of my legs which was the worst feeling ever, but the pain of contractions stopped. I started to feel them again though and it seemed my epidural wasn't working anymore. The nurses kept coming to check up on us because your heart beat kept changing and it was worrying them. They had trouble finding it as well, so they finally decided to insert an internal heart beat monitor. I got to 9.5cm and started pushing around 5:30 am. Before the pushing though I started to get the chills and also has to vomit, which the nurse said was a normal reaction when the time was getting close. The anesthesiologist came in again to give me some meds, he did this while I was in the process of pushing already. Once I started to crown, well, I yelled, mommy might have even said a bad word! I could feel everything, but then you were out! (at 7:35 am on April 12, 2012/ 2hrs of pushing!), in my arms…and OH MY GOD :D It was all I could keep saying as I held you in my arms, crying…and you were so beautiful and big! Weighing in at 8.92 lbs! After letting me have my time with you, mesmerized by you, I had to hand you to them so they could clean you up and all that good stuff. As they did all they needed to do I was just staring at your direction, and you were crying, sucking on your hands…Daddy was at your side now, taking pictures of you, he was a good help during all this. Finally you were in my arms again♥ Breast fed like a hungry little champ. Me and and your dad were/are very proud/happy parents.