All Because We Fell In Love: Meet Presley Ann Smith!

Presley Ann was born! April 19, 2012! Obviously a little late since she's 14 months old!
Well, everyone has been asking me about my delivery story so here it goes! It was about 10pm on April 18th and I was laying in bed reading a book and Mark was in the livingroom watching tv. I get a "feeling" that my waters about to break so I get up and grab a towel to put under me in bed. Mark ask me what I was doing so I tell him I think my waters going to break. He says, "How do you know? Are you sure? Of course I'm sure and I just know" was my response!! I lay back in bed and within 5 minutes my water breaks! WooHoo, here we go!

I am told that your second childs labor is generally cut in half sooooo I'm thinking I have got to get going, I have 4 hours or so! I walk out to the livingroom and tell Mark that my water broke and he looks at me like I'm just messing with him! LOL!!!!! I change my clothes and call my good friend Christy to come over and stay with Rian. She's over in 10 minutes and out we go! I found a short cut to the hospital since we moved and now were farther away. Mark is zooming down the freeway and I'm talking to my mom on the phone telling her my water broke and were on the way to the hospital. She tells me I'm so calm and I okay? HAHA!!! Yup, I feel great I tell her. I say we have a few more calls to make so I will keep her posted. Mark flys by a cop and prays he doesn't pull us over, I definately didn't want a cop to delay my baby arrival time! Nothing! Whew! So we turn on the street where we have never been before, but its a short cut so who cares! Going faster then the speed limit because thats just what a dad does when his wife is in labor, goes flying over speed bumps at 40mph! I look down and am hoping Presley didn't just fall out on the floor board!!!!! Yay, she's still in my tummy! Mark's saying, repeatedly, how sorry he is! Poor guy feels horrible!.

Okay, check in, la de da....... this lady is unbelievably SSSLLLLOOOWWWWWW! While water is STILL dripping I'm a little more then ansy to lay down at this point, it felt gross! Does it ever stop, Rian's was a quick one gush and that was it! TMI? Sorry, I'll continue on! ;) I put on my beautiful blue hospital gown and hop into bed. One of my nurses Michelle was a wife of Mark's friend, what are the odds. Anyways, she tells me I will get my blood results back in about thirty minutes then she will be back in to get me all set up. I was feeling fine until my contractions started hard and fast!!! OOOOUUUCCCHHH! Then out of no where my mouth starts up! "Where the hell is that lady? Why is she so freaking slow? Whats the problem, can you call the nurse?" ow, this has only been about 15 minutes! I was not happy! This started around midnight. I had 15 more minutes til the half hour! UGH! Finally they come in and my doctor shows up, checks me out and says he's going to try and sleep a couple hours and he'll be back to check on me. I was dilated at 1 1/2 and effaced at 40%. So, I wait but I am in need of the epidural now! BAD! I am rolled in a ball on my side waiting for what seems like years for the anethesiologist to get there. Once he's there I'm thrilled but still waiting and waiting for this and that.... I didn't remember all the waiting last time. It was a quick shot and he was gone! Now that I had something to compare it to I was wishing for the same guy I had with Rian. Finally, I'm drugged up and ready to try and sleep, it's 1:45 am and I am tired! Mark turns off the lights and we get comfortable and Mark especially because he had the 5 star, extra plush cardboard couch!
I'm finally comfortable and ready to close my eyes at 2:20am and I feel like my epi wore off! I'm thinking that's impossible so I tell Mark to get the nurse. Nurse tells me there is no way it wore off and she's going to check me out. Moved the sheet up and says, "Oh, it's because her heads there and were ready to push!" OOOkkkay! Let's get this party started! She calls my doctor, Joseph Castillo, and when he comes in looking exhausted, laughs and says that he should have known it was going to be fast again. Poor guy maybe had an hour! Everyone was ready and we started to push or should I say I pushed and Presley was born! I have to say, I love the whole birthing process, maybe I'm crazy but it is all so GREAT and the best roller coaster ever!

I remember hearing, "Look at all that blonde hair!" I thought huh? Really? I know Marks is blonde but it was still a shock! So we now have one of each! My mini me and Mark's mini me! Presley was beautiful and of course we instantly fell in love with our new princess! Presley Ann was born at 2:48am weighing 7.4lbs. (and a large head, thanks Presley!)

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