Happy Birthday!

This is Kyler's birth story and mainly for me to have to remember it by. Feel free to read. It isn't very exciting.
September 17th came and passed and I still looked like this...

I wasn't expecting to deliver before or on my due date because I felt so good. Some nights I would have minor lower back pain but other than that I could do anything and felt fantastic. I felt so good in fact that I was scheduled for an induction on September 19th. I didn't feel good about it and called the hospital at 12:30am and cancelled. Thursday, September 20th, Danny and I were in charge of Pack Meeting, but Danny had an impromptu meeting with some guys from John Deer and I did Pack Meeting by myself. It was a piece of cake. I got home put everything away and Danny got home shortly after. Earlier that day he had promised me he would go on a walk with me for as far as I wanted. I wanted to walk around our block, about a mile. Not too far. We start walking and I change my mind and we go maybe a quarter of a mile. We were only a short distance away when I started to have pain. We kept up the pace, but once we were three quarters of the way done I had to slow way down and was hurting. We got home and got ready for bed, watched some T.V. and then went to sleep around 11:30. At 12:30 a.m. I woke up from my half sleep state and dreaming of having pain. I went to the bathroom and realized I was hurting. I took a bath and assumed the pain were contractions but wasn't sure. So in the tub I try to time them out but couldn't remember it. I got out and set myself up in the living room to time them. Danny comes out... 

D- what's up?

B-I just needed to take a bath. 

D-What are you doing out here?

B-I'm just going to watch some T.V. 

D-Are you in labor?

B-I might be. I'm going to time the contractions...

haha I sent him back to bed.

My contractions were 3-5 minutes apart lasting for 45 seconds to one minute and fifteen seconds for over an hour. When the pain got to bad around 3am I went and told Danny that I was ready to get ready to go to the  hospital. We left about 4:30 and were admitted around 6am. I was offered an epidural as soon as I got the I.V. in but declined because I was afraid of the needle. Haha The doctor broke my water at 7am and I got my first epidural at 8:25 am. It made things ten times worse. I felt like I had been hit by a truck. So the anesthesiology came back and redid my epidural at 9:33. Within seconds I was getting the tingle feeling and within less the five minutes I was sound asleep. Danny said shortly after they came in and hooked me up to Pitocin. I slept all day. I woke up about every hour in a half to two hours for about 15 minutes. At noon I was checked and was at a five and Kyler was still really high up. At 5:15 the nurse came back in and had to wake me up to check me. I was at nine and he was ready to come. She called the dr. got things ready and at 5:30pm I started to push. I had to push hard for about five contractions and then pushed only a little for a couple of contractions and then just let my body do the work until the dr arrived. Once he was ready I pushed three times for one contractions and Kyler was here. He arrived at 5:59pm. 8 pounds 1 ounce 20.75 inches long and PERFECT!

Needless to say, we fell in love instantly! We left the hospital 26 hours after he was born. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect baby. Kyler, we love you so much!