Baby pt. 2

So the slightly abbreviated version is up, now for a little more filler.
Ok, women across the world will probably want to maul me for saying this.... but here goes.

The whole labor was not that bad. Let me rephrase that.... FOR MYSELF ONLY, labor was not terrible. Uncomfortable? YES. Brought me to tears? YES. But overall, and I count my blessings, my whole pregnancy experience was....pretty wonderful. I pat myself on the back for making it to 8cm without meds. And in hindsight, I feel I could have delivered her completely naturally and had her within 2 hours of being at the hospital. But, my water did not break, and I had to have a catheter put in- so I was pretty happy that I had the epidural.

It only took three pushes to get her out into the world, and she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Everyone says that, but I mean it with all my heart. When the doctor placed her warm, wet little body on my chest, she might as well have been handing me my heart to hold on to. Hailey was the most alert, happy person to have been born. She immediately grabbed my finger and just stared at me. Even the clamminess of her skin was perfect. Unless we have another child, there will never be another time on my life, where I had no other care in the world then what I was holding in my hands. This person..this life.. my DAUGHTER, the one thing on this planet I had been so anxiously waiting for was here and she did not disappoint.

My mother, sister and husband were all present for her birth, the three people I know she will always look to in my absence or even when she is just not getting what she wants out of me, have literally known her from her first breath. I can't imagine anything more special.

So there I was, still in the stirrups, holding this perfect little person, and all I could think of was how thankful I was to have this wonderful experience. To have had a healthy pregnancy, a relatively short labor and the people I love the most to have shared it with, what else could a person want? What else could a mother want? And now, I can officially answer that question.

NOTHING.