Welcome Brady Christian!!!

Johnny and I welcomed our son, Brady, into the world on Monday 8/2.

6lbs 9oz 20 inches

A head full of dark hair and dark eyes

(For some reason I knew he was going to have dark hair, but I had envisioned him having really blue eyes like Johnny...guess we'll see how they turn out in a little bit.)

I didn't get to bed on Monday until 2am...I just couldn't sleep.

At 5am...a contraction woke me up out of a dead sleep.

I think I might have even said outloud to myself "OK...I'm up!"

Johnny got up at 6 to get ready for work and began questioning whether or not he should go.

I told him to go on because the process could easily take all day.

I called my mom who I knew was probably getting ready for work.

When she answered I said "I'm not going to make it to my 11:45 dr appt today!"

She got ready and came over to the house so that I wouldn't have to be alone.

At 9:30 we decided that it was time to go to the hospital. The contractions were increasingly getting stronger and more frequent.

When I got to the hospital I was dilated to a 3...and about 45 minutes later I was at a 4.

They got me checked into a room and hooked up to machines that monitored my contractions and Brady's heartbeat.

Once I reached 6cm they called for the epidural.

I was so excited to see that anesthesiologist walk into my room!!

Unfortunately, 45 minutes after he gave me the epidural...

it stopped working on my left side - my right side was blissfully numb!

As the contractions got stronger I knew something was wrong.

The anesthesiologist came back to my room and decided another epidural was needed.

Second time was the charm!

At 5:50 I was at 10cm and ready to push...

At 6:32...

I looked into the eyes of my beautiful baby boy and fell in love!

Words can't really describe the experience of birth...

in a split second your world changes forever...

and you can't imagine it any other way!

Mommy & Daddy in between contractions

Love at first sight

A proud Daddy shows off Brady

Brady in the nursery

Sleeping peacefully after all the excitement