Cooper Vance Arrives

June 28, 2007

Number five has arrived! Here's how it all happened. I started feeling consistent contractions that morning and thought, could this be the day? So, I cleaned my house, shaved my legs, packed my hospital bag, and waited for my husband to finish working. Our friends the Reyes took all our children to their house and we headed to Porter Memorial Hospital. We checked in around 5p.m. and the doctor came and broke my water at 8:30p.m. I was dialated to a '3' and thought this is going to take FOREVER, so in the pain of the moment I requested the epidural. The doctor came 15 minutes later and tried unsuccessfully to put the needle in my back. Poke, poke, poke, poke--not sure how many times he poked me, but the contractions were killing me, I was killing Trevin with my fingernails and it wasn't working! Finally, he found the right space and he put a small amount of medication in while he got the rest ready. I started to feel a lot of pressure, the Dr. checked me and said the baby is coming, too late for the epidural, roll in the baby cart and it was time to push the baby out. I only had to push for a few minutes and---- Cooper was born! We didn't know what we were having although I thought we were having a boy . . . and I was right. He was a small 5lb. 3oz. baby boy. Afterwards, we were both starving so Trevin went and got pizza and a mandarin chicken salad from Wendy's. I was so VERY happy to finally have little Cooper here and that the whole pregnancy/labor thing was over!