Garrison Adam Bal.....LONG OVERDUE!

I haven't had much time to blog with a newborn....but hopefully you already know .....Garrison Adam Bal was born on June 28, 2008 at 2:41pm! He couldn't be anymore perfect! The labor wasn't as bad as I had imagined either. Friday, June 27th, was my last day at work and I was lucky to have him the next day. I didn't want to waste any of my maternity leave without my baby! Friday adam and I went to sams club and barnes and nobles to walk around. That night, I told Adam, we may have a baby sooner than tuesday (when they were going to induce). Adam got a little nervous...LOL. He started cleaning like crazy and packing more stuff in our already packed bags. He even asked me if we had diapers somewhere....what did he think I had been doing for the last 9 months?? Of course we had diapers! So I woke up at 2am on saturday with bad back contractions and alot of other "complications" and my dr said I needed to go to the hospital. At 330 am we arrived, I as dilated to a 3 and my contractions were every 4 min apart. Around noon, I was fully dilated and started in on the pushing. What a beating! I had gotten the epidural around 1030am, and I think I tried to wait it out a little bit too long. I started shaking and was pale as a ghost. My nurse kept saying are you all right? Heck no im not alright, this hurts!! There for a bit, before the epi kicked in, I was thinking this child is an only child, I wont go through this again! At some point Garrison turned and was trying to come out sunny side up, or face up. I turned on my side and tried to help him out that way, bc he was stuck. They put my on oxygen and put an internal monitor in the little guys head to monitor his heart rate. Everytime I had a contraction, his heart rate was dropping too low. The Dr came in and suggested a c section, at which time the baby was still doing fine, so I said no thanks, I want to keep trying. About 30 min later, Garrison's head was starting to swell bc he couldnt make it out, and so the Dr said its time for a c section or a forceps delivery. Off to the OR we went, and Garrison was born at 2:41pm. In a split second my life changed forever! Adam is an amazing dad, he just loves the little guy so much!