Burton Royal Croskrey - 07.08.2014

Burton was born on Tuesday 07.08.2014 at 4:49 AM weighed 7 lbs 8 ounces and was 20 inches long! the few days previous i was having contractions every 10 mins for about an hour or two at a time, and then they would stop for awhile. on sunday the 6th i was having pretty strong contractions and they were pretty consistent but not close enough together yet, so i went to bed. I woke up on the 7th and felt a little nauseous and not very hungry my contractions weren't too bad during the day luckily! my mom was here so we were doing fun things that day with her. we got home from a full day of fun and headed straight to Kenzie's dance class, i felt pretty good still having contractions, but they were getting more painful while i was at dance class. we got done with dance around 7 and went to rudys for dinner just me my mom and kenzie. i started having very very strong contractions and ate only a bite or two at rudys, which is not a normal thing because it is rudys the best BBQ! so we got home and it was around 9 ish and i was in lots of pain you know the pacing, couldn't stand or sit. jason was working still which is the norm now. i texted him at around 10 ish and said we are having a baby soon so he should come home! he got home about 10:45 and we took a couple pictures (at my moms request) and then went to the hospital. got there at about 11:30 and went to L&D and i was 5 cm dilated, but my contractions had gotten farther apart after being in the hospital bed for an hour so they were going to send me home, but the nurse decided to check me again and she said that my water had broke and i was being admitted. i was checked again shortly after and was dilated to a 6. so i got to my room and got an IV put in by a nursing student and by the time she was done trying i had 3 bruises on my arm, so the actual nurse got it on the 1st try and then i got my epidural and fell asleep. jason was there and he fell asleep on a little pull out couch they had in the room. at around 4 am they woke me up to check me again and i was at a 10, so they went to get the on call Dr. she was in an emergency c-section so i had to wait. that didn't happen they told me to do a "practice push" so i did and his head crowned and they ran to get the dr. and she got there just in time to catch him. I only pushed twice and it took 2 minutes and he was out! they had also woken jason up right before i was going to push. jason went to work at 6 ish and burton was taken to the nursery. i got to my room finally at around 10 am and burton was there with me, he had some stomach digestion problems. they think it was due to him being born so fast and swallowing lots of amniotic fluid. they did some X-rays to be safe, but luckily everything was normal! he had to stay and extra day to make sure. We sure do love this little guy, he is such a good baby! he knows what he wants and is very good at telling me when. he has a very strong set of lungs!