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My miracle rainbow baby, Brayden Riley, arrived Saturday, July 5th after plenty of fireworks at 8:23am, weighing a whopping 8lbs. 11oz. and 21 inches long! He's absolutely perfect! 
I went into spontaneous labor (thank GOD!) Friday, July 4th at about 1:30pm at 41 weeks + 1day. So all in all an 18 hours labor. I was set to be induced Monday, July 7th, so I'm so glad he decided to make his appearance on his own. I labored at home until about 8-8:30 pm but by 6:30 pm I was in excruciating pain with each new contraction. I thought for sure I had to be at least 5 cm dilated but when I checked in at L&D I was 100% effaced but only 2 cm!!!
I was having bad back labor and let me tell you, that is no joke ladies!!! My doctor decided to let me stay and get the epidural as I was so past due. I finally got the epidural about 11:30pm and it was sweet, heavenly relief! Apparently all my body needed to dilate was me to relax more! By 2am I was 9cm and by 3:30 I was 10! My waters just refused to break so we decided to "practice" pushing before my doctor got there and by 4:30 am my waters finally broke! There was some meconium so there was a little concern that the baby may aspirate it. They called to give the NICU a heads up and decided to let me rest until 7 and try pushing again since the baby was still only at +2 station. I started pushing at 7am and he was born at 8:23 . He did swallow a bit of fluid so they scooped him up and worked on his lungs for a bit before I could hold him 
. His lungs are great now and he even started nursing fairly quickly like a champ! He's still a little jaundiced but getting better every day and he's already gotten back to his birth weight and exceeded it at todays appointment!
Here's my beautiful boy snuggling on his daddy and with me after delivery
I went into spontaneous labor (thank GOD!) Friday, July 4th at about 1:30pm at 41 weeks + 1day. So all in all an 18 hours labor. I was set to be induced Monday, July 7th, so I'm so glad he decided to make his appearance on his own. I labored at home until about 8-8:30 pm but by 6:30 pm I was in excruciating pain with each new contraction. I thought for sure I had to be at least 5 cm dilated but when I checked in at L&D I was 100% effaced but only 2 cm!!!
I was having bad back labor and let me tell you, that is no joke ladies!!! My doctor decided to let me stay and get the epidural as I was so past due. I finally got the epidural about 11:30pm and it was sweet, heavenly relief! Apparently all my body needed to dilate was me to relax more! By 2am I was 9cm and by 3:30 I was 10! My waters just refused to break so we decided to "practice" pushing before my doctor got there and by 4:30 am my waters finally broke! There was some meconium so there was a little concern that the baby may aspirate it. They called to give the NICU a heads up and decided to let me rest until 7 and try pushing again since the baby was still only at +2 station. I started pushing at 7am and he was born at 8:23 . He did swallow a bit of fluid so they scooped him up and worked on his lungs for a bit before I could hold him . His lungs are great now and he even started nursing fairly quickly like a champ! He's still a little jaundiced but getting better every day and he's already gotten back to his birth weight and exceeded it at todays appointment! Here's my beautiful boy snuggling on his daddy and with me after delivery
