Labor. Baby. Joy.

I had a baby this week!  On Monday, January 10th I started having contractions in the afternoon.  The baby we now call Treyden arrived at 9:56pm.  The plan was to have a natural labor as my previous labor experience with my first son took forever doing it with drugs.  I had this hunch things would go faster this time around if I could forgo the drugs.  Well, my hypothesis turned out to be true.  I was in hard labor for 2-3 hours.  And let me just say it was HARD.  I definitely underestimated how hard it would actually be.  Yeah, having a baby is painful.  I now know that firsthand.  But all the pain was worth it.  I got to hold my baby boy.  

Here's the kicker though.  If someone were to ask me, drugs or no drugs I'm not sure I know the answer.  I guess I'd have to say no drugs.  But let me tell you during the very hard part of labor I questioned myself as to why I would have decided to forgo pain medication.  Maybe everything was fuzzy at the time. I'm sure I wasn't thinking straight. 

It's all behind me now and we're experiencing pure joy at it's finest.  Every minute of every day I'm so thankful this little boy arrived safe and sound.