He Finally Came!!

Contractions started the night before while I was at the Fall Festival. Contractions came and went, while I was passing out candy, but not enough for me not to smile. I was thinking, is this really it. I had been having contractions every night for the past 3 nights, only for them to go away once I fell asleep. After getting home and getting all the kids to bed, I worked on some projects. While I was doing them, the contractions kept coming, and getting stronger. Randy had gone to bed. I took a shower and laid on the couch. I fell asleep, but woke up every time a contraction came. Yup, this is it. They were about 7 to 10 mins apart. Since this was my 5th baby and we live an hour away from the hospital, it was time to go in. It was 1 am by this point. My good friend Polly came and stayed with the kids until Grandpa could come in the morning. While driving over to the hospital, the contractions were getting closer and harder. We finally reached the hospital.

While the nurse was admitting us, she asked me what I was having. I nonchalantly replied, "A boy." Her eyes went wide and she said, "Are you sure, because your chart says girl." I looked at her and said, "What!" She grabbed my chart and showed me. In capital letters, the ultrasound report said "FEMALE". All I could think was, if this baby comes out a girl, we are in trouble. We had drawers of boy clothes at home. I was pretty sure that we were having a boy, but, you never know.

We checked in and the first request was for that epidural. All of you who do it "all na-tur-al", don't laugh. I see the epidural as my reward for all the aches and pains of pregnancy. As soon as the epidural kicked in, Randy and I went back to sleep. At around 7:30am, I called the nurse, letting her know that I was feeling a lot of PRESSURE. She checked me and it was "Baby Time"!! I started pushing at 7:40am, baby was born at 7:51am. The first thing Randy said was, "It's a boy!" I laughed.

When I heard him cry, it was a little surreal to think that I had a baby again. It has been 7 years since we've heard a baby of our own crying. I did get teary hearing it. I actually didn't get to see him for at least 5 mins because I closed my eyes during the whole "pushing" ordeal and the pediatric team whisked him away to work on him. He did have thick mec when they broke my water. They suctioned all the gunk out of him, and he had great agars.

So, at 7:51am on Halloween of 2010, we welcomed

Jace 'Isaia Sasaki

to our family. He weighed a whopping 10 lbs 4 oz. and was 22 1/4" long.

**As soon as our other computer is up and running, I will post pictures.