Baby Johnny Kingston has arrived

Johnny Kingston Ayers

October 17, 2014

8:31pm

7lbs 2oz

18.5 inches

Johnny's birth story

I went to my 38 week check-up and was already 4cm dilated, 70% effaced and -2 (not quite sure what that means). I had Jackson at 37 weeks and 1 day so you can imagine I was ready to have this baby!!! I was due October 28th and Jackson's 2nd birthday party was on November 1st. I was afraid that he wasn't going to come out and I would miss Jackson's party! 

I asked the doctor about being induced if he hadn't arrived on his due date, she said I would have to wait until 41 weeks, I don't think so! I told her I didn't want to miss my sons party and she said she could scrap my membrane and that it would help start contractions. I was like yes please! 

I thought for sure I was going to go in labor later that evening, I started to get all crampy, but no. I went to work Thursday and thought something would happen...no. Friday I went to work and my manager let me walk the stairs, I walked up 10 flights and then down them. On my lunch I walked for 15 minutes, I wanted to meet my baby!!!

At 1:50pm I started getting cramps that felt different, I had been having braxton hicks. I told my manager I need to leave, they feel different. So I left at 2:10 and had to drive home from work on a Friday from Bellevue during traffic! I took the carpool lane home and it still took around an hour. I met my husband at home and we got all our stuff and drove to the hospital...Auburn to Tacoma on a Friday in traffic! I'm pretty sure it took almost another hour and I was really in pain by this time.

We got to the hospital, checked in and I went into the room where they checked me out. I was 4-5cm dilated. They brought me to my room and got my IV in. I asked for my epidural right away. It took them awhile to finally give it to me and this time it didn't work right away. I could still feel contractions in my lower tummy and my right hip felt like it was on fire. They checked me within an hour after they gave me my epidural and I was already 10cm!

They broke my water and had me wait for an hour to "labor down". Which was good because my epidural started working by the time I had to push and I did my make-up :)

I pushed for about 5 minutes and then my sweet baby boy was here!!!

The funniest thing about his birth date is I had a dream I would have him October 17th and he would be 7lbs 1oz. He was 7lbs 1.6oz, but they rounded up to 7lbs 2oz. How cool is that :)