Cambric has arrived!!!

Can you believe it? He's here! He is FINALLY here!!!

Ok honestly I felt like my pregnancy went by really quickly, except for that last month. Now that could have lasted forever!!!

I have lots and lots of information but for today we will go with just the birth story. So here we go....

At my 38 week appointment my doctor was a little concerned about how big Cambric was getting and how he wasn't dropping down into my pelvis, so she sent me to get a ultrasound to check his weight. Well he was measuring at 8.2lbs with a 40 week old's head! EEK! So at my 39week appointment, my doctor walked in and said "Hey people with the big baby!" EEKK again! After trying to break my water (OUCH) and trying to get me into the hospital that night, she ended up setting my induction for Sunday night. During that visit she did talk about how she was concerned about me having to have a c-section but she knew I wanted to try for a vaginal and so she was going to let me. So thankful she didn't try to pressure me like most doctors do now days.

We checked in at 6pm and around 7pm they put this little pill behind my cervix to soften me up. They said for some women, it would throw them into labor and that is exactly what it did for me. At around 9pm I was having contractions every 1- 1 1/2minutes. But they didn't hurt so it wasn't bad. They ended up having to pump me with fluids to try to get them to slow down so that it wouldn't aggravate the baby.

We did lots to pass the time... Ok actually we just played a lot of card games, I bounced on a birthing ball, and walked the halls with my mom. The nurses kept asking me "are you SURE your not in pain?" I guess the 3 months of contractions helped prepare me for this! :) Around midnight I got up to go to the restroom and the nurses came in because they couldn't detect the baby's heartbeat. They had to give me oxygen so that the baby would get oxygen. Poor Troy was so freaked out and yet somehow it didn't even faze me. Then around 3am, it happened again and Troy slept through all the commotion! lol

My doctor came in just before 7am and broke my water. Boy did I have a lot, I mean A LOT of fluid. It just kept coming and coming and coming. SO thankful it didn't break in public or like on my couch! ;) About 30 minutes after she broke it, it was still coming out and I told the nurse "I know you just changed my sheets but the water is all the way down to my feet." She lifted up the sheets and was like "Whoa!" haha That was probably like 10 of the pounds I gained right there!

The anesthesiologist came in around the same time and gave me my epidural. I just want to take this moment to tell all the women who go ALL NATURAL how AWESOME yall are! The epi didn't kick in till I was 9cm (an hour before I had him) and that was just not fun! I wish I could say I was strong enough to take it but I wasn't and I LOVED the epi!!!! Well, once it kicked in I did at least. I think at some point as I was getting stitched up later I said something along the lines of "Why wouldn't you want this wonderful drug?" lol But I really do understand why a lot of women want to try to natural.

Anyways, Cambric's heartbeat kept getting lost through all this so I spent the entire morning on oxygen. That mask sure is annoying!!! Right before I began pushing, my doctor talked to me about how she thought the umbilical cord was wrapped somehow and that I was going to have to push him out quickly or else she was going to have to take him. I didn't go through all those hours of labor for nothing and I was determined that I was going to get him out and QUICK!!! At 11:30 they had me push twice to see if I could get his head to drop. About 10-15 minutes later my doctor came back in ready to go.  I had to have an episiotomy (so thankful for the epi at that time) and they had to use the vacuum on his poor little head but I got him out in about 10-15 minutes.

At 11:57am Cambric Noah Tuttle arrived!!!!! They threw his tiny little bloody body up on my chest and I kissed him and cried. Of course Troy cried more....and harder! :) SO thankful that my momma was in the room with us because Troy didn't want to take pictures or video so my mom did for us. I have watched that video over and over. If you want to see, I'll be happy to show you! Not to worry, it doesn't show anything! :) Of course you do see all the nurses and student nurses on the floor walk in right when I'm doing my final pushes and everyone is yelling for me. My doctor and some nurses knew me as Meagan, some other nurses and Troy were calling me Camille, and my mom was calling me Millie. So in the video you hear a lot of "You got this girl! Come on Meagan. Come on Camille, you can do this. You got this Millie! Your doing so good girl!" It's quite funny!

My big ol baby ended up being 7lbs14oz and 21 1/4in. long. When they told me I said "Oh he isn't that big," and my doctor looked up from her  stitching me up and said "GIRL, that is big for you!" and then looked back down and back up at me again! She was so sweet and kept telling me how proud she was of me and couldn't believe I got him out so quickly.

I don't think I've slept more than 2 hours at a time since then but boy do I love this little man! I feel so complete now! What an honor it is that God chose me to be this little boy's momma! OH MAN! I'm crying! And I am so blessed that Troy is my husband! I always wanted to marry someone like my daddy and I got my wish! Troy has been so amazing and he is such a good daddy!!! Boy am I blessed!