Boston's Story

On Thursday October 6th I woke up about 1am with contractions. They weren't extremely strong but they were consistant. By 1:45am the contractions were still consistant so I decided to get up and walk around. I had been having contraction off and on since Sunday but they usually didn't last this long. By 1:50am my water broke. I really didn't know what was happening exactally because my water didn't burst it just started coming slowly. I went into wake up Jess and when I told him that my water broke he didn't believe me. He said "are you sure?" I was 2 and a half weeks early so I can understand why Jess didn't believe this was happening, I wasn't really sure I should believe myself. Well Jess got up and started to get ready but he was taking his sweet time. He wandered around for a minute still in disbleief. Finally about 20 minutes later while he was brushing his teeth and I started pounding on the door telling him we really need to go. The night before all of this happened I was putting away laundry and decided that maybe I should pack us and Boston a hospital bag "just in case" we needed it. Well looking back I am so glad I did. By this time it is now around 2:30am, my constraction were a lot stronger and my water was still "breaking." We checked into Labor and Delivery around 2:50 am and the nurse came it to check and see how things were going. She confirmed that my water did break and that I was dilated to a 5. After this she started asking me questions like if I wanted a epidural etc and Jess turns to her and says "so wait we are staying" She just smiled and said that we were having a baby today. Jess was still in disbelief until that point. The anesthesiologist was not supposed to be into work until 4 so I had to wait until about 430am to get my epidural and he did a great job. One of Jess' best friends Matt and his wife Mckenzi were scheduled to have their little girl Anzli on the same day. Jess new that they were supposed to call the hospital at 5 that morning to find out what time they should come in so at 5 Jess sent a text to Matt and told him that he had a room saved right next door. When Matt wrote back they were actually there walking down the hall and they were put in the room right next door. The whole time Mckenzi and I were pregnant they boys joked that is would be cool to be in the hospital together but we were due 3 weeks apart so nobody thought it was possible. Well it turns out that Boston and Anzli really wanted to be born on the same day! By 6am that morning I was dilated to a 10 and 100% effaced. They were going to have me try and wait and hour before pushing but by 6:23 they had me start to push. I ended up pushing until 9:39am when he was finally born. He was very closed to coming but he was stuck on my bone so they ended up using the vacuum to help him come. He is so perfect and we love him so much!
Our first family photo.

Just minutes after Boston was born.

Matt & Anzli Jess & Boston on the day we were all heading home.

These pictures were taken when Boston was a little over two weeks old.