Our Blessing

Our dreams finally came a reality on January 22, 2010 when we were blessed with our beautiful baby girl Mya Danelle Adams. My pregnancy with Mya was perfect. I couldn't have asked for a better nine months. I never got morning sickness, I didn't gain an excessive amount of weight, and most importantly, Mya was absolutely perfectly healthy. That is the only request that I had asked of God. Please bless me with a healthy baby, and my prayers were answered. Labor and delivery were a lot more bearable than I could have imagined. I was terrified of giving birth, extremely. I went into it with an open mind, hoping that I could have the baby with no epidural. Nope, not the case, and I am totally OK with that. An epidural is a LIFE SAVER!! My water broke at 1:30am (which was a shock because when I saw my Dr. earlier in the week, I had not made any progress, and we were thinking she would be coming later than her due date). That was it, we were having a baby. I was suprisingly relaxed and ready to go to the hospital with NO anxiety!! Shocking!! Here is a picture of Klay and I as we were off to the hospital! Can you tell that she had "dropped", my belly looks funky! She was ready to go:

We arrived at the hospital at 2:30am. No contractions, none! So at 7:30 they hooked me up to Pitocin to induce labor. Ya, not so fun! I ended up getting an epidural pretty early on, thank goodness. The epidural was fantistic until it wore off on my left side...ouch!! I took the pain for awhile, remember waking up freaking out because the pain was so bad. I was at 8cm and my epidural was no longer in affect. Finally, the Dr. came in and fixed my tubing and gave me a suringe dose of pain killers for the epidural. Oh, lord, I was in heaven. A half hour later, it was time for me to push! I was worried that I would feel some sort of pain, but thankfully, everything went so smooth and pain free. I was told to push at 6pm and at 6:15pm Mya entered the world. She welcomed the world at a whopping 6lbs 1oz and 18 1/2 inches long. She came out with an attitude, let me tell ya!

Thanks to her, I feel confident that I can be pregnant and go through labor and delivery again. She was good to me, and still is. She is such a strong baby with such a loving personality. She is finally here, and now we can start living our lives as The Adams Family.