Hunter Taggart Martin

I'm finally writing about my sweet baby boy.  Hunter Taggart was born June 9, 2012 at 1:28 am.  He was 7 lbs. 2 oz. and 20 inches long.  

My water broke at 10:30 Friday morning, luckily I had just taken a shower.  After calling my doctor's office, my friend Amy to come pick me up and Josh's office I finished getting ready and made sure I had everything for the hospital.  Amy and I swung by Carl's Jr on the way since I knew I wouldn't be eating anything for a while.  

Since I wasn't actually in labor the nurses checked to make sure that my water had indeed broken.  Then there was just lots of waiting.  Amy stayed with me until Josh got to the hospital.  He had been doing IV that day so he finished up with a few more patients and came over.  He never even went home, his assistant Jayden had to buy him an outfit to wear.  Around 4 I started feeling contractions and by 6 they were pretty intense.  Since I had always planned on getting an epidural I decided I had had enough contractions and the anesthesiologist hooked  me up.  After that it wasn't too bad. By 10 I was fully dilated, but I decided to wait an hour to let Hunter descend a little further.   I started pushing a little after 12.   I didn't have to push too long before my nurse told me to stop since the doctor was on his way.  After my doc got there I pushed for maybe 30-40 minutes and poof there he was, this tiny perfect little baby.  Don't be mislead by this post; there was still lots of stitches, some throwing up, turning blue because of need of oxygen, and lack of food for far too long mixed in there.  But it wasn't as bad as I had imagined.  Now all the stuff that comes after delivery, that was much worse than I had imagined.  Did I mention my mom was there?  She flew in Friday night, which was wonderful.  My bestie Amy came back Friday night and did a great job capturing all the excitement.  Here are a few pics from that day.

 

It was a very special day that I will never forget.  I love my little boy more that I could have every imagined.  There is nothing better than being a mom.