Five years ago this morning at 6:31 am I gave birth to my first baby. A very loved baby boy whom we named Gibson Brock Herzog Halbert. Let me start around 10:30 am on June 1, 2006.....I had been put on complete bed rest on May 30th due to my blood pressure being so high. Laying around in bed is not something that made me happy, I was bored out of my mind. I mean come on you can only read so long and watch so much TV. My due date wasn't until June 15th...with this being my first baby I didn't know what to expect. All I knew was that there was NO WAY I could stand being on complete bed rest until June 15th. God knew that too because at around 10:30 am on June 1st I had got up to switch laundry loads. While in the laundry room, I felt a pop and a bunch of gunk came out. I was leaking watery stuff. I immediately called Mike. He told me that he thought that my water had just broke. I was all cool and calm said ok, I'd call Dr Cunningham to see what I needed to do. I spoke with Jaimee (who just had baby girl)she asked if the liquid was clear and I told her yes. She said that my water had indeed broke and that I needed to get to the hospital. I then asked if I could take a shower. Jaimee told me that would be fine. So, I called Mike back to let him know that he needed to get home because we were going to have a baby. Mike had called my parents to let them know and he was already on his way home. I was just getting out of the shower when he got home. He was way more nervous than me. He kept telling me to hurry up. I told him that I needed to call my work and let them know that I was headed to the hospital. He told me that could wait, that I could do that in the car. He headed me out the door so fast that I forgot my wedding ring on the bathroom sink. I couldn't have my baby without my rings....Let me just say that my wedding ring is my most favorite piece of jewelry. So, while on the way to the hospital I called work and my Mom. Asked my mom if she would stop at our house and get my wedding ring. We got to the hospital, checked in, all hooked up and waited. And Waited and waited! I was given meds to speed up the contractions....IT HURT! I had it all planned to have my baby with no meds for the pain but when I got to a 5 I was begging for the epidural. During the early morning hours I was pushing and pushing. Baby just didn't want to come out and the heart rate kept dropped. The dr was close to ordering a c-section when he said lets try a few more pushes. At 6:31 am on June 2nd, my beautiful baby boy decided to come out and meet us. The cord was wrapped around his neck, so the nurses immediately took him away to work on him. Talk about scared. No one would tell us anything. I told Mike to go check on the baby but they wouldn't let him near the baby. Finally after what seemed like forever, our baby cried. Our baby boy weighed 7 lbs 6 oz and was 19 inches long. The most beautiful baby in the world was placed in my arms. We had no idea if God was going to bless us with a baby boy or a baby girl. We chose to be surprised and surprised we were when Dr McCaul told us that we had a baby boy. To me Gibson was just beautiful or do I need to say handsome? Either way I was totally in love.
After about 20 hours of labor I forgot about all the pain I had just went through.
I thank God every day for blessing us with Gibson and trusting us to do our best to raise him right. Here's some pictures that was taken on one of the most wonderful days of my life.
Now 5 years later.....
The first picture was taken with the birthday hat that he got at school. A week before school was out they celebrated the summer birthdays. The second picture was taken over Memorial Day weekend. I just can't believe it has been 5 years since I held this big boy as a baby boy. HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY GIBSON BROCK HERZOG HALBERT!
WITH LOTS OF LOVE FROM DADDY, MOMMY, KYLEE, NOLAN, BLANCHE & RIPKEN
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