So this is Love..
The outcome to the 40 weeks of waiting.
Our angel Zoe Isabella Maynes
But let's back up a little and hear her beautiful birth story.
February 22, 2011
It was a Tuesday night in Las Cruces, NM and Zoe's Daddy, Michael and I decided to go out and do a little shopping. We stopped by Big Lots and bought a new digital camera (right on time ;)), then to Marshalls and last stop was Ross. I was exhausted (as usual) and the store was just closing. We got into our suv and we decided to open up our new camera and mess around with it a bit..AND THEN IT HAPPENED..At approximately 9:30 pm MY WATER BROKE. We were both soo excited, a little anxious, and extremely READY to have our baby girl. Thank God we had bought 12 rolls of paper towels at Big Lots right before because at that point, they really came in handy! LOL..
It worked out really well being in the Ross parking lot when my water broke, because the hospital was just down the street about a mile away. So we rushed over and they got me upstairs to the Labor and Delivery floor. It had been about 10 minutes and I wasn't feeling any pain yet. I was 2 1/2 cm and almost 100% efaced. The first thing they asked me is if I wanted to have my epidural. As tempting as it sounded, I wanted to experience a little bit of what the birth pains felt like so I asked them to wait until I was ready. 45 minutes after they gave me some petocin, they brought in the epidural LOL.
At this point, I was feeling AMAZING :)
The Dr. and nurses told me I should go to sleep and let my body rest. Yeah right, they couldn't possibly be serious.. I'm going to be holding my daughter in less than 24 hours, and you want me to go to sleep?!? Mike had no problem going to bed on the other hand LOL. So I kept myself busy watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians and before i knew it, 2 hours went by and they were ready to check my cervix again. Only progressed about 1/2 cm. So we played the waiting game again..NO PROGRESS
This was the scary part for me. I was afraid of feeling pain, not pushing right, or getting too tired in the middle of it all. Our nurse Heather gave me a pep talk and got Mike and I both mentally prepared for what we were about to do. She did such an amazing job coaching us both on the best way to get our angel out and into our arms. She explained that it could take me up to 3 hours to get the baby out, since I was a 1st time Mom. But I wasn't having that. After 17 minutes of pushing.. I heard my daughter cry. At that moment in time, my life changed forever. I was now a Mother. All I could do was cry and hold my beautiful healthy baby girl in my arms. Something clicked inside of me right then. This was my purpose in life; to be the best Mother I can to this perfect innocent angel we had been blessed with. My life was then complete. Everything was perfect in that moment.
Zoe Isabella Maynes was born February 23,2011 at 12:39 PM, weighing a petite 6 lbs. 14 oz. and 19 in. long. She was born with a full head of curly black hair. The first thing I noticed about her when I saw her, was she looked so much like her Father. She had his nose, toes, ears, head shape, legs, lips..pretty much everything LOL. It was the most adorable thing to me and I have never felt more proud in my life.
Daddy's little girl
My Amazing Support Team
Nurse Heather :)
Our Blessing
