Tip #15 for being a youth pastors wife

Well it's official..

Along with being a wife I have now become a mom....

Wow let me just sit here and let that soak in..it hasn't yet but I know that it will!

I am a mom...someone that will claim me has his support and care giver until he is on his own.. a mom...

Arie Malachi Guinen

Born April 15, 2013 @ 11:45 pm!

7lbs, 5oz 20 inches long!!

This little boy has stolen my heart.

He came into this world after 17 1/2 hours of the labor of love :) I was doing great and going through the labor part of it when contractions had started, after my water had broke and after 12 long hours I gave in a took some pain medicine. Pain medicine that I will tell you I will never take again in my life. They need to change the name to " this will not help your pain at all but make you feel crazy and not remember a lot of what's going on in the room around you" medicine. As the medicine wore off, the nurses came in to tell me that I had stopped progressing in my dilation and I had to make a tough choice.

Going into this labor I wanted to go as natural as possible because I do not like the idea of medicine. Taking the pain medicine I did was to try to ease the pain but only came to learn that it hurt taking it. When my nurse came in she said she had talked to my doctor and she has suggested that I wait an hour to see how much more I progress and if I haven't then to go in for a C Section or I could get an epidural and see how that helps me progress. At that moment I wanted nothing more than to be out of pain because of the medicine I had taken it made my contractions so much worse so C section was right there on the tip of my tounge. Joel and I talked it through and we decided to get the epidural with the risk of it not working to see how well it would go.

Getting my epidural I was at 6cm and when they finally got done I went from 6 to 10 in 20 minutes and was ready to push!! After pushing for 45 minutes Arie finally made his way into this world!

Then my world was shaken.

When he was on his way out, I was told to stop pushing. I come to find out that his cord was wrapped around his neck. The doctor cut the cord and sucked out everything that needed to be sucked out and I had one more push and he was born into the world. Taking straight to the table to get more suction and everything needed to help him breathe I couldn't get over the fact that my child hadn't cried or took his first breathe and it made me numb and motionless. What felt like minutes I was told was 30 seconds and I heard that little cry for the very first time...

Arie Malachi took his first breathe.

They cleaned him off and finished all the measurements and tests needed when he was first born and then they put that little body on my chest and I finally got to feel the little boy I had felt inside for these long 9 months inside.. He was perfect!

Having the support and love that I had all around me the whole day that we were there was such an incredible feeling. People staying and supporting and praying for us even if they didn't even get to see me, Joel or Arie was incredible and I can't thank those that were there and not able to be there more than enough! You guys are awesome.

Coming out of the delivery and getting to see the family and friends that were there to meet Arie was awesome and I was told that it was the biggest group that they have ever seen on the maternity floor waiting for a birth.

Now were home.. and Grandma's are gone..family is home and its just me and Joel taking on this little life all by ourselves. Googling everything, asking tons of questions to each other we can't answer and when we figure that if Google can't answer it we just lay there and cuddle with our little family.

It has been almost 2 weeks and I can say that we are getting it. We are learning and discovering together to figure out this little thing called life :)