Our lives were forever changed on August 7, 2013 at 8:34 a.m. when our beautiful baby boy was born. We found out a couple weeks prior to delivery that Baby Soran was breech. He had been head down, but ended up flipping right side up & decided to make his new home directly in my ribs on the right side, which meant many sleepless nights & a lot of constant pain.
After going over our options, we chose to schedule a c-section at 39 weeks. We spent the night before in a whirlwind of emotions. All of a sudden all this anticipation we'd built up for 9 months turned into downright fear knowing we would be parents in less than 12 hours.
I barely slept that night, and ended up waking around 4:00 to get ready before we went into the hospital. We marched into the child birth center at 5:50. Not long later they had us back in the delivery room prepping for the surgery.
The surgery took about 30 minutes. Our doctors & staff were AMAZING & made the whole experience memorable. One of my favorites parts was when the doctor asked me which Pandora station I wanted to listen to. I was taken by surprise, but very thankful for the distraction. I chose Classic Rock & that set the mood for the whole room. Everyone was in a great mood, we spent most the time talking and laughing about the most random topics. I hadn't even realized we were as far into the procedure as we were until the doc said, "Alright, if you don't want him to be born to this song, say so & we'll change it." The song playing was Another One Bites the Dust, thinking that wasn't the most appropriate song choice, I asked him to hit next. The next song was Welcome to the Jungle by Guns & Roses, which I thought was perfect! At 8:34 a.m. Thomas was born! He came out butt first, all 8 lbs 6 oz of adorableness!
(Here I am before all the surgery prep began.)
(Tom & me all dressed up for the operating room. It was go-time at this point!)
(The first picture of Thomas, right after he was pulled out!)
(My first picture with my son!)
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