Meeting Baby Joseph for the 1st time

It all started with some little cramps on Saturday evening, October 16th. We went out to eat with some friends at Rudy's BBQ, then went to Joey's soccer game at 9:30pm. We got home from the game and I was cleaning up the gameroom a bit and doing some housework. I got in bed at midnight, only to wake up about 1am and my water had broke! I told Joey it's time to go to the hospital! He loaded my 4 bags of stuff, plus his one bag. I grabbed a towel and off we went!
At the hospital they made sure it was really my water that broke (it was) and I got in a room a bit after 2am. At that time I was dilated to a 1. My doctor wasn't on call, so the doctor on call ordered me to start pitocin. I wanted the epidural before the pitocin, so I got the epidural around 4:45am, and the pitocin started about 5am. At about 8:30am I was already dilated to a 9 !
My parents and Joey's parents made it to the hospital around 9am, they got to come in and say hi before I started pushing. It was exciting and nice to see them before baby came.
The birth itself was rough and I had a pretty hard time. Baby was face up and had the cord wrapped all around him. I pushed for two and a half hours and the baby was just not wanting to come out. The doctor gave me the choice of using the suction to help or go for a C-section. After trying so hard for so long, I didn't want to give up and go for a C-section, so I told her to use the suction. After pushing about 5 or 6 more times and the doctor using the suction about 4 times...Baby Boy Joseph was born!! It was amazing having him in my arms for the first time. Truly God's miracle. I have a long road to recovery, but I am doing fine and slowly healing. Baby has already been to the doctor 3 times for jaundice and had his little heel stuck twice. But he is over the jaundice and will be seen for his 2 week check up on Monday.
My mom and Joey had been taking great care of both of us these past 2 weeks. I think I would have just died without their help and support. I am so thankful for the friends who have brought us dinner and for all the prayers from everyone.
We are so excited to begin our life with our sweet little boy.