Personal Birthing Experience

Well I have two very memorable birthing experiences...the birth of my two boys now 15 and 13. My firstborn son Ryan was an extremely memorable one, when going into labor with him I didn't know exactly what to expect, so after feeling contractions for about five hours I decided to finally go to the hospital around 4am. I was one week overdue and ready to get this baby out of me, so we drove to the hospital just to find out that I was barely dilated, it was disappointing but the doctor told me that I would be induced which made me very happy. After I was induced they broke my water just to find there was meconium in the water, and luckily I was about to give birth at a hospital that had one of the best neo-natal intensive care units. The doctors warned me that my son would not be able to breath for the first few minutes after birth and that they would suck out all of the meconium from his lungs and then I would be able to hold him. After I had the epidural I wasn't too concerned about what was to come, I felt very reliable on the doctors experiences and everything had gone as planned. After they were able to suck all the meconium from him, they handed him to me and wondered very quickly whose nose he had and checked out all his other very long and adorable limbs. He turned out to have a snort for a while, and a skin disorder but otherwise just perfect!! My youngest son Tyler was a wonderful experience, I knew what to expect when giving birth and the pregnancy was wonderful! I stayed at home a very long time before rushing to the hospital and by the time we got there, he was 8cm dialated and fully efaced. I had a mid-wife with this pregnancy and she was just wonderful! I did not have an epidural with him, just a pain killer, I gave birth to him and when he was born he was just perfect and as there were no complications I was able to hold him right away and bond...it was simply wonderful!