Birth Announcement (With Video) in 2015

Harlow Eve was born on 10/2/15 @ 1:55 PM. She weighed 7lbs 15 ounces. She is wonderful and beautiful and my heart is just overwhelmed with love.

By nothing but prayer alone, Harlow had turned head down on her own by our appointment Thursday morning. I was pleading with God to not make me go through with the version, or a c-section in the middle of the night. I loved every tear that fell from my eyes and Scott’s when the ultrasound tech said she was head down. We met with the doctor and decided we still wanted to induce so as not to give her another chance to flip around. She sent us home with instructions to come back to the hospital that night. We pulled Salem out of school early and took the kids to the mall for lunch and to see a movie so we could have one last day as a family of four.

We got to the hospital that night at 7 and after being checked in, I was given medicine to start prepping my body for delivery. The night was a little crazy, but we managed to sleep enough. The nurses woke me up at 7 to shower and get ready. At 8 they broke my water and started my pitocin. Things got really intense really quickly and I can not believe my labor was as short as it was. I promised I was going to keep this short, so I’ll just say that there are things that will forever remain special to me. Scott crying and pacing the room as I battled contractions a minute apart from each other, willing the anesthesiologist to show up with that epidural all because he hated to see me in pain. While waiting to push, I had a “hot spot” where the epidural was not working, and I was shaking and weeping with every contraction. I asked him to sing to me to try and distract from the pain. I didn’t care what it was, and he chose to sing “You Are My Sunshine,” the song he sang to me while we exchanged our vows. I cried violent tears full of love and even in old age, I will never forget how very, passionately loved I felt by him. And when I got to hold my messy, filled with new life little girl against my chest and her cries settled as she laid on my chest, I can’t begin to explain how very whole I felt. I never got that moment with Salem or Ian due to complications, and I NEEDED to have that with Harlow. God granted me that. And wouldn’t you know, the one dream I had, the only one I saw her face, her features are as exactly as they were in my dream.

Here’s our VLOG to announce her birth.