Davis Grant Butters

In all honesty, I'm not even sure how to go about writing this. Bringing Davis into the world is a day I honestly never want to forget. I had heard many times that it was a spiritual experience but until you go through it, you don't quite understand.
I was a few days overdue and my Dr was determined to get this baby out before he had to induce me. I went in and got my membranes stripped a few times throughout the week hoping it would kick start labor. Well finally on Sunday June 8th, we were in church when my contractions decided to pick up again. They had been steady the night before and right before we were about to head to the hospital, they stopped. After church we headed out for an afternoon walk in hopes of getting my contractions closer together and it worked! Once they were 3-5 minutes apart for about an hour and a half we decided to head to the hospital. When we got there, the nurses took me back, hooked me up and we were relieved when they said I was in active labor and would having a baby! Grant and I got settled in at about 3:30 pm. I got my epidural at about 5:30 and my Dr. was in to break my water at 6:30. I was dilated to a 4 and I was assuming it was going to be a very long night. They came back and checked me at 8:30 and I was still a 4 so they started me on pitocin..At about 9:30 I was in a lot of pain. My epidural didn't seem to be working and I was having a contraction that wasn't stopping. After about 15 minutes of pain and one really long contraction I called in my nurse. My body had kicked into full blown labor on its own again and the pitocin was making my contractions come double time. Since I was having one steady contraction my epidural couldn't keep up and I was feeling everything.  At this point I was at a 7. They decided to stop my pitocin and let my body do the rest of the work. We got my epidural up and running again and I was able to relax a little. At about 11 they came in and I was now dilated to 9 1/2 and they decided to call my Dr. He got there about 11:30 and by 11:40 I started pushing. After just a short 35 minutes Davis entered the world. They placed him on my chest and I couldn't hold back the tears and emotions. It was the most amazing moment. To finally be holding my baby and have my husband by my side.