I've been starting to think about Viv's 3rd birthday. THIRD BIRTHDAY. Even the thought of it makes me get teary eyed and I start to wonder where in the hell the time has gone. My baby is truly growing up. Then again, she'll always be my baby. I never did a birth story like I planned to do and at this point it feels like it was forever ago. I still may do one.
Her birth was long and exhilarating, and the most difficult and exhausting thing I have ever endured. At the end of a 26 hour labor, where most of it was done without the use of drugs, I pushed her from me in less than an hour. We checked in to the hospital around 2:30 am the previous morning after laboring all night at home, and she wasn't born until 10:10 pm that night. I'll never forget that feeling as long as I live. In that moment she changed me. It feels like yesterday and yet it feels like forever ago. I remember thinking how clean and pink she looked, and I felt like I had just won the lottery and finished the Ironman at the same time. This baby I just delivered was actually mine. Mine! We were an instant family. What a beautiful three years it has been...
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| Still connected. 3 seconds old. |
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| Love |
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| Still in the delivery room. |
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| Home. |
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