From My Parent's Basement: Samuel Dodge, Sam, Sammy, SammyD, Honey bun, Mister, etc..

I know this is 3 1/2 months late.. but here is the birth of SammyD.
October 8th is my nephew Donny's Birthday. He turned 4 last year. I was sad I wasn't able to make it to his party.. (I go to all of my sister's kid's parties.. mainly to see what big event she has planned and created.. also I love her kids) We called little Donny on the night of his birthday.. I made my sister keep him awake until Dan got home from work. We sang and he laughed.. it was a good time. Still not able to fully understand what he says over the phone.. I understood that they went and got pizza.. that is about all I got out of the conversation. The kid is hilarious though. ANYWAY.. right after we had called.. we decided to go on a walk. Being 4 days til my due date.. and having my Dr tell me that I wasn't going to have the kid for probably another week..I thought it safe to go for a stroll. We walked around the hospital.. not just to be safe but because they have a path with blue footprints all around it.. and we live right next to it. Well I felt great.. and then we got home. I had to PEE!!! so I went and there was some blood ( SORRY MEN FOR THE GRAPHIC EXPLANATIONS.. Probably best to stop now if you don't want any more!!) it freaked me out and I yelled for Dan.. the Dr had said not to worry if there wasn't a ton.. which there wasn't.. so I went about my night. We were supposed to go to dinner with Dan's brother Sam.. But at that point I thought it best to just take it easy just in case. Taking it easy lasted about 5 minutes. I went into the bedroom and had a massive pain! Contraction #1. I immediately told Dan then texted my sister Laura to see what she thought I should do. Lets just say I think my sister knows all and I go to her for everything. (Knows all in a good way Laura!) She suggested that I call the Dr. to see what I should do.. I was going to but then I remembered everything the Dr had said to do before I came in. The bleeding had stopped. So me and my huge stomach took a bath.. it was about 5 minutes of goodness and then WAM! Contraction #2. I hadn't had any braxton hicks contractions or anything before.. very minor cramps.. but I thought for sure this was the real deal! I continued to stay in the bath until I had another one.. which never happened. I finally got out.. (with help from Dan. there is no way I could even try to get out by myself) I got ready for bed and was laying on the couch when finally Contraction #3 arrived. They weren't close enough together when I would be able to go into the hospital. I decided just to go to bed and I would call in the morning if anything was different. During the night I didn't sleep much.. Every time I moved I would be in pain! So I laid still all night long.. Except for the 2 middle of the night pee trips. But I woke up still in pain when I moved and the bleeding had started again. So I called my mom.. then I called the Drs office. The nurse told me just to go in and the worst they could do was send me home. I got ready for the Day and went in at 11:30 am. They had me change into a gown to check me to see why I was bleeding. Come to find out.. I was dilated to a 4+ and was having unknown contractions every 5ish minutes. I could only feel about 1/4th of all of my contractions.. and then they started happening a little bit more (not to where I hated life yet.. but to where I could feel a little discomfort.) they called my dr to see what she wanted to do.. she said she would come break my water and get this going. I kept telling the nurses that i wanted the epidural ASAP.. I was at a 4.. so I was ready. she came and broke my water at about 1:30.. There's nothing like a crotchet hook looking device going inside of you and having a warm substances come out right after. Not my most favorite experience. Soon after the contractions had started full force. HOLY CRAP. at that point my dr said she wanted to wait a little bit for my epidural.. she sat with me for a little while and tried to help me breathe through the contractions. I just wanted to hold on to that rail tight and close my eyes and just hope it would go away. She didn't want me to do that. She wanted my eyes open and to open my cervix (however the freak you do that!). as soon as she left I told the nurse to get me the epidural NOW! they would worry it would slow things down.. c'mon.. I'm a Fontano Girl. So she got me the epidural at about 2:15. BLESS THAT MAN. He saved the day. He asked how much pain I wanted to feel.. HA I said absolutely no pain! He said ok! He freaked Dan out while putting in the goods.. only because his eyes were closed while putting the needle in. He noticed Dan's concern and had explained that he does it by feel and not by sight. It was a comical moment. As soon as he was done.. I was in heaven. Heck I'll have 20 kids if it could all be like that! by 5pm I was at a 9.. So it didn't slow anything down! Also my legs were so numb that I couldn't do a think with them. it was almost like I was paralyzed from the waist down. Couldn't feel a thing.. Dan was amused by that. Kept touching my leg and would ask if I could feel it. NOPE. anyways.. at one point in the whole thing.. the baby's heart rate when down to 50.. everyone was in panic mode.. I was kind of out of it.. so I wasn't really phased by it.. but I know Dan was super worried.. and by the time I had heard that my Dr was RUNNING through the hospital to get to me.. I was a little worried. turns out he was fine.. I think the monitors that were around my belly weren't in the right spots or something.. so they ended up putting some different monitors up inside of me.. and they screwed one in the baby's head to check his heart rate. FREAKY! but thank heavens he was fine. SO.. by 6 I was fully effaced and fully dilated. Bring on the baby! My family was making fun of me.. because I was texting the whole time I was in labor. I was just letting them know what was going on! but at 6:30 it was pushing time.. so I couldn't text them anymore. But by then.. my mother and father in law were in the waiting room and my mom was there as well.. my mom had come in to see me right before I started pushing.. OH and Dave came in at around 3 or 4 I think to bring Dan food. I wasn't allowed to eat.. which I should have eaten breakfast!! But I didn't. BACK TO BUSINESS.. I started pushing at 6:30. I had to alternate from my right side and my back to try and get the baby in the correct position. When you push.. you can only push when you are contracting.. SO it took a while. And I kept getting woozy when I was pushing on my back. The Dr came in at the beginning and said she would be next door delivering a baby for a lady that had already had kids.. so she would be quicker than me. She got back and after I had been pushing for an hour and a half.. the baby was still turned the wrong way. So the nurse kept pushing on my stomach to get the baby to move and the Dr's hand was inside trying to get him to move.. it was another not so favorite moment! But I pushed for another 25 minutes with the dr saying "Push hard" "not that hard" "harder" "STOP" "Push" "you're doing so good" and then when the baby came out it was like the weirdest best feeling.. your stomach had an empty feeling and you see your little one and you're emotions are crazy.. I kept my cool though. Dan was worried that he would have a conehead FOREVER... cause it was massive.. but now he just looks like he has a conehead from all the stinking unmanageable hair in the back! anyways.. he was perfect! 8.5lbs 19.5 in. october 9th at 8:25 pm. Full Head of hair, beautiful chubby cheeks, and just so cute! they Sucked out his nose and mouth and ears and then cleaned him off and I got to love on that little guy. He was starving after a little bit and so was I! I fed him first though (which is most often the case now too). He latched right on and we have never really had much of a problem feeding. AS YOU CAN TELL! I then just wanted frosted flakes.. since I didn't get my breakfast before.. So that was my dinner. Then the inlaws and my mom came to see the baby. Grandma Morris got to hold him first.. and Then it was grandpa morris?? I don't remember.. but eventually everyone in there got to hold him. Sam (dan's brother) and his girlfriend Rachel came too.. so they got to hold him as well. My mom Held him and stayed with me while Dan took his parents back to our house. During that time the nurse bathed him. and we loved on him some more. After that my mom went home and they tried to get me to get up and go pee.. I couldn't. I got to the toilet and almost passed out.. so she brought me back to the bed.. then they tried again.. no go. So they threatened to put a catheter in.. NO WAY. My feeling was almost fully back! So I asked if I could just basically pee the bed. Haha.. She just treated it as if I had just gotten my water broken. I know this is TMI.. But for my own personal wanting to remember.. I peed for probably 2 minutes straight. Anyways.. blah blah blah.. we were at the hospital.. 24 hours after he was born they checked for jaundice.. and he had it. and had to stay at the hospital til sunday. We finally got to go home and then they checked it again on monday and had to be in the lights again! was in there until wednesday and then we were light free! SO now he is a healthy LARGE baby.. and he has our hearts. He loves to smile and play with his toys. He loves getting his picture taken.. (probably not true.. but I've probably taken at least a million pictures of him) He's so funny.. he's loud and talkative and can't roll over.. because he hates tummy time.. so I don't do tummy time.. and his belly is so big. But he likes to sit up and is starting to want to stand.. while holding him of course. He is a crazy kicker and loves his baths. He's a great eater and it shows. He's the cutest little man in the world! at his 2 month appointment he weighed 15lbs (98%) his height was 24 inches (85%). we weighed him about 3 weeks ago and he was at 18lbs.. hes probably 20 by now. he is in 6-9 month clothes too!! geez! anyways: MEET Samuel Dodge Morris.