Well 5 years ago today was a Saturday. And I was prob. sitting at Tammy and Theo's house, watching TV or sleeping! Haha! First baby in the belly, I was pooped by this point. Sometime that day, I bugged Theo for the 100th time to boil me some crawfish and he finally agreed to do it the next day! So I called everyone and then went to the store. I figured walking around would help the baby come faster anyways, even though I had been 3cm for like a month!
Sunday morning came and I went to church. When I got back I spent the entire day eating my weight in crawfish. About 4pm I went to lay down and take a nap. After waking up I spent from 6pm - 8pm on the sofa as Theo kept refilling my plate with crawfish...(ladies if you want to know what to eat to make you go in labor....CRAWFISH)
So Monday morning, I woke up and fixed Chris's Coffee like always and made sure I ate my 3am bowl of cereal...(I had a phobia of being stuck in labor for days without food so each night, during the night, i would wake up and eat)
I went back to bed and slept til about 8:30am. I woke up because it felt like the baby dropped, but I was laying down. It was like a heard a thump and then some cramps. I went to the bathroom and started to have more pain so I called my mom.
She told me to get in the tub and try to relax and she would get dressed and come check on me. (Doing all this by myself, I had no idea what was going on.)
When I got in the tub the pain got worse...(found out while researching WATER BIRTHS with Jacob, that relaxing in water make labor progress)
So I called my mom while I was getting out of the tub and told her I was calling the dr. Instead I called Chris.
While on the phone with him I realized I was dripping water all over the place...wrapped in a towel, but completely dried off.
So he told me to call the dr and he was coming home.
I called the Dr and they told me to come in right away. Then mom came through the door as Chris called back to tell me he needed me to pack him a bag of clothes.
(My hospital bag had been packed for two months...but nooooo not him!)
So we finally get in the suburban and all I could think about, through the pain, was that I HAD TO PEE...I kept telling mom....IM GUNNA PEE IN YOUR CAR, PULL OVER....
She kept calming me down and telling me to hold it in. For fear that it was a child and not urine that would come out I kept a tight grip...
As soon as we pulled to the hospital door, Chris was there with a wheelchair. The last thing I wanted to do was sit down. C.J. was in no way wanting to sit down!
We got into the room and I told the nurse I had to pee and she said...that is your waterbag, go ahead and let it flow....
Well man that just made everything worse! So I finally got on the bed and was 8cm....EPIDURAL..now or never.
Oh man I didn't want one....We hadn't planed on it and I didn't want it...No No No....
CONTRACTION...Yes I did! Shoot me in the back please....
The next half hour went fast.....no pain and a breath, then 3 student nurses walk in and say,"Hey lady can we watch."
I was feeling good by now so I'm like...sure!
Ten minutes of pushing and out comes the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
AND NOW 5 years later....he is one of the best things I ever did in my life. I am so proud of him. He is the most handsome, rotten, spoiled child anyone could ever ask for. And I love him with all of my heart!
Happy Birthday Christopher Lee Switzer Jr.
Mommy Loves You SOOOOO Much!
4 Generations of Switzers! Daddy, PawPaw Jr. and CJ, Theo
