Our story!

On Monday, May 17, I had an appointment with Dr Busch. He told me that everything looked good, I was 4 cm dilated and that Sophie could be here at any time. Since I had been feeling so good I continued working until Thursday, May 20th, I got a phone call during class from my doctor. He was surprised that Sophie was still cooking and afraid that she might sneak out without me knowing it. So, he asked me to visit him that afternoon for a quick check. After the school bell rang, I tried to make a few last preparations for a sub (just in case), gathered my things, picked up Josh, and headed to see Dr. Busch. He told me that I was 5cm dialated, in labor, and to get to the hospital. Josh and I couldn't believe it because I hadn't been feeling contractions! At 4pm, Josh and I quickly ran home to pack our bag and then left to get checked into the hospital. By 6pm, I was hanging out in our room and 6cm dialated. Surprisingly, I still was not really feeling contractions. Even the nurses were surprised because I was laughing and completely relaxed during "labor". Around 9pm, they gave me pitocin because my contractions were not progressing. An hour later the nurse informed me that the pitocin wasn't working the way they wanted it to so at around 10pm my doctor came in and broke my water. Once my water had been broken, I finally began to feel the contractions. I did my best to breathe through them for about 45 minutes, however around 11pm I gave up and got an epidural. We had been at work all day we were exhausted by that point and we also knew that we still had a lot of work to do, so we tried to relax. As we were waiting for me to progress, my blood pressure started to drop and I had to go on oxygen up until it was time to push. Unfortunately, the epidural lowered my blood pressure to much so I had to be on oxygen until it was time to push. Finally, 1am rolled around and I got the a-okay to start pushing. I labored with our mothers and Josh by my side until 3:41am... at that moment we met our daughter, Sophie Lee Henderson, for the first time. She is the most precious little girl and we feel so blessed to have such a happy healthy baby.

Sophie Lee

Our HAPPY Family!