Our Birth Story | Sadie, Christian & Honey

welcome back to the one that's good podcast y'all actually welcome myself that because yeah i'm the one that's been gone y'all been here you've been here you've been hosting i hosted one mom hosted one which is our new office space no the to well i guess kind of this is actually honey's room so this is a nursery yeah yeah but she pretty much stays in our room yeah that's just real life but yeah so mom's hosted dad's hosted with crowder that was hilarious that was hilarious corn dogs and cheese it's an interesting one that was that was john lucas hosted with chris mclarney that one was awesome that was awesome i honestly thought my dad forgot to ask the question but he just waited to the end so that was kind of unique six minutes left he did ask and it kept me in engaged i was like is he ever gonna ask what's the best piece of advice you've ever been given and he did and it was awesome crowder's advice was so good so it's been a fun month i've missed being on the podcast i'm glad to be back uh and so we thought what better way to kick it off with our birth story because you know obviously the reason i was gone is because we had a baby little honey james is finally here and it was crazy because even the podcast before that i was so pregnant towards the end i was like i cannot breathe normal i can't talk normal i have to pee every five seconds and so i was laughing everything in my lap was so loud so i'm glad to be back to you know more myself i love pregnancy but now also having honey here is a gift and so we wanted to share our first story because birth stories are super popular everybody loves to hear a good birth story and ours was really amazing um it was wild and crazy and scary and all the things um and so without further ado let's just get to the story let's just get to it let's just get to the story so i kind of wait disclaimer you're this is it's arbor store but she's the one that gave birth yeah do you think that they thought you gave her no but you just said arbor so i was just letting them know that this is it's it's about you well you're the one that went through the other and you were a great partner thank you so um back up way before we had birth and i have to just say um i am like the biggest preparer of all time why not like anything i'm gonna do i have to like prepare for it a lot so if i'm gonna speak i'm preparing six months before the conference ever happens like i love to be prepared i don't really like to walk into a scenario unprepared and so when it came to birth i was like oh i got 40 weeks to get prepared and so i plan to prepare every single step oh i had planned and prepared everything i could like i watched every single youtube video from epidural no epidural this way that way this method that method at home at the hustler this exercise that tea to drink this whatever so i read it all i saw it all and honestly i tried it all if it was like a method none of it honestly well you're you're jumping ahead i am jumping ahead but but we'll get to that the point is i was going to be very prepared and so i had a plan i wanted to have a natural birth i really wanted to do it with no epidural but i want to do it in the hospital my plan was my water would naturally break i had labor at the house for a little while we'd have a doula come to the house you thought you'd be on a walk and it would just be i thought i would just be walking one day and pop there goes the water the movie moment add labor at the house barely make it to the hospital have the baby naturally pushed through the pain but you know all the things well let me just tell you none of that happened uh everything i planned for did not happen but i have to stay in the house i have to say yeah i did have painted those nothing that i planned for happened but everything that i prayed for happened and that was really cool because there were so many things christianity specifically prayed and i'll go ahead and tell you the three prayers we've prayed and i'll get to the three later but one prayer was that honey would be strong the next prayer that should be sweet because the verse that her name is kind of after is in proverbs 16 where it says gracious words are like honey sweet to the soul and healing to the bones and we love that the honey in and of itself is so sweet but it's also so strong and so we praise to be sweet and strong and we also prayed that she would have a lion inside of her lungs that would be fighting for her so when she's born that she would just breathe out just the praise of god it says in psalms 8 2 out of the mouths of babies and infants you have established strength and i love that and so that's what i was praying that honey would just already be established in strength and whenever she comes out that strength would be just heard in the room and that she would be like have that lion from the tribe of judah in her lungs fighting for her and when she cried it would be like the sound of praise and i like couldn't wait to have her to hear that sound so that was a prayer so anyways um and i pray for my water to break and all these silly other little things but um i just really that's the three things that were really important to me that she would be sweet that she would be strong she'd have a lion inside of her lungs and that her little cry would be like the sound of praise so anyways um like i said none of the things i planned for happen um and at the end of pregnancy you know i'm super pregnant really big and you know we're thinking it's gotta be any day now right and everybody was telling me you know try to eat eggplant try to drink raspberry tea try to do a bouncy ball try to crawl around the house on all fours and when i tell you i was on all fours with my pregnant belly did we get that yeah yeah we did all over this house i drink the raspberry tea i did the rose oil i did i mean everything on google on how to induce labor i did and nothing happened i even did the whole membrane stripping thing three times nothing happened i mean this baby was like in there tuesday okay so but again i wanted to wait it out i wanted to happen actually i wanted to wait and uh finally christian looked at me and he said sadie look okay if you get to 41 weeks and nothing has happened then i think that you should start really listening to the doctor because the doctor had told me at this point like back up to like 38 weeks he kind of started telling me you know you need to think about getting induced this could end in a c-section because the baby's really big so the best chance is you get induced and then that's just the best for you and the baby so he was kind of telling me that he was kind of saying that's going to be the best option but in my mind i was like no i want to go natural and then if i'm not if i'm going to get induced then then it would kind of throw off the whole plant everything i prepared and so then i was like i might as well just get the epidural and so anyways i was thinking but there's no way i'm going to go to 41 weeks well of course i do 41 weeks comes and it was back to the doctor and it's really sweet because the night before that i was praying about it and i just felt such a peace knowing that um i guess at a peace and the surrender of like god i actually don't want my plan i actually want your plan and so if tomorrow i go in and i'm not if i haven't dilated anymore i haven't changed and like i really want your plan i really don't want mine so i surrender that [Music] like i mentioned earlier sleep has become really important these days because let's just say we're not getting much of it so when we do sleep we want it to be nice and helix sleep has offered a very nice sleep for us because their mattresses are amazing specifically because it's literally what you picked out let me explain helix sleep actually has a quiz that you can take it takes about two minutes you can pick out exactly the kind of mattress that you want that best fits 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their two minute quiz and they'll match you with a customized mattress that is best for you they also have a 10-year warranty and you can get it and try it for a hundred nights risk-free it's pretty awesome i have to say they'll even pick it up for you if you don't love it so really what's the risk in this so it's super easy process honestly we love it because you can get online do this get a mattress ship for free to your house really no hassle in this and we love it you're gonna love it too because you get to pick out what best suits you felix is offering two hundred dollars off all mattress orders and two free pillows for our listeners at helixsleep.com sadie that's helixly.com sadie for 200 off and two free pillows so we went in and i'm not kidding after three membrane strips or whatever and every labor induction thing you can possibly try i had not dilated at all and had not progressed at all zero z like zero and so the doctor was like it's time you know and so i said well what are you doing tonight and he was like you're ready i'm like i'm ready so we went home and we got our stuff and on the way to the hospital i was like so excited you know we started getting giddy i mean really i kind of just already surrendered my plan and my prayer the night before but i did tell christian i was like i can't believe my water didn't break because like that was sort of been so fun for that movie moment but that's fine whatever and so it's just kind of silly well we get there um get into the room and we prayed the whole way there and we prayed for nurses who would be spirit-filled and all these prayers that really were above and beyond and we were just like and even if we don't encounter that god we were like would we just be the type of people that we would be so our eyes would be so fixed on you that whenever we have this baby everyone in the room would be impacted by just your presence there because i know you're going to be near and i know you're going to be my strength and so would we just carry such a peace and a presence that people would see that so we pray for that too well we get there and it was just so cool to see all these prayers unfold so first of all my nurse was actually the first nurse member was like a big fan but not in a like funny way she was like i actually watched so many of your videos and they like changed my life this year and i was going through such a hard time it was just so sweet and so she was just amazing so nice and then um whenever she hooked me up she said so are you having any contractions i said no girls i have not progressed at all i was like but i mean i've had like a million pains so i don't really know what that means she hooks me up and she's like you're having contractions she's like you're in labor and i was like what so i had like no idea i was in labor and i just happened to go in because the doctor said it was time and so they were like well you're you're going to be fine like you're great and so they said well let's try to like we're going to put you on pitocin labor through the night so got on pitocins made my contractions happen a little bit more um and you know that was getting a little bit more intense and more painful and more painful so i was pretty much up all night and then at six am i was like okay it's time i'm getting the epidural so i call the nurse and i'm like hey like uh can i get an epidural she's like yes and the epidural lady came in and it was just so cool because i was telling christian i was like christian this is so cool like people are like texting me saying they're praying for me and they don't even know that i'm in the hospital right now like having her and whenever i said that to christian the evidence said that's so sweet she was like i just want to let you know i was praying for you i'm away here and i was just praying that i would do the best job that i can that god would just use my hands to do the best that i can and it was just so cool because again like another person who was just like so kind and spirit-filled and anyways she did do the best job ever because that thing was awesome i have to say it was amazing it was a game changer it was a game changer i felt so good honestly i've been in so much pain my whole pregnancy that it was like the one moment in all of it i mean from pregnancy and then like even going to postpone how much pain it was like the one day i actually didn't have that much pain it was crazy because it was late it was the one couple yeah a couple hours not trust me it gets painful but a couple hours so that was going great we were having a blast i mean we were laughing and just excited about our baby christian was dancing to the beat of our babies heartbeat i mean it was just a joyful day um and then even your mom coming in like that was amazing his parents got in just in time like to be there because they're from florida so everything was just like really falling into place and just really beautiful um so then it came time to push and this is when things get a little crazy no no no back up to the water break okay again i forgot gosh there's so many details so that morning whenever um so you got the epidural at six around nine nine thirty nine either the doctor came in and he said okay you know your check you and he was like your water hasn't broken yet so i'm gonna need to break your water and i was like dang it like oh it's not what i would have broken on its own but okay but but before he said that he said he had to go to another surgery so he was gonna come back in to break your water so tell the story from your perspective or what happened no no i'm saying so you get every like six around like 9 or 9 30. he came back in to check on her and then he said i have to go do a c-section real quick but when i come back we'll break your water and before he was about to walk out to go to the c-section so actually what happened should i tell a true story no just it's kind of funny no just just to tell them water breaking i knew it should i tell you right no no no i think i have to no no you really don't think okay just okay you're too far in just okay so honestly i thought i pooped in the back and i was like i went to the doctor and he was trying to explain to me how he's going to come back after the season and i just started uncontrollably laughing it wasn't not so awkward it was sorry i started lying i said look i'm sorry it was awkward because he thought he was going to clean it well no no i said i'm so sorry i'm trying to be like i'm trying to listen to what you're about to say but like i am pretty sure i'm pooping right now and i can't really tell because of the epidural and i feel really weird about it my mom and christian were just like laughing and i was laughing and he was not laughing like at all and i was like i know this is so embarrassing i'm so sorry i even told you that i just felt like i needed to tell somebody because you're trying to talk to me and i don't think i'm really listening and he goes no i think your water just broke and i was like no no no no no that trust me i don't think that was not water yeah and he was like no i think your water just broke and i was like no no don't look don't look so as she's saying this she's trying to encourage him not to come look so she's like sniffing and like trying to like look just just to prepare herself so that actually i was so embarrassed anyways it was my water my water did break which was just so crazy because literally when he said i'm gonna come back to break your water i start laughing thinking something else happened and then that actually was my water breaking in that moment so that was actually pretty great you didn't get number two i did it so which does happen to be if that happens to you it's fine it happens but that actually did not happen it really was my water and it was pretty hilarious and that was one of my favorite memories in the day i can't believe i ever had to tell that but i'm telling you like the whole day it was so crazy so many things happened so that was cool then so that was cool so fast forward fast forward to the pushing this is when things get crazy this is a few hours after that yeah few hours later so that was nine in the morning two o'clock it was like time to go so we started pushing and like side note we had worship on all day long okay worship was in the room which really was amazing and i would highly encourage you to set the tone anyone going into labor like blast worship music there was such a peace and such a strength i mean so many times i just found myself just worshiping um throughout the day and our nurses even were worshiping as you know i was pushing it was kind of funny i remember we were all singing those who wait on the lord shall we knew what we were just a worship it was awesome and so everything was going good and then there was um i got to this stage where it was about to happen like the head was coming through and the doctor told me the next push she's she's here and so i knew that was about to happen and oceans was on i specifically remember that it was very chaotic but it was like so so motivational honestly in the moment and so i go to push and everything gets like crazy like i all of a sudden was like pushed down on the bed and like they pushed my mom out of the way and um every nurse in the room was like just over me and they were pulling my legs and like pushing my stomach as hard as they could and honestly i didn't know what happened i thought i thought they had to like go into like i thought they cut me open i thought something happened they kept me open because of how painful it was when they pressed on my stomach i didn't know what now i know they were pressing my pelvic bone to get her out because what happened was honey got stuck so her shoulder actually got stuck which is really really rare and since then we found out that only happens in about one percent a burst and um it's what our nurse said is the scariest thing that can happen in a vaginal delivery and so they said when it happened for them like time just stood still because what was happening is the shoulder was clamping the umbilical cord causing her not to get air and so in that moment like every second counts um and they couldn't get her out for two minutes and 10 seconds so this really was very scary and really dangerous thankfully i didn't know what was going on besides i knew something was wrong because of the pain and uh like the doctor had just told me next push she's here and so what normally takes three to five seconds took two minutes and 10 seconds then her knee got stuck after they got her shoulder out so it was just like chaotic [Music] i gotta say now that i'm a mom i want to be stronger and healthier than ever and the great thing is i don't really have to change what i was doing if i keep eating magic spoon magic spoon is a protein packed cereal that is so fun because you get the benefit 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minutes which she did in two minutes then they push her back in and do go to an emergency c-section so there's a lot of like what could happen what could have happened what if that happened and honestly that was like a whole lot to deal with later which i think we're gonna talk about in the postpartum podcast but anywho they got her out and it was crazy because one thing through the day like i said we had worship going and christian had mentioned earlier that day like that morning he said i really want to play that song a million little miracles when honey comes out and i was like christian if you turn away from me the moment she comes out to go search spotify for a song like do not miss that moment so whatever song comes on it's gonna be powerful and we're gonna always remember it well the crazy thing is like when she came out she wasn't breathing and um yeah her face was like purple and her body was like white she was like screaming and it no no she wasn't no yeah yeah not yet but i'm saying she she was not breathing at all and so it was like very scary and all of a sudden in like the silence of the room it was like silent all of a sudden you hear the song million little miracles come on and he didn't do it like he did not click the song it just happened to be next which doesn't even make sense because that song had already played that day i mean i don't even know and so like in the moment of them taking her from me to the table to try to get her to breathe i'm just listening to that like i got miracles on miracles a million little miracles and then all of a sudden like we heard the prayer that we prayed the lion from the tribe of judah the roar if you will the praise she literally just like screamed and it was just a miracle because like the nurses said like she really should not have been breathing on her own like they're about to take her to the nicu and she just started breathing on her own like they gave her a little oxygen that they had there and then she just did it on her own then it was a miracle because her shoulder wasn't even broken which they they tried to break it to get it out so it was supposed to be broken and it wasn't broken and then the nurses came and they're like well it has to be dislocated it wasn't even dislocated they had three doctors check her shoulder because they were in disbelief it didn't break it wasn't dislocated and she started to breathe and never had to have any other care because she just did it she was so strong and they said that the doctor said they're like well because she's so strong like that's probably what made her shoulder suck because because of how big she is but also what made her okay is because she's so strong because she because how big she is she got stuck because she's so big but she was okay because she's so big and so it was just amazing so in that day we experienced like such a peace that surpassed under all understanding we experienced a miracle we experienced um just the things that we prayed and the sweetness that she carried and the strength that she carried and the cry that she came out with and the reason i prayed that prayer which seems so random is yes i heard that sermon about that verse that the children's sound it's like praise but also i um whenever i had covet i was pregnant with her and i was struggling to breathe whenever i had kobe because my lungs were you know getting attacked and there's a song called gratitude and in the bridge it says oh come on my soul don't you get shy on me and this is like lift up your song or something because you've got a line inside of those lungs get up and praise the lord and so um i kept praying that for myself that like i would not get like my soul would not get shot like i would not get so weak that i couldn't praise the lord and so i would just pray that that lion would just fight for me and i prayed that for her when i prayed that for me that when during her birth the same thing would happen that she would just worship and it was just amazing that she really did and so we really saw a lot that day and one thing that we've been talking about a lot is just like what it looks like to experience a miracle because miracles are obviously miraculous that's what they are and like they're such a joy when a miracle happens right like when you see a miracle you're like wow god did a miracle but like for the person like experiencing a miracle normally when you need a miracle it comes out of a moment of desperation it comes out of a scary moment where you literally need something supernatural to happen in order for someone that you love to be okay like that moment for me was like is my baby that i just you know carried and that i already love gonna be okay because she's not breathing like that two minutes and 10 seconds where you're like i need a miracle um is so scary and then it happened and we rejoiced but there's such a process even like all the fear and stuff we experienced in that time so we didn't even listen to that song for like no like five weeks five weeks but then when we did it was just amazing we just rejoiced and we're so thankful and we also understand that you know a lot of people going through labor and delivery but the miracle doesn't happen that the baby isn't okay or the mama isn't okay and we want to say like we um can't imagine you know that that feeling because we know how scary it was when we thought it wasn't okay and so our heart goes out to everyone in that position and i know that even though that is so bad i know god is still good and i know that even in the moment where it was so scary for me there was a peace that surpassed understanding you know there was a strength in the room that the worship carried and i pray that you feel that too you know that wherever you're in whatever situation you're going through whether you received the miracle or you didn't that the miraculous power of god's strength would just be with you to carry you and so we process that and it's crazy and we're so thankful for our daughter but it was just the wildest day i mean it was amazing and hard and it was the craziest twelve months funny like the poop thing but then like what in the world like the seriousness of the moment it was like crazy we didn't know the seriousness of until like that night yeah yeah yeah i started to get a hint about the series of it as um i was being stitched for hours and i was like something went real wrong and of course the seriousness of it when she wasn't breathing i knew something was wrong but not until the nurse came back and told us but you know what's amazing this is so cool so i told you all that we really prayed that the nurses would be impacted by just whatever happens in the room the worship the strength of god the peace of god the joy all the things the peace that i carried and all the different stuff well one of our nurses that was like the main nurse that kind of really took over in the moment whenever honey shoulder got stuck she wrote us a letter and it was just the most amazing thing she was like i can't even tell you like how much that impacted me she was like the worship y'all had in the room set the tone of the whole room and she said like seeing the way that the water broke at the time that your the doctor said the water was gonna break and that honey breathed and that her shoulder was okay and she began to recall all the things that happened like which was really cool because we didn't even tell them like those are the things we were believing for but like she noticed all those things and so it just like made us realize like when you're intentional with your prayers and like what you want to see god do and like what he can do through you like it's amazing to see like what your testimony does in the lives of others watching like she got to see god because like we set an intention for that day to be able to see god it was just like so cool so she wrote us that letter and like we loved our nurses it was amazing and everyone in that room just experienced something that we've never really experienced before um which was amazing and honey was also nine pounds and five ounces yeah so almost every nurse like hospital administrator person came in they're like oh wow she's a big baby like we just want to see how big she is we heard she's so big and we heard her shoulders okay yeah she didn't kind of get made fun of her chunkiness and she's a chunky miracle it's amazing but yeah she really is so strong it's crazy like i heard that it takes babies like three months to like hold their head up and literally day four we put on her tummy and she was like hello she's very alert like she's she's so and i know we're gonna be those parents that are like she's a genius you i'm not going to you're not i am when she hold her head up i'm like this girl is going to the olympics i'm telling you she's the most athletic thing i've ever seen like i am totally totally that mom but hey why not i feel like it's it's fun to eat we'll balance each other out we will we'll balance each other out for sure and honestly we're just so grateful and there she is right there you want to see if she can come in we'll try we'll try honey is um very loud she's still got that lion inside of her lungs and she's an opinionated seven week old she is come on sweet girl hi here give her a shot look at that belly girlfriend hey and this is the sweater we put her in right after that was her first little outfit in the hospital oh no sweet girl hey show them how big you are whoa you are so big you're so strong see i totally you're going to the olympics one day i told him you were going so she's our chunky miracle and that's our birth story do you have anything else to add i don't i think you nailed everything do you have anything else to add she spits up sometimes are you telling him what are you telling him well this is your first podcast [Music] okay mom so you were we're calling you in because you were there for the whole thing and you experienced it all and we were just talking about um which christian actually told me not to say it but i like had to say it whenever i thought i pooped the bed but it was my water breaking classic christian you telling you not to go too far and then you just just go all the way i had to give the people what they were gonna be dying to know because i was like should i tell them he was like no and i was like really he's like no don't say it and i was like really you don't think i should say it's like no because we always talk about this how like i do not get embarrassed which is really to a fault a lot of times because i'll just say something but christian experience like second-hand embarrassment from what i should really be embarrassed by uh okay that's your superpower sadie i think that's your superpower that you get embarrassed because you tell the fun stuff that's all the details people want to know and all the women out there totally that have had babies totally get it and totally relate so that's true well thank you mom thank you but how how extremely awkward was that moment honestly like whenever we were all laughing and the doctor did not laugh at well actually you say you don't get embarrassed and and you really don't but i actually think i saw embarrassment cross across your face in that moment and it was so weird for me to see because you usually don't but yeah you were like um i think i just pooped myself and the doctor just didn't respond really he kind of just looked at the monitor and i walked over to try to comfort you i started to like pass your you didn't touch your arm to be like it's okay it's really okay it happened you know you did but i was thankful that the outcome was what it was and not what you thought it was well yeah i was just saying it was just so awkward and i did actually get embarrassed and i wouldn't have been i wasn't embarrassed about the situation i was embarrassed that he did not find it funny and then i was like oh well it's really not going to be funny whenever this is not water so anyways that was hilarious and then um we got to the point of talking about also um of course the this intensity and i was just kind of sharing how um everything was going great and i was honestly like honestly such a joyful day it was fun um it was you know painful the way that like labor is painful but i told him i had an awesome epidural and i got to give it to the epidural doctor because that was fantastic um but it's still painful but then whenever i went to do the final push until oceans was planned it was very motivating and everything was great and then all of a sudden got really chaotic and i kind of mentioned how they pushed me down on the bed and they pushed you out of the way and so from your perspective because you've been in several labors or four what did that feel like to you did you know something was off yeah so first of all i want to say it was just absolutely the greatest honor of my life to get to see my baby girl have her own baby and it was just it was it was such a joyful day and it was so sweet to see you and christian's relationship and in the moment throughout the day in the fun times when you were there was so much laughter and fun and in the worship and the prayerfulness that came with bringing honey into the world and the way that y'all were just such a team was so sweet so thank you be a witness too and i'm getting you can't see me but i'm getting a little teared up thinking about it so just the whole day was really that just that special is is you know as you can imagine and um but yeah that moment before you even go there though i have to say because i didn't say this when christian was here but he really was the best partner ever and honestly i said babe you need to do a youtube for guys just like going into labor with their wives because i feel like that's just like a very unknown time and he just handled himself so well and was so encouraging and was so supportive and i mean all day making us laugh but also just affirming me and like who i am what i was doing and i i he would be embarrassed when i said this but i'll say it when him not here remember what he said to me whenever i i was like i was like pushing it he was like saying all the right things like you're doing great you're doing so good all of a sudden he just goes you're the sexiest person to ever give give birth and i just started laughing so hard like and i didn't even say anything when he said it i just like laughing and like kept going i don't even know if i laughed internally i was laughing because like i was pushing so probably no yeah i don't even think it actually no it was a moment but it was so funny to me so then later like we were like reminiscing on the day and i was like christian do you remember whenever you said you're the sexiest person he's like i do remember that and he's like i didn't even think you noticed it and i was like i internally i thought it was so funny but it was like too intense to laugh well he said he actually was like when you when you brought it up to me it's like you told me to i was just trying to think of anything encouraging i could think of and that was the most encouraging thing i could think of in the moment it was it worked that was hilarious it was it was so sweet he was he was the best partner teammate he just kept his eyes locked on you and he just have in like y'all were looking each other eyes encouraging one another and it was a really sweet moment to see so definitely he should do a tutorial about that and i know that a lot of that was because y'all did prepare and i thought that was really neat and special about your relationship which where y'all did prepare for that moment say okay when it gets hard this is what i need from you and then when it gets like this or you know if you could just do this for me it would be such a great help and you're so good at encouraging him as well so i would definitely those of you who are in you know pregnant right now and about to go through the labor process really prepare prepare your heart and your mind and your spouse and and um let them know what you're going to need in that moment and um we talked about how much i did prepare and how like really everything i prepared for and planned for it didn't actually happen like i thought it was going to do this and then yes that didn't really happen but what did happen is we did prepare in the sense of i had had a whole like shared notes with christian that i like put in like uh declarations affirmations scriptures i put in uh the worship playlist we listened to all day and i put in like things that i would like love from him and it was like whenever it gets hard like lock eyes with me affirm me um tell me like you know we're about to meet her or something and like he did all those things and yes i like asked him to do it before him but it meant so much that he did and like you know in that moment that really did help and so yes the preparation that i went through was kind of funny i will admit and agree that i over prepared but some of it really came in handy absolutely it really did so back to the moment okay so back to the moment yes so everything was it was just very smooth and beautiful to see and yes you were you know experience pain like labor anything really really great comes with some hardship and difficulty to get there but um but yeah so i was right there you know kind of right by your side helping you encouraging you as well to push christian was right at your face just looking at you and we were in that moment where you know the baby was about to come out and um her head are we telling details like this i don't know you can cut this out i told you i told okay okay so her head comes out and i've seen i've gotten to i've just had the privilege of being in another burst which has been amazing it's a miracle every single time so normally when the head comes out you know the next push the rest of the body just comes out and just follows you know that's just kind of how it happens and it's just happens all really quickly it's kind of like the slow slow process then all of a sudden it's just like here well um honeysuck came out and then the next push nothing happened and i could kind of notice the doctors and nurses because i have been in this before and realized oh wait okay this is not quite what was supposed to happen notice i get a little nervous and then a little bit more nervous and then a nurse comes and just kind of like says let me take over right here and just pushes me out of the way and i kind of come up to say to you and um just start kind of encouraging you to just kind of let you know that everything's going to be okay because i don't know what you're understanding right now if it's if you're if you're nervous or if you think this is normal or what i remember you saying because i remember being a little panicked for a second just not knowing what was happening and i like i mentioned i thought that they had to cut me open or something because i didn't know what the pain was what was going on and then i remember you saying they know what they're doing they know what they're doing you're okay they know what they're doing yeah just let them do what they know to do and then i think you got a little faint because we yeah we lost you so that's the part yeah that's the part that's the part i'm up there encouraging you then all of a sudden i feel a little i started getting a little lightheaded things started going a little fa fuzzy in front of me and i thought they certainly did not need me feigning in this moment that would be we're trying to birth your baby and every all the nurses are so attentive to you and like literally like i mean i think you had four nurses like pushing with you like trying to literally trying to see my stomach to get her out you know physically pushing your stomach pulling i mean this is kind of a tough um scenario but i i thought about if you've seen it on like i don't know national geographic or something where like uh the horse is born and literally the vet is like pulling the the bowl out it was kind of like that i mean it was that horse everyone comes to attention and like is pulling pushing and i'm about to faint and i'm like okay we do not need this right now in this moment so i just kind of stepped back and sat down in the in the chair and like leaned my head forward a little bit and um afterwards didn't you say you were going to pray or did they just think he went i didn't say it yes afterwards the nurse said she thought i went back and sat down to pray and i was like well yes i was praying i definitely was praying but also i was about to fake so anyway so i sat down for a minute and and and i legitimately was praying and it was absolutely amazing worship filled moment because i know y'all probably told about the song miracles was playing and yes i really was praying for a miracle we knew that um you know we needed honey we needed honey to come out all of her and we needed it quickly and so it was definitely um praying as well and trying not to faint and praying that i would not faint too and um and yeah she comes out and um she's not her coloring is not great because it had been a little while that she had been a little bit in distress and her coloring was not great and i just remember praying god that god would give her breath and that she would just turn pink and it was just like a miracle it was in that moment she just turned the perfect little beautiful pink and she started breathing and um we were like thank you god everything's gonna be all right and um it was really beautiful holy um miracle spirit-filled moment yeah that um it was i'll never forget it never forget what um i i hear that my face is pretty much the color of you can't see my shirt right now but white um that i i was looking like you were yeah i was also at the house i didn't feel that way i was just very just i i was like it just kind of felt like i was frozen in time honestly um but uh and then the funny thing oh wait go ahead i was gonna say i wasn't sure you know what you were knowing or realizing or what so i follow you know them over to the station with honey to kind of make sure everything's good and all that and that's when she's kind of trying to pink and i say like is she gonna have to go the nicu and they're like well we don't we we hope not we're gonna give her you know we're gonna give her a little auction and watch her a little bit and so i'm still praying and i'll look back over at you yeah and you're like as white as the sheep and so because it was it was a very difficult i know that like it's hard to convey but you you worked really hard it was a very hard labor and hard delivery and you were as pale as a ghost but you were glowing on the inside because i could tell you were so happy to get to finally meet your little girl um i was so happy it was crazy um i don't know if we can cut this out if he doesn't want to share this but i think this is pretty funny whenever y'all were over there and they were giving honey oxygen and seeing if she was gonna have to go to the nicu and everybody was checking her shoulder you want to tell what christian's concern was oh yeah and all the preparation we forgot to warn christian that babies come out with a little cone head because you know out for a little while and um so all babies have a little bit of a cone head but honey she had a pretty good conect she was stuck for quite a while you pushed for a long time and so her head um didn't quite look normal at first when she first came out but that's what all babies look like every one of my babies look like you know when they first come out and um christian says um is does anybody notice that her head looks a little weird he's like and said it to me and the nurse is like has anybody checked on that and we all just kind of started laughing it was a great little like moment everybody and he didn't even really normal i promise he really didn't know that that was a thing it was so funny he was telling me later he was like i mean everybody's over there checking her oxygen checking her shoulder and i'm like does anybody see her head like something's wrong with her head so i thought that was so many i was gonna say i think that's one of the reasons they put those little hats on babies you know on newborns when they first come out they put a little hat on just because you know yeah they're to keep them warm but also yeah whenever you see a newborn you usually see it with little house you don't notice um yeah the cone head underneath i never even saw the cone head i just saw her with the hat so i didn't even know what what the all the talk was about but yeah yeah it was it was truly amazing all in all it was just the best day ever and we were so grateful obviously for all the little miracles that song could not be more accurate to the day it's the best way to explain it it's just that song the words that song um and having you there was so special and we're gonna get to the postpartum in another podcast um but i might have to call you in on that one too because you really you really saw me at the at the worst moments and the best moments and so thanks for being there along the whole journey mom i would not have missed any second of it i loved every bit of it and um yeah i just think that um that day was was pretty amazing and one that we'll never forget and little honey girl is worth every every ounce of the little little pains or emotions or ups and downs that you went through to get her here that's right that's right little honey j she's awesome well thanks mom love you [Music] you

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Published: Wed Jul 07 2021