Noah Gabriel Wittenberg was born on Tuesday 2/26/2008 at 10.03am. He weighed in at 7lbs. and was just about 19inches long. What a ride we had. Monday around 1pm I thought my water had broke. I called into the hospital to explain what had happened and get their advice. They wanted me to come in to get checked out so Gabe was called home from work and we headed to Kaiser South Sacramento. We arrived around 4pm where I was sent to an exam room. My water "HAD" broken and I was dilated at 3! No active labor though???? They recommended inducing to get things moving along so after getting all checked in that is just what we did starting at about 5pm. By midnight I was dilated to 5 and feeling good, no pain. I really could not feel anything. That soon all changed. Bring on the epidural! What a wonderful thing those are. Everything was going just ducky until the epidural machine ran out of batteries! Hello PAIN! I was about to jump off that bed and hurt someone if they didn't get it fixed and fix it now! That all happened around 6ish if I remember. Finally all was fixed and I was again pain free. I was then dilated to 8 and things where really speeding up. I just could not believe that I was going to meet this life that has been growing inside of me for what seems forever. I was so ready...can I push yet? So when time did come when I was dilated at 10 and should be able to push I just didn't have that urge to so they wanted to wait until I did...which meant turning off the epidural that I had so loved all night. Whatever they suggest is the best I guess so I agreed. It didn't take long, maybe a half hour or so. I think I pushed for about an hour and a half and there he was. The most beautiful baby I had ever seen and he was my boy. Noah Gabriel! He has stollen my heart and the hearts of many other as well. Baby, mommy and daddy are all doing great and just so in love.
Our first family photo. Sorry for the crazy "I just gave birth hair".
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