My Son's Birth

Ok so I should have been blogging all of this since my son, Gabriel, was born but I haven't had time, and you'll see why!
April 25th, 2pm, I started going into labor. I got in the car and drove to my husband's work to tell him. Later that evening I started getting everything ready to go to the hospital. This was it! At around 9pm we drove to the hospital for them to tell me I'm only 1cm and to go home that it wasn't active labor. (I knew I was in active labor though, that's why I went!) So we went home, at this point it's 11pm already, we tried to get some sleep because I knew he'd be born soon. My contractions just kept getting worse and worse. I couldn't and didn't sleep at all. And I kept waking Robert up to massage me or hold my hair while I was throwing up.. The pain was bad. By 3am or so I had enough, it was terrible and I knew I was in active labor so we packed up again and went back to the hospital. They checked me again and I was now about 2 and a half cm. They said I could stay and it was active labor.  So they took me to my room, started an IV, and hooked me up to all those machines. By around 5am I was asking for drugs, I tried the IV meds and those did nothing except make me feel paralyzed. After that wore off, I got an epidural. As most of you know, I wanted to do natural birth, but I was in labor for almost 24 hours, I needed some sleep to be able to push well. The epidural went well, I couldn't feel anything from my chest down after that, and your stuck in bed. Time went by, we napped. I was woken by a nurse, they were concerned about my baby's heartbeat, is kept dropping. Scary. Very scary. I tried all the different positions, and nothing worked really. Every contraction his heart rate would drop again. Around noon they checked me and I was only about 7cm. They told me I would most likely need a c-sectioin. I was devastated. They started filling all the paperwork out for it, and brought scrubs in for Robert. The doctor came in to tell me more about the c-section and why we needed it. I was crying. The doc left for a few minutes while the nurses prepared. My Mom and Robert gathered around me and we all prayed deeply that God would intervean, I cried out to Him with everything I had, I did not want surgery. The doc came back, and I begged her to check me just one more time. She told me it's kind of impossible for it to have changed much but said she'd check anyway. She lifted my gown and began to check, watching her facial expressions, she suddenly seemed surprised and asked me to push once. I pushed and she said let's start pushing, you've dialated 2 more cm's! I was so shocked, all I could do the whole time I was pushing is thank God over and over! 40 minutes later, at 1:47pm, my son Gabriel Isaac was born!! God is so amazing!! The doctor and nurses were utterly in awe! And so were we! Because my son was born so quickly, they had to take him to the nursery right away, he wasn't crying enough or something. They hooked him up to oxygen. I didn't get to hold him until 11pm that night. It was hard but that's ok. He had a little hole in his lung from delivering quickly. The doc said it's normal and he just needed oxygen for it to heal up. We got to leave the hospital 2 days later. My son was perfect :)