A BIRTHDAY STORY....BRANDON

ITS A ....STORY OF MY KIDS BIRTHDAYS.....

Current mood: accomplished
Category: Life

just sitting here having random thoughts...keep reminiscing with anthony about the day mackenzie was born , and it occured to me that i actually remember the day each one of my kids were born...so thought i would share with you too! haha

Brandon -
April 16, 1998
7 lbs. 12 oz. 21 inches long
2:01pm

I woke up at about 1am (?) and went to use the bathroom. I remember this VIVIDLY because it was so funny! anyways (remembering that i was adopted and my mom never had a child of her biological own) im on the toilet for like 10 minutes.... "peeing" and my mom comes to ask if im ok. (i had been having gallbladder attacks for the past two weeks before this day) and i answer, yeah i just cant stop peeing! so we're sitting there laughing about it, and my cousin calls. well they lived on the other side of the duplex house and the walls were so thin, they heard my mom and i laughing...so she calls and asks whats going on. and my mom says that i cant stop peeing and my cousin says her water broke!!! haha so my mom goes NUTS...and we wake up my brother and tell him he has to take me to the hospitol cause im in labor ...of course hes upset but he got up. so i tell mom well let me take a shower first, hahahaha yes i thought that it was over....well i took my shower and then OF COURSE i kept "peeing" haahaa...anyways we got to the hospitol and met (the father) there. so my brother went home and mom and and i went up to labor and delivery. soooo basically they hooked me up to all this stuff and we sat there until about 10am. then the drs said well since your water broke, you are going to have the baby today, but you arent contracting. so we decided we would walk around the hallways. welllllll yea that got things moving! and let me tell you that first contraction??? i was barely 18 and i think i thought i was going to die young! hah....anyways since i was actually already dilated to 6 centimeters (earlier labors that were stopped) i got to get my epidural pretty quickly. i cried! i wont lie i did. i was terrified cause they tell me to stay absolutely still while im in the middle of a very intense painful contraction!! they said they couldve paralyzed me!!! anyways got through it and was kinda happy for a little while. they told me to start pushing at about 12 noon. well then at about 12:30 they did the unthinkable. they said i wasnt pushing effectively and they would have to "turn down" the epidural....F that they turned that darn thing OFF !!! to this day, i dont know how i didnt kill someone. haha...i am told i had a few choice words for the drs when they told me to push harder...hehe...anyways i pushed for two hours straight. until i soooo was done and telling them to just gimme a c section haha....and then all of a sudden , i thought i was going to die....and they started yelling push push push and my mom was crying....and then she said, he has red hair !!!! 2 hard hours of steady pushing later, my first born was welcomed into the world. he was a redhead. and he had the most beautiful hazel eyes.... actually ran through the hallways of the labor and delivery ward of st. josephs hospitol screaming that his son looked just like him! and it was so cute....less then 10 hours later, said person was leaving his 18 year old "baby mama" in the hospitol to go on an emergency firefighter call for three hours while she had 22 stitches where there should NEVER be stitches...but i digress......i had a son....and it was the most wonderful thing in the world. and i was NEVER going to do THAT again!!!

(brandon went to live with my mom in september of 1998 when he was just over 5 months old. i have maintained a bond with him and am a steady part of his life. pays child support but has chosen to not be a physical part of his sons life at this time.)