Logan Michael Crownover

So, little Logan decided to make an early debut. I thought we had another week until he would arrive, but no he decided that he was ready and broke my water at 4am on February 3rd. The second it happened I jumped out of bed, it was really  funny because it caused Phillip to wake up and jump out of bed as well, I forgot to mention this was all without me even mentioning what had happened. i called the doctor and had to wait a wonderful hour full of excitement and nervousness for him to call me back. Finally my nerves got the better of me and instead of waiting for him to call me back we just went to the hospital. I was so excited I was piratically skipping into the maternity ward, I don't think the nurses believed I was pregnant because I didn't appear to be keeling over in pain from the contractions I was supposed to be having. 

The nurses checked me in and assigned me to a room, of course while I was being stripped down and strapped with the most uncomfortable "belts" the doctor called back. He told me we could have waited another hour to come in (doctors aer funny, they seem to forget that sometimes people are going through such things as pregnancy for the first time and that they me freak out just a bit and rush to the hospital when such things as water breaking).

So after I was finished being checked in the nurse checked all my progress. First she checked how far I was dilated.  I was only a centimeter, great that's why my contractions weren't hurting.  When she told the doctor this he said I would have to be hooked up to some stuff that would induce my contractions/ dilation. That stuff was the worst, and let me experience those very painful contractions.  at about 2pm I couldn't take them anymore and asked for that wonderful drug called the epidural. i love the epidural!!!!

After the epidural it was just a waiting game. Finally at about 8pm they decided I was ready to push. Again I was excited because we were nearing the end. I was so wrong. I ended up pushing for two and a half hours. It was the most exhausting experience of my life and there were points where I just wanted to give up and go home. Well, at 10:38 pm it was all worth it. Logan came out weighing only 6.8lbs and 19.25 inches long. He was so cute and little. The first thing I noticed was he had my nose!!! The doctor thought he looked exact ally like Phillip. we were both surprised to see he had hair.

I didn't mention Phillip much throughout the whole labor process, but he was really great. I couldn't have asked for a better partner, He made sure I was comfortable and everything was going as close to my way as possible. Not only did he keep his eye out for me, but he made sure to keep my whole family updated with what was going on. He really did do a great job!!!!