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life is good today life is good today menu skip to content home reagan s birth story 11 replies so the fog has finally lifted and i can actually sit down and share some good news she s here i mentioned this briefly earlier but due to the fact that reagan had a single umbilical artery my doctors decided to induce me in my 39th week so at 39 3 on a monday morning we arrive at the hospital at 4am tired i m actually having good real contractions but not regular enough to be labor on its own but the fact that they re there leaves me optimistic that things go well spoiler alert understatement of the year for me 5 45 am pitocin drip finally started and i m checked 2cm 80 effaced 2 around 8am my contractions are bad enough that i m ready for the epidural my right side is slightly less numb so i m nervous but they give me an extra push of the drugs and wait and see what happens shortly after that around 8 30 am the night shift doc comes in and breaks my water and checks me again still 2cm 80 effaced he says he s confident things will go well and says we should have a baby by dinner time ok cool right my mom comes by at around 9 to drop off the cookies for the nurses that we forgot at home in our fatigue oy me and my preggo brain but then again i blame it on the 4am check in time at least i remembered my suitcase after she leaves i notice i m finally numb on the right and really numb on the left my left leg is completely dead weight around 10am my nurse comes in to do a check and um calls for backup immediately time to have a baby chris and i are shocked at how fast things were happening the nurses rush around to get the bed ready but there s little time one nurse confirms she can clearly see the baby s head she was crowning and i barely felt a thing the doctor rushes in the one i was expecting to see and jokes that she barely had time to get out of the or from a previous delivery she asks one of the nurses to button up her gown in the back because she didnt want to waste time yeah we were that close if the doc would rather tend to me then get dressed then you know it s on the nurses stirrup my legs because i clearly could not they ask me if i m ready to push and i say yes and with one sloppy grunt on my part she s out reagan rebecca smith was born on monday december 22 2014 at 10 17 am 7lbs 1 oz and 19 5 long with the longest eyelashes ever absolutely gorgeous my daughter chris and i can t stop looking at each other in disbelief on how quickly it all happened 4 5 hours of labor and marvel at the fact that landon was born at 10 18 am how crazy is all of that we got to go home on december 24th best christmas ever like it share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading this entry was posted in a day in the life adventures in mommyhood mommyhood pregnancy and tagged birth story on january 18 2015 by kelly laying it down 1 reply i m in a tight spot at the moment last night i found out some tough news about some close friends of ours and even through their story doesn t involve me at all i am so consumed by sadness about their situation that i m having a hard time just getting through the day today because i m so distracted i have been fighting tears since i first heard the news but i m not totally sure why because suddenly every problem i ve had and everything i ve complained about in the past year now seems stupid and irrelevant so as usual i have to write about it to sort out my feelings and see where i m at since it s not my story to tell i m not comfortable sharing anything about what happened but it has made me question my definition of friendship of love and what it means to be a christ follower luckily the latter is giving me the strength to get through the other two questions but i still feel so burdened part of me wants to just ask why did you do that along with many other why questions but the truth is i either already know the answer or it s irrelevant because it s none of my business earlier this year i casually started a reading plan to read through the bible in a year much to my surprise i ve actually stayed pretty committed to it and am scheduled to finish it before baby 2 arrives i start romans today and reading this amazing book and trying to study it and remember most of it and learn as much as i can from it i have learned one critical piece of information we are all sinners the degree to which one may sin in comparison to another is irrelevant as a whole humans suck and the human nature of our selfishness is an ugly beast at times and i m no different i m working on the plank in my eye on a daily basis so sinners take comfort you are not alone but you know what the good news is we serve a very forgiving god a god who gave his only son as a sacrifice for all of us to share in that forgiveness and be wiped clean all we have to do is ask and the situation with these friends is no different none are completely innocent yet none are out of reach of asking for god s grace but asking is so hard especially when shame gets in the way it s funny because with my background in psychology i often fantasize about writing a doctoral dissertation if i did i could sum up the world s woes in just a few sentences so many problems of the human condition are caused by low self esteem and so many problems of the human condition are solved with communication but that s a post for another day think about it though why is it so hard to reach out sometimes sure sometimes our shame is a huge burden and we don t want anyone to know about our sins so we keep them secret but what about when that shame is all in our head i wrote a post a while back about why i quit facebook and it had a lot to do with friendship and boundaries for me quitting facebook has erased blurry lines and i am more clear about where i stand with many people the friendships that were strong are now stronger without the distraction of facebook and the friendships that were weak are now nonexistent because the façade facebook creates is now gone and personally i m much happier with things this way yet i still wonder if some of those weaker friendships would have survived if i had been better about reaching out or if they had in college i learned that helping someone through a crisis tends to bond those two people together and it works both ways sure it makes sense that the one in crisis would be open to bonding but the helper research says yes if you want to get someone to like you ask them to do you a favor could it really be that simple i don t know personally i suck at this sort of thing so i d probably be a bad example anyway but i will say that it sounds an awful lot like prayer god asks us continually to just get down on our knees and talk to him and then we will know him better while it s true that it might be easier said than done that s where i m at today down on my knees i want to give this burden to him and pray he helps my friends through this rough time and that everyone finds peace with it including me in the meantime this song is on my heart today i m praying my friends can lay down their burdens with god and find closure through this crisis like it share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading this entry was posted in random thoughts and tagged christianity faith friendship marriage on november 12 2014 by kelly microblog monday take two 6 replies 31 weeks holy cow where is the time going i m knee deep in letters of recommendation and it s thankfully easier in year three than it was year one but it s still exhausting and of course my students wait until the last minute so i m sweatin november 1st as much as they are but in some positive news it s been very productive here at the house we are about to cross off the last few things on the list of stuff to buy this weekend s additions were new blinds a dining room table and a couch for the extra room i am so excited to turn this house in to a home i love it here more and more every day and that s not all the fun stuff there is to look at time for a picture dump we finally had a chance to head to the pumpkin patch like it share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading this entry was posted in a day in the life mommyhood on october 27 2014 by kelly post navigation older posts follow me email address sure why not join 51 other subscribers looking for something specific search for meta create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed life is good today join 51 other subscribers sign me up have a wordpress com account log in now privacy life is good today view site in reader manage subscriptions sign up log in report this content collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website d create your own website free on wordpress com create your own website start free