Hairstylin' Momma: My Sweet Tiny Boy.

So Charlie is almost 5 months old now, and I haven't taken the time to put up pictures from the day he was born. Partly because it made me hurt to look at them for so long! :-P It was the longest, most painful, hardest, most amazing 24 hours of my life! I'm so thankful we decided to have a baby, our life just wasn't complete without sweet Charlie.

Here's a little background on the day...

I was what we thought was over a week overdue (he wasn't very big, so I don't know if it was that or if his due date was just wrong) and I was delivering naturally (no pain medication...I know what you're thinking--crazy??) with a midwife. We decided it was time to try and induce, since I was so miserable...thanks to many things, such as my crazy pregnancy rash that felt like poison ivy on my whole body. The natural approach to inducing is using blue and black cohosh (bleh) and if that doesn't work-the dreaded castor oil (dun dun dunnnn). Yes-it is as bad as you think. Ugh. After a whole day of herbs every hour not much had happened so it was time for the castor oil. I choked it down, knowing I'd do anything to have my precious baby boy here, and that's when it all started. I was miserable and for longer than twelve hours couldn't keep anything in me. Not the way you want to start off labor!! Anyways, after countless hours of contractions it was almost eight in the morning, we had been up all day and night and it was time to push. I pushed for a little over an hour, and he was here. I made it through! It was all over...well until the terrible six week recuperation! I'm quite proud of myself for making it through. Here are some pictures from the night/day.