Welcome Jaxon Daniel Mortimer!

After all the anticipation, Jaxon was born on May 28th @ 12:03am. He was 7lbs. 14.6oz and 20 inches long. Heavenly Father has blessed us with the most beautiful and loving baby!

I knew he would be arriving soon when I started having contractions on Monday evening. By 10:30pm they were strong and were 4 minutes apart. So Josh and I decided to go to the hospital and see if it was time. The doctor told me I was only 1 cm dilated but that the baby had a dip in his heart rate so they wanted to keep me a few hours and monitor him. The few hours turned into the doctors inducing labor because I was over my due date. By 9:00 am they decided to break my water so they could put an internal monitor on the baby and one to monitor my contractions. Within minutes I was in active labor and I was ready for an epidural. I got the epidural @ 11:00 am and it was amazing. I didn’t feel any contractions after that. I was able to rest before the delivery. I was fully dilated 5 hours after I received my epidural. So I thought that I would have a baby by 6:00 pm. Well what I thought was way wrong! Jaxon would not drop into the birth canal and he was sunny side up. So I had to wait to see if he would drop. There was no progression, so by 7:30 I had to start pushing and they had to rotate him. And 4 ½ hours later Jaxon was born. It was not pleasant pushing for that long but what I got out of it made it all worth it!