Jason and Ashley Glover: Ansley Grace's Birthday

Well I am finally getting some things accomplished and sharing the day that Ansley was born is one of them. If you would have asked me at 34 or even 35 weeks pregnant if I would go all the way to 40 I would have laughed and called you crazy!!!! Well I made it two days shy of 40 weeks and on June 11, 2013 at 1:53 pm weighting in at 9.8 pounds and 21 inches long Ansley Grace "graced" us with her presence. With a head full of brown hair, baby blue eyes, and rolls too many to count she joined Team Glover proudly!

The morning started off with us getting to the hospital at 4:50 and finally getting settled in our room at around 5:30 am or so. I was a ball full of nerves. I had a hard time sleeping that night before, woke up early, shed a few tears while getting ready, and prayed to the good Lord to walk me through the day. He did that indeed. The nurse wanted to start pitocin around 6:30 and moved it up slow; 2, 4, 6, and then 8. I was contracting but nothing I took seriously. At around 8:30 my doctor arrived and said she wanted to go ahead and break my water. She felt that because I was dilated to a five and 85 percent effaced that I would go into labor on my own without the pitocin. She turned it off, they clamped my IV, and I was free to do what I needed to do to get things going. I walked around the labor and delivery floor a few times and then got bored so I went back to the room. Once on the medicine ball I could tell things were starting up. Within an hour I was no longer joking, adding my two sense in on conversations, or laughing anymore. It was showtime! Within in no time they wanted to check me again. By this time I was contracting less than a minute apart and all I could ask the nurse to do was move quick. I was dilated to a 6 and 95 percent effaced. The nurse felt like Ansley was face up which would explain my back labor and said if I could lay in the bed and rotate from side to side that it would help her turn. That I did. Twenty minutes on the left, twenty minutes on the right, and about five minutes on the left again and I could tell something was going on. I told Jason, my mom, and Lindsey what I was feeling and Lindsey ran to get the nurse. Oh no big deal Ansley was crowning and my doctor was not there! I had progressed in an hour from a 6 to holy cow there's a baby! The nurses walked me through the longest twenty minutes of my life. When you deliver naturally, no epidural and no pain meds, your body knows what to do and mine was doing it. My doctor was delivering another baby via cesarean at another hospital so another doctor from the office came to the rescue. Dr. Shimer said he hit every red light.....go figure that is my luck. My dad said the doctor was sprinting down the hall to my room and the nurses got him dressed and the only thing I remember is him saying, "Ashley, let's have a baby". Greatest words I could have heard at that moment! With 9 pushes she was born!

When she was here, the pain was gone, and I thanked God over and over for letting me do it the way I intended with no interventions and no additional headaches. When it was over it was over and I felt great. I got to hold Ansley immediately and they let me hold her on my chest for about an hour! Greatest feeling ever. The whole time I laid there with Ansley I thought of Avery and how I wish I could have done this with her. I cannot hold regret or anger over the past situation because Avery is beautiful and healthy and that is all that matters. I am so thankful though that I was able to see Avery meet her baby sister within 45 minutes of her being born and that I am able to be the mom to both of our girls that I wanted to be so soon after bringing Ansley home without feeling terrible and being in pain. This is my story. Now we are a family of four and Avery is already planning number 5! I told her we could talk about that later! I am so thankful for my support system and without Jason I am not sure I could have done it.

Nervous and swoooolllleeeennn!

Me and my girls!

Avery getting her Big Sister bag from Ansley that we prepared for her!

Such a beautiful spirit and she was so excited!

Daddy and Ansley

Beautiful arrangement from my parents and sister and my favorite flower; the peony!

Daddy reading to his girls! Avery brought her a book!

I had Ansley on a Tuesday and we were set to go home the next day but the squirt got a bad case of jaundice so we stayed till Thursday so she could get some light therapy Wednesday afternoon and night. Sweet girl did not like the glasses!