SERENITY HAS JOINED THE OUTSIDE WORLD!!

Serenity Lyn Campbell is here

She was born on April 16Th 2009

7lbs 12oz 19inches long

It Has been a long journey for the arrival of this beautiful little girl. We thought that she might come on Easter when i went to the hospital at 3 am with contractions every 3-5 mins. I labored for a while and got all the way to 4 1/2 almost 5 cm 80 effaced and 0 station.

I had a midwife apt. on Wed. 15 and I really felt impressed to ask the midwife what options I had to get my labor started.(since my mother in law was going to be leaving on next Wed. and Landon works an hour away)So the midwife(there are 7 of them that work there)told me she would start me the next day with Pictocin.Which I was really scared to do because I really wanted to go though labor with no medication. So we set the time for induction for 2pm on the 16Th.

Thursday the 16th is here and I find my self some what nerves but ready to get this over with so I could be holding that beautiful girl in my arms. So we arrive early and get checked in. After that they get me settled in my room and on the monitor to see how every thing is. Monica the midwife that was on call that day came in and I asked her if she would be willing to break my water first before she starts pumping me full of meds. She thought that would be a great idea. So she broke my water around 2:20pm and I layed in bed to let all the water go out for about 30 mins. Then I took one stroll around the maternity ward and felt things progressing. So I went and sat on the birth ball and that's when my contractions started. So I had a few more contractions on the ball and then I started to get really uncomfortable and went to lean on the hospital bed. The foot side was lowered so I leaned over on a few pillows on the bed and had a few real bad contractions in my lower back. So I told my mother in law to call some one to check me and see were i was in dilation. By the time the nurse got there i was feeling the urge to push so she yelled for the Midwife and she came running. When the midwife got there I couldn't help but push. I was crowing and could stop. So on all fours i pushed a few times maybe 4 and there was Miss Serenity.

So all in all 1hour and 2o mins. Less than 10 contractions and around 4 pushes were way worth all that false labor,thinking that i was leaking fluid and hospital visits. The Lord really does have a plan for every one and if we listen to our hearts and ask him he will deliver our answer to our prayer. I totally thought IT would have been delivered in a different way but I had faith and it came in a way that I would have never thought..

Thanks for reading my birth story and Hope you can get to know Serenity and how wonderful she is..

joanie