Happy Birthday Adia!

At 2:11pm, one year ago today, Adia was born. Certainly not the easiest thing I've ever done, but worth all the effort. It's so hard to believe it's been an entire year already. It's shocking how quickly time flies, how quickly babies grow up and how her birth only seems like yesterday. All day today I kept looking at the clock and saying, this is when the doctor broke my water and started the pitocin. This is when I thought it couldn't get any worse, but I was wrong. This was when they checked and I was only a 5, but I'd been laboring for 4 hours and wanted to die. At least I had several women, DiDi and Gamma included, telling me the last 5cm are the fastest. And they were right. In the next 2 hours, I thought I was being ripped in two. I was kind of right because in less than 2 hours, I was pushing and 20 minutes later Adia was screaming. I didn't hold her immediately, but Scott went with her as the NICU doctor and nurses checked her over, warmed her up. I was high from pain. I didn't cry, but looked at her in awe when she was finally placed on my chest. So tiny, so squished. The craziest cone head, but she was mine and she knew it, especially when she puked and then graced me with her first poop too. One year ago, today, I met a stranger who has now become the person I know the best.