My Son

Today is my son's 16th birthday.  He was born at 10:53 pm on March 16, 1996.

When his father and I found out that we were pregnant it was the happiest day of our lives (other than our wedding day). We couldn't wait to find out what we were having!  I remember when we went to the doctor for my ultrasound.  As soon as she said it's a boy - I looked at my husband and he had the biggest smile on his face and tears in his eyes!  Of course I was crying too!!  We were having a little boy!!  The next thought that came into my head was "I'm giving my husband a son".

We started shopping for cribs, clothes and everything that you could possibly need or not need but looked really cute :-)

The day finally came when my water broke!  It was about 7:00am and my husband was at the laundry mat so I grabbed the phone to page him (yes PAGE him - we didn't have our cells phones at that time) anyway, I could hear his pager going off in the next room. He forgot to take it with him!  The first time ever that he forgot it!!!  After my initial laughter that he forgot it, I grabbed the phone book and called the laundry mat.  He got home so quick (the clothes were dry already so I guess it was timed pretty good).  I called my mom, sister, sister-in-law and then FINALLY the doctor (I know wrong order) I jumped in the shower and then off we went!

We arrived at the hospital, got settled in our room and on went the monitors.  My contractions never started so they had to start that HORRIBLE pitocin!  Within minutes the contractions started. I remember the movie "The Money Pit" being on the TV and yelling at my husband to stop watching it and watch my monitor for my contractions (poor guy - later I felt bad that I yelled at him).

I went 16 hours without any pain meds because my labor would not progress.  The doctor came in and said that he was breech and that a C-Section was on the way.  For some odd reason after hearing that the pain went away and that was before the spinal!!

They rolled me into the operating room and within a few minutes here was our beautiful baby boy Arron Taylor!  7lbs 11oz 19 inches long.  He was perfect!  I remember the tears running down both mine and his dad's faces - we were finally parents!  God had blessed us with the beautiful life!

Thank you God for our beautiful boy!