HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY ELLA!!!

Eat, don't eat, clean the house....stop pacing back and fourth. Let's flash back to earlier that morning.....It was 10:00 am in the morning and the doctor said everything looked good, yet to me I was huge and so uncomfortable it was indescribable. "What are my options" I remember asking her. "Well, you have two options, one you can wait another week and hopefully the baby is ready to come out or you can be induced tonight". WHAT! INDUCED TONIGHT! Wow this was actually going to happen, there was no stopping it now. Do you mess with nature and go ahead with forcing the baby out into this world or do you hope that with in the next 24 hours the baby decides that it's time and makes it out on its own? This was really a time to listen to my inner voice, and what a hard thing to do when everyone was so excited and waiting impatiently for this baby to join our family. So after a lot of thinking and pacing back and fourth, I made the decision to make a trip to the hospital on the night of February 22nd around 10:00 pm. It was like checking into a hotel, really we took our DVD player and movies....hmmm if I only knew what was going to be ahead of me. We arrived at the hospital and it was very quiet and the check in was really easy and everyone on staff was really nice. I was telling myself the whole time, just breathe, remember to breathe and don't be scared. As the Olympics continued and it was the big night of the figure skating I had other things that were going to be bigger than anything I have ever experienced.
The rest went pretty fast, an experience that I will never forget. Bringing a beautiful, healthy and happy baby into the world. The past year has gone by so fast and what I do know is that I have enjoyed every second of being with my little Ella Bella.