May 30, 1999 @ 9:02 am, Deon and I was blessed with a beautiful baby girl. That was 11 years ago. Yes, a 11 YEARS! I cannot believe my first born is 11. It seriously just seems like she was just born. I can remember mostly every detail of her birth. Deon and I were married June 20, 1998, three months later..SURPRISE I was pregnant! Didn't plan on it being pregnant that early but God did. We were really excited, and of course my family and Deon's family was too. Nine months later, we were at a friends house hanging out, boys had done some skeet shooting. We were headed home, and I kept having this funny feeling in my stomach. Being first time mom, I didn't know what the contractions were going to feel like. We got home, and Deon went on to bed, I didn't mention of this to him b/c didn't want him to worry if it wasn't anything. So I called my mom explained the feelings and she said "yea I believe you need to go on to the hospital." I hung up with her and called my mother in law to let her know, then woke up Deon. We get dressed and head to the hospital, at this time it was about 1 something in the morning, cannot remember exact time.
We get to the hospital, and they do all their checking to see if I was having contractions. In deed I was, I was about 3 cm. So of course all you can do at this point is wait on baby. Hours passed and the contractions were getting stronger, they gave me some demerol it started to make me sick to my stomach. Then a couple hours passed and it was time for the epidural...YIPPEE! After getting that, everything got feeling LOTS better. Another couple hours passes and Dr Lawrence comes to check in and I was around 8 cm at around 7 am. Again another hour or two goes by and the nurse checks and I'm 10 cm, so she has me start pushing some before Dr comes back, at this they had paged him. At one point her head was crowning and there was No Doctor! He had gotten called to do something, and didn't expect me to go into labor so fast. By time he came in, got his scrubs on, sat down, and said Push, I only had to push a couple of times, and poof here comes baby girl! He made the joke by saying " If you have another baby and I deliver, I'm going to have to stand up against the wall to catch the baby". She was here and beautiful! The first time I got to see her, I know immediately she looked like her daddy. Even the nurses said it. 11 years later, she still looking more like her daddy, she is a daddy's girl!
Of course they family was there to greet Savannah Rose Barnes that morning. She was blessing the moment we found out I was pregnant, and she is still a blessing in our lives and always will be. I thank God every day for my children and husband. : )
So yesterday, we celebrated Savannah's 11th birthday @ Nana's pool (Deon's mom and dad's house) We all had a blast. It started raining right before time for the party, and this made me nervous, but it quit raining right in time for the party. We ate hot dogs, chips, beans, Nana's potato salad (yummy). Then everyone jumped in the pool ! Even Michael (our 1 year nephew) This was his first time in a swimming pool. He looked like he enjoyed it. After some swimming, we had cake and opened gifts. Savannah had a great time at her party with her family and best friend.......My baby girl is growing up way to fast.
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