Welcoming Mason to the world: Our story

Five days ago, we thought we wouldn't have much of a birth story and just an amazing end result, but our son decided he didn't like our plans. After scheduling a c-section for Wednesday, I was excited to have the day before off work to go grocery shopping, put up his bassinet, do laundry and enjoy my last day before motherhood. Monday night - just a few hours after blogging about how his birthday was going to be on Wednesday - Mason decided to speed up the process. Around 11pm, we discovered my water had broke. We were both in shock. I kept saying, shaking, "he broke me," as Dash googled 'water breaking' just to confirm we weren't out of our minds. So we made a mad scramble to pack up the last things for the hospital and off we went. Contractions had started by the time we got to the hospital and they moved up my c-section to 8am the next morning - Tuesday morning. A restless night followed and then a standard c-section that delivered our beautiful bundle of joy.

We are all adjusting well and I am feeling better every day. Here are a few photos from Mason's birthday and you can look forward to more from his first few days soon. We can't wait for him to meet all of you soon!

meeting Grandma