8 weeks, 2 days.

Well, I've now been a mother for two months. And, I LOVE it!
I went into labor on my due date - Tuesday, 23 November 2010 - at around 4 PM. I started feeling some cramps that would just come for about 30 seconds or so, then go away for around ten minutes, and then repeat. Contractions. Things went on this way for a while, just gradually growing in intensity and becoming closer together little by little. At around 1 AM they were about 5 to 7 minutes apart, and definitely stronger. A few were making me feel nauseous. Finally sometime around 2 or 2:30 AM I threw up. I called my mother, who had just gotten into Salt Lake from California, to come get me and take me up to the hospital. So, while waiting for her, suddenly contractions started coming about every 3 minutes, and much stronger to the point that I didn't want to move at all while having one. So, I just worked to hurry and get my things together, with the help of my younger sister, Gabriella, and cousin, Silvia. When my mom got there my contractions had only grown in intensity. We hurried and got in the car; well, I moved as quickly as I could between contractions. Then we took my sister and cousin to my older sister's house, Cristina. When we got there, they both got out to go stay there and be with her kids while she hopped into the car with us to head straight up to the hospital. All the while in the car I was having contractions every 2 to 3 minutes, and any small bumps in the road definitely did me no good. Once we finally got up to the hospital, around 3 AM, and they checked me I was already dilated to a 5 and 100% effaced. They got me into a delivery room and from there I just had about three more hours of labor to the birth of my beautiful boy. It was rough, but manageable. I just remembered to relax as well as I could through each contraction and kept in mind that each one was just bringing my boy closer and closer to me. I did not take the epidural or any pain medicine to get me through it, which had been my plan from the beginning, and I am beyond glad that that's the way I went about it. Once it finally became time to push the contractions just were literally making my body push and I had no choice but to go along with it. Within about 10 or 15 minutes of pushing my son was out and placed right up on me. There are no words for what I felt when I saw him. I had really made this little purple, screaming boy. He was the most incredible creature I'd ever laid eyes on. My mother then cut his umbilical cord and he was placed further up on my chest. Then it was time to birth the placenta, which was a much easier lump of slime to get out of there. And, I was done. It was the hardest thing I've ever done, and I never knew my butt could hurt so much. But, it was all okay, because I had my amazing little boy and was able to touch and see him, at last!
Nyjah Isaiah Baldi was born Wednesday, 24 November 2010, at 5:58 AM. Weighing 6 lbs 14 oz and 18.5 inches long.
Today, he is still just a little guy, working on getting some more of that adorable baby fat. He has beautiful blue eyes, for now, and dark brown hair. He is the best looking thing I've ever seen as well as the cutest, just everything he does is the cutest thing I've ever seen. I have never felt any love or connection like I have with this little boy. I didn't know I could love him much more than when I was growing him in my belly. But, it's happened. He's still inside me even though he isn't really inside me anymore. I could not and will not ever love anything more than this boy.
Being a mother is the greatest thing I have ever done.