The moment I found out I was pregnant, the first time, I cried. I wasn’t sure if it was meant to be or not. Like every pregnancy I had my ups and downs. I did not find out what we were having until I was seven month pregnant. The moment I found out I was having a girl… I cried again, in the doctors office. It was horrible. I had a dream. My first child was going to be a boy then a girl.
I realized how silly that was. WHY WOULD YOU BE SAD YOURE HAVING A HEALTHY BABY? I got over it. I went shopping, got cute baby girl clothes and I was thrilled to be having our first baby girl!!
When I had my 39 week check up, something wasn’t right. I was losing amniotic fluid. It was a scary moment for me. This isn’t how it was supposed to happen. I was supposed to have my water break and have her all natural.
I ended up at the hospital on December 21st at 6PM for them to start inducing me with pitocin. By the next day, at 6PM, I was barely dilated to 1cm. It was the worst 24 hours of my life. Small contractions with nothing to show for it.
I was able to get a break during the night and by mid morning contractions started by themselves, sadly they stopped within two hours. They started me on pitocin again. The contractions started to pick up and I was in so much pain. I asked for my epidural and had the worst nurse in the world tell me I couldn’t be in that much pain. She said, “you’re not even in real labor!” Now, I’m emotional, I hurt and that was the straw that broke the camels back… I broke down and bawled my eyes out.
Sooooo I hate pain, I have ZERO pain tolerance. I then requested that that nurse never come into my room again. I felt better with that. However, she was MY nurse and she was responsible for me. Therefore, she apologized and I got my epidural.
Now I was at 4cm and was able to finally get some sleep (at this rate I hadn’t slept in over 18 hours). I was uncomfortable and will have been for a few hours more. My water was broken around noon and around 5PM I was at 5cm. It felt like my gorgeous babygirl was never coming out of me.
But just then I turn to my right side and BAM, I was at 10 cm and my baby girl was ready to come out. While the nurses prepped my room my doctor was being notified. She left the hospital to get gas in her car. FREAKING LEFT THE HOSPITAL!!! She had made her way back and was in my room at 545PM.
The doctor was assisting me getting into position to deliver my sweet baby. Just ONE TWO THREE pushes and my baby was here on December 23rd at 556PM! It was the happiest moment of my life (and my husbands)! It took until midnight for the epidural to wear off. FINALLY we are in the family room where I can hold my precious baby girl! She is PERFECT!!! That was the start of our beautiful family of three!
It wasn’t until July 2015, that I found Kayla Itsines BBG program. If you haven’t heard of it yet, it stands for Bikini Body Guide. Her guides are a 12-week program consisting of high-intensity 28-minute workouts to be completed three times a week. I completed my first round by September 2015. I had lost about 20lbs and gained a bit more confidence.
first 12 weeks of the new year and had felt the leanest I’d ever felt. I was in love with my exterior. I finally got the body I had worked so hard to achieve. Yet, something was missing. I may have looked amazing but I didn’t feel amazing. I worked so hard, twice a day, to achieve this body. Gallons of water to drink and nothing but healthy food for 12 weeks.
April 1, 2018, Kayla Itsines had shared my transformation on her Instagram. This was an amazing experience for me. That over 9 million other ladies get to see what her guides did for me. This was after about 9 months of self-love and eating freely.