Parker Lea Hayes

"I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD." 1 Samuel 1:27-28

Our sweet baby girl was born on July 14, 2009. She was due to arrive on July 24th and then we had a c-section scheduled for July 17th (because she was breech) but she had a date set on her own. I had spent the past couple days cleaning, cleaning and cleaning! That evening I had just got done cleaning the kitchen real good and my mom stopped by to see me. As we were talking and I was explaining horror birth stories my WATER BROKE. Of course I am freaking out and running & screaming to my husband in the other room. All I was thinking about was an emergency c-section which didn't happen. Once we make it to the hospital and I am getting out of the car (remind you that my water had broke) I notice a birthing class had just let out and they were all standing outside...wow, embarrassing! Once we make it through the old police officer knocking me into every wall, poor guy, I am quickly admitted into a room around 9:00 pm. As they are looking over everything I am luckily only dialated to a 1 and they let me know this baby will be here before 11:00 pm, I start bawling...the day that I never thought would make it here is HERE and my baby girl will be here in less than 2 hours! This delivery was one of the easiest things I have done...I would do the delivery over and over before pregnancy - well those last couple of months anyways! They wheeled me in, explained everything to me, insterted the epidural, and got to work. Tanner talked to me through the whole thing, I couldn't have done any of this without him by my side. FInally at 10:59 pm Miss Parker was here and crying! I couldn't control myself..I was so excited & bawling of course. Tanner got to spend the next few minutes with our baby girl while they patched me up...he was a HAPPY daddy :)

Parker weighed 7 lbs 1 oz and at that time they said she was 17 1/2 in. When we took her in a couple days later she was 19 3/4 in and they said the nurses didn't stretch her good at birth. Once we got to recovery it was nice to be waited on hand and foot so we could just sit and enjoy our little Princess. We had so many family & friends we were overjoyed at how many people came to us for this special time eventhough a lot of it is a blur now and that makes me sad..I mean that was only 2 1/2 months ago :(

I was so scared that c-section recovery would be really hard but I was up and moving around on my own within a couple days and out running errands in a week. God is so wonderful, he couldn't have blessed us with a more perfect daughter and easy delivery & recovery!