A Beautiful Story...

Hello everyone! The last I wrote, I left you all to be continued with our birth mom dilated at 4cm....are you ready for the ending of the most beautiful story??

     After our phone call from the birth mom that she was dilated to 4cm. . . . I got off the phone and spent a few minutes just staring at Jerrod in shock. . . . then I hyperventilated a little thinking "Is this really happening. . . and now???" Then a made a few phone calls trying to spread the word as we were not planning on returning home until our baby boy was with us! I was still in shock that we were having a boy! Can you believe it. . . A Boy!! And now it could happen anytime! Eeeekkk!!
    So when we got to Staples we met up with a lot of our family. We were going to reveal whether it was a boy or girl. . . pre-planned reveal. So everyone was buzzing with their guesses, but little did they all know that we were having this baby SOON!! So it was a pretty awesome experience to tell all of our loved ones what was going on! Their faces were priceless! There are many things that I may never experience with pregnancy, but having this moment with family around us, it meant more than the world to us. There are so many beautiful moments in adoption that are not in pregnancy! Like having a celebratory drink with everyone!! Can't do that when you're pregnant!!  HeHeHe! :)
    Of course, with all the family buzzing with the news of it's a boy AND she's dilated to 4cm. . . . the excitement came with everyone telling me it's going to happen tonight. Although those were already my thoughts, the added nervousness and shock from family made it even more surreal and, frankly, harder not to hyperventilate! But we knew our mom would call us when anything happened...as we were going to be the only people in the delivery room with her! Yep...pretty amazing! We knew that we would be able to experience everything with our baby boy as he entered this world. We were going to be right there, first faces he saw and voices he heard!
     When we got home, we were exhausted. . . after being up since 4 a.m. and then the emotions running around in us from all this news! I thought. . ."I am going to sleep good tonight, I will have my phone next to me and she will call." O.k.  Not really how it went. . . I started with my phone on the floor next to the bed (no nightstand) and then couldn't rest thinking I may not hear it. And yes, the volume was all the way up; I checked 3 times! So then the phone ended up under my pillow - the whole night! As I tried to fall asleep, I have everyone's voices in my head from earlier saying "You better get down there or your going to miss it!" or "It's going to happen tonight. . . no way she will make it through the night!" And, yes, as you can guess. . .no phone call. Jerrod slept great. . .snored even! And I checked the phone from under my pillow every hour starting at 3 a.m.
     The next few nights were the same. . .no phone calls, but the sleeping did get better! We did text our birth mom everyday to see how she was doing. She was getting anxious knowing that if she didn't go into labor on her own, they were going to induce her on Tuesday morning.
     Monday night (October 15th) we were on our way back to St. Cloud to spend the night with Jerrod's mom and Dennis. We set the alarm for 5:00 a.m. so we could meet our mom when she got admitted at 6 a.m. Early morning!!! And I actually slept good that night!! So, of course we would get lost in the hospital! Thankfully we found someone that led us to the right spot! We got to our room and the nurses got Mom all admitted. We had a lot of time to sit and visit with mom. The Dr. came around 9:30 am and then things moved quick. . .epidural by 11:30. . .and beautiful baby boy by 1:31 pm!!
   I was mom's labor coach, of which I didn't do a whole lot because she was amazing! She pushed 3 times and baby was here! I was able to cut his cord when he entered the world! It was truly the most unbelieveable, beautiful, amazing moment in my life! We named him Peyton William Busker. William after Jerrod's dad. Our birth mom also had a part in naming him. We couldn't choose between William and Edward (after my grandpa) and Mom thought William sounded best, also that Edward reminded her of the Twilight series! :) Too funny! I hadn't thought of that, but now I do! And the cool thing about his name now is that his birth mom had a part in naming him! That means a lot to us!
    Baby Peyton was super healthy! He weighed 8 lbs 9 oz and 19 1/2 in long. Big Boy!! We got to hold him and feed him right away! We took pictures with us and with mom. We all had tears in our eyes; Peyton is so incredibly loved by all of us. . .and all of you!
    The hospital gave us our own room and we spent 1 night in the hospital. Most of our time that evening and the next day was spent together with Mom. We really enjoyed that time with her and we are so excited about the realtionship we have already with Mom. We have an open adoption and we have many plans to see her often! She is such a strong, loving, and giving person. She has given us her baby to love, support, and encourage. And we will do just that. . .and more! We are so blessed! The relationship is more perfect than I can even imagine!
    We came home Wednesday night. It felt so good to be home, but a little surreal to be home with Peyton! We have had pretty good nights with him. He is such a good baby! The next step is for Mom to sign legal documents giving up her rights as a parent. I can not imagine how hard that will be. They have 60 days to do so, however, Mom is planning to do that soon. After she signs, there is a 10 business day waiting period in which she can change her mind. Please pray for all of us during this time as it is very emotional.
     I will, as always, keep everyone updated. We are choosing not to post pictures of Peyton until everything is legal. We will wait for the 10 day waiting period to be over. Thank you again for all your support and prayers, this is truly a miracle from God!