Introducing Kaden! Our newest baby boy, born on Sunday in the wee hours of the morning. What an awesome blessing he is to us already. And what an awesome entrance he made into our world!
First of all, let's rewind back a few months to about December of 2010 to a simple fortune I got after a birthday dinner out...
"Something on four wheels will soon make a happy arrival in your life."
Hmmm. Interesting. I actually thought nothing of it at first. Until Davey said jokingly, "Oh, the babies going to be born in the car!" We all had a good laugh and it became somewhat of a running joke in our family. Even with Lori our midwife too. Since Levi came so fast, and the birth center is an hour away from us, it wasn't totally inconceivable, but really, not a reality either. But, never the less, I kept the fortune, marked the date on the back and stored it away. See, just before Levi was born I had gotten a fortune as well, that read, "A joyful event will soon take place in your home." I kept that one too. Wrote the date on the back, and it's now in Levi's baby book.
Fast forward to Saturday the 19th (Davies birthday!). The entire day I found myself paying really close attention to the weather. This is something I've noticed I do with all my births. I told Davey that I felt like I would go into labor soon because I couldn't stop watching the clouds roll by. But still, I felt nothing labor-like. Just a feeling. It was a nice day. I loved on the kids a lot. I cried a little when I held Levi. And this made me really think I was going to have the baby soon. I felt like I was starting to "let go" of Levi as my youngest in a sense. A little sad feeling in my heart.
Another interesting side note to the story, I had been feeling like I actually was never going to go into labor prior to this. We still hadn't decided on a house yet and I kept telling everyone I felt like in my subconscious, I was waiting until we had a home lined up before I would go into labor. It was at 5pm on Davies birthday, February 19th, that we signed the contract for a home! We decided to lease a really beautiful place right here in Lake Elsinore. We both are really excited and feel like it's the perfect place to raise our family. We went home and I finally felt that sense of total relief and peace. And sure enough, little did I know, we would go home and that would be the last night I was pregnant.
That night, around 10pm I started to feel really achy. My lower back hurt BAD. And my shoulders too. But nothing else going on. Just a serious case of late pregnancy aches (I thought). Davey massaged me while I leaned on my birth ball and around 11:30 we went to bed. This is when I started to really suspect I may be in very early labor, and by 12:30 I was sure. I had been having pretty good, cramping contractions and I decided to text Lori our midwife just to give her a heads up in case it was the real deal. I told her I felt a little menstrually and was having some contractions but was going to bed and would try to get some rest. Which is what I did. I put on my hypnobabies and tried to get as comfortable as possible because I wanted to sleep at least a few hours in between contractions. I ended up sleeping on and off until 3:30am and was really glad when I saw that I had gotten three good hours of sleep. I figured I would labor into the morning and have the baby probably in the afternoon sometime. I settled back into bed and decided that I wanted to try and stay snoozing between contractions until 5am and by that time it would probably be time to pack up and start on our way to the birth center. At this point, my water had not broken, I hadn't even lost my plug. So I felt really confident that I wasn't too deep into labor. I was actually wishing that my water would break or I would have some sort of definite sign that it actually was labor. But there was nothing.
As I laid back down to try and rest a little more, I had another contraction. But this one was different. Way different. I popped right back up and knew immediately I couldn't rest any longer. My contractions had gone from about a 4 on the power scale to about an 8 in less than 5 minutes time. So I got up. I walked a little. I went into the closet and turned the light on and started to mess around a bit with all of our birth center things. And then another contraction hit. Just as strong. And then another, even stronger. By this time Davey came into the closet and started getting dressed (He could hear me starting to vocalize a bit as these contractions ramped up very quickly). And I got REALLY agitated with him. I kept telling him, "Go back to bed! I can't believe you're in here getting dressed. You're seriously ruining my labor chi." He insisted that it was time to go, that he could just tell. And I insisted that he was insane. I argued with him that I hadn't even lost my plug! My water hasn't broken! And just half an hour ago I was sleeping in between contraction. There was no way I could be at the point where we needed to leave yet. Then another contraction hit. Aaaaaand I was now hanging on the clothes hanging in the closet. At that point I got really confused. Davey was still scurrying around the closet grabbing the necessities and I realized that this labor was taking a serious turn, FAST. I managed to time two contractions and found them to be 3 minutes apart. I admitted to Davey that I was really confused at this point and couldn't understand how all the sudden I felt really deep into labor and it had only been about twenty minutes since I got up.
I decided to head out to the living room and hang on my birth ball a bit just to see if maybe I would feel differently in a different position. But this only confirmed that Davey was right, we needed to leave...NOW. I said I needed to pee and quickly went to the bathroom. Davey suggested that I should check my progress and so I did. And I knew immediately that I was fully dilated. I got stuck in the bathroom while had a good, powerful, long contraction and I could hear Davey and my mom at the door trying to get in asking me to open the door. If I could have talked I would have told them, "I can't get up!!!" The minute the contraction subsided I said, "Let's go."
I had two bellowing contractions as we headed for the door, and as we walked down the sidewalk to the car, I had to stop twice to hang on the wall while I'll moaned through two more contractions. They were right on top one another now and I couldn't believe this was happening. It was 4am, half an hour since I woke up.
Davey got me in the car and thank God he had the brains to grab a blanket as we ran out the door. He threw it in the back and we raced towards the freeway. As we flew down the street I started to feel a serious adrenaline rush. And as we merged onto the freeway, I started to feel something even more serious.....the urge to push. We made it about 4 exits until I knew that we weren't going to make it. The urge to push turned into the necessity to push and I told Davey, "I have to push!! I'm taking my boots and pants off! Seriously! I need to push now!! Pull over! Pull over!" He started to pull off the freeway and called Lori and told her what was going on. She said not to pull over until we had a head out. So he turned right back around and we were back on the freeway.
Four minutes down the road, on a dark, quiet stretch of freeway, on a rainy night, in the middle of the hills of Lake Elsinore, our baby was born. I reached down and with one, big push felt the babies head moving down towards my hands. And with the next push his head was in my hands and I cupped my hands softly around his neck to make sure there was no cord and also to steady his body as I pushed the rest of him out. He slid out like silk and I turned him toward me and lay him on my belly. He was perfection. Davey was hollering, "YAH!!! WHOOHOO!! You did it baby! You did it!" And the loud, strong cry of our newborn filled the car. He was instantly pink, instantly breathing, and instantly loved and adored. I raised his little leg and exclaimed, "It's a BOY!!!" And Davey and I just smiled and laughed and it was an awesome moment.
Davey pulled over and ran to the back of the car to grab the blanket. He wrapped our son in it and got back in and we quickly proceeded to the birth center. The whole car ride there was like we both were on an emotional high. There was SO much happiness and excitement in that car. I held him tightly in my arms and just gazed at him in amazement and Davey and I couldn't stop rejoicing.
Once we got to the birth center Lori and her assistant Kim came running out with a bucket for the placenta (which I had easily pushed out about 10 minutes before we got there) and blankets and towels. I was so grateful that it was still dark (it was about 4:45 am now) because it must have been some scene, them walking us up to the birth center! Me with baby in arms, half dressed, holding towels between my legs, barefoot in the frigid winter night.
We got into the birth center and Lori had already had a hot bath prepared for the two of us. Kaden and I quickly got in to warm up and clean off. For the next three or four hours we did what any other family does at the birth center, Kaden and I had our exams and I had 6 or 7 stitches for a minor surface level tear. We cuddled in bed, Kaden nursed (like a pro!) and we were off.
That's it's. Birth happens. And love happens. Oh, does love happen. Like birth, sometimes it takes a while. Sometimes it grows over time. But sometimes, it happens in an instant, like lightening on a winter night. Before you know it, you're staring face to face with nothing but the moonlight out your car window, with this little person you never knew you couldn't live without.
My love for this child was more instant, and more powerful that I could have possibly ever imagined. He is truly something beautiful.
We love you so much Kaden and thank God every single day that he has entrusted us with you.
Fast forward to Saturday the 19th (Davies birthday!). The entire day I found myself paying really close attention to the weather. This is something I've noticed I do with all my births. I told Davey that I felt like I would go into labor soon because I couldn't stop watching the clouds roll by. But still, I felt nothing labor-like. Just a feeling. It was a nice day. I loved on the kids a lot. I cried a little when I held Levi. And this made me really think I was going to have the baby soon. I felt like I was starting to "let go" of Levi as my youngest in a sense. A little sad feeling in my heart.
Another interesting side note to the story, I had been feeling like I actually was never going to go into labor prior to this. We still hadn't decided on a house yet and I kept telling everyone I felt like in my subconscious, I was waiting until we had a home lined up before I would go into labor. It was at 5pm on Davies birthday, February 19th, that we signed the contract for a home! We decided to lease a really beautiful place right here in Lake Elsinore. We both are really excited and feel like it's the perfect place to raise our family. We went home and I finally felt that sense of total relief and peace. And sure enough, little did I know, we would go home and that would be the last night I was pregnant.
That night, around 10pm I started to feel really achy. My lower back hurt BAD. And my shoulders too. But nothing else going on. Just a serious case of late pregnancy aches (I thought). Davey massaged me while I leaned on my birth ball and around 11:30 we went to bed. This is when I started to really suspect I may be in very early labor, and by 12:30 I was sure. I had been having pretty good, cramping contractions and I decided to text Lori our midwife just to give her a heads up in case it was the real deal. I told her I felt a little menstrually and was having some contractions but was going to bed and would try to get some rest. Which is what I did. I put on my hypnobabies and tried to get as comfortable as possible because I wanted to sleep at least a few hours in between contractions. I ended up sleeping on and off until 3:30am and was really glad when I saw that I had gotten three good hours of sleep. I figured I would labor into the morning and have the baby probably in the afternoon sometime. I settled back into bed and decided that I wanted to try and stay snoozing between contractions until 5am and by that time it would probably be time to pack up and start on our way to the birth center. At this point, my water had not broken, I hadn't even lost my plug. So I felt really confident that I wasn't too deep into labor. I was actually wishing that my water would break or I would have some sort of definite sign that it actually was labor. But there was nothing.
As I laid back down to try and rest a little more, I had another contraction. But this one was different. Way different. I popped right back up and knew immediately I couldn't rest any longer. My contractions had gone from about a 4 on the power scale to about an 8 in less than 5 minutes time. So I got up. I walked a little. I went into the closet and turned the light on and started to mess around a bit with all of our birth center things. And then another contraction hit. Just as strong. And then another, even stronger. By this time Davey came into the closet and started getting dressed (He could hear me starting to vocalize a bit as these contractions ramped up very quickly). And I got REALLY agitated with him. I kept telling him, "Go back to bed! I can't believe you're in here getting dressed. You're seriously ruining my labor chi." He insisted that it was time to go, that he could just tell. And I insisted that he was insane. I argued with him that I hadn't even lost my plug! My water hasn't broken! And just half an hour ago I was sleeping in between contraction. There was no way I could be at the point where we needed to leave yet. Then another contraction hit. Aaaaaand I was now hanging on the clothes hanging in the closet. At that point I got really confused. Davey was still scurrying around the closet grabbing the necessities and I realized that this labor was taking a serious turn, FAST. I managed to time two contractions and found them to be 3 minutes apart. I admitted to Davey that I was really confused at this point and couldn't understand how all the sudden I felt really deep into labor and it had only been about twenty minutes since I got up.
I decided to head out to the living room and hang on my birth ball a bit just to see if maybe I would feel differently in a different position. But this only confirmed that Davey was right, we needed to leave...NOW. I said I needed to pee and quickly went to the bathroom. Davey suggested that I should check my progress and so I did. And I knew immediately that I was fully dilated. I got stuck in the bathroom while had a good, powerful, long contraction and I could hear Davey and my mom at the door trying to get in asking me to open the door. If I could have talked I would have told them, "I can't get up!!!" The minute the contraction subsided I said, "Let's go."
I had two bellowing contractions as we headed for the door, and as we walked down the sidewalk to the car, I had to stop twice to hang on the wall while I'll moaned through two more contractions. They were right on top one another now and I couldn't believe this was happening. It was 4am, half an hour since I woke up.
Davey got me in the car and thank God he had the brains to grab a blanket as we ran out the door. He threw it in the back and we raced towards the freeway. As we flew down the street I started to feel a serious adrenaline rush. And as we merged onto the freeway, I started to feel something even more serious.....the urge to push. We made it about 4 exits until I knew that we weren't going to make it. The urge to push turned into the necessity to push and I told Davey, "I have to push!! I'm taking my boots and pants off! Seriously! I need to push now!! Pull over! Pull over!" He started to pull off the freeway and called Lori and told her what was going on. She said not to pull over until we had a head out. So he turned right back around and we were back on the freeway.
Four minutes down the road, on a dark, quiet stretch of freeway, on a rainy night, in the middle of the hills of Lake Elsinore, our baby was born. I reached down and with one, big push felt the babies head moving down towards my hands. And with the next push his head was in my hands and I cupped my hands softly around his neck to make sure there was no cord and also to steady his body as I pushed the rest of him out. He slid out like silk and I turned him toward me and lay him on my belly. He was perfection. Davey was hollering, "YAH!!! WHOOHOO!! You did it baby! You did it!" And the loud, strong cry of our newborn filled the car. He was instantly pink, instantly breathing, and instantly loved and adored. I raised his little leg and exclaimed, "It's a BOY!!!" And Davey and I just smiled and laughed and it was an awesome moment.
Davey pulled over and ran to the back of the car to grab the blanket. He wrapped our son in it and got back in and we quickly proceeded to the birth center. The whole car ride there was like we both were on an emotional high. There was SO much happiness and excitement in that car. I held him tightly in my arms and just gazed at him in amazement and Davey and I couldn't stop rejoicing.
Once we got to the birth center Lori and her assistant Kim came running out with a bucket for the placenta (which I had easily pushed out about 10 minutes before we got there) and blankets and towels. I was so grateful that it was still dark (it was about 4:45 am now) because it must have been some scene, them walking us up to the birth center! Me with baby in arms, half dressed, holding towels between my legs, barefoot in the frigid winter night.
We got into the birth center and Lori had already had a hot bath prepared for the two of us. Kaden and I quickly got in to warm up and clean off. For the next three or four hours we did what any other family does at the birth center, Kaden and I had our exams and I had 6 or 7 stitches for a minor surface level tear. We cuddled in bed, Kaden nursed (like a pro!) and we were off.
That's it's. Birth happens. And love happens. Oh, does love happen. Like birth, sometimes it takes a while. Sometimes it grows over time. But sometimes, it happens in an instant, like lightening on a winter night. Before you know it, you're staring face to face with nothing but the moonlight out your car window, with this little person you never knew you couldn't live without.
My love for this child was more instant, and more powerful that I could have possibly ever imagined. He is truly something beautiful.
We love you so much Kaden and thank God every single day that he has entrusted us with you.
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Congratulations, Corin! What an amazing story. Our second son, Evan, arrived on Feb 10 :) Hoping your family of five are all happy and well tonight.
Sarah :)
Oh Corin what wonderful news. Congratulations to you on on the safe arrival of Kaden. I love the name. What an amazing birth story. You did a remarkable job and I have goosebumps just reading about it.
I was only thinking about you last night wondering how you were going. I nearly sent you a message.
He is so gorgeous. You guys sure do make beautiful babies. I bet Dakota and Levi and besotted with their baby brother.
It's late here and I should have proof read my comment - LOL!!
I meant to say congratulations to you all.
And I bet Dakota and Levi are besotted with their baby brother :)
Welcome to the world, Kaden! What a fantastic birth story, Corin...I felt like I was there! God Bless Your Growing Family! Amy
I was just thinking of you yesterday and wondering what the update was! Congrats, congrats, congrats! That story is amazing--the fortune cookie, the freeway, all of it! Enjoy your newborn days...what a great story to tell him in a few years!
Me again. Also, just had to add:
Those LIPS. Oh, my. Edible!
Congratulations Corin and Family on your third beautiful blessing! I am so proud of you! What an amazing birth story! Can't wait to see more pics after you take some time to heal! Sending much love
WAHOO!!! What an amazing story!!
Congratulations! I love what your husband said after he was born. =) Beautiful!
What an amazing story. Congratulations. Enjoy him Enjoy your family Enjoy it all. It flies by so treasure these momenst - every single one! xx
Congratulations!!
You're amazing Corin! And Davey. What a beautiful story, beautiful family. He is absolutely gorgeous.
Enjoy this special, special time. Much love to you guys!
Can I say MAJOR TEARS of joy for you right now friend.. that is awesome.. so amazing!!!!! Congrats!!!!
Oh my gosh he is just beautiful. You are amazing and I cant wait to meet your new son. Beautiful, beautiful birth story <3
Congratulations Corin, he is beautiful!!! What an amazing story. Yay Kaden and Josh share a birthday!!! Loe you guys, Call me when you get a chance!
congratulations!!!precious!!
oh. my. gosh. you were NOT kidding!!!!! AMAZING. Totally sobbing here... :) So happy he is here!!! xoxo
Congratulations! We can't wait to meet him. When I showed the pic to the girls they immediately asked when they could hold him, so cute. BTW, Kaden is the name I would have used if we had had a boy...I love it!
Love, Tif, Marty & girls
What an amazing story. Thank you so much for posting this so quickly! Your TN family have been excitedly waiting :)
Love to your entire family.
I'm crying! What a beautiful story my friend. Congratulations on becoming a family of 5! I can't wait to meet the little guy! xoxo
Awesome story, and awesome job providing this written account of such a blessing! We are so happy to have the pleasure of seeing you and Kaden and the whole family on the day of his arrival! We are so proud of you and David
Congratulations to all of you. What a story you can tell your beautiful son in a few years. God blessed you richly. I'll see you Sunday hopefully.
Love you all, Connie
No words can truly describe the rush this moment gave me. Corin was flawless in delivering Kaden. I am so proud of her! Good job Corin! It happened so fast (95MPH to be exact), But really I saw a head crowning then looked in my mirrors to get over then look back at Corin and watched her grab him up like he was just laying in her lap. Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
holy SHIT!!!! It really does happen like that, huh? I am flabbergasted! you are amazing! Hooray!
xoxoxoxox love his name, love you, bless you all!!!!
Congratulations Jones family!! I am so incredibly happy for you all! I was in tears reading your story, happy tears of course! Something about a baby being born makes me teary. Hope to meet Kaden soon! Sending lots of love, The Brandes Family xXx
You are so amazing and truly and inspiration. Although, I knew exactly how your birth story went already, even when I read this, it brought me to tears.
I think especially the part where you mention you cried over Levi being your littest for the last time. I've totally been feeling emotionally connected to Canyon lately. A bitter sweet feeling for sure!
And still although I know it happened in the car, I still am in shock over it!! I'm dying to meet Kaden and hope it isn't long before we get a chance to come and visit.
We are also praying consistantly things are going well with your new move and adjusting to the new place. Which I still can't wait to hear how things are going there, too.
Davey-you are amazing as well. To stay as calm and focused as you did, to handle everything with such perfection. Bravo dude!
Love you all SO SO SO much!!!!
You guys are amazing! The story is amazing! I can't wait to meet Kaden
Congrats Corin! He is gorgeous!
Congratulations Corin & Dave--this story is going to be the one story that trumps every other family story right? Caden will always be able to say to his siblings, "Yah, but were you born in a car?"; the presence of mind & heart just gives me the chills; how you two just rush to meet life. . .I can't wait to meet all of you!
Oh Corin!
What an incredible birth story! Wow! And Kaden is beautiful. Congratulations!
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