A Day in the Life of the Dentons: Baby Luke Allen is here

Well it has been over a month that I have had time to post on my blog and I will have to say that I have really missed sitting down and sharing our lives with my friends and family. Well I am back and I will have to say that I would have never thought that my next post would be shouting that Baby Luke Allen had come into this world!!! As most of you know Luke Allen was not due until April 11th. He surprised our family with an early arrival on March 10th. He weighed 6.9lbs and was 19 inches long. (pretty good size for a 32 day early baby...don't think I could have handled him at 40 weeks) So a lot of you know the story of how Luke Allen came into this world but for those of you who do not I thought I would share. So I guess I should start with the night before Luke Allen was born. I was attending an all associate meeting with the company that I work for (US Cellular) at the Hilton in Greenville and our leadership team felt that we needed to start the night off on the right foot by doing a little dancing. I was not sure of what my part would be in this dance because all we were told was to follow the lead. Ironically we would be dancing to a song called "I gotta feeling that tonight is gonna be a good night!" Check out the youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfl1TjFfGaY that we were following (by the way I did not dance as hard as these people did..I promise) So after all of the excitement at work I went home and got into bed. Shortly after falling asleep I was awaken by a constant leak of my water. I thought to myself at 2 am, "this can't be lil' Luke Allen already coming into this world." I got up and walked around still trying to figure out if what I was experiencing was what I thought it was before waking my husband. When I came to the conclusion that surely Luke Allen was coming I woke Bobby up and called the doctor. Because I was not in any pain the doctor told me to meet her at the doctors office at 8 am so that she could check to make sure I was leaking amnionic fluids before going to the hospital and she advised to call back if anything changed. Well in a couple of hours things changed tremendously. The no pain turned into consistent contractions about every 2 minutes so needless to say I gathered my things (you know that I did not have my bag packed) kissed Landon and me and Bobby headed to the hospital around 6 am. As soon as I arrived to the hospital Bobby got me checked in and they took me back through triage to ask some crazy questions and to place these things on my belly to monitor Luke's heart rate. After answering the 100 question survey for the nurse, she wheeled me on to my room where Luke Allen would be born in a matter of about 4 pushes. At this point I was too far along to receive any type of IV with pain medication or an epidural so all I had for pain relief was to get Luke Allen out as fast as possible. I would have to say it is amazing how hard you can push when that is your only option for pain relief!! Luke Allen cooperated and came on out to meet his Mommy and Daddy at 7:09 am. His Daddy cut the umbilical cord and Luke was shortly in my arms. Looking into his eyes it brought back memories of when Landon came into this world. He had some similarities but at first he didn't look exactly like his big brother to me. He had some uniqueness about him of course, but definitely looked like his Daddy. Everyday I am so amazed at God's creations and plans for our lives. Little Luke Allen was not planned (by us) but was planned by our Almighty God. Both of my children are miracles that can only be explained by God Almighty and I am so blessed to have the family that I do!!