William Haines Moore

Our second sweet boy, Haines, was born on September 10 at 4:50 pm weighing a big 8 lbs 5 oz. We were scheduled for an induction the following Wednesday (14th) where he would share a birthday with his Auntie Kingslea.  Instead, he decided he wanted to share a birthday with Jimmy's late grandfather - William King Stallworth aka Gramps. We were gearing up for our last weekend as a family of 3. I had a baby shower to attend and we had our supper club as well. We had a quiet Friday night at home...cooked dinner, golf cart ride, watched some football and hit the sack. I remember waking up several times throughout the night with a constant, dull pain in my side, but since I had been having Braxton hicks for weeks I didn't think too much of it. That is until I woke up at 6. The pain progressively got worse. Jimmy got up and went on a run. I decided that I needed to get up to shower and eat something and then would decide what we should do. I could barely stand up in the shower!  Jimmy cooked our usual avocado toast with fried egg and I could barely eat any of it. I told him to go ahead and call. His mom headed over and my mom started heading this way from NC. Once we got to the hospital the pain had subsided and I was afraid it had been a false call, even though I knew something had to be going on with the extreme pain I had been feeling earlier. I was hooked up and was of course having contractions and was at 4 cm - 70% effaced. Not much change from my appointment several days before. We waited awhile and they checked again...5 cm!!  We were going to have a baby. I was really happy to have experienced going into labor on my own. While being induced definitely has it's perks, especially with arranging care for Charlie Banks, I really wanted it to happen on its own time this go around. Things moved pretty quickly from here. The contractions got stronger, epidural went in, water was broken and very quickly I was at 10 cm. Things were so easy. 4 pushes during 1 contraction and our sweet Haines was in our arms. In fact, he dropped down so quickly that Haines' face was completely blue/purple. I think Jimmy and I jinxed ourselves, because we kept talking to each other about how easy the labor/birth were compared to the 2.5 hours I was pushing with Charlie Banks.  We ordered pizza, watched football, snuggled our new babe and enjoyed some visitors. Then, things started heading south - and fast!  More to come on the craziness that ensued.