May 18th, 2010… Lucas Dean Moore was born. What a beautiful boy on such a beautiful day!  I’ll try to keep the details short and to the point but what a great experience this was:)  Most in part to hiring an amazing Doula for support!  Her name is Angela Maes with Birth Roots Doula Collective Inc.  Amazing indeed!

Our biggest concern all this time was that I would be away for a wedding in the Dominican from May 9th to May 18th and our due date was May 22nd.  We had to plan for the worst so last minute we hired Angela.  How lucky am I hey!?!?!?! The day I get back Amanda goes into labour!!

We sat down in the evening to watch some TV together and then… her water broke.  Just like in the movies, LOL!  We headed to the hospital and Angela was there to meet us and to get Amanda going on her labour.  For the next few hours while I slept in the car (again, aren’t I lucky, LOL!) Angela walked her around the hospital to get labour going.  Not to long into the evening I was called in to lend some support to Amanda now that labour was gettin’ serious:)  Luckily, we got into our own private room right away!  As part of her plan, Amanda notified the nurse that she would want an epidural.  That’s just how we roll… we have always been about the drugs.

As soon as we got into the room we decided to change it up and try to hot tub.  As soon as Amanda got in she immediately felt like she needed to push.  The nurse quickly checked and we were ready to go… he was coming!!  Obviously the plan changed and there would be no time for drugs… yikes!  We all ran into our room and immediately after one push the nurse was holding Luke’s little head.  Nothing was really set up and our doctor wasn’t even there yet.  A moment later our doctor arrived.  Angela quickly made Amanda feel very calm while she held for that last push.  One push later Lucas was here!!!  How exciting!!!  What an exciting experience and I have to say… Amanda is amazingly awesome!!  Thanks to my Mom for staying with Amanda and helping out while I was gone and thanks to my sis Breanne for being with us through all the labour:) And a huge thanks to Angela our Doula!  I can guarantee that it was due to her hard work and great handling that labour went so fast and clean:):)

Enjoy a video and some pics below!  Please leave some comments below as Lucas would love to read them in the years to come!  Thanks everyone!!

Little Lucas is here! from Curtis Moore on Vimeo.