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Foxi's Birth Story

arrowsandbow9 • December 13, 2020

Foxi's Birth Story

The story of Foxi:

8 years ago Dino got a vasectomy. We never really wanted to have more kids, but felt like it was tugging on our heart in recent years. 14 months ago we felt God telling us to have another kid, and that their name would be Fox!

12 months ago (November) Dino got a reversal vasectomy. And we just felt like alright we might have another kid now and we’re gonna go down this path - We didn’t even know if we could get pregnant or if we were ever going to get pregnant. We were completely open to what He had in store for our family.

Surprisingly and so excitedly, we found out we were pregnant in March. At my 20 week appointment we got some news that she had potential heart and placenta issues. They were not confident to for sure call it that, but they warned us and prepared us. They were about 90% sure that the issues would resolve themselves. So I’d go back in 3 weeks for them to check on her heart. So we felt good. We felt at peace. This was our plan and we were in it together.

Foxi has been a gift from God since the beginning and we are just so thankful for her! And whatever comes from her we are thankful for. She was never ours...she was always God’s from the beginning, so we aren’t going to sit and hold onto her. Whatever God wants with her is what God’s going to give us with her. We kept praying for him to make that heart strong and perfect!

Almost 9,000 people came to our side and held our hands and prayed with us, and it was incredible. And really I felt that peace at the doctors and felt really good with what he said.

Dino and I were talking about it and we were like, how can we be mad about any of this? We not only get to talk about our faith, but actually walk in our faith and share it! It was a blessing of sorts.

Then, at 24 weeks everything was resolved and her heart was perfect! Like, Miss Foxi was already an incredible fighter, with immense strength. So it’s been a journey of just faith, waiting, trusting, thankfulness. I just have to say thank you for all of the prayers, and thank you for this community.

Not only did God totally fix her heart and it’s, like perfect, but the doctor and technician were blown away by the scans and how beautiful her heart was! And they said they were gonna use it in the next meeting that they had to show what it’s supposed to look like. So not God did not only fix her heart, he blew it out of the water. I think we all just needed a sweet reminder that miracles still do happen and although it’s 2020 (the year of the crazy) that there is hope and goodness and joy to be had!

Fast forward to November 23rd, 2020:

Foxi Babe had quite the entrance. My water actually started breaking Saturday evening, November 21st, before we went to dinner and I was like ‘no, I did my hair in a braid, I painted my nails, we’re going out to dinner!’ Of course we would still go, I was all dressed up and ready to go somewhere. Foxi was comin’ out at that table if I she must!
When we got home, that’s when Dino started getting the bedroom ready. He put the sheets on the bed that we wanted once she was here. He put the plastic sheet down. He vacuumed, and we lit a fire so the room wo uld be nice and warm. He was so proud and it was so cute. He was prepping for this little life to enter the world and it felt incredibly special.
But my water really didn’t break fully until Sunday. It was a very long few days of just trying to go into labor. We gave ourselves until Monday morning at 8AM to start labor and if not we were going to go to the hospital. It was so crazy because anytime my water broke before I started contractions immediately after. But not with this girl! Not with this fighter!

So Sunday we started doing all the things. I’ve never done any of them before. Castor oil, cotton tincture.Tried all the natural remedies, didn’t seem like anything was happening! I was walking around with a breast pump, playing basketball, bouncing on an exercise ball just trying to get things moving.
But Dino just felt such a peace about it and we were praying about it and Monday morning, sure enough, 4AM my contractions started. By 11AM my midwife came, and by 1:21PM this little beauty was out. Perfectly healthy. She came out with her eyes open and not a cry to be had. Just staring at Mom and Dad. ‘Hello World, I’m Foxi!’

The labor was sleepless for a few days and long, but I didn’t push for long. Although it was the most painful of all the kids, I have been healing so, so well. Fastest recovery of them all!
Our midwife was incredible. I believe she saved her. Foxi actually had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck twice. But our midwife Shannon was so fast to unravel it. She is an angel. I’m so thankful that we were able to labor at home. Dino caught Fox and was there to grab her and Shannon was right there to help and unravel the umbilical cord. It was amazing! Best experience.

A funny story, while I was in labor we had already scheduled on Monday the painters to touch up the house, the landscapers, and the gutters were getting installed. So the painters were touching up the house outside of the bathroom and while I was laboring in the tub. They actually started taking down the tape and paper off of the windows. So someone quickly ran outside to tell them to stop. We had tractors in the back going beep, beep, beep. And then the copper gutters were going on on the same day, it just happened to be Monday. So there was banging going on in the back of the house. It was quite the experience, let me say. I guess we thrive in organized chaos.
Traditional Petrone style to welcome the newest member to this crazy clan! Thank you for all the messages, well wishes, love, prayers - our family felt it and we are so grateful.

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