Long over due update!

It has been 17 days since my last post! Everyday for the past at least 9 days I have wanted to come update my blog, but never got around to it.



Saturday January 31, 2009

Kyle had a early 7:00 o'clock hockey game. They won 4 to 2!! My sister and my 3 nephews came to watch his game, he loves it when he has his own cheering section! After the game we all went out to breakfast to Ihop. The following day was my nephews 16th birthday! I asked him if I could have the baby that day and he told me a very firm NO. He said ~come on Aunt Denise don't have him on my birthday~. I told him he just jinxed me to have him that day. After breakfast we came home and hung out around here, I ended up going shopping with my friend across the street, we only went to 2 stores then the grocery store. At the grocery store this little old man behind me said as I was leaving ~I hope you make it home in time~, meaning before I give birth I assume. I laughed and thought he was so cute. Later that evening I went and got my toes and nails done and then came home and our neighbor had us over for dinner. We got home around 7:00 and I felt so dizzy I laid on the bed. It got worse and worse and by 8 I could hardly see straight and felt so sick, so I called labor and delivery asking them if I should worry and they told me to call my Dr. I talked to her and she asked the basic questions ~have you had plenty to eat, drink etc~ I answered yes to all and she told me she didn't know why I would be dizzy to just take it easy & maybe go to be early. I thought about not showering but then just felt like I wanted too, so I showered and went to bed. It was 8:30 and I was asleep by 8:45. I woke up around midnight to use the bathroom, then again at 2 and then again at 4 and when I sat up that time my water broke. I was so shocked! My water has never broke on its own, ever let alone 15 days early!!! I woke up G and told him and he kept saying OK OK OK, as it was registering in his head. I washed my face, brushed my teeth, put on a little mascara and packed my stuff, we woke Brittney and her friend to tell them we were leaving for the hospital and that Haley (my cousin that was staying with the kids while we had the baby and until we got home with the baby) would be here around 6:30 or 7:00. I shocked her when I woke her up and she looked at me with this look and said ~why are you going to the hospital~ her friend said ~good luck~! It was funny. As we were leaving G remembered the car had no gas, so we had to stop at the gas station on our way, which was no big deal because I was not contracting. We got to the hospital around 5 a.m. and went through the emergency room entrance, they said ~can we help you~ and I said labor and delivery and they come rushing out with the wheel chair as if I am going to deliver right there on the floor. We get up to the 3rd floor and get put in what I think would have to have been the coldest room in the hospital, they hook me all up and check me and I am at a 3.5 STILL same as 6 days before and 70% effaced. Still no contractions, so we thought it was going to be a long long day. They started poticin around 7 and I started having contractions but couldn't even feel them they were so mild, at 9:00 they came in and did my epidural and turned the poticin up more and again contractions were mild and about every 4 minutes. We just kept saying it was going to be a long day and then at 11:00 I told the nurse I felt pressure and she was so cute she says ~Oh ok mama, you have done this 4 times, so I believe you, you know what your talking about~ so she checked me and sure enough I was a 10 cm and fully effaced and ready to have this baby. I started pushing at 11:11 and he was born at 11:28. 17 minutes!! Wow I am becoming a pro at this! He weighed in at 8 lbs 4 oz and 20 1/4 inches long. He looks a lot like Luke. He has darker hair then the older boys.

The kids got to the hospital around 1:00 and were in love with him the minute they say him. Luke said over and over again ~HI HUBBLE~... It was super cute. They moved me into my room around 1:30 and as we walked into the maternity area out of labor and delivery they asked the kids who wanted to push the button that plays a lullaby through the hospital to announce the birth of our baby. We got settled in our room and Haley took the kids home around 3. Super bowl started (oh that was another thin I had been telling G I was having this baby on super bowl Sunday for months now!!) then we had our first visitors Dannon and Nicole. Nicole is my best girlfriend from about 18 years and her boyfriend. I was so happy get to introduce her to my new little guy! We had a good visit and then our other friends Bob and Janice came to visit. They stayed for about an hour or so and then left, a little while later my good friend Lori came to see us. We got to visit with her for awhile, then she headed out. Around 7:30 my parents, grandparents and cousin came to see us. Then around 8:00 my 3 girlfriends came to see us. It was so nice to visit with everyone one on one basically. Monday my girlfriend Christie came, then my girlfriend Denise and then my 2 sisters and nephews and nieces all came and my parents came again that night.
Since it has taken me almost 2 days to get this much typed I am going to post it and continue later since I hear Blake crying downstairs.

So to be continued................