Well imagine that!
We are now officially parents of 2! I don't think it's sunk in yet.
Baby Zuri was born July 14th at 8:30am at Sterling Regional Hospital here in Colorado. At that point I was about 39wks pregnant and had settled into the thought that I'd be pregnant forever. Moms, you know what I'm talking about here. That very point in your pregnancy when you have resigned yourself to the fact that you'll be overdue.
The day before the delivery was a strange one. Dear husband decided to take baby boy swimming so that I could rest. But instead of resting I took to cleaning up the house. Then I had a crazy urge to shop for things I don't really need. So when they returned we went grocery shopping followed by hours of home decor shopping (where I did my best to pursued myself not to be wasteful). That ended up in us getting home late, cleaning the downstairs, eating sandwiches for dinner and baby boy going to sleep at 10pm. Dear husband and I stayed up a little later until he decided to head to bed as I was finding more and more things for us to "fix" or "clean". Sometime around 1pm I decided that maybe it was time to rest.
That rest time didn't last too long as I was violently awoken by sharp pains on my back. It all started near 3:30am. Even though I new these were signs of labor, I did my best to relax as I wanted it to be morning so that we wouldn't have to drop baby boy off at someone's house so early. I didn't want him to be uncomfortable or inconvenienced. So I waited. And then finally at around 4:30am I couldn't wait any longer. We got in contact with my visiting teacher who agreed to watch Urijah while as we headed to the hospital. She thankfully suggested to meet us half way which was very thoughtful of her as she lives on a farm and getting to her home would mean braving a bumpy road while suffering through some mean contractions. During the drive Urijah in his sweet little morning voice asked "where we going mommy?". I told him that he was going to Janae's house to play with the horses and that mommy was going to go have the baby. "At the doctor?" was his next question. To which I replied "yep". He then closed our conversation with "ok, see you later mommy". And that was it. We were pleasantly surprised at how well he took to the whole situation.
We then arrived at the hospital at 5am and I became like one of those deranged pregnant women you see in the movies making a complete scene. At least if I ever have to act the part in a movie or tv show, I'll be fully prepared with clear life experience to draw from:). Luckily there were no other patients around, just nurses and dear husband. I later heard that the nurses suspected that I'd have the baby right there in the check in area - the pain was that loud and that real! And then began the grueling 3 and 1/2hrs before she graced us with her presence.
TBC...
[This was the last recording of the baby bump - en route to the grocery store and fueling up on my superfood that helped me have a healthy happy pregnancy . Wearing a dress that managed to fit all through the pregnancy!]
I didn't know it took that long,
ReplyDeleteLabour is definitely not for the faint hearted