As I type this up I cant believe this will be the last birth
story I will ever type up that is my own. The night of December 13th
I was up which felt like all night going to the bathroom. Lily loved to kick
and punch my bladder, which made it hard to sleep at night sometimes. That
night I woke up exhausted. I remember thinking I just want to lay on the couch
all day. I also got the start of a migraine and started to get blurry eyes. I
hurried and took medicine. After I took Tallin to the bus stop I started having
a lot of pressure down there. I then texted Zack to tell him that he needs to
keep his phone close today because it could be the day. I then turned on the
movie on and prayed the kids would sit and watch it so I could get some rest.
Well of course that didn’t happen. Around noon Zack called me and told me that
he was coming home of the rest of the day. I told him that he didn’t have too
but he insisted he did. When he got home I put the girls down for a nap and
then went up stairs to try to nap. Well the whole two hours I was trying to nap
I was tossing and turning and just could not fall a sleep. So I got out of bed and decided then I was
going to deep clean the house in case anyone had to come watch the kids. I went
and scrubbed and cleaned all the bathrooms, picked up all the rooms, got
jammies and clothes out for the next morning, vacuumed and just organized the
house. Then after the kids were in bed I had a feeling that tonight was going
to be the night. Around 10:00 I started having contractions, which were two
minutes apart. We called our friend to come over to watch the kids so we could
head to the hospital. We got to the hospital around 10:30. The nurse checked me
and I was only about a 5. She mentioned that they usually don’t admit moms
unless they are a six. That got me so worried. I was already freaking out
thinking my water was going to break and I would have no time for an
epidural. I asked to get an epidural as
soon as I could if I was to be admitted. Two and a half hours later and a ton
of painful contractions later when I was dilated to a 7 they gave me a
epidural. The down side was that it didn’t work this time around. I could still
feel all of the contractions but couldn’t feel my back or my legs. I remember
thinking shoot she is going to have to redo the epidural and I might have to do
this last labor naturally. The doctor then came in and broke my water. I mentioned
that it was going to go fast after my water broke. The other doctor finally
came back and gave me two doses of some kind of medicine in hopes that it would
reach my pain. It finally reached my contractions and then my contractions when
straight up into my back. I remember thinking that this was the most
contraction I have ever felt with all of my kids. My waist down was now numb
and I could not feel anything. I remember telling Zack that I didn’t feel good
and was really nauseas and something was wrong. My whole body started to shake
and I couldn’t get it to stop. I was so scared that something was wrong and I
was going to need to get a C-section. He then got me a throw up bag and the
nurse went to get me some nausea medicine to help. I then started dry heaving
into the bag and then all of a sudden it was pitch black and I remember feeling
so relaxed and good. I think woke up and saw a bunch of nurses and the OB in
our room staring at me and I was so confused. Zack then told me that I passed
out for a couple of seconds. My body was so exhausted and I was so tired from
not sleeping much the last couple of days and I remember thinking that was the
best couple seconds because I got some sleep. Ha ha Then about ten minutes
later the nurse thought to check me and she said oh my goodness your babies
head is right there! She ran out to get the doctor and we got lucky because he
was right outside our door. They all came running in and hurrying to get
everything together. I remember looking at Zack going wait our camera is not
set up to record. I don’t have my phone to take any pictures. The doctor then
told me to push and I said to him I can’t feel anything to push. Then all of a
sudden the baby was out and crying. He said you didn’t even have to push she
just came right out. I was so exhausted and shaky that I was so out of it.
Once Lily
was out and born I didn’t really get to hold her they had her on me for a
couple of seconds and then just took her away. I was so bummed because in the
past I was able to just have baby on me all dirty and I didn’t even care. They
weighed and measured her and then finally brought me back to me. Then I had her
for maybe ten minutes and they came to check her temperature and they all
freaked out because her body temperature was low. They then hurried and got her
heated blankets. After about thirty minutes they took her to the heater to try
to warm her up. They then took her blood sugar and saw that it was lower then
normal. I then had to feed her two bottles and not nurse her because they
needed her sugars to rise. After they finally did they let me nurse her but had
to keep checking her vitals every 3 to 6 hours. I felt so bad for her, she had
so much blood taken the whole time we were in the hospital.
Zack was
able to bring the girls by Friday moring after he dropped the boys off at
school. Kenna loved baby lily, but Peyton was not too sure. Then later when the
boys got back our neighbor watched the girls and he brought the boys to come
bath lily and let me shower. He then left and didn’t come back until he picked
me up Saturday afternoon. Right when Zack got to the hospital the fire alarms
started going off. He was still outside the hospital with the kids and I got
evacuated to the back of the hospital. I guess there was smoke in one part of
the hospital that set off the fire alarms. We then got to come back into the
hospital maybe after 20 mintues. Once I got there the kids were there and had a
lot of engery. I was a little overwhelmed because the kids were bouncing off
the walls and I just wanted to snap some cute pictures of the kids with lily in
the hospital. But I realized that this birth was just not going to be the same
as the other kids and it was okay. We are so thankful that baby lily is home
and we are both healthy and thriving.
