I know I had this on here but, I am unable to locate so this is for me to remember.
Sunday October 5, 2008
We woke up around 7:00AM, I am sure we had a lazy day. I
remember we had sometime to waste and started our day at Dairy Queen for a much
awaited Peanut Buster Parfait, but, I didn’t get it…be all pregnant and
such,
at the last minute I decided to
get a butter finger blizzard. Later on I was getting ready in the bathroom for
dinner at Anthony’s
Home
Port. While slowly
getting ready, I remember I took me hours, I had to take breaks to watch TV, to
eat, to lay down, and Sage (our #2 Dog) was driving me crazy, she was just
staring at me, you see, Sage is usually at Brads side non-stop and doesn’t
usually hassle me much, but on this particular day, she wouldn’t take her eyes
off of me. For those of you who have ever been 39 weeks pregnant you know how
hot you get while getting ready, and because of this, I was naked in my
bathroom for the majority of the afternoon
J and I really didn’t
need my dog staring me down and just sitting there looking at me for hours on
end. So, I annoyingly tell Brad, “Something is wrong with your dog, she is
driving me nuts! Have you fed her? Does she need to go outside? I think she
might be sick…” Brad replies “Yes, dear (smart words coming from the man who
knocked me up!) She has food, water and she just went outside, and thankfully
he drags her into the office to hang out with him while I continue my never
ending efforts to get ready for dinner. Chilly and Jason meet us at the house
around 5:30PM and we all head out to a nice dinner that Brad and I jokingly refer
to as “Our last Harrah” before baby Price arrives. We meet Christina and Tal
for a very nice dinner, most of us had the Crab Feed, I myself didn’t dare,
there was no room left in my belly for the much loved Crab Feed, at this point
I was eating about every two hours and couldn’t fit much more than a handful in
at a time. I remember thinking, how much I would love a glass of red wine
tonight…but, I will settle for Huckleberry Cheesecake! And so became the day
that I had 3 deserts! J didn’t think his Chocolate, on Chocolate on Chocolate
was all that great, but I thought it was the best ever and made Chilly take it
away from me. As we said our good byes to the Piece’s I lovingly told Tal,
“Just think, the next time you see us, we might have a baby!”. We got to our
house that Sunday night around 10PM, we said goodnight to the Gosser’s and
headed up to bed. As I rolled over and situated all my pillows and got ready
for what would be my first Monday back to work in two months, wishing I didn’t
have to go to work, it was 11PM. I awoke for what would normally be a very
normal bathroom break after 45 minutes of sleep and I thought I must have been
sweating, I felt as if I was anxious or irritable yet, now wide awake…Brad
helped push me out of bed as he so lovingly had to do every time I tried to
roll out of bed. As I was settling back in bed and doing the whole pillow
routine one more time, I recall asking Brad a bunch of random questions about
the show he had on…He was just getting ready to close his eyes for the night
(until the next time he had to push me up to go pee!) I told him that I felt
weird, like maybe I had heart burn…or something…. I then rolled over to try to
get comfortable in anyway possible. It was only a moment before I said “I think
water is coming out!?” He wide eyed jumps up, “You do?” I quickly (as quick as
any 39 week pregnant woman can move!) ran to the bathroom and “peed” more than
I had in 10 months…with Brad staring wide eyed at me he says “Do I need to call
the hospital?” I recall Dr. Chien saying on Wednesday “now your strep b test is
fine so, if you water breaks, you can shower, eat something but, then I want to
head hear since you live so far away” So, Brad stammers to the nurse on call
“My wife…she is pregnant…her…well….we think….her water broke…..” They tell us
to head in. I am calmer at this point that he is. He is telling me, you need to
finish packing your clothes! I need blankets! Where is the last minute list?! I
am saying “Maybe my water didn’t break…I know, we have time…I forget where I
put that list (imagine that?!) We are packing, stuffing duvet in covers and
grabbing pillows (god I love my pillows!) Brad is running stuff out to the
Denali and we are trying to not forget anything (mind you
we have TWO dog children that we didn’t make a single plan for!) I have yet to
feel a contraction, this is so not going the way I thought it would. (we spent
12 weeks in Bradley Birthing Classes for Natural (drug free) childbirth and I
expected to labor at home for hours and hours before heading to the hospital) I
remember while pregnant lovingly asking Brad “Can you imagine having a baby in
the car?” “Can you imagine if we had a baby right here while we eat dinner?”
The answer that followed as always “No.” I am sure we were both in a daze driving,
Brad telling me that I need to call my Mom and my sisters and Chilly and and
and…. I was like “No, not yet, we don’t even know if my water really did break,
I don’t want to call everyone at Midnight for a false alarm!” I then call my
mother and text my sister, Brad calls Chilly (she thinks he is joking with her,
being that you can only take ½ what Brad says seriously) we arrive in Kirkland
and it has occurred to me on 405 that I do have an odd sensation (did I grab
the wrong sweats they are not very comfortable) but then again, it is occurring
every 10 minutes…It is now October 6, 2008. After arriving I assume that I will
go to triage and then get checked out then find out if this is the “real
thing”. They walk me back to a room and hand me a gown. I am like, hello, maybe
my water didn’t break……(just like maybe the home pregnancy test wasn’t really
positive right?) I am asked a slew of ridiculous questions, the most insane of
all was “What type of learner do you consider yourself?” mind you, I am in
labor….I don’t ()*&^%^% know or care…..I remember my Mother and Sadie
walking in just about the time that Christina and Chilly walked in…everyone
says their hellos…Brad has his timer set for 30 minutes, to remind me to get up
and pee, I don’t recall why we learned to do this but, It was one of the few
random things I remember from Bradley Class. So, at this point I am sure Brad
is already massaging my back constantly and it is about 3AM…at some point I
puke in the bathroom while simultaneously have a contraction and think that I
don’t have a clue what I am doing…. I am wiping, asking for a toothbrush… and
running (mind you 39 weeks pregnant, not moving too fast… and in full blown
labor) back to the bed to assume the ONLY position that is working for me,
laying on the right or left side, with my glasses removed with Brad giving a
never ending massage. After this, hours fly by and I have no recollection.
People arrive and I have no clue they have done so. I guess it is 6AM
now…everyone but, Sadie leave the room and Brad is still giving wonderful
massage AND the nurse realizes that I am pushing during contractions (would I
know if I was pushing…nope) She says she needs me to stop pushing and she need
to see how far dilated I am. I then hear, you are at a 9 and I need you to stop
pushing until I can get a Dr. in here! As if not pushing is even an option, remember
that part where I didn’t even know I was pushing? A few random thoughts, at one
point I realize that we didn’t give our credit card information to the cord
blood company, I need realize that with out my contacts in I can’t see past my
nose (that you Chilly for helping me put contacts in while in between pushes!),
another random Bradley Class thought enters…I need to be at a 45 degree angle
while pushing…I don’t know what 45 degree angle looks like so, I ask “Am I at a
45 degree angle?” I am very concerned at first, then after realizing that this
child is coming regardless, I tell the nurse to never mind (all the while she
is trying to figure out why I care what angle I am at and telling me to not
worry about anything but, pushing) I look up at one point and I SWEAR I see a
nurse between my legs…….where the _&*%% is my Dr? and I ask out loud “Is
that a Dr. or a Nurse?! (in disgust mind you) I am thinking I refuse to do this
with out a Dr!! (as if I have a choice right?) FINALLY, 7:15AM in walks Dr.
Chien and I tell her how happy I am to see her, you would have thought I won
the lottery when the term Stop pushing and don’t push, turned to PUSH! I
realize that my Mother seems to think that if she holds her breath and pushes
with me I am going to have an easier time getting this child out! My Dr. is
playing with my unborn child’s hair while waiting for baby to arrive….45
minutes later, Brad was cutting the cord and calling out “It’s a Girl”. She was
placed on stomach and the words “Oh, my god” left my mouth for what seemed like
hours, over and over again…I couldn’t wrap my mind around the fact that she was
here..a moment ago, she was in there and now she is here…with me. I was looking
at the baby that I had tried to imagine my entire life. All I could say was oh
my god…she was here. My room was full of family and friends. My Mom, Sadie
& Sally, Chilly,
Tracy,
Christina, Kendall.. not to mention that I think every nurse on our floor found
out that I was giving Natural child birth to a surprise baby, they were all
there, a student was present, and the nursing staff had changed at 7AM so, the
nurse that had been with me all morning stayed there to see our baby arrive
before heading home for the day. While she was being weighed and measured, she
was so strong; she was already holding her head up and lifting her self off the
bed (that must be due to the 100 grams of protein I had consumed daily in my 3
rd
trimester!). She remained nameless until about 2PM, at that time we decided on
the name Madigyn and Brad picked the middle name Rain. Through out the day
family and friends came to visit, at 8:30PM everyone was gone and all was
quiet, with the exception of Brad snoring, I was still all amped up on
adrenaline and was unable to sleep, I held Madigyn all night and just looked at
her for hours. I knew that Danna was coming by in the morning to visit and I
was unable to sleep even for a moment that night. We thought we would be
discharged at 11AM Tuesday 10/7/08 but, time came and went and nothing. I slept
from 2-2:30 and then woke up and called the nurse to see what the hold up was,
they didn’t realize I was ready to go home! So, we were discharged at 4:30 and
I had to head to work to get all my personal items and finish up Sally’s baby
shower invites and get them in the mail. We were home by 6:30 and our neighbors
came to meet Madigyn, then my family arrived. They were there until 10:30 and
then we went to bed. We were finally able to sleep ALL day on Wednesday with
the exception of rising every 3 hours to feed her. We took her in for her check
up on Thursday and found out that her jaundice count was up from a 9 the day we
checked out to a 20. We then headed back to Marysville to her pediatrician to
find out if she had to be admitted back to the hospital or if we could do home
Photo Therapy. Home treatment was approved so, we headed home to meet the nurse
with her light bed. She was on the light bed for 5 days, during which she could
only be off the bed in order to eat and be changed all which had to take place
every 3 hours and take less than 1 hour to do so. I remember crying, I was so
sad that she had to be on there. Brad was devastated, the only time he got to
hold her was to hand her to me and then change her little Pampers. I remember
thinking; I would have rather had morning sickness, hemorrhoids, and all the
other horror stories that go along with pregnancy in order to not have her be
stuck on there. In hind sight, it wasn’t so bad but, at the time it was like
driving a needle in my eye. From that 5
th day on the light until
now, we have been wonderful. She is a tiny little thing and grows like a weed.
Time flies faster than anyone could ever know (unless they too have a child).
She is healthy as can be and she has a wonderful personality and an amazing
smile. Our life is filled with moments that we couldn’t have even fathomed
prior to her arrival and we cherish every second. Parenthood is everything and
more than we ever expected. We are elated and filled with more love than we
ever knew possible.
