Labour & Delivery

Just writing to fill everyone in on how things went with labour and our hospital stay .. Tuesday morning i was in to see the doctor to get another membrane stripping done and get all checked out , everything looked good , i was 3 cm dilated , she did a good sweeping and said that things may happen that night or at least before thursday .. so off i went to the mall to exchange a few christmas presents and grab some lunch ..got home mid afternoon and attempted to have a nap while summer was sleeping ..with no luck because i was having contractions ( not really thinking much of them ) got up with summer and we all decided to go outside to play for a bit . Got summer so bundled up she could hardly walk or see and headed outdoors with her sled ...(still dealing with the contractions). Josh just bought a new snowmobile and wanted to see what summer would think of it , so he took her for a little drive around the yard ... which she did not like very much ...lol when they came back i put her in the sled and we slid down the driveway a few times . Then decided to try the snowmobile again ...but with me on with them ( it was a tight squeeze haha) . Josh driving and summer in the middle , she was toasty warm and off we went for a drive down the trail by our house ...I even heard her say woo hoo ! a few times lol

After our snowmobile drive i had to go up to harvey to get some gas & milk ...then stopped in to josh's dad's for a visit ..got home around 6:30 and was really feeling the contractions by then ..called mom and told her maybe she should be ready to go just in case . .. Then I did a mad dash around the house trying to get our bags packed and do some laundry ( lol couldn't stand the thought of coming home with all of our clothes dirty for some reason )By about 8 i was convinced i HAD to get to the hospital so we packed up the truck and left .. Josh constantly asking "are you alright " ..and me screaming "are u kidding me ..no i'm NOT alright " ..made it to the hospital around 930 and met mom so she could take summer ..Up in labor and delivery i got changed and they straped me up to all the monitors and i waited to see the resident so he could check me .. needless to say i was 4 cm dilated and not impressed ..lol then came the drugs lol and i felt much better about things (phentonol in the IV ) ..although not sure why they don't make it to last much longer the nurse had to give it every 5 mins ... watched TV for a bit until the anesthesiologist (or however you spell that ) was finished with a c-section to come give the epidural ..by this time i was again shaking so badly they couldn't get my blood pressure any more ...josh decided to watch the epidural getting done and now is shocked to find out quite how far your spine is actually under your skin lol .. after a few mins the epidural kicked in and i felt a bit better no sooner to find out i was now 5 cms dilated (still not impressed ) About a half hour went by and i really started to have bad pain again or pressure i guess so the resident checked me again and could feel me dilating and the head right there , Dr. Adam came running through the door took one look and said "ok next contraction i want to start pushing " i was like "no no , i'm not ready i need the epidural to kick in so i can rest for just a few more hours " lol ... but no luck she was coming very fast ...pushed twice and the head was out ..one more and she was on my belly ... We were pretty shocked when they said it was a girl that i was balling and josh was laughing ..After all the commotion ...the nurse and I tried to figure out how i had her without my water breaking ..cause it never happened and they never broke it ...somewhat very confused they decided to take addison to the Nicu for 10 hours to monitor her ...then i got cleaned up and settled into maternity

...Brought addison in around 4am and she was doing fine and ready for a feeding ..then back to the nicu and off to sleep for me ...the next day we had a bunch of visitors and addison was a starvin' marvin for most of the day and well into the night ...waiting impatiently for milk to come in ....didn't sleep much wednesday night just constant feeding ..very much ready to go home on thursday we packed up our stuff , filled out our forms and left around 2pm . Stopped to pick summer up at moms and then home bound ...Milk was finally starting to make an appearance by thursday evening and addison was much more content . Put summer to bed around 9pm and fed addison a few times till about 1 am , then she feel asleep and slept till 530!! i actually woke up first and had to wake her up to feed & change her ..not too mention i was completely soaked ...and back to sleep we went till 930 when summer woke up ... i'm now assuming this was all a fluke and she'll be awake 24/7 for the next week ...but oh well we'll have to see i guess ...