Since you're a boy, you may not be interested in all the events around your birth.
So I will be brief...
May 1, 2015...Your due date...
7 am Snoop's grooming appt.
11:00 Mom's Appointment
Contractions 15 minutes apart
Ultrasound good - not admitted to hospital
1:30 Called dad, told him to come home pretty soon
Dad checks on Snoop, he is still getting groomed
2:30 Hospital
Contractions 6 minutes apart
Nurse says she'll give me an hour to get more dilated than a 4.
She will send me home if I'm not.
One hour later...
"If you're not dilated more, I'm going to send you home. Do you want me to wait to check one more hour?" -Threatening nurse
I really just wanted an epidural.
Doctor comes in, admits me and says "let's have this baby."
7 pm
Anesthesiologist gives epidural, doc breaks water, umbilical cord wrapped around your head and you're lying on the cord...
Emergency C-section. The ER crew swarms in, nurse holds your head off cord in surgery.
Tears.
In my head-think of a verse, any verse.
Whispering- "Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you."
Incision--ouch. Epidural didn't work quickly enough.
"I felt that."
"Ok we'll put you out."
"Thanks."
I got to hold you and my first thought was, "Wow he was worth it."
So happy to see you alive:)
My second thought was, "I'm never doing that again."
Our neighbor picked up Snoop from his grooming appt, in case you wondered.
I was itchy for 24 hours from the anesthesia.
Šimʻôn, "God has heard."
Olivia can't wait to play Simon Says with you:)
love,
mom
