We're Home and I Need Sleep!
Hey everyone, thank you so much for your prayers for us throughout the pregnancy and beyond- ha. Good news...I'm NOT pregnant anymore!!!! I can walk- sort of, I can lay on my side without my hips throbbing, I don't have heartburn, I could go on and on....I got home yesterday, Monday, around 2pm. I was in a room with 9 other new mums and newborns, so yes I was ready to come home! They get you in and out as quick as they can here, but I was at least thankful to have one night to make sure we were both doing okay- even though it was the longest night of my life. Nothing like 9 newborns in one room- it's a party! Not.The induction went fairly quick once they gave me the medicine (I did not have an IV) and sweet Addison was born Sunday morning. I didn't sleep at all during the night, there were 4 of us in the room all being induced and husbands/partners were kicked out at 9pm :( so we all labored on our own. It took about 2 hours for my meds to kick in, so for those 2 hours I laid in the dark listening to ladies breathing through contractions, wishing mine would get started. Then once mine did get going, they were probably wishing I was out there! And I was, I was the last in that night and the first one to deliver. I'm sure they were hating me, but I didn't really care. I'll go into the details in another post, it was not as bad of an experience as I thought it would be, being on the consultants ward- in fact I never saw a doctor once only midwives. Let's just say that I do not recommend going without an epidural. I had epidurals with the girls and this time I did not and I can only imagine what I sounded and looked like. Marc was probably glad he was not there for most of my labor. :) All I can say now is that it's over, hallelujah and amen!
Husbands/partners were not allowed back on the ward until 9am, but once my midwife/nurse realized I was about to push Addison out it was a frenzy of activity and I remember seeing her with her cell phone in hand at the foot of my bed calling Marc telling him to get himself up to the hospital and GET THERE NOW. Bless his heart, thank the Lord we live so close, he dropped what he was doing and RAN to the hospital and ran into the delivery room just as they got me up there. I have never been so glad to see him in my entire life.I seriously need some sleep, so this will end here. Thank you for your prayers, emails and facebook messages. What a sweet thing to come home to! I have a neat story about God's provision and how He reassured me He was there- it happened the moment we walked into the ward and saw who the midwife was that was assigned to me. It was a total God thing and I about cried right there.(Wow, good thing I just spellchecked. I'm so sleepy, sorry for any mistakes.)
Husbands/partners were not allowed back on the ward until 9am, but once my midwife/nurse realized I was about to push Addison out it was a frenzy of activity and I remember seeing her with her cell phone in hand at the foot of my bed calling Marc telling him to get himself up to the hospital and GET THERE NOW. Bless his heart, thank the Lord we live so close, he dropped what he was doing and RAN to the hospital and ran into the delivery room just as they got me up there. I have never been so glad to see him in my entire life.I seriously need some sleep, so this will end here. Thank you for your prayers, emails and facebook messages. What a sweet thing to come home to! I have a neat story about God's provision and how He reassured me He was there- it happened the moment we walked into the ward and saw who the midwife was that was assigned to me. It was a total God thing and I about cried right there.(Wow, good thing I just spellchecked. I'm so sleepy, sorry for any mistakes.)