First of all, if you are just a skimmer (which hey, I do it too, so no worries!)
I DID NOT HAVE MY BABY YET! I still have about 1 more month before she arrives. This post is about my last baby, Adelia.
And here's why:
I am working on a different blog to catch up Luke and my life together before I started blogging. Yesterday I wrote Tianna's birth story and posted all the fun pictures from her birth. When Adelia saw that, she wanted to see her hospital pictures. I went to our regular blog to show her and guess what-- there isn't a post about her birth! Just 1 picture from the hospital and a few from her first days home. I guess I intended to write it all out at a different time, but never did. I feel like such a flakey mom!
So....... 3 years and 3 months later, here is Adelia's birth story! (for some reason the details of Tianna's birth story are easier to remember, but I'll do my best!)
I was due June 20, 2009, and my sis-in-law Tori was due a day or 2 later.... our sweet niece Vittoria's open heart surgery was scheduled for the same day I was due. How would we make this work for my mom to be in all 3 places? That's right, schedule an induction!
Since Tianna was a week late, I was more than happy to get Adelia here at 39 weeks!
We scheduled it for Saturday, June 13th. That morning we were to call at 6 am and see if the hospital was open enough for us. They were not... apparently a lot of women had come in that night in labor. So we waited the morning out by having a nice big breakfast with my parents, my sister Jana, her 2 girls, and of course, Tianna--the soon to be big sister.
By 9 am we were told we could come in. YAY! By 10 am I had my IV with pitocin and antibiotics. Contractions began and things were pretty sweet. I wasn't in too much pain and I was still hardly dilated so we kicked back and just waited. I watched several episodes of "Gilmore Girls," (not Luke's first choice for sure.) After a few hours I was starting to get more pain and they asked if I was ready for an epidural.
I was. (mine never fully worked with Tianna and I felt everything on my entire right side) I DID NOT want this to happen again. Luckily, the epidural went in smoothly and right away started to relieve the pain.
........ more time killing............ things were going well, just slowly
Family kept popping in to see if I was getting close. I wasn't. It was definitely taking a lot more time than I expected! I felt bad that no children were allowed back there so I missed a lot of my visitors because they just had to stay in the waiting room. In retrospect, I am saddest that I didn't get to see Vittoria that day. I only saw her for a brief few minutes about a month later and that was the last time I saw her before she was in Primary
Okay, off my tangent- back to the labor story. So there I was, just sitting and sitting, hooked up to the IV.
My legs were numb and so was everything else down that direction, but yet, I could still feel a LOT of pressure and pain. It didn't make sense to me............ but I just kept pressing the button to increase the dosage of epidural medicine.
After quite awhile the nurse rushed in, looking very worried. She said she had just watched my contractions on the monitor and realized they had the pitocin set WAAAAAY too high. If they kept my contractions coming as hard and as long as they were lasting, my uterus would die!
WHAT?! So she turned it way down and something amazing happened. I started to progress! I quickly jumped from 5 centimeters to 8. They told the doctor to get ready because it shouldn't be too much longer.
If only they were right. It was still several more hours. About 5 my doctor, whom I LOVED (Dr. Noorda) came in to check me. He said he really wanted to go see a movie, and IF he did, I would progress. If he just hung out, it would probably be a lot longer-- Murphy's law or something?
So off he went to see a movie....... he saw the whole thing and then came back. I was NEARLY ready by then.
Finally just after 7:00 pm they began prepping me to push. It wasn't too long or too difficult and bam, here she came! Adelia Rose Peacock entered the world at 7:34 p.m. on June 13, 2009. She weighed in at 7 lbs. 7 oz. 19 inches long!
The doctor lifted her up to show us our cute little bundle of joy, and I just started giggling! She was beautiful and wonderful------- but she had HUGE cheeks and a cone head! I said, "She looks like a triangle!" Again, Dr. Noorda always having something funny to say, "yeah, I thought so too, but I wasn't going to say anything!"
See? A triangle!
All checks were great! The Logan hospital was different than Castleview--- they did EVERYTHING right inside your room. You're baby hardly EVER left your view
Within a few minutes she was in my arms. I was so relieved she didn't have to rush off to go under the oxygen like her big sister had. It was wonderful being able to hold her and love on her right away.
Tianna on the other hand was NOT a happy camper during all of this. She was content to stay out in the hallway with the family while I was pushing, but once she heard Adelia's first cries she was BOUND and DETERMINED to get in there to see her baby sister! It took all my father in law had to hold her back and keep her from rushing through the curtain-- just in time to see Mom in all her glory being stitched back up, right? Luckily she didn't get away from him and as soon as possible they brought her in.
That's when the best moment of the whole day happened. Tianna took one look at her little sister and said, "she's too beautiful!" and kissed Adelia right on the head. My heart melted and I was SO in love with both of my little sweet hearts!
With Grandma Belinda
Grandma Bonnie
Grandpa Bert
I was trying to stay OUT of the picture, thank you very much Mr. Photographer
Aunt Jana
and Nati and Payton
Grandpa Neil
FIRST BATH (again, done IN our room. I loved that!)
Daddy got to wash her hair-- her blonde fuzzy hair (so opposite of Tianna's hair when she was born!)
All clean, bow firmly attached and ready for her newborn pictures
(wished they would have waited a day because they are so puffy and red when first born. heck, even waiting a few hours helps)
Next day!
Aunt Courtney
Bright lights! Bright lights!
LOVE!
Triple nap anyone?
Homeward bound!
I still can't believe I didn't do a whole post on this MAJOR life event back when it happened. But hey, better late than never right? And....... it's still before the 3rd baby came right?
