On Tuesday, October 6th, Nelson and I kissed the girls and left them at our house with my parents and sister and headed to the hospital. We got there at 5:45 am. They brought me to a room and I changed into a hospital gown and signed some paperwork, and they put heart monitors on my belly. Joshua's heartrate was perfect. The anestesiologist came in and talked to me about what we'd do once we got to the OR. We were suppossed to get in there at 7:30 to start my spinal and then at 7:45 start the surgery. Well, we got bumped. There was a baby in distress, and thank God, my baby wasn't....so we were pushed back an hour. There are 2 OR, but they always leave one open for emergencies.
So, at 8:30 I got wheeled on back, and everything got started. I started to lose the calm feeling I had had all morning and got a little nervous about everything. Thank goodness the spinal took well (one of my fears after hearing a friend's recent c-section story). Then, around 8:45 my Dr. came in and started. Nelson got great pictures of him pulling Joshua out. Joshua was head down so Nelson saw his head first, with the girls he saw their feet first ;).
Then, I heard these little squeeks and then a full on cry :). I coudn't see him yet, and kept hearing wow, so much hair! Then, the anestesiologist said, and in case you were wondering he's still a boy ;). The nurses whisked him to the crib and started cleaning him and there was a student nurse there so it felt like it took forever for her to explain everything and for me to see my boy. He scored an 8 and then a 9 on his apgars, and I asked why not a 10, and they told me babies never get a 10...they have to be able to come out singing songs in order to get a 10 ;). Then, they brought him to me and it was so different than with the girls...I actually got to kiss him and touch him and take pictures with him. With the girls they rushed them to the NICU and I just got a quick look at them. Then, they finished me up and I went to our room and there they were...in our room!!! Everything went EXACTLY how I had hoped. I tried nursing Joshua...and that didn't last too long. He was so sleepy and I figured I'd try again later. I just wanted to stare at him and love on him anyway. We called down to my mom who was more than ready to run up and my parents came up with the girls and it was so wonderful. Brianna said,"Mommy I've been waiting all my life for Joshua" Then, Mikayla told me she felt so blessed. Nothing is better than that. We had been through so much, and here was our perfect moment.
We got discharged on Thursday...and have been getting used to being a family of five ever since :). Joshua is nursing and doing well...still working on getting him to latch better, but we haven't had to break out any bottles He's such a good baby. He's sleeping from 2-3 hour blocks at night which is a big improvement from when we were at the hospital :). He got circumcised and it is healing well. Brianna is having a hard time no longer being the baby (even though my girls are only a minute apart she has always been the baby and glued to Mommy)...so we're working on it. I am trying to give her a lot of one on one time. Both of them are so in love with Joshua.
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