Yes, I keep trying to get the paragraph separations to show, but it isn't working and yes, it is driving me crazy...So, Hannah's water broke. The nurses recommended I call my husband, who was at home with our little man. I called him and he started the process of getting out of the house and finding a place for Jonathan. Thankfully, our friends James and Erica, were able to take him on short notice and then a little later that morning my friend, Julie, picked him up to watch him the rest of the day.
In the mean time, they decided to send me to Labor and Delivery. I think we were in the vicinity of 5:30 a.m. at this point. I got over there and started having contractions. At one point one of the nurses came and told me that they might try to get it stopped and see if they could get me another 2-3 weeks along. Are you kidding me??? So, here I was hanging out while they got me prepared for the c-section just in case, brought in people from anesthesiology to talk to me just in case and had me waiting for a resident to check my dilation status. While I was going through all of that, the contractions were coming faster and becoming more intense.
The resident said that I was "3 full" and left the room. Thankfully they came back and said we were going to go ahead with the c-section. This was in the 7-8 a.m. range. Contractions were really starting to hurt and I was feeling like this wasn't fair at all. I had prepared myself for going through a c-section (I THOUGHT), but not for having to deal with the labor pains of contractions as well as a c-section. Mike was blissfully working to take my mind off it with "funny" comments here and there and my friend, Lauryn, was sure that he was going to get smacked before the end of the day.
Around 8:15 a.m., they came and said that everything was ready but that it was going to take another 30 minutes because anesthesiology had to do something else first. WHAT? I am dying, here. I told Mike that I don't know how normal woman have babies because I was in sooo much pain. They came and gave me something that they told me would be gross tasting but that I had to try to keep it down. Drank it...started throwing up. Awesome.
In the mean time, don't forget that I had a complete head cold, so I was blowing my nose every chance I could get.
At exactly 8:50 a.m., after a particularly not fun contraction, I said with much frustration, "whoever told me 30 minutes LIED!!!" My super great nurse at that point got on the phone to ask them where they were in the process. She hung up and said we were good to go. YAY! Anesthesia coming soon. Give it to me NOW! By the time we left that room, my contractions were pretty strong and were about 1-2 minutes apart.
They took me to the operating room and mid contraction asked me, this giant mother carrying triplets, to slide from the bed I was in on to this tiny table where there were no handles. Uh yeah. So after the adventure that was, they had me sitting up on this little table through the next two contractions while I listened to someone training someone behind me on where to put the anesthesia. Okay, that might have been the scariest moment of delivering in a teaching hospital. But then the absolute bliss of anesthesia and feeling nothing from my ribs down. Ahhhh.
Next came the parade of people. The doctors were ready to go and someone said, "um, should we get the father in here?" and they were like "oh, yeah" almost like it was an afterthought. So, they brought in Mike and let my friend Lauryn come in too. They told me there were 22 hospital employees in there helping my little ones come into the world.
At 9:40, Hannah Elizabeth was born and Joshua Caleb came right behind within the same minute. At 9:41, Stephen James came out and by a few minutes after 10:00 a.m. they had me sewed back up and on the way to the recovery room.
Mike missed the fact that Hannah and Joshua had already come out. He tends to be a little queasy and didn't really want to see too much so he kept his eyes mostly on me. Good thing because Lauryn told me that when they broke the water on the boys that there was quite a splash. They did kind of wheel Hannah and Joshua past me but from where I was lying, it was hard to see them. Mike and Lauryn went with them to the NICU to get them settled in.
Stay tuned for Part 4 coming soon...
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