This post has been in the making for awhile. I am not quite sure why its so hard for me to get down. Is it because I have a newborn that doesn't like to sleep at night unless she is attached to my boob, maybe. Is it because all I want to do during the day when I have a free moment is take a nap, well yes. Or is it that any other free time I have I want to spend taking in every precious moment with this little babe. Yes. Or, might it be that there is a small part of me that is sad. Sad that I missed out on the last few weeks of my pregnancy... my last pregnancy. A little bit. Don't get me wrong, I am loving having my little girl in my life. But this being my fourth, I am quite aware of how fast it all goes. Before I know it, this sweet little five pound bundle of cuteness will be too cool for my snuggles and holding momma's hand. 13 days old and I am already worrying about this day. Keeping her in those extra 11 days would not have made any difference, but in my current state it would have made every difference.
13 days ago my every dream came true. Our daughter, Evelyn Anne, was welcomed into our family and into our hearts. It was the most chaotic, amazing, unexpected and eventful day ever. The days preceding were spent with one of my besties and her daughter, Emma. We worked from morning until night getting this house in order for the upcoming arrival. This would also be the first time that Jenny has been able to make it to one of my baby showers, which was planned for Saturday. Friday we headed to the big wheel for an outing with the kids. Jenny took some wonderful pictures of me with my boys. Saturday morning was then met by the unexpected. The excitement of my shower was quickly replaced by worry when I found that I was bleeding.
In true Bugbee fashion the morning was a whirlwind. Dan had to take Tyler to his baseball practice, Jenny and I dropped off the other boys at my parents and headed into the hospital for some monitoring. Being hooked up to the monitors we quickly realized that I was contracting more than we thought. The nifedipine I had been on for the last two weeks was doing little to stop them. Although these contractions would have been nothing more than braxton hicks for a normal pregnancy I was at higher risk for more bleeding the longer they continued. I was admitted to the hospital for continuous monitoring for a minimum of a week, or so we thought. Dan had made it up to the hospital, gotten the update and checked in on me. He was given the green light to head home and prepare some stuff for the boy's Easter baskets, which I had yet to do. Jenny and Emma decided that they would head home as it didn't seem as if anything would be happening any time soon.
Of course, not more than 30 minutes after everyone left the doctor returned to inform us that, after consulting the perinatologist, they were going to be sectioning me today, better yet, an hour from now. Jenny quickly turned around and made it back up to the hospital. She called Dan while the streams of people worked on me. All I could hear from the bed was "Dan, you need to come back to the hospital. Yes, now. Yes, like right now. No, not in 30 minutes, NOW." And so it began.
I was prepped and sent back to the operating room for my spinal and Dan made it just as I was being laid down. A mere 20 minutes later, at 4:07, we heard the sweet cry of our baby girl.
