So I'm sure everyone has a "labor story" and I find ours quite funny now, so I would love to share ours with you...
I went to my doctors on Feb 2 (well he was out of town until the 8th) so I saw his nurse practitioner Angie. She told me that I was 80 % effaced and dialated to a 1, I asked her if that meant I could have him at any time, and she said it could be 5 days or 5 weeks but most likely to be 5 weeks she told me I could keep going to the gym and working. This was good news to us especially cause Dr. Horsley was on a vacation.
On Feb 4th I went to the gym, cleaned home, moved furniture and vacuumed the entire house cause that night our awesome neighbor Aaron was going to shampoo our carpets. I kept telling Landon that I was not going to put anything up in the nursery until our carpets had been shampooed. Then I made dinner and we ate it at Aaron and Charee's home, they then shampooed their carpets. It was quite the busy day!
Feb 5th I went to work (I work at Stork Landing for those of you who don't know). I came home for lunch cause Landon was home sick and had been all week. As I was getting ready to head back to work I had to keep using the bathroom so I asked my sweet husband if this was normal (I asked him that on a regular basis) and he said "yes honey your pregnant". So when I got back to work I had to use the bathroom again, and again, and again!!! So I decided to call the hospital to see if maybe my water had broken (though I really highly doubted it had). They told me to take a pad in and they would test it. So I called my husband and asked him to bring me one. Right when I hung up I felt MAJOR leakage, so I called the hospital back and told them I was just going to come in cause I was now soaked and at work and embarrased. So I called Landon and he was coming to get me. As we headed for the hospital I burst into tears, i was nervous but didnt really think it was my water, he started to calm me down and then told me he didn't tie our little dog up ( we just shampooed the day before!!!) aahhhh!!! When we got there they took me back (the nurses were laughing at me cause I couldn't walk right- you try walking with wet pants, ha ha), tested the fluid and told me sure enough it was amniotic fluid. I again burst into tears, then I got really scared cause my doctor was out of town, they told me to head up stairs and that I couldn't leave to get anything. So I got admitted and was dialated to a 3- got an epidural a few hours later which only numbed my left side, pushed for about 40 min and he was here!! Born on Feb 5 at 11:21 p.m., weighing in at 6 lbs 1 oz 19 1/2 inches long. It was a wonderful delivery The on call doc was amazing and it really wasn't that bad. It was one of the most amazing days of my life :) I got to hold Jackson for a minute before they took him and started working on him. He came at 36 weeks and 5 days, so he was a little premature, he couldn't breath on his own, had an infection, and a heart murmur. We were so glad he was here and he was such a little fighter. We took him home after 4 days in the NICU and he was under lights at home for 5. He is a lot healthier and such a good baby, we love him so much and are so grateful he is doing well. He is such a handsome little guy, we love you Jackson.
Thanks to all of you who came to see us and for all your concern- we deeply appreciate it, We can now have visitors as long as your not sick and no one under the age of 14. So come see us!!!
