It's a Girl!!

Adelyn Mae Moon

November 30, 2011

8lbs 13 oz 21 in 5:27am

Well just in case you live under a rock I thought I would let you know that our 4th "little Moon" finally arrived! Adelyn Mae is well loved in this house. So far this has been one of the easiest transitions for all of us. I can only hope that this continues! On Tues Nov 29th I started having more contractions that I had had in a couple weeks. Of course I would not get my hopes up that labor was actually going to happen because this was not abnormal for this pregnancy. So I went to bed as usual and throughout the night I got up to potty and noticed the contractions had stopped yet again. So I figured I would be seeing my OB for my check up the next morning. However, at 3:45 am I woke up with my first painful contraction. I still would not get excited and told myself it was nothing yet again. But after the 5th contraction 3 min apart I changed my mind and started the phone calls to the Dr and Scott's parents. I knew from my past not to mess around and get to the hospital as quickly as possible. Scott's Mom and Dad took what seemed like forever to get here (30 min) and I couldnt get ahold of the Dr. At 4:30am the contractions were now unbearable so we decided to go ahead to the hospital with the Dr calling back because I knew this was labor. I didnt need him to confirm it. He did finally call back on our way and apparently he thought he had plenty of time and went back to bed. At 4:45am I was in the triage room where they checked me and I was 7cm already. The next contraction I told them I needed to push. They quickly checked me again and found I was now 8cm. Let me tell you that these laid back nurses got moving after that! They quickly wheeled my bed down the hall to the delivery room and I said I want to push it out now! So they checked me again and I was 10 cm at 5am! Unfortunately my water had not broken yet so they wanted me to wait on my doctor. I asked for some nuvaine but they would not let me have any. I was not happy they were making me wait but wouldnt ease the pain slightly! They said the baby would be too sleepy to which I responded, "I dont care!" They quickly got my IV in and got me admitted. They called in 2 resident doctors and an OB who happened to be on the floor and 4 nurses were already present. Then at 5:25am "little Moon" was waiting no longer and broke through my water! I was so relieved because at that point they gave up waiting for my doctor. They told me to roll over and push at the next contraction. I was so relieved that I was one contraction from being done! After one push at 5:27am our 3rd little girl was born to which I responded, "yay! It is over!" (All of the nurses laughed, but I still dont know why.) No more pain and I was finally holding the baby who made for one of the longest pregnancies ever. I will say though that she was totally worth it! We were going to name a girl Kaelyn Mae, but three weeks ago we had changed our mind when hearing the name Adelyn since Kaelyn was so much like Ryan's middle name Kaley. We are so excited that Adelyn has joined our family! She is such a sweet girl! She is not the best newborn I have had, but she is pretty quiet if fed every 2 hours and snuggled with her mama as much as possible! I actually purchased a Mobi carrier so that I have free hands to do more with the other kids. Ryan was much like Adelyn but she was my only one so it wasnt as much of a big deal. Other than being pretty exhausted and starving all of the time Im recovering pretty well. Tomorrow Adelyn will be one week old and it will also mark the first full day I will be on my own with 4 kids! My goal is to survive without breaking down at the end of the day. Im pretty sure I will succeed if I get 2 or 3 two hour stretches of sleep at a time tonight! I know it is wishful thinking, but crazier things have happened! I look around the house at all of the craziness and I cannot believe how truly blessed Scott and I are!!