I had gone to my midwife appointment the evening before (Thursday) and there wasn't much progress from the last week. So not to gross anyone out, she did a quick "procedure" to maybe help things along. There was no guarantee it would help, but she said if it was going to work it would do so in less than 24 hours. The evening was very uneventful so I figured there was going to be nothing for a few days. I went to work like usual on Friday morning and again, nothing eventful happened overnight or that morning. I ate my lunch at noon and then started to feel some pressure/cramping when I would stand up or walk around. So for the next bit I stayed sitting down. I would get a little bit of cramping about every 45 minutes or so. I went ahead and told my boss that I was going to go ahead and go down to the hospital and get things checked out (yes, I worked at a hospital, but A) they don't have labor & delivery and B) we were delivering at the hospital on Ft. Carson ). I called Drew to tell him to meet me at the hospital but to not get his hopes up. I think that was around 2:30pm. I was totally convinced they were going to tell me to go back home and that nothing was really happening. So I drove home and grabbed my bag and the baby's bag and went down to the hospital.
When we checked in on the floor, I explained the situation. The response I got from the first nurse was that I didn't look like I was in enough pain to be in labor but they would check me out. They hooked me up to a monitor and I had two contractions in about an hour. The midwife came in to check on me and didn't think I was probably in true labor yet. Well, she checked and I was already at a 4! So, we stuck around and had a baby a few hours later! Labor itself was okay. Things progressed super fast as soon as I got into the labor room. They were able to get an epidural in just in time so I had that for the actual birth. I delivered pretty fast but I hemorrhaged some after. I started to shiver and shake really bad for the hour after the birth and had to get medication to help with that. The medication made me a little weird and I evidently acted like a very drunk lady for a couple of hours. They were worried and there was some drama, but everything was fine within a few hours. We went home Sunday morning and started our life as a family of four.
Nana and Papa got there a few hours after Levi arrived to meet him. You can't see Levi's hair in the pictures, but he had a matching hairdo with Papa! He was bald on top and had hair on the sides and back for about two months or so.
All snuggled up to head home:
Roxie's such a good big sister:
Luke didn't want much to do with Levi for the first few months. This picture was forced and Luke was kind of horrified:
It's crazy how Levi already looked like himself even in those newborn pictures. Does that make sense? Probably not but I'm just saying I picture him now and I can totally see his little face even as a newborn. :)
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