Last Year at This Time:
And so I went to bed...only to wake up every half hour or so with extreme pain (contractions). I think I had to get up and go to the bathroom once every hour, and I remember being so frustrated because all I wanted to do was sleep. I finally relaxed and put my head on my pillow at about 2am and fell into a deep, VERY comfortable sleep...then "POP". I rushed to the bathroom...and sure enough, it was "time". I calmly walked back into the bedroom and said "Jonathon....JONATHON....it's time, hon." He sat up, looked at me...completely still sleeping...and said "okay, uhhh...okay". He got up and started racing around, not really doing anything (because I don't think he really knew what to do and he wasn't awake yet). Then all the sudden he stopped and shook his head and said "FOCUS!!!". It was actually quite entertaining to watch! Needless to say, we got it together and made it to the hospital.
Because I had gone through the process of being admitted two days earlier, they didn't need any information and just told me to sit in the chair and wait for someone to come get me. Again, I thought to myself "what? sit? wait? are kidding me???? I AM HAVING A BABY!!! MY WATER BROKE!!!!!!" I wondered why it wasn't like it was in the movies when the wheelchair is right there when they walk in and everyone is scrambling around screaming "She is having a baby!!!! MOOOOOVVVVEEEE!". Apparently, movies aren't real...;) So, I sat. And sat. And sat some more. It seemed like FOREVER before the nurse came with the wheelchair, and when she finally did, she seemed to just STROLL me up to Triage. When I finally got there, I immediately asked for an Epidural. I had heard horror stories about women waiting too long to ask for it, only to be told that it was too late and they would have to just give birth naturally (YIKES!!!). I was NOT going to be one of those women!
However, I was told that I would have to wait for them to do a blood test and all this other stuff before I could get one. I didn't have a choice! Again, it seemed like 3years before I was able to feel the most wonderful drug in the world do its job, but in all actuality it was probably only an hour...but I will just say that the Epidural is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!! Once I got that thing, I relaxed, took a nap, watched a little "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire". I was told that since it was my first baby, I could be in active labor for HOURS and HOURS....hahaha...did I fool them! Within in a couple of hours of getting the epidural, Nathan was ready to enter the world...
And he did. At 12:08pm on August 17, 2006, Nathaniel Charles Ice entered the world. Cone head and screaming...he was finally here!! That was honestly a moment that I can NEVER forget, and a moment that I would relive over and over again if I could. It was absolutely precious! Dare I say...."fun"? I remember everything about it...I remember Jonathon's face when he first saw Nathan (how amazing that was...I think I fell in love with him all over again), I remember Nathan's cry, and his touch. Beautiful.
Before having a child I always wondered what possessed people to have 5,6, 7, 12 kids. I couldn't imagine...until I had one of my own. The feeling of having a child is almost addicting, or I can see how it could be. That euphoria of a newborn cannot be matched, and once I had experienced it, I understood what everyone was talking about (don't freak out, I do not want to have 12 kids...nor 5...not even 4...HAVING them is one thing, but RAISING them is another!). We are SO blessed, and I am so grateful that we are able to feel that every single day!
And so I went to bed...only to wake up every half hour or so with extreme pain (contractions). I think I had to get up and go to the bathroom once every hour, and I remember being so frustrated because all I wanted to do was sleep. I finally relaxed and put my head on my pillow at about 2am and fell into a deep, VERY comfortable sleep...then "POP". I rushed to the bathroom...and sure enough, it was "time". I calmly walked back into the bedroom and said "Jonathon....JONATHON....it's time, hon." He sat up, looked at me...completely still sleeping...and said "okay, uhhh...okay". He got up and started racing around, not really doing anything (because I don't think he really knew what to do and he wasn't awake yet). Then all the sudden he stopped and shook his head and said "FOCUS!!!". It was actually quite entertaining to watch! Needless to say, we got it together and made it to the hospital.
Because I had gone through the process of being admitted two days earlier, they didn't need any information and just told me to sit in the chair and wait for someone to come get me. Again, I thought to myself "what? sit? wait? are kidding me???? I AM HAVING A BABY!!! MY WATER BROKE!!!!!!" I wondered why it wasn't like it was in the movies when the wheelchair is right there when they walk in and everyone is scrambling around screaming "She is having a baby!!!! MOOOOOVVVVEEEE!". Apparently, movies aren't real...;) So, I sat. And sat. And sat some more. It seemed like FOREVER before the nurse came with the wheelchair, and when she finally did, she seemed to just STROLL me up to Triage. When I finally got there, I immediately asked for an Epidural. I had heard horror stories about women waiting too long to ask for it, only to be told that it was too late and they would have to just give birth naturally (YIKES!!!). I was NOT going to be one of those women!
However, I was told that I would have to wait for them to do a blood test and all this other stuff before I could get one. I didn't have a choice! Again, it seemed like 3years before I was able to feel the most wonderful drug in the world do its job, but in all actuality it was probably only an hour...but I will just say that the Epidural is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!! Once I got that thing, I relaxed, took a nap, watched a little "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire". I was told that since it was my first baby, I could be in active labor for HOURS and HOURS....hahaha...did I fool them! Within in a couple of hours of getting the epidural, Nathan was ready to enter the world...
And he did. At 12:08pm on August 17, 2006, Nathaniel Charles Ice entered the world. Cone head and screaming...he was finally here!! That was honestly a moment that I can NEVER forget, and a moment that I would relive over and over again if I could. It was absolutely precious! Dare I say...."fun"? I remember everything about it...I remember Jonathon's face when he first saw Nathan (how amazing that was...I think I fell in love with him all over again), I remember Nathan's cry, and his touch. Beautiful.
Before having a child I always wondered what possessed people to have 5,6, 7, 12 kids. I couldn't imagine...until I had one of my own. The feeling of having a child is almost addicting, or I can see how it could be. That euphoria of a newborn cannot be matched, and once I had experienced it, I understood what everyone was talking about (don't freak out, I do not want to have 12 kids...nor 5...not even 4...HAVING them is one thing, but RAISING them is another!). We are SO blessed, and I am so grateful that we are able to feel that every single day!
1 comment:
yay! happy birthday nathan! and thanks, rach, for doing such a wonderful job of keeping all of us up to date.
love,
amanda
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