Baby Girl,
You finally made it!!! It seems like my pregnancy &
delivery with you have both proven to be more difficult than they were with
Preston. Today you are 2 day old, it’s about 3:30am and we should be going home
in about 12 hours. So I thought it time to write down a few things before I
forget.
As you know you due date was the 9th of this
month (a Sunday) and I had a doctor’s appointment scheduled for the following Monday if you didn’t come on
your own by then, which you didn’t. We
switched to our third doctor for this pregnancy (Dr Holt) and when we saw him
on Monday he asked me if I wanted to wait and see if you came naturally or go
ahead and schedule an induction. I figure by the time you are reading this you
will know me well enough to know that given the choice to make a plan or just
“wait and see what happens” I am going to go with option “A” every time!!! I
chose Wednesday 12/12/12 so that you would have the coolest birthday ever!!!!!
I left out of his office so excited! Excited to have a plan, excited to meet
you and excited to be done with pregnancy.
Tuesday night 12/11/12 your dad was at Criswell College
(finishing his finals and completing his last day of the semester) while I was running around like a
fully hormonal 9 month pregnant lady trying to finish every last detail before
you were here. After dinner and Garron and Preston’s bath (to the relief of
Jeremiah I’m sure) I took Preston over to Aunt Mystie’s house. I was having
contractions all through the store and all through cooking dinner so I was not
a super happy camper!!! I was very thankful to Aunt Mystie for offering to keep
Preston during this time though and by the time I was able to load Gare Bear
and Preston up and sit down to visit with Uncle Andy and Aunt Mystie I was in a
much happier (less painful place). Aunt
Dee Dee (Daphne Weidel) and Tia (Angela Webster) were headed down to Big “E” by
this time and came by Uncle’s house where we all able to visit until Mimi
(Sharon Webster) got close to town, at which point we headed back to our house.
This had to have been close to midnight by this point. Once Mimi got there we
all visited for a little bit then she went on to bed at Uncle Keith and Aunt
Fer’s. Shortly after that I went on to bed as well… UNTIL I could still hear
Tia and DeeDee talking out in the living room.
I laid in bed restless, anxious, excited and eager for 5am as long as I
could. Eventually I had to sneak back to the living room to find out what those
two were talking about and of course be a part of the convo. We ended up with a
whopping hour MAYBE an hour and a half of sleep that night.