Sarah Joy is 4 days old today. So we are still in the middle of that first week. You know, when everyone tells you to rest and let your body heal, but they also tell you to nurse on demand every 1-3 hours. Ha! We are home now and I am so thankful for a healthy baby and a relatively uncomplicated delivery.
Everyone told me that third babies come fast, but this was definitely my longest labor! We first went to the hospital Sunday afternoon. I was contracting every 2-3 minutes but wasn’t dilating, so they sent us home. Monday afternoon the contractions picked up again and we went back to the hospital that night around 10:00 p.m. I was again contracting every 2-3 minutes, but not dilating. I begged not to be sent back home! They also found out that the baby was lying sideways, not head down anymore. Because I had too much amniotic fluid, there was a risk that if my water broke with the baby in this position, we would have a cord prolapse, which is not good. So they decided to keep us overnight and reevaluate everything in the morning.
Tuesday morning the midwife called in her supervising OBGYN, and to my great relief and surprise, Sarah had turned head-down in the night and we were now on our way to a regular delivery. However, after breaking my water my labor slowed down so it was a long day. She was finally born at 6:44 PM. Definitely a long labor but at least they let me eat breakfast and lunch and even take a shower.
I am so happy to have her here! Naomi and Rachel are in love with their new sister, and Naomi especially spends every minute she can with Sarah. It’s funny how she gets excited over the smallest things: “Mommy’s going to change Sarah’s diaper!!!” Yay!
I definitely do not have my prepregnancy body back yet, but I am enjoying being able to do things like hold Rachel in my lap and getting in the floor to play with the girls without having to have somebody heave me back up again. And I don’t miss the indigestion or the back pain.
About a week ago Rachel asked when we were going to go to Disney World again. I made the mistake of saying it wouldn’t be until Sarah was a year old. Of course yesterday morning the first thing she asked me was, “Is Sarah one year old yet?”
Tim has been so supportive and loving. Sarah’s birth was the most difficult labor/delivery we’ve had and he was super supportive. He has also been wonderful at home. Sarah currently has her days and nights mixed up and so for the past two nights we have spent hours nursing, rocking, and repeating, and he has been right there with me. (I am going to ask God, when I get to heaven, why only one of the parents was given milk ducts.) Also, I don’t know what I would do without my mom and dad being here, taking care of Naomi and Rachel, getting Naomi to and from school, handling meals, laundry, and dishes, and ordering tonight’s University of Alabama game on pay-per-view for us all 🙂
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