As previously stated Kaida was sick on Monday and she continued to puke at least once a day until Thursday (Luckily Mom was on duty for the Wednesday and Thursday sickness). Anyway, backing up, I was pretty tired come Tuesday night since she had been up during the previous couple nights a lot, and a sick toddler doesn't leave much time for napping.
So I went to bed early on Tuesday, I think before 9:00. I went to sleep pretty easily and when JR came to bed at 10:30 he woke me up enough for me to realize I wasn't feeling too great.
I went to camp out in the bathroom but didn't throw up until just after 11:00 when my mom came up for bed. After that I felt a lot better so I went back to sleep. At midnight when Kaida woke up I sent JR to her. He got her back in the crib and went to use the bathroom where he promptly passed out into the bathtub making a huge racket as he fell. That was about 12:15.
Then I realized that I was not feeling so hot again, Kaida was screaming, and JR was praying to the porcelain goddess. For some reason Mom and I took Kaida downstairs to change her. Maybe we thought she was messy, or we were just trying to get her to calm down, I can't remember. It was there that I felt something strange in my cervical area. When I went to the bathroom I had a little bit of spotting so I called the Midwives who said, ok start watching things closely.
Once everyone had calmed down a bit, Kaida included, we started timing the contractions that had actually started to feel like contractions right after I called the midwives.
The first several were five minutes apart around 1:00 am. After, maybe 3 or 4 of those they switched to about 3 minutes apart. So at about 1:30 I called the midwives and our Doula and we started to get ready to go. At this point I was still only kind of convinced that I was in labor since it didn't make sense to me that the contractions started out so close together and were getting closer so fast.
But as we finished packing up our bags and they started to be every minute or minute and a half I was pretty convinced. Mom definitely thought I was going to have him in the car on the way to the hospital.
It's all quite amusing when I look back on it.
We put the bags in the car (that had the remote starter installed earlier that day) and JR went to put the key in when it turned itself off. He had pressed the brake which is the remote start's safety measure to keep the car from being stolen. Mom was all "Don't worry, just start it up again." But the way she said it sort of sounded like "Get that car started and out of this driveway in the next 30 seconds or I'm going to do it for you."
We got to the hospital in pretty good time. Eight minutes from exit to exit, so maybe 20 minutes total, or not even.
We had grabbed a couple puke buckets to take with us in the car just in case. I was thinking of JR. It was me I needed to worry about though.
We pulled into the parking lot and had almost made it to the gate where you get your ticket when I made use of one of the buckets.
Once JR found a place to dump that we headed into the emergency room entrance, I think it was about 2:15 at that point. The nurse who came to escort us to the admission area seemed nervous since we had to stop several times for my contractions (it's a pretty short walk and elevator ride). She said "Oh wow, they seem to be about a minute to a minute and a half apart." Thank you, I hadn't noticed :-/.
But luckily that inspired them to get us checked in and into triage pretty damn quick! The receptionist even came back to our room to finish the paperwork off rather than having us sit there to fill it out.
Ha-Ha! Fooled you guys, that baby didn't come for 7 more hours.
Our Doula, Bethany, arrived while we were in triage so that was good. I really like her and she helped keep everything calm.
Anyway, while in triage they found some protein in my urine which ended up being from the spotting I was having. My blood pressure was ok though. They catheterized me to get a clean urine sample (trust me when I say it's hard to do a clean catch while having contractions) and that one was free of protein.
Then I threw up again. Bethany cleaned it up 'cause she's awesome.
So the midwife suggested, and we all decided, that I should probably have an IV. We didn't know if it was Kaida's stomach bug or just my body telling all systems to evacuate since a baby was coming. Either way I was bound to be a little dehydrated.
Through all of this JR is still actually sick and running to the bathroom every half hour or so
When they checked me in triage I was 4 cm dilated. And they moved me on down the hall to labor and delivery.
Colin is Born Part II
Colin is Born Part III
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