Sanoii Mae Sever 5lbs 15oz 17 inches long
my love! perhaps a future midwife!
well, she is here! our newest addition to our family is absolutely the sweetest tushiest gal around. i can't help but wonder: how did G and i get so blessed to have not 1 but 2 super rad girlies. i am shocked at how different the two of them are as far as size. lilli was a pound heavier and 3 inches taller! sorry this has taken awhile to write the story of teeny SANOII (which is a hawaiian name and means mist of the mountain), but i have been living in the newborn bubble since she was born.
and here is the story. unedited. so watch out for words like poop and blood and needles.....
it all started on sunday nov.23, 2008. i felt a tad off all day and was hoping to have her that day because Lilli had predicted 6 days earlier that the baby was coming on sunday. anywho, after sitting around for most of the day, i got up to do the electric slide with G, Lilli and our friend Bre. after one round of sliding, i excused myself to go check my pants, for they felt strange. there was a lil bit of bleeding, but nothing too alarming. and no contractions. soon, G was at work and called me to make sure i had the emergency number to get ahold of him at work. at precisely 5:30 pm ( showtime for G) i lost my mucous plug. i called his work and he left immediately. when he got home he was rushing around to get stuff together. however, i was just sitting on the stairs hanging out because i wasn't having any contractions. (i will be typing that word a lot... from now on contraction will be: cx)
we headed 30 mins to the hospital. our midwife debbie checked me and i was at 5cm dilated with no cx. i was at 3cm the week before and 2cm the week before that. since i wasn't having cx she said we could go back home. we stopped at Arby's to get a delicious jr. roast beef sandwich. we get home close to 9pm. and i started having cx. but i was also busy texting some friends and suddenly i had to poop. that was when i knew i was in labor. for sure. i didn't want to get off the toilet. i didn't want to walk down the stairs. i didn't want to get in the van. somehow g got me in the back seat. i was having some serious cx and lilli held my hand the whole trip down. we got to the ER at 1030 and they were waiting with a wheel chair. here's where it gets fun.
my midwife took one look at me and said that i was in transition. nice... i pretty much skipped the first stage of labor. they put me in the chair and hauled tush to the labor room. the nurse pushing me was a tad... large. my head was bouncing off of her belly with every stride she took. i tried to lean forward but that was too painful. we got in the room and the nurse attempted to put an iv in my hand and blew out my vein. (which up until recently was very painful to the touch) after she couldn't use that vein, she announced that it was because i didn't drink enough water that day. i had no response because i was shaking uncontrollably and having major cx and was flat on my back. she finally got an iv hooked into my arm and i was free to be in labor and off the bed. the iv was for penicillin. i was strep b positive which is why we had to stay 48 hrs at the hospital instead of 24.
we met our rad nurse. Anna. i got on the exercise ball and just had a few cx and listened to lilli talk to everyone about our dogs. she would occasionally wipe my head with a damp cloth and feed me ice chips. dang she was such a doll and i was happy to have her there distracting me. speaking of distractions, the nurse decided that that was a good time to ask me random info questions. in the middle of transition. while having serious cx... like my SSN, address, would i like to have Sanoii featured in the local paper... how funny, we had to be there for 2 whole days they would have plenty of time to get the paper work done. but i didn't mind the distractions.
i was waiting for the wonderful reward of pushing. it never really came, so i just told the midwife i couldn't wait to push. with lilli the urge to push was what stands out in my mind as euphoric. my midwife encouraged me to push with my next cx. i did while squatting on the ground. and peed. they thought it was my amniotic fluid. g corrected them as i pushed again and peed again. next i hopped up on the bed and got on all fours and pushed. pop!!!! there goes the water! that was pretty rad. the next push, out came her head. i heard her crying! while she was still mostly in. one more push (which felt like i was being split up to my belly button) and the rest of her came out! i couldn't believe that she was out! i was in labor for like 2 hours and suddenly i'm not pregnant anymore! they tried to hand her to me while i was still on all fours, so i said to just hand her to G. everyone was saying how teeny she was and how much hair she had. when i first saw her i thought that she looked identical to my baby picture. she immediately started breast feeding and i was in heaven. i had Lilli with me the whole time and she was wonderful and absolutely loves her baby sis! everyone was saying it was such a beautiful birth. to me, i would disagree. i was on all fours with my tush in the air surrounded by strangers. much the opposite of my lovely Lilli water birth. however, my healing wassuper duper beautiful. no tears, no sore nipples, just baby bliss.
2 loooong days later, we are home with a complete family. life. is. good. i mean GREAT!!!!
