So this is how it went down. I had my 39 week apt on Thursday, June 2. I was really 39 wks 4 days. My due date was June 5...Sirena's Birthday. My Dr had told me at my apt the previous week that if I had progressed further, then he was going to "help me along", (I was being checked at 2-3 cm and 70% effaced), if I wanted to. I came home from that apt and talked to Tyler about it. He and I both agreed that if that were the case, we would be ok with it.
We scheduled a babysitter and a back up....just in case...and headed in for my apt. When Dr. K checked me I was a full 3-4cm and 80% effaced. The baby was at -2 station. He was worried that with my last labor being so fast...and that each labor was cut by 1/2, I may not make it to the hospital if I waited to "spontaneously go into labor". He did a couple tricks in the office and sent me out walking.
That was at 11am, by 2pm I was having regular contractions and by 3:30 I was contracting at 2 minutes apart. We headed over to the hospital. At my hospital, you are monitored in Triage for 1 hour. If the Dr admits you go to Labor & Delivery. That's what we did. I was in my L & D Room at 5:30pm. The Anesthesiologist was heading in for a C-Section, so I was asked if I wanted an epidural, I'd better do it then or wait. Well, I thought I wanted to go "au-naturale", but I did that 1 1/2 times....I really wanted to enjoy this one....since it's my last. I buckled and said..."Yes, Please!"
When that puppy kicked in I was SO HAPPY and got to eat my salad! MMMMmmmm was it good! PS- I did it on the sly...when the nurse was out of the room. I wasn't about to deliver and end up starving!
At 6:30pm- My Mother and Father-in-law came cruisin' in. I was SO happy. I had Aunt Sarah (my sister-in-law...married to Tyler's brother, Daniel) there to be the photographer. Tyler is a great photographer, but he only takes like 3 pictures of the whole thing! Not that I want a million, but a few more then 3 would be nice.
With the labors of my last 2 babies, I get to a 6 and then ALL OF A SUDDEN I complete and have that baby out in seconds. We told my nurse this and sure enough...it happened again. I started feeling pressure, she checked me and it was time. My Dr was already at the hospital getting ready to go into a C-Section....so it worked out perfectly. He came in delivered and even had time for pictures. It was fantastic!
Recovery has been a little rough because I came home from the hospital with a bad cold. It started with fever, chills, aches and pain. It actually scared me, it was that bad! Tyler got it the next day. I've had a couple other issues, but those were taken care of a week after Leona was born.
That brings me to her name... We name this little girl Leona May because Leona was the only girl name we could agree on. And May is after my Mom's dearest friends, The Maygren's. She met them at BYU and they (my parents and the Maygren's) were in each other's wedding's. We grew up with their kids and they are like cousin's to us. Actually, a little closer then that! Mama Maygren has been there for me in ways that Mom would be if she were here. So, with us naming our two other girls after our Mother's, it was just so perfect to name Leona after the Mother who was my escort in the temple, helped me dress my Mother for final dressing, has been my shoulder to cry on, lets us stay in her home...when ever we come home, treats my children like her own Grandchildren, and has loved me just the same way my Mom does! I'm so grateful and honored that all of our girls are named after such wonderful women!
Welcome to our family Leona May!
Just after all the craziness of having Leona, we had Sirena's 2nd birthday. We don't do big birthday parties and all the hubbub of that, (thank goodness). We do take the kids out for their birthday's (just Mom, Dad and the birthday kid), have cake as a family, and open gift(s).
