Wednesday, 30 March, 2011
6:05 AM
We woke up this morning to the smell of bacon. Not a bad way to start a day. We’ve had breakfast of bacon and eggs and sausage and english muffins made by Jessie’s mom. Jessie thought she would be too nervous to eat, but it turns out she’s just fine. We’re done eating and all ready to go...and, of course, we’re too early.
(Prediction: a few entries at the beginning, and then a big jump to ‘woah, that was crazy...the baby is here!’)
7:42 AM
We’ve gotten past the preliminaries at the hospital, all checked in and set up in the room and everything. I, of course, had to make sure we didn’t actually show up in the hospital too early, because Jessie would have gotten us here at least a half hour early if it was just up to her. Check in went very smoothly and we’re currently sitting in our assigned room, very nice and spacious, just like in the tour we did before. The lights are low and relaxing but Jessie was completely nervous when she first came in the door. She said she almost cried but Noel helped her through it. I feel very dad-like.
The first few nurses have come and gone, and we’ve gotten medical history typed in, and have signed a million consent forms telling use we’re risking brain damage and paralysis just by being here. A little nervous to sign those. Then Jessie got an IV put in, maybe the first one she’s ever been conscious for. We practiced the breathing exercises while they put the needle in and it totally helped, so already that class has paid for itself.
Jess has a few fetal monitors on her right now and we can hear Tyler’s heart slowly...okay, quickly beating away in the background. We also have some contraction monitors on and evidently Jess has been having some sporadic contractions this entire time. So that’s good news, I guess. I suppose as soon as the drugs get administered, the contractions will get much stronger.
We’re about the start the drugs. Excitement!
-N
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