I didn't think that our second daughter would ever come. Our first child, Cullen, had came 5 days before his due date and we were past that last Tuesday. I honestly thought that she would be here a week after her due date and still in mommies tummy. I also thought that we would have time to get ready. Both of these proved to be untrue!
On Saturday July 21st I got up in the morning and went on my Saturday long run with Fort Bend Fit. It looked like we were going to have a rather uneventful day. I finished my four mile run and came home and showered up. Cullen hadn't woken up yet and Corrie was still resting. I went and played a little on the computer as I was trying to get an idea of where to go on some of my work ideas for next year.
We got Cullen up about 9:30AM as he was sleeping late because we had had a movie night the night before with him. This has been a fun tradition of ours that I hope to do in the future. When Cullen got up he was rather fussy and didn't want to do much of antything we had asked him to do. We know that he is of age that he can understand and follow our directions so when he continued to do things that we asked him not too we decided to send him back to his room for an early nap. We were suprised to see that he would go down for one, but he must of still been tired.
Corrie went for a nap, as did I but I didn't end up napping that long. I got up about 1:00 that afternoon and went to go update our budget. I noticed that Corrie had gotten up but was plugging in her iPhone earbuds and I assumed was going to watch some Netflix on her phone.
About 30 minutes later she comes to me and says "Hey, I'm having contractions." She showed me that that they were about 10 minutes apart. I started making phone calls to put things in place. We would wake up Cullen from his nap, take him to our friends The Bedo's, and would go on to the hospital to see if this was real.. WHen i realized that we had everything and had gotten to the Bedo's, Corrie contractions were about 2-3 minutes apart.
When we got to the hospital it was very anticlimactic as we told the nurses that we thought we were about to have a baby. When we got into a room and the nurse was able to check Corrie out and see that she was about 4cm dilated we were told that we would be staying. We had to wait for Corrie to get lab work from the doctor so that she could get the epidural. I thought that that might not ever come with her going through those intense contractions but they had to clearance from the lab work.
The nurses then began to do their pre-work checkin information but it was rather interesting because they kept asking these questions that were so preposterous that it made you wonder if anyone had ever answered yes to them. They hurried through the questions when they realized that Corrie was ready to push and push hard. They called the doctor and we didn't end up getting Dr. Le who we had been working with this past nine months but rather his associate Dr. McDonald who is a member of our church. I really liked how that worked out by the way.
When all the nurses and doctor came in and it was go time for us I was excited. I had been told to be participative and helpful and to experience everything with Cullen, but the doctor and the nurses were completely opposite with Addilynn on this. I was amazed at how fast she came. We got to the hospital around 3;00 PM and have Addilynn by 5:50 PM.
That night was cool because when we gave our families the notice that we were going to be in the hospital. My mom had picked Cullen up from the Bedo's and was hanging around town. Corrie's mom and grandma, and aunt were on their way up from Victoria. It all kind of worked its way together that Corrie and I got to have our families in the delivery room about an hour and a half after Addie's birth. I can't tell you how awesome that was to have everyone there. It was great that it all happened that way and that our family could be there for us. Addilynn had a low birth temperature so they had her under a tanning bed essentially to warm up her core temperature. It worked out great because all of our family could see her.
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