Tuesday, the day of our anniversary, I started physically trying to get contractions going again. I vacuumed our house and went on a couple of walks around the neighborhood. We went ahead and planned an anniversary dinner & movie that evening. My parents watched Damon for us while we went out. We planned seeing the movie Justice League and then going to dinner somewhere afterward. I had been having contractions throughout the day irregularly. From the time the movie started, my contractions were 5-10 minutes apart. I timed them throughout the movie. By 7:30, my contractions were about 3-4 minutes apart and consistent. I told Adam that I had been contracting throughout the movie.. plus he could see me timing it on my phone. So, I told myself we wouldn't go to the hospital till it was consistent for over an hour. We reached that point, but my contractions weren't unbearable. I wanted to go to to the hospital just to be checked and so we had peace of mind so we went ahead and let my parents know. We drove home first to get our hospital bags and Damons over-night bag to drop off. We got to the hospital around 9:30. I actually remembered to register online so checking in was a bit quicker this time, but their triage was full so we had to wait in the waiting room to even be checked. My contractions were getting stronger and more painful just sitting waiting in the waiting room, but I could still talk through them. We finally got a room in triage at about 10:30 where of course they took forever to do everything. They checked me and I was at a 5 and so they called Newman and I was admitted. I told them that my veins suck and that they always have a hard time finding a place for the IV and that last time they had to use an ultrasound to do it and that they should do that again. They tried to insert the IV as regular and failed. I was contracting pretty heavily during all this and even prior. I told them to go ahead and order the epidural even before I got my IV. They of course took their sweet time doing everything and my contractions were getting BAD. They were off the chart on the monitor by the time I got an IV and started to be sent to L&D. I don't know what time it was by the time we were in the delivery room, but I had some pretty intense labor that I never reached with Damon. They finally gave me the epidural around 11:30pm. I had so much going through my head because every time I would get a contraction, my body naturally wanted to arch my back to relieve pain (although it didn't do jack crap) and then in order to insert the epidural, they need you to slouch your back the opposite direction. My contractions were so close together that they hardly had time to insert the needle before my back would try to arch to relieve itself. It was a battle trying to control that and breathe at the same time, I could feel that while they did it, it felt a little off-center. Although, they told me last time when they did it for Damons delivery that my spine was slightly crooked so I didn't say anything. Well, I should have because my epidural only worked on my left side. They had me lay on my right side to try to have gravity pull it over to that side, Before Newman arrived, I kept feeling the urge to push (and some hellish contractions on my right side of course). I told the nurse that and she said I was at a 10. So of course I'm scared out of my mind that she wouldn't get there in time and also that I was definitely not going to numb up on the right side. She finally arrived, but we then had to wait for a student that was shadowing her.. which was a long 15ish minutes more. She finally arrived, Newman broke my water, and 3 pushes later, Jade was born. Weirdly enough, the contractions were worse than pushing.. pain wise. It was more of a relief pushing during the contractions. I didn't expect that. I am grateful I at least had half relief though. She was born at 1:10am on December 13, 2017 weighing 7lb 15.3oz and measuring 20.5in long. She is a dream baby. She is so sweet and still not sleeping through the night, but I'm surviving. Luckily, Adam has paternity leave this time. So the adjustment is easier. He had to use his PTO for Damons birth, which wasn't much. This time, 6 weeks of paternity leave! Jade was 7lb 8oz when we left the hospital. She didn't have a name until about 30 minutes before we left the hospital. We are really bad at deciding on names. Like, REALLY bad. But she's here and we are so grateful. She fills a void we didn't know was there. Damon has been adjusting better than expected. He seems excited about her most of the time. He has moments from time to time where he wants his mommy and is jealous of her, but that's no big deal.The second night in the hospital, I had Adam go home with Damon so it'd be easier on him and then they both came back the next morning to help us get checked out of the hospital.
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