Oct. 17th (Part II)

10.17.14

        I have this tendency to not pay close attention to time when I am laying in a hospital bed listening to our baby girl's heart beat. I could lay there for hours just listening to the reassuring thus thus thub of a healthy heart rate.

       "It's been an hour..." Alex said, kind of startling me out of my peaceful zone. "What are they thinking is going on?"

        "I dunno," I shrugged, not really ready for them to come back and tell me that they were going to send me home because everything was fine. I pushed the call button to have the nurse come back and talk to us. Within about 5 minutes, she appeared.

         "So, I've been on the phone with Dr D, showing her all of your strips, and we agree that this is true early labor," she paused. "And we are ready to deliver tonight if you guys are okay with that."

          "Really?!" I said, shocked and excited and nervous. I looked at Alex and I could tell he felt the same way- we were finally going to meet our baby girl. 

           "Yes, really," the nurse giggled at us. "Are you okay with that?"

           "Heck yes!" we both said enthusiastically.
           "So, how long will it take for everyone to get here? I mean, how long will we need to wait until we actually deliver?" I asked anxiously.
            "You'll have your baby in your arms before midnight," she said gleefully.

            We called my parents, who were shocked and excited that the time had come for the little one to make her appearance, but saddened that they wouldn't be there for the delivery. My grandmother was still hanging in there, but there was no way they could leave right that second and come to Dallas. 

             We called Gail, the nurse that had been with us during Kaitlyn's delivery, and she headed up to the hospital. So did Jenny, Kenney (the Nanana), and Becky and Charlie that had been with my parents while we delivered Kaitlyn. Our friends chatted with us while we waited for the staff to get set up. 

              We also texted Carol, the CRNA who had done my anesthesia for Kaitlyn.

Me: Hi Carol! This is Amy Munoz- we are going to have a c section tonight, would you happen tone available?

Carol: I'm so sorry. I have had an adult beverage. I could not come in. Amy, you will do fine. Larry (the anesthesiologist on call) will take excellent care of you. He has been there for 25 years. he brought me on. I am praying for you and your baby. God bless you.

                Even though I was disappointed to not have Carol in the room with us, I laughed out loud at her response that she had an "adult beverage"! 

                The replacement anesthesiologist, Larry, came in to talk to us about the procedure. He could have come in and said, "Blah blah blah" as far as I was concerned because we were just ready to get this sweet one out into the world safely! He did tell us, though, that he always kept a speaker with him for his procedures so that we could listen to music.

                "I have a set c-section playlist if you'd like that," he told us. "Or Dad over there can put his music on and we can listen to something you guys like." Alex got really excited about the idea of getting to chose the music that our little one was born to.

                Soon, it was time for us to go back to the OR. Dr. D came skirting in right about the time they were wheeling me around the room (let me just say- I did my research on all of Dr. B's partners a LONG time before we even talked about having kids, so I was very comfortable with the idea of Dr. D delivering our baby) and I finally was able to put a face to the name. She was a little older than Dr. B, and shorter with dark brown hair instead of blonde. 

                "Are you ready to do this?" she asked us.

                "Beyond ready!" I told her. And off we went to the OR suite.