Congratulations! Here's a fun little poem for you: The day is finally here at last. You're done with all your waiting. God's blessed you with the little one You've been anticipating! Enjoy every minute!
Ladies, I promise to post pics once I figure out how to resize the darn things. They are WAY too big to post right now! So, hopefully they are coming..... Thanks for all the well wishes!
Send them to me. I have highspeed, so I can handle any size photo with ease, and I can not only rezise them physically on the screen but I can also compress the file sizes so that they load very fast! PM for my private email to send them.
Okay everyone, I am going to attempt to upload some pics for you. A BIG thanks to Jennifer for resizing them for me. Now if I can just get my brain to work long enough to post them for you.
:lol: Woopsie, forgot to attach!!!!!!!!!! Wonder if this is an indication of how this day is going to run. Oh well, gotta roll with the punches at this stage in the game! Let's try again! ETA: Yeah, it WORKED!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks again Jennifer!
Those are precious pictures! He's adorable! So are your girls! Thankyou so much for sharing! Do we get to hear any more of your story? If not, that's okay! How's he doing now! I'm praying that all goes well, he stays healthy, and that you get some sleep!
Here's my story. It's really pretty uncomplicated, thank God! I was getting really uncomfortable and impatient, just knowing I would be late with him as usual. My cousin's wife, due one day after me was going in for an induction two weeks early and a lady in our church, due one week after me, was also going in for an induction early. Needless to say, I was frustrated! But, finally on Sunday I just decided to leave things in His hands and focus on be thankful that I have "easy" pregnancies and very healthy babies. Fast forward to Monday. I was sitting at the computer at about 11:30 am printing off worksheets on ants for Marlie. I got up to go pee, for the hundredth time that morning, and felt a very small pop. I wondered what it was but just thought my hip or something made a little pop 'cause there was no leaking or anything. Went to the pot and kept going and going and going and going... I finally realized that my water MUST have broken. It was confirmed when I stood up and there was a gush that soaked everything I had on from the waist down. So... I call my neighbor and tell her that my water broke. Thankfully she was home, she works two days per week. Then I called my doctor who wanted me to come in right away. Called dh at work to let him know it's time! So my neighbor called her sitter, who just happened to have NO kids that day. The sitter came to my neighbor's house and watched her two boys and my three girls while my neighbor took me to the doctor. I called my mil, who lives and hour 1/2 away so she can make her way here to stay with the kids. Started having small contraction on the way to the doctor, about 20 minutes from my house. The dr gets out the speculum to check me (I guess she needed to get a good look, I don't know) and before she get the thing is my water just gushes EVERYWHERE. She says "Well, I guess that answers my question!". Then she checks me and I am 4cm and 90% effaced. She sends me to the hospital right across the street. I have NOTHING packed 'cause I'm not due for another 1 1/2 weeks. So my neighbor came BACK home to pack a bag for dh to shower, etc... (he works in the oil field and had been gone for a couple of days, etc...) Isn't she the BEST? They hook me up to everything. I was Group B positive so they get the antibiotic in me at about 1:20 and they want to wait 4 hours before they check me or I deliver or anything. They said that is ideal. Well, contractions came hard and fast! I requested an "IV marguerita" at some point, I'm guessing 3:00ish. By about 3:30 I'm asking for the epidural as my contractions were one on top of the other and hard. Remember, they haven't checked me at all since the dr office so I don't know how I'm progessing if at all. At 3:40 I feel the urge to push. As you know, if you have a natural labor there's no mistaking it! Dh runs out of the room to tell the nurses. They come in, tell me to wait until they can check me! Yah, right! So, they check and I am complete. Luckily the dr had JUST called to check my progress and RAN across the street. He was born 5 minutes later. He wasn't messin' around! So the day was FULL of surprises! I wonder if that's an indication of our lives with little Tyler. We'll see! So that's my story. Not as short as I thought it would be. But, what's so amazing to me is the way God worked out all the details once I FINALLY gave it over to Him. My neighbor was home, her sitter had NO kids that day, my mil was right by the phone and available to come right up,.... Amazing! God is good!
It sounds like everything was in line just as it should have been. ------- except the packing, glad you have a good neighbor.
Angie, enjoyed the pics and story. You have a beautiful family. The baby is so cute. Praying you are feeling well at this point and getting some rest.
Thankyou for sharing the story! God is so good! Sometimes when things "just happen" to work out like that it almost makes me cry to think He cares enough for me to work out details like that! Only THIS time it almost made me cry because He worked out the details for YOU like that! AWESOME!!! Well, since he made his precious little entance early, I guess I can't send you a bill for my worn carpet, from pacing while waiting for news! May God richly bless you, your new little one, and the rest of your family!
