6 Weeks Ago...

Baby L was born 6 weeks ago. She did arrive before I turned 36. She was born December 1, 2009. We got to celebrate my birthday together. She was 8lbs 6oz. She was 19 1/2 inches long.
She was a surprise because I was not in labor when I went into the hospital. I went in because I had been having off and on extreme pain on my lower right side all day Monday. The on-call doctor was afraid I was having an appendicitis. Turns out, I wasn't. They still have no idea why I was in so much pain, One thing for sure was I was not in labor. They kept me over night for observation and to give me pain medication that made sleeping rough and gave me a migraine. I felt as if I were tripping. The room seemed to be moving and the bed was unstable.
My doctor, Dr. Weatherford, came in the next morning and broke my water. She was going to induce me on Thursday anyway. She knew I would go fast but the stupid nurse did not realize that I was going to be giving birth before lunch. She walked out several times and just did not want to check me to see how I was moving along. She even turned up the heat and turned off the lights so that I could get some sleep. She tried to get Sean to leave and get something to eat. I threaten to kill Sean if he left. We tried to tell her that I was a fast laborer. She would not listen to us, most people are not that fast and nothing was in my records b/c the incompetent idiots at the other office never sent all my records over. The nurse was not paying attention to any of the signs. As a matter of fact, when I told her I felt like pushing she just blew me off. If it were not for my hubby insisting that she check me the nurse would never have know I was fully dilated and ready for pushing. Then the nurse left the room for 15 minutes. I was screaming the whole time," I am trying not to push!" And I tried to fight my body. It worked for the most part. When the nurse came back in I was pissed and more than ready to push. Then she called for Dr. Weatherford. The stupid nurse left when I was 10cm and never called the doc?! Thank goodness Dr. Weatherford came right away. She was just in time to catch! The whole thing took less than 3 hours. Baby L was born at 12:18pm delivered by Dr. Weatherford! I was so happy Dr. W delivered baby L.
The kids never got to come to the hospital to see their adorable new baby sister. The big kids did get to see her for about 5 minutes. L&D is on the ground floor and before they could whisk away my new daughter we opened the windows and showed her off. Those poor bushes outside my window will never be the same. The rest of the stay was mundane. We got to go home with no problems.
~Niffer