Our Delivery Story

**I get in deep detail here, not to bore you BUT to remember these days in the future and to have this to look back on.**

First of all, this might take me a while to write because a lot went on during those four days in the hospital. Despite it ALL I'm still very thankful and blessed to have had an experience where God gave me the ability to have another child. I would do it all over again.

The two days before the big day we were in East LA while Naty helped his dad prepare one of their rental properties for new renters. I was exhausted sitting there and was officially DONE and OVER IT. We left the kids with my in laws and I was so afraid that I would never see them again. At that point I was starting to get scared and was thinking maybe I'm not ready, LOL! I begged Naty to leave that Sunday cause I wanted to have our final meal, lol but he ended up there late and we ended up at Olive Garden right before they closed. I stuffed myself with fettuccine alfredo before a major surgery, Gross! It was all worth it though ;-)

It all started at 7am that Monday, August 3rd I woke up to Naty detailing my car and just getting things done before our 9am arrival. I quickly cleaned up some of the mess we had laying around the house and dyed my hair. We started running late and got to the hospital at 9:10AM. We were greeted by this perky man that was trying to crack jokes with us while we waited for the nurse to come get us. Then finally a nurse came and just started getting down to business, she was putting a hair net on me, slapped the wristband on me, took me to my room and said get naked, we're having a baby.

The nurse tried to get an IV in me but was unsuccessful and it hurt! she then got another lady to do another one and that one wasn't painful at all. They started the antibiotics and made me drink that nasty buffer stuff to settle the acid in my stomach. While we waited, Naty and I just chatted and talked about how we could NOT believe that the day had finally come. That's when the nurse came in and said we were on schedule and almost ready to go in. I honestly don't remember the time but when I got to the OR, people were chatting about their weekend and listening to music while they prepared everything. Then a young guy comes up to me and says he'll be puncturing my spine! WTH!!! uuuhhhhhh......YOU? he was so nice (and HOT) that I went with the flow, well....that nice and HOT guy pricked my spine 3 times with numbing medicine and about 5 times with the spinal needle and by that time I wanted the OLD man touching me! So the old real doctor came shoved it in and in one shot it was in. The good thing is that the needles didn't hurt that bad but it was uncomfortable arching my back with a big belly in front of me. Then thats when I felt the warmness hit my feet, aaaaahhh soothing, it felt odd and good at the same time. Before you know it Naty walked and was freaked out, he kept asking me if I was ok cause I felt like barfing but they gave me something through my IV to take that feeling away, which worked instantly. I just laid there while the doctor tugged, pulled, cut, and again, over and over till it became an hour and longer....I was just waiting to see my baby that I lost track of time and started worrying about the medication. I asked them if it would wear off while being open on the operating table, they said if it did they would put me under. OMG! I got scared and prayed they'd hurry up. Meanwhile, I hear my doctor call for another doctor for a second opinion, huh?? so the doctor comes in and all I remember hearing my doctor say is, "is this her uterus or bladder?", that just freaked me out, I guess I had so much scar tissue that it made it impossible for them to distinguish what was what.

Then I hear the doctor announce that he's making the incision to my uterus at such and such time and then I hear the most wonderful sound....WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH, little Nate screaming his head off. I immediately fell in love and it reminded me of Audrey, she cried and cried for hours after being born. And to top it off, he looked exactly like Audrey. All the nurses and doctors where saying how big and cute he was then they weighed him and were shocked to see 7lbs 14oz., they weren't convinced.

TO BE CONTINUED....