Here She IS!!

 May 8, 2011

 I am a little obsessive in my methods, and have refused to publish this post till I had all my other posts in order, BUT after much harassment from a couple sis-in-laws (I still love you).......

Elizabeth Bell Jenks

6 pounds 12 ounces

19 1/2 inches

3:14 p.m.

My due date wasn't until the 20th of May, so we were in no wise anticipating her coming two weeks early.  I think she just realized that to fit in our family she had to be born on the 8th or the 11th, but the 8th made it the best Mother's Day present ever!  But about 1:30 in the morning I woke up, and was wet.  My first thought was "Great! Peed my pants again" It was really becoming an issue. So I trudged into the bathroom to change, but when I pulled everything off, there was blood everywhere.  My first thought was I was hemorrhaging, my second thought was that Brandon was going to tell me "I told you so" for over doing it in the yard the previous day, so I yelled at Brandon that we needed to go to the hospital.  I was ever so grateful that he hadn't taken an Ambien that night, and that we wouldn't have to pull a "Father of the Bride II" scene.  Our next realization was that I wasn't still bleeding and the thought dawned on me that my water might have actually broken.  So Brandon calls his sister in the middle of the night to ask her opinion, so sorry Jody.  I have never had my water break before and I seriously thought that if it was, I should be having this baby any minute.  So we called another cousin, sorry Heather, to come stay with the kids.  Threw a few things in a bag, seriously not ready, BUT by some miracle I had charged the batteries to the video camera the day before, and hopped in the car and took off.  We didn't even wait for Heather to get there,  we did wake Kaden before we left, but he doesn't remember it.

Brandon made good time to the hospital, just over a half hour, only for us to be greeted by a emergency room receptionist with a computer that was undergoing updates.  It took us nearly another 20 minutes to get checked in.  Ironically, I had been in a few weeks previously to do a pre-admittance so that all I would have to do is hand them a card and be good to go, but with no computer, we had to do it the long way.  Luckily, I still wasn't having any contractions, so I still like her.

Got upstairs. Doctor started the pitocin and a few hours later I got the epidural.  On a side note, the Doctor had to go pick up her son in Spokane at seven, and so she was trying to rush the delivery.  However, by six I was still only a two- I was seriously disappointed- I was two when I went in for the check up a few days previous.  So they stopped the Pit, and we sat there and waited for four hours for the Doctor to get back, and then start all over again.  Second time went by a lot faster,  after I finally hit a five we were to a ten in about a half hour, the doctor was paged, and we waited again.  This time with my legs crossed, still don't know why I could move my legs with an epidural.  But it was seriously painful,  I was pushing the booster button for all I was worth.  In my head, I knew it would only give me a boost every ten minutes, but maybe somehow I could trick it.  Doctor showed up to see how things were going and that she was going to go change her clothes, but the nurses convinced her that she should just put on the gown and hurry.  She sat down, made the epesiotomy, two pushes, and she was here.

  Isn't she just the cutest? Looking a little rough on my part.

 Brandon's Mom and niece were in the waiting room.  Brandon's sister, Jody, had stopped by to drop off some lunch for Brandon, and ended up staying to be the videographer and photographer.

 Dr. Coury and the minutes old Lizzie.

 She didn't much enjoy her first bath.  I don't remember any of it, right after I delivered I got this massive headache, so they brought in the big guns of Percocet and Motrin.  Knocked me into oblivion, if I only had knew what was to come.

 Ten fingers and ten toes, except for the the fact that her ears look like they have been nibbled on, she was perfect.

  Brandon is so in love with her.  However, the morning after proved to be a little rougher.  I had the headache like no other.  I never get headaches.  Nurse confirmed my suspicions that I had a spinal headache.  Crappiest thing EVER!  Luckily, the anesthesiologist was able to fix it with a blood patch,  which is another epidural, draw some blood from my arm and inject it into the epidural space.  Almost immediate relief.  Unfortunately, the next day it came back, and so back to the hospital we went for another blood patch.  In the 27 years that the anesthesiologist had been practicing medicine, I was his second repeat customer.  He told me not to come back for an unprecedented third time.  Uh, yah!

 It turned into a tradition that Brandon always dressed them in their first outfit.  It's soooo tiny.

 Still looking a really rough, but we are ready to leave.  We just had to make a pit stop first to watch the boys at their baseball games, I know, we are ridiculous.