The Stork has Landed

Monday morning, about 8:30 a text buzzed in.

It read, “I’ve just been admitted to the hospital. Still at a 1 cm.”

It is go time!

We quickly start getting ready, feed the animals, tell the family we are headed to the hospital and get in the car and drive.

It is a long days drive to get there, and we were trying to go as fast as we could without speeding. We really wanted to be there before she gave birth, but babies come on their own time. Especially this little guy because he was already four days over his due date. We had thought for sure she was going to go into labor early, but her due date rolled right past and all our guesses were wrong. But he was coming now and we couldn’t be more excited/nervous!

The drive felt like forever. We kept checking in with her and getting text updates on how she was doing. Our family and friends kept asking us for updates, but there wasn’t much to tell them because we were still in the car driving.

10 miles away from the hospital there was a sudden flash of lightening, a crack of thunder, and then the rain. Lots of rain. It poured so hard. People were sliding off the road, there were flash floods across the roads and then traffic stopped. We stopped! We can’t stop, we need to get to the hospital now! This poor girl had been in labor all day and we are ten minutes away and we can’t get there. After sitting in traffic for 20 mins the weather let up and car accidents moved to the side and we made our escape.

She was sitting in the delivery room, a little drugged up, but still so beautiful even after suffering labor for over eight hours. We got to sit down and chat with her and her mom. She had other family and friends stop by to see her; we got to meet her dad too. After an hour of hanging out we could tell she was getting worn out looking, so we left to give her space and also to go grab some food for her family that had been at the hospital all day.  When we got back to the hospital we had enough time to say hi and good luck just before the nurses decided to go get the doctor and get this thing moving along. We waited out in the lobby with some of her family, waiting to hear the news.

The baby was here!

Her family went in to spend some time all together with the new little guy. After a little while a nurse came out and told us that he is a beautiful baby boy. There were some complications during delivery, but mom and baby are going to be okay. The baby was taken to the NICU and given antibiotics and mom was being taken care of right now. Then she told us that since our birth mom had given me an access wristband that we were welcome to come to the NICU and see our baby. AAAHHHH!!!!!!

He was perfect, and beautiful! I just wanted to stare in disbelief and in awe. He was perfect and he is going to be ours! After getting an IV and wires all hooked up the nurses let us hold him for a little bit. We just loved on him, trying to take it all in.


Here are some pictures of baby things we got ready for the little guy.