Dear Stella Rose,
Saturday night was one of the last nights for mama and papa to spend as just them, so they decided to stay up later than normal hanging out and talking since Sunday they would want to try and get to sleep early for the big day on Monday. Your scheduled c-section was for Monday morning at 8:00am which meant they would have to be there at 6:00am.
By the time mama finally laid down to go to sleep, it was already 2:00am on Sunday morning. You were officially 39 weeks! Mama woke herself up at 2:30am talking in her sleep. When she realized what she was saying was actually reality, it was like she was frozen in a trance, trying to figure out what was actually happening. Mama's water had broken and she had been calling out to papa telling him her water had broke!
Papa was caught off guard, being that he was in the middle of sleeping, that all he said was, "Are you sure you didn't just wet the bed?" Oh, mama wet the bed, all right! But not that kind of wetting the bed! Once they both realized what was happening, mama didn't know what emotion she should be feeling, because it seemed like a bunch of different ones all at once.
At first, mama felt like crying. She wasn't prepared for this. This wasn't the plan. Her scheduled c-section was for Monday morning, not NOW! It meant, Dr. K wouldn't be the one delivering you, it would be whoever was on call. Mama hadn't packed the bag yet, because she was going to do it on Sunday! Mama wanted to shower but she wasn't going to have time. The 23rd was the date, not the 22nd. Now she would have to come in on the 4th floor maternity section rather than on the 5th floor where everyone mama had gotten to know had been. Negative. Alll these thoughts. Mama didn't know how to sort through them all.
Mama tried calling Dr. K's office to try and reach the on call number, but she was so anxious that she didn't listen to the prompts carefully. Then she called the maternity floor at the hospital trying to figure out what to do, while at the same time it seemed like a waterfall was continuously flowing. Mama was getting concerned as to how long they had until they needed to get to the hospital since she was losing so much fluid so fast. The lady on the phone advised mama to call back the number to listen for the prompts to an on-call number. She found the number to an answering service. The person on the other end of that line called the on-call doctor who called mama back within 2 minutes.
Mama was full of anxiety at this point. Papa looked at her and said, "Babe, don't worry about anything. This is exciting!" Although, this wasn't what was planned, neither was being on bed rest for 3 months! Your fluid was expected to drop or mama's blood pressures were expected to sky rocket by 36 weeks and neither of those happened, either. Why would they ever expect this to go as planned, too?! And papa was right...this WAS exciting! This is normally the excitement you would expect to experience in the average pregnancy, so at least they weren't missing out! Plus, mama and papa were going to get to meet you a day earlier than they thought!!
Mama's whole mind set changed in an instant. After mama talked to the on-call doc, he advised them to come on in. Something else ironic was that mama was just talking to one of her home healthcare nurses the other day about how she wasn't going to get to experience what a real contraction felt like, since mama was going to have a scheduled c-section probably before she ever had a labor contraction. Boy, was mama wrong! As soon as mama's water broke, there came the contractions! They started at about 1 every 5-10 minutes to every 2 minutes, with the pain increasing ever so slightly!
Once mama and papa got packed, it was GO time!
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| On the way to the hospital. |
Love,
Mama & Papa
Yay! That is so exciting. Can't wait to hear what else happened between now and then. Congrats!
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