This week has us reminiscing about this time last year. My due date was April 9, and I spent it at school still working. I was terrified that my water would break as I was teaching in front of my class! However, my due date came and went, and we waited...I started having contractions late Tuesday night, April 10. I called in my sub and we packed our bags! We were so excited Wednesday morning as we packed the car, headed to the doctor, and found out...I was not in labor! We did a stress test on Thursday (packed the car again)...and returned home. We scheduled with the doctor to induce me on Saturday, April 14.
Thank goodness I wrote all of this down afterwards so I can remember the fun -- many moments I cherish, a few I try to block so that we will one day want to have another baby! In the wee hours of Saturday morning (day 4 of contractions -- not that I was counting), my water broke and we sped off to the hospital. After much stronger contractions and much coercing for Alex to speed up, run red lights, etc., we spent 13 hours (again, who was counting -- not me because I'd had two epidurals) waiting for me to be ready to push only to decide Kirkley was going to be a c-section baby! It was after the c-section that I realized why I thought I was in labor so many times -- my pain tolerance...not so high. Just ask Scarlotte and Amy who I quickly hunted down to assure them that they had misled me about the ease of a c-section...sorry again Scarlotte and Amy, it was the pain meds talking! :)
Around noon as we waited...Kirkley arrived within minutes of that decision, and on Saturday, April 14, 2007, our lives have been forever enhanced. I won't say changed because I feel the saying, "Your life will never be the same!" has negative connotations. Our lives are forever enhanced and made brighter by this precious gift God gave us. We are so thankful for a healthy, happy girl who is growing bigger and bigger by the minute! We can't believe the one year birthday is a week away!
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7 comments:
I can't believe that was a year ago! Crazy...Kirkley is so precious and is not helping the baby fever :)
This is such a sweet post! And you sure don't look like you'd just had a baby in those pictures - are you sure you didn't use photoshop? Happy Birthday Week, Kirkley!
Wow! I can't believe that your little precious girl is about to be one!!! I enjoyed reading your labor story and hope mine is not so long. But it is always good to be reminded that I will survive even if in the momemnt I don't think I will. We definitely need to get Mary and Hart a blog:) Hart actually just left here after going to the Masters today with Nick. Hope the birthday party goes wonderful!!
Hey Holly! Kirkley is adorable! I remember seeing yall at Christopher's the Sunday before she was due that Monday:) I can't believe she is already one! Great to "see" you in the blogging world!
Happy Birthday Kirkley! Can you believe how fast the year went by??
Man, my family is HOT!!!
Too cute! I just tagged you on my blog...check out my latest post for details.
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