It was a calm Saturdays morning, the week after your baby shower to be exact, and the night after one of mommy's craft nights, and one of my girlfriends decided she would be amazing and take maternity photos for us for free! So we were all getting ready for this momentous occasion, it was our first maternity shoot thus far and were so excited. In all this excitement, I started to feel random contractions, and at first, I couldn't tell if they were braxton hicks or the real deal so I thought, eh, I can at least make it through these photos because I'll probably be like I was with Greyson and feel them lightly for a day and then push ya out the next day! Well here's how they turned out....
What happened after this is another story, and is not pretty...
Lets just say, I started feeling pretty funny during these photogs...like HURT. Contractions 5-7 minutes apart but I just had to keep pausing and taking a breath and then we moved on. Maternity photos... check! After we left we were all hungry. So Kenny suggests Five Guys...sure. Ill stuff my face with a cheeseburger and cajun fries...sure. While I'm in labor, sure... So while we are waiting for the food to get done, I'm feelin somethin fierce at this point and keeling over at the restaurant, holding in my groans and screems. Were people looking at me, you ask? Yes, they were, they were looking at me, like I was a retarded, crazy, pregnant lady, at a burger joint, who should actually be AT the hospital. So, we went straight home after that. Oh yeah, I said HOME. Because, like a normal unprepared, lazy mom, I didn't have any hospital bag packed, nor had I washed any of your clothes I recieved from the week before for you. So naturally, we had to wash all your clothes...ya. We did laundry. So, I'm trying to get Greyson taken care of with Karley and Taylor and Jesse there (Taylor and Jesse took you home with them for the night, bless their hearts), and I'm sweating and am crawling on the ground getting an overnight bag packed for him, and I'm hurting so bad, and the laundry isn't done, so I decide to jump in the shower. My thought was, oh this will feel good, which it did help, but Kenny comes up saying "Ashlee! What are you doing?! What's taking you so long?! Why are you in the shower?! Lets go!" P.S. I was tuning him out the whole time, I don't remember all of the choice words he used that night, but those were some of them... So I dont know how, but we got everything we needed, and I start going down the stairs and start to feel your head.
That was fun.
Then I start getting in the car and I can not sit down. And you were coming out so good that I had to hold you and everything else in... I mean everything else. I don't know of anyone who knows what its like, to hold a baby in, but lets just say, it's unlike ANYTHING I have ever felt, in my whole life. If I even let some pee out, I would have had you in the car... And Kenny was driving so retarded. you would have thought he never drove a day in his life, needless to say in Augusta. Speeding with the hazards and running red lights and driving on the other side of the road, and then going to complete stops and running over every single bump he could find... Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but, maybe I'm not. I cant confirm or deny we broke any laws that night... So it seemed like forever to get to the hospital, and Kenny just about drove past it until I screamed at him and then he slammed on the breaks... and I wanted to cut his man part off. But, we were there, there were more important things to attend to. SOOOOOO. Kenny parks, and the emergency entrance is shut, so he starts running a marathon finding the right door to get a wheel chair. He finally finds one and it was...BROKE. UP. I sat down and they started running and it seemed like the wheels were about to fall off, it felt worse then the car did, I wanted to curse the man who got that chair, but I wast too busy grunting and holding everything in. I somehow got up to the 3rd (?) floor, and they go to check me in, and as I start to speak to tell them my OBGYN and everything, I. START. TO. PUSH. I dont know, but as soon as I opened my mouth, the air was literally taken from me, and it was like a reflex. They realized it was serious and wheel me to the closest room, and I stand up and head straight for the bathoom. They immediately grabbed my arms and said "NO! You'll have a tollet baby!" ...Tollet? I don't know. (What's a tollet? Did she mean toilet? I know she has an accent, but really?) Did they not know what I had been holding in for the past 20 minutes!?! They had to basically restrain me and got me to the bed, I was in so much pain, I was not getting on that bed... "Ashlee we have to check you!" I started getting on the bed. And I distinctly remember telling them I had to go to the bathroom, and I distinctly remember them telling me I could not go to the bathroom and could not get on the toilet.... so.... there it went. All of it. All my insides. Ok, not everything, buuut, I definitely went to the bathroom and BROKE MY WATER. Yes, my water broke, all over that floor. YOU ARE WEL-COME. As soon as they got me on the bad and basically pushed me back to check me, I again start pushing.... I am CROWNING. One push, your head was out, another two and ....
MY whole world stopped.
You were here. My little girl... MY little girl. I've waited so long for you. Since I can remember... seeing how much my mom loved me, and seeing how much I loved her, we are best friends, I could not wait to show that love one day to my own little precious girl. In that moment, everything was perfect.
Right after I had you, the nurses were STILL trying to get a doctor to cut the unbilical cord. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. There was NO doctor. The nurses and paramedic did everything up to this point. Somehow everything got figured out, still no doctor. and you were NOT crying. I couldnt hear you, I for sure thought you were dead, I was so sure we had lost you, my little baby. They put you on the bed, and as it seemed like forever, in silence, waiting for you to take your first breath, your first cry, we finally hear you wail. I've never heard such a comforting sound in my whole life. But the next thing we hear, were alarms and beepers going off that your lungs weren't working at full capacity, and your heart rate wasnt strong, they brought you to me really fast to say goodbye before they rushed you off to the NICU. I was so worried, I kissed your face until I couldn't anymore. They all went to take care of you, and just for a moment I was all alone in the room. Silence. Kenny went with you and the two nurses, and I was struck with reality. Did I just have a baby?! I looked at the clock when I got to the room and it was 8:10, and they announced your birth time at 8:12pm. Did I have a baby in 2 minutes?!? What just happened?!? Where was everyone? Where were you? Were you going to be ok? What do we do now? Finally a doctor came, he came and checked in with me to ask if I was ok, and immediately went to be with you. Just as I would have had it. In just a few minutes everyone was back, Kenny, the doctor, and YOU, my precious little girl. You were ok, you were all ok. You just took awhile to get goin, but you were ok. I got to hold you again. It seemed like everything was crazy up to that point, but just then, we were just frozen there in time, just us 3, looking at you, holding you, kissing you, and lovin on you. You were so beautiful. Everything was just right. We were wheeled back to our own room, and we all slept so well that night... it was a long day. And did I mention. Grandma Shiflet was tryin so hard to get out to us, we thought for sure she would make it, but then again, ain't nobody was thinking I was gonna give birth the same night, let alone in 2 minutes! Momma Shif took the red eye and tried to get here as soon as I said I was having contractions. So that morning, momma shif got to you, and my girls Brittini and Colleen, and your big brother Greyson got to meet you for the first time... He was so excited to see everyone. Before then, he didnt even know how to treat babies, or payed any attention, but today... today he was meeting HIS sister. HIS baby sister who he would love, and protect, and do all the things big brothers do to/with their little sisters.Today started a new life of love. Yes, it meant he wasn't going to get as much attention, and Mommy cried and cried that you, Greyson, might feel like you weren't loved because you were sharing mommy, but I try harder each day to show you that I love you just as much, and more and more, each day... and who REALLY wants to be an only child!?! Somehow Greyson, you got up on that bed and kissed her, and you were so soft and gentle, and you were caressing her face ever so softly, it was like you immediately knew her. It was such a special moment.
The first 24 hours were perfect. However, the next 4 days sucked. When you were 2 days old, they did a billiruben test on you, and for the next three days, you were under a billi bed in a freezing cold room. For some reason, the first day we were in there, it was so hot, the AC was broken, and then they fixed it, supposedly, and the room went from 80 degrees to 50 degrees, and you had to be naked under this light, freezing, and they would not move us to another room and it seemed like no one cared. I wanted to get out of that stupid place. Finally we were leaving.... we were going home to start our lives together as a family of four. Happy Day!
Grandpa Shiflet was driving and making his way out to you. When you were just over a week old, Georgia went crazy and had a normal storm, low key maybe even to utah standards, and the whole city shut down, and we lost power for over 3 days. It was so cold, The day grandpa shif got here, the power goes out, and the whole time he was here, the power was out and everyone was freezing. It sucked. I felt so bad for you. But you were such a trooper.
Now, we are so happy and healthy. You are getting so chunky and beautiful. You are SO beautiful. You are the cutest baby girl I've ever seen. Right after Grandma and Grandpa Shif left, we got you some newborn photos...
You bring so much joy and happiness to us. You make the cutest little noises and you already smile and laugh at/with us. You are so perfect and so cute. We count our lucky stars that we are blessed with 2 healthy, beautiful little babes.We love you little girl!
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