A Note to my Firstborn (Son) - #2

 I woke up to help get your cousins ready for school.  Your cousin Desiree is just like her mother when she was young.  She hates to get ready for school in the morning because she wants to sleep.  You have to dress her and carry her all around and she feels like dead weight.  Bryanna on the other hand wakes right up and is full of energy.

Anyway, you are now seven days overdue.  Grandma said she is going to come home early because she wants to make sure I am not alone in case you decide you are ready to enter your new world.  She has prepped me on just about everything concerning you and any surprises.  She told me to call the doctor's office and let him know I may have been leaking fluid.  For the past two weeks about, it has felt like sweat in between my inner things and it hasn't been hot.  Also, when I went to see my doctor on Tuesday, he stretched my cervix to let labor continue.  He said I was dilated about 1-2 centimeters.  Now it is Friday and there has not been any progress.  You haven't even dropped much.

About 9:15 AM I called the doctor's office ands they told me to come in about 11 AM.  So I called your Grandma and she said she be home soon.

The doctors at the office today was Dr. Boafa.  The doctor checked Mommy out and told me to get dressed and come to his office.  In his office he said there was no change and he was sending me to the hospital to be admitted and labor would be induced.

At the hospital I was sent to labor and delivery and was put on a fetal monitor so the both us could be monitored.

Dr. Ayew, my primary doctor insisted a cervidal to soften my cervix.  At that time it was 2:30 PM.  About 4:30 PM I was taken to the mother/baby unit for the rest of the night.  Daddy was called when we first got settled into the labor and delivery room and said right after work he would come over.  He arrived about 5 PM and Grandma came back to the hospital around 5:30 PM with Grannie, Desiree, and Bryanna.  Aunt Genny arrived about 6 PM.

I started to really be in discomfort around 5 PM.  When your Aunt Genny arrived, she told me to walk around the floor and it would help later with labor.  We must have walked around the floor about 2X when the pain really hurt.  I started to cry and Grandma hugged me and comforted me.  Daddy and Grandma told Grannie and Auntie to stop laughing at mommy because I was in so much pain.

Your Daddy and Auntie stayed with me.  About 9 PM we sent your Daddy home to sleep until 1 AM so just in case I was ready to deliver, he would be awake and alert.  About 10 PM I started having strong irregular contractions from about :30 seconds to 2:30 minutes apart.  The doctor arrived at the hospital about 11 PM.  We had taken the cervidal out because I was having a burning feeling.  When the doctor checked me he said there was no change at all and I had not dilated.  To help me sleep he came me a small dosage of Dalmane.  He told your Aunt to go home because no much was going to happen anytime soon.  But when I asker her not to leave, she said she would stay.

I fell asleep and Daddy had come back.  My sister said she would stay with me overnight when he offered to take her home and sent him home.  I was too tired to talk much and fell right back asleep.

A Note to my Firstborn (Son) - #1

 It is almost 5:30 AM in the morning and you are late.  You were due six days ago.  You can say Mommy is getting very restless, as well as the rest of the family.  I am staying at my mother's house until I go into the hospital.  This way there is always someone around, or at least someone I could get a hold of quickly.

Yesterday, throughout the night I cleaned out your Grandma's cabinets in her kitchen.  I just had so much energy.  After I woke up later in the day I washed clothes and made dinner.  I then helped take-out your cousins braids while I watched TV and relaxed.  They nicknamed you Chicago from the 1st time they knew you were coming.  Anyway, your Grandma finished putting them to bed while I went back downstairs to finish the laundry and clean up the dinner dishes.  I've been doing a little bit of sorting of my belongings and more gifts from your Grandma.  This way when I go to the hospital, your father can just pick my stuff up and Grandma won't have to get everything ready for me.

While I'm writing, I can feel you moving.  The feeling is so great.  It is something no one can understand unless they go through it.  But, believe me, not all of the feeling is great.  I am afraid of labor.  Anyway, I still wish you would come.  Mommy and Daddy are very restless.  I love you!