Our "Little Bit"

Well as most everyone knows now, Aaron and I are the proud parents or a beautiful little girl! I never got a chance to update the blog with that announcement that we were having a girl because we found out Tuesday the 25th very late in the evening when I was told by the triage doctor in Labor and Delivery I officially was in pre-term labor! Wouldn't you know that despite my best efforts to stay off my feet and not do ANYTHING....our little rolly polly was born on Saturday, March 29th 2008 at 9:24PM. It went something like this:

As I mentioned above I went into pre-term labor on Tuesday the 25th which earned me a night's stay in the hospital being released on Wednesday....not to be my last visit, I ended up back in the triage center on Thursday evening with labor pains and was sent home because I wasn't changing and we were trying to keep our little bundle of joy in there as long as possible! Friday night by around 6:00PM I was in so much pain I could barely move so Aaron but my to bed with my legs and feet in the air....NOW the GOOD STUFF!

I was laying in bed, hungry around 9:45PM on Friday the 28th...Aaron went to make me a sandwich and I settled into an episode of The Golden Girls. No sooner had I felt my contractions going away, that I felt the HUGEST burst and water GUSHING out of me. I gasped and screamed for Aaron along the lines of "AARON, AARON, AARON, AARON!!!!!!!" He came running into the bedroom-I was crying and breathing and yelled that my water just broke. He helped up out of bed, threw a robe on me and held my hand as we flew down the stairs. AMAZING SKILLS this hubby of mine has because he was running down the stairs, me in one hand, calling the hospital in the other and then calling his parents. We made it to the hospital and we were told that I was 6 centimeters and would deliver within the hour. We were also told that our little girl was too small and would most likely be born either not alive or take a few breaths and pass away. Aaron and I burst into tears but somehow found strength to take about funeral arrangements and sign paperwork for her pending departure. We asked to speak with the neonatal team to see just what our chances were for our baby. The doctor that spoke to us was set on not trying to save our girl but after pleading with him he agreed that if she came out a weighing at least 1 pound his team would attempt to save her!

Once transfered into a delivery room, I was given pain medication and announced to everyone in between contracts that I was starving. To my surprise, my OB team allowed me to eat-very unusual! I had a little pizza from the cafeteria and fell asleep no longer in pain and with a full tummy. Around midnight, I noticed that my contractions were gone COMPLETELY! I had nothing! I slept intermittently until around 9:30AM Saturday morning when I awoke to a contraction--I was so good at pushing the button for pain meds that I think I pushed it in my sleep! My contractions progressed steadily through out the day all the while SHOVING MY FACE with every fatty, forbidden food known to mankind! The routine was, pain meds, food sleep for most of Saturday..... by the time 8:00PM rolled around, I had the most HORRIFIC contraction to date! It lasted 5 minutes and I thought that my entire body would leap of the bed. I called for the nurse and screamed that the pain wasn't going away! I was checked around 8:45 and was told she was coming and get ready to push! WHAT I'm still trying to deal with pain here! I can't concentrate on pushing out a baby! Needless to say I screamed and pushed not really knowing I was pushing and out came our little Maysie!! The only thing I remember while they were taking her away from me was WOW she is so LONG! I waited patiently for a number........that special little number.......her weight! It seemed forever but all of a sudden we heard 1 pound 1 ounce and she is intubated! I CRIED SO HARD!!!! Our little dream was breathing and made the cut off by 1 miraculous little ounce!!!! No wonder I was starving! She was gaining that little ounce so she could come into this world and have her life saved!

So the moment we are waiting for.........Introducing Maysie Diane Hambrick


Believe it or not.....she looks just like her Daddy! Dark hair and features....she did get Mommy's mouth and chubby little toes and look how long she is!!