We welcomed Lillian Charlotte into our family on December 3rd at 8:19 am weighing an even 8 lbs and measuring 20.5 inches long! I figured I'd better document the events of the day pretty quickly before my memory starts fading, so here goes...
We woke up early Saturday morning because we had to be at the hospital by 6. After a quick trip through the McDonald's drive thru to get Jovan some breakfast, we were on our way. Here I am once we arrived at the hospital.
We headed up to labor and delivery to get prepped for surgery. I'll spare all the details of what horrible veins I have and how every time I have to get an IV I end up with purple hands and arms a few days later. Hoping my girls don't have the same issues I have! Once we got all that working, Jovan and I just basically sat around and waited for our surgery team to get there. Jovan had to get dressed for surgery as well. :)
At 8:00 we headed back to the operating room. I had been freaking myself out for the past couple of weeks about the c-section. With Lainey, I was SO ready for her to get out of me that I really didn't know or care what was going on by the time we had the c-section. With a scheduled surgery I had been told by several people that it is so different because you are actually aware of what is going on...they were right! I had a great experience! We were just talking and laughing and having a good ol time as I lay there sliced open on the table, ha! We were able to bring in the iPod, so we had our own tunes to groove. Feel free to judge, but some of our tunes included Justin Bieber's "Baby", Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back", and Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You." Everyone loved it!
Lilly was born at 8:19 a.m. and I couldn't tell you how long we were actually in there after. Once we got back to our recovery room, I took a turn for the worse. Once again...details spared, but I got sick several times. I spent the rest of the day Saturday completely doped up and not really sure what was going on! My family came to visit, and I know I talked to people on the phone, and I will apologize for anything I said that day because I honestly do not remember it! :)
Lainey did come to meet her little sister, and I can vaguely remember the meeting. At least we have some sweet pictures of them!
The only visitors we had Saturday were my parents and my brother and sis-in-law. God decided that Lilly needed snow for her birthday, and He gave us plenty of it complete with slippery, nasty roads! It actually turned out better to not have anyone up there the first day because like I said, I was completely out of it!
Sunday was MUCH better, and I was up walking around and actually coherent. We had more visitors on Sunday, and I was able to start taking those much needed laps around the post partum floor! I was also able to have Jimmy John's for the first time in 9 months. My love of Jimmy John's is no secret, nor was the fact that this was the first thing I wanted once Lilly was born. We even received a Jimmy John's gift card as a baby gift, ha!
We decided to go home Monday because I was feeling pretty good. My mom stayed for the entire week, and my dad was here for most of it. We could not have done it without them! I seriously have the most selfless parents, and I can only hope I can be for my girls what they have been and continue to be for me.
It is now almost two weeks since Lilly was born, and we're learning the new norm for us. We're happily exhausted and equally confused about this whole newborn thing again, but we are extremely happy and feeling blessed beyond what we deserve!
Hooray for Lilly! So sweet! I never threw up with either of my pregnancies until I gave birth, it was terrible!! Glad you felt so good to go home 2 days later!!
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