First I'd like to start by saying "Sorry!!" Sorry, it's been such a long time since I've posted. To say I've been busy is an understatement. So, I posted at 35 weeks, which was about 11 weeks ago and I seriously can't even remember that far back. What I can tell you is that the last few weeks of my pregnancy flew by! It was rough as hell but it flew by. I was hot and huge. I can't even begin to express the extreme differences of being 9 months pregnant and due in the winter vs the summer. There is no comparison...I repeat....THERE IS NO COMPARISON. I thanked God that I was due when I was...I couldn't have gone through the entire summer...oh, I'd have died if I weren't due until August or, even worse, September. Hot Hot Hot! Whew! All I did was complain. Everything was a challenge...from working, to Bodyflow, to taking care of Emil and so on. Everything was so hard to do. All I wanted to do was lay down with my feet up in an icebox. Talk about always being miserable...and it wasn't just me. EJ was probably miserable from having to put up with all my complaining. lol:) I gained 35lbs and was so annoyed by that! I swore it was from the water I was retaining and the swelling! Ha...
So, bringing you up to speed on June 22 I took my oldest angel out for breakfast (Waffle House...I know, I know...bad. Whatever.) and it was so special to just spend a little more time with him...last date for the two of us before he was a big brother. Then on June 23 I got up...5am! I showered and got ready. I woke EJ up and my mom arrived to watch Emil...it was really happening! We were off to the hospital! We got there right around 7 and got checked in. They put about 25 bracelets on me (slight exaggeration but you get the point) and then had us wait in the waiting room. With Emil we waited a while but this time they were quick! We went back into preop and I got ready, beautiful hospital gown and all! HOLY COW. Talk about surreal. It was just so crazy to be thinking how much our lives had changed in such a short period of time. I remember wanting to get pregnant so bad and then it finally happening...then having Emil and then hoping for baby number 2 and then BAM! here we were...about to welcome him into the world. AMAZING. Amazing and just simply surreal. So, again, they were fast. We were scheduled for 9 but thought it would be more like 10 or a little after. They were ready for us right after 9, though, so off we went! I was nervous...I was way more nervous this time. Why?! I don't really know but I certainly was. They rolled me down the hall as EJ followed. Then they got me into the OR and started setting me up. The spinal tap went better than I expected which was great and once I was all ready they brought EJ in. I guess the medicine made me feel a little sick because then I started to feel nauseous...yuck. I even threw up while I was on the table...BOO! But then it was go time...time to see what this little boy that had been growing in my belly for 9 months looked like. Time to welcome the baby that we once had only dreamt of into our world... It was time.... Wow. The emotions of knowing that you're actually HAVING a baby...right then and there are just overwhelming. Laying on the table, they started surgery and within a few minutes I heard that cry....OUR baby! Our little boy!! Our second son! Oh. My. Goodness. He's here! And he's healthy and beautiful and ours...wow. So, they clean him up and weigh him and EJ is there the entire time talking about how beautiful he was and how he looked just like his brother. I lay there with a mixture of emotions and just eager to see our newest miracle...and then here he came....in his daddy's arms. Beautiful.....What a miracle....Thank you God. Ritter has arrived.
So, after it's all over they get us back into the postop room and let us get a grasp on things. I felt like crap...totally sick and, again, nauseous. Ugh. I felt like that almost the remainder of the day.
After about 1.5 hours they got us into our room. Once we were in my dad, stepmom and nany came in to see us and shortly after my mom arrived with Emil:) It was so great to have everybody there and see Emil meet Ritter. I was in the hospital for 3 days and had some friends and coworkers come see me. It was definitely weird because EJ wasn't able to be there that much since he was watching Emil. I didn't want Emil to have to be bored up at the hospital much so EJ had him at home for the most part. But finally I got to come home and our little family of 4 was united! And then it begins....our life together! Each day has been a journey...Ritter is now 7 weeks old (today!) and he's SUCH a great baby! He sleeps really well and is just overall a great little baby boy:) Our family is now complete:) It's perfect....
That's it...I have so much more to chat about but both the littles are sleeping and I'd like to lay down (for 5 minutes before Ritter wakes up to eat! lol). I'll post more soon:)
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