Caitlyn Elizabeth May 4, 2008

So Sammy delivered.  I was going to wait until she was home to explain everything but she said it was okay to do it now.  She went to the doctor on Friday and he told her that he didn’t like her swelling and the fact that she gained five pounds in five days.  He also said the baby was a good 8 pounds maybe low 9.  So he sent her to the hospital.  When she got there they hooked her up to induce and told her she was at 3 cm.  This was about noon on the 2nd.  Then a few hours later they put the epidural in.  It was a trainee doing it and she said it felt off to the right but the main person said no it looked okay.  So for a few hours she was okay.  Then she started having terrible pain on the left side.  Our nice nurse left and the new one was hot and cold.  One minute really nice and the next a super bitch.  They did a few things but the new nurse told her that most likely the epidural wouldn’t take a second time or wouldn’t help.  So she just rode it out.  She got to 5 cm and stayed there forever.  At 11 they checked her again and she had gotten to 7 cm.  Her doctor said he would give her a little more time.  When he checked her again after midnight she was still at 7 cm so he said he wanted to go ahead and get the baby out.  Mom went back with her since they only let one person.  Caitlyn Elizabeth was born at 1:33 am on 5/3/08 (mom says 5 plus 3 is 8! …haha)  She was not 9…or 8…or even 7… she was 6 pounds 14.9 ounces and 21 inches long.  She was healthy.  They came out right after and I got to take a couple pictures and hold her before they went to clean her off and everything.  Sammy is doing good, but not sleeping well at all.  Her doctor wants to get her home asap, but she could be there as late as Tuesday.  She says she can’t sleep with out Caitlyn but they keep coming in and telling her to get some rest they will keep the baby.  They also said something silly, to give her a bottle first then try to nurse her…total opposite of what it should be.  But that’s okay if she really wants to Mom and I can help her when she gets home.  We did get to take Serena into the hospital to see her.  I will post some of those pictures a little later.  Serena had a fever last night (101.6) and then it was the same after she had been up for over an hour.  I gave her some meds and we will see if that takes it down.  She seems to be in a good mood.  I called tri-care to see if we could take her to an after hours place rather than the ER.  I remember in Cali when we had prime if I went somewhere without a referral I just paid 20%.  This lady was rather rude to me telling me I could just take her to the ER.  I really don’t want to sit in the ER for four or five hours, which is always the shortest time.  I think we are going to just suck it up and pay out of pocket to take her to the after hours place.  They open at noon so we are leaving in about 20 minutes so we can try to be there before they open.  Hopefully she is okay, just want to make sure.