A hectic Sunday or The rapid arrival of my second daughter

Lurker · Post by **Lurker** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:28 am

Well the morning started out well. My daughter (AKA Baby vs1 or Kaitlin) woke up around her normal wake up time. I made coffee and got the milk ready for her, then time to run in the Back yard. We were out for almost 2 hours and it was a bit past the time my wife wakes up but no big surprise as she has been exhausted from baby vs2 kicking all night.

When I finally brought Baby 1 in, my wife walked out of the bath room & stated I think my water just broke Time to call the baby sitter, who had forgot she was supposed to be our baby sitter & was in Tampa, then the back up babysitter who was watching a couple of kids from all their parents throwing darts Sat night. (Read going to the bar and swilling cheap beer and talking about darts) That led to an hour of calling everyone on my team to find some one to watch Baby Vs 1 until my wife's mom made it here from Ga.

When my Capts wife got to my house we gave her Baby vs 1, who was about ready to take a nap (the near two hours running around chasing the dog & grasshoppers did some good!) and jumped in the car to start the 45 min drive to the A.F. hospital. After about 5 min my wife looks at me ad announces the contractions are coming Fast, get us there now!!! After bending almost all driving laws the 45 min drive took only 28 min. Boy it is amazing how there is no sheriff or police around when you could use one!

Pulling into the ER, there were no wheel chairs in the ER area so we get to walk to the elevators. The short walk to the elevator went through 5 contractions. Which is interesting trying to walk during said contractions! When we finally made it to the elevator it took forever to get one to open then we had to set the worlds slow record for moving up in a hospital.

We finally made it up to the delivery floor and off the elevator the nurse started to gripe about how long it took for us to get there (we called her after the water breakage) then took a second look at my wife and EVERYONE started hopping.

15 min later my wife was finally in a bed and getting drugs. Before the drugs took full effect my wife went from a 7 to a 10 (I know combat emergency medicine not girl/baby stuff so only know that was quicker than they expected) and the baby was ready to arrive (you notice Ive only mentioned nurse not Doc, the doc didnt make it in time!) at 12:36 Baby vs 2 (AKA Lauren) did arrive. Healthy and crying 6lbs 10.2 oz and just over 19 in. To bad she looks more like me because Im not a very hansom guy & sure I wouldnt be a pretty girl so I hope she grows out of looking like me!

Boy what a way to spend a Sunday.
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:30 am

Congratulations.

Everything moves in slow motion when you're in a rush. That is real time travel.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:48 am

Congrats!
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LordSeurek · Post by **LordSeurek** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:51 am

Congrats Les! You beat me to it by a few weeks
Myself and my wife wish mom and baby all the best!

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Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:52 am

Garts, Lurker!

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Fat Dragon Games · Post by **Fat Dragon Games** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:06 am

Congrats!
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:41 am

Congrats man. Kiddos are worth the headaches, and wallet strain.

Go0gleplex · Post by **Go0gleplex** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:53 am

Congratulations! (skip the elf ears! )

Glad all is well...and all are healthy!
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:42 am

Congratulations! Don't sweat the baby looking like you...my wife says that's it's too early to tell at delivery time. She gave birth to our daughter on May 5th, and I was terribly worried that she would look more like me over my wife. But now, three months later, she's more beautiful than I ever was or ever will be...thank God!

Matthew · Post by **Matthew** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:52 am

Congratulations! Sounds like a stressful day, but I am glad to read everything worked out for the best.
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Coleston the Cavalier · Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:08 am

Congrats! Thanks for sharing! What a great story.

My wife has kids fast too. Only one of three boys was actually "caught" by a doctor - a nurse delivered one and second year medical student delivered another. I can remember well the nurse telling the student to "PUT ON YOUR GLOVES, WE'RE DOING THIS!"

Oh yeah, take care of the mom too!
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:07 pm

Congrats and best wishes!
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seskis281 · Post by **seskis281** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:12 pm

Congratulations and may your first chile be a mas....

Wait, too late for both those Godfather references.
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Snaebjorn · Post by **Snaebjorn** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:24 pm

Chello!

Congrats, dude!

Although I am jealous of quick labor times. My wife's were 28 hours, 12h, 11h, and 14h.

Tony

Aladar · Post by **Aladar** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:01 pm

Congrats all around.
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Mike Frank · Post by **Mike Frank** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:50 pm

Congratulations Lurker! That is quite a story.

Reminds me of when my second son was born. My wife woke me saying that her contractions were 2 min apart. I freaked, called the next door neighbor (truley an Angel sent to watch out for us) to watch our first son. We went to the 2 day old Highlander and as soon as my wife sat down, her water broke. We rush to the hospital -- coming onto the off-ramp I'm on the brakes pretty hard and realize I'll not be stopping at the stop sign. Fortunately it was clear. Went to the Emergency entrance and I'm running around trying to get a wheelchair for my wife and waving for help. The nurses inside must have been thinking, "The people here are so nice. They wave at you all the time." Because they just sat there doing nothing. Finally, someone got there to help and carts my wife off to the ER while I moved the car out of the emergency lane. I run back in and an orderly leads me to the ER and I can hear some woman screaming and some nurse says to me, "we're going to do everything we can to save your baby." At this point time slows down and everything is like I'm watching a movie. I see two nurses fiddling with the gurny trying to get it through the ER doors and they can't move it. I walked over moved them aside and pushed it through. It wasn't rolling, it was sliding -- they had the casters locked! We get inside and my sons feet are already out. They were going to do an emergency c-section, but he had moved to far down the birth canal so the doctor (her very first time on her own after finishing her residency) tells my wife to push. The nurses looked like they were lost! One of them said, "Sir you're going to have to leave." Based on what I saw from their performance, I told them I would not be going anywhere. No one asked again. Just about the time the anesthesiologist arrives, out pops my son. The doctor tells one of the nurses to give him oxygen and she kind of plops the nose tube on his face. I said, "shouldn't that go into his nose?" The doctor knew what she was doing, but the nurses where absolutely clueless.

We had arrived at the hospital at 1:30 am, and my son was born at 1:35.

Today, on my way to work I saw a billboard for that hospital saying that is ranked in the top 5 in the country for patient care. Hmmm...

Sorry about that, reading your story brought it all back.

I can't believe you guys had that much time after her water broke. I'm glad everything worked out well for your family. Congratulations again!

cinderblock · Post by **cinderblock** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:53 pm

Cogratulations to you!

I just found out that in about 8 months or so i too will be in the fathering business. So I'm looking at these stories as a "how-to not freak out" guide.

Congrats again.

dachda · Post by **dachda** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:11 pm

Congrats!!! My nurse fiance helped deliver a baby in the husband's car, the baby was crowning as he drove her up to the emergency room door. Crazy!!

Glad all went well in the end.
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Lurker · Post by **Lurker** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:39 pm

Guys, Thanks for all the congrats/well wishes! My wife and Baby v2 came home today, the drive was MUCH more sedate than the drive to the hospital!

Reading some of your stories Good lord I thought mine was a close run thing you all take the cake there! Also reading about some of the flubs from the nurses (not able to push the gurney etc) reminded me of when I was getting my trama/emt training. It was sad when a doc would rather have a couple of the EMT students working trauma than some of the nurses Oh well

Again thanks and you all have a good one. Time to go bath the two sisters.

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I just found out that in about 8 months or so i too will be in the fathering business. So I'm looking at these stories as a "how-to not freak out" guide.

Cinderblock, congrats! Good luck. The only advice Ill give you on the how not to freak out is plan it and have everything ready & have a back up plan and a plan for if the back up doesnt work! It helps being military I P.A.C.E everything! Other than that good luck & Gods speed!
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froglegg · Post by **froglegg** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:59 pm

Enjoy..........................They grow-up wwwwwwwwaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy to fast.