Haelie Mae Wallace

Well as you could guess I've had a busy last few days!

Thursday Scott shot a doe early and we spent all day messing with it. Cleaning, skinning, processing meat. We eventually got it all ground up into burger and made some breakfast sausage out of part of it. Thank goodness it's all in the freezer now.

Friday morning we all wake up early after not being able to sleep well...in anticipation. We had to get up at 4:30 to be out the door by 5:45. Well it seemed like everything was going slow. Things kept getting added to the to-do list before we could leave. Scott and I had asked Pat to go up with us to take care of the boys while I was in labor. She loads up in her car and we load up in the truck ready to head to the hospital. After what seemed like a very quick drive we arrived at the hospital at 6:55am. I immediately get checked in by the admissions staff and get taken to my room where I met my nurse, Heather. Heather was a fantastic nurse. I loved her!!!! She was pregnant too...due in 3 weeks. She checked me, only to find out I was still at a 4. UGH frustrating. She hooked me up to the IV for fluids, ran my vitals, put on the monitors, and all that good stuff. Then my mom and dad show up! Fantastic. I had told dad NOT TO COME until I called him.....I was SOOO pissed. At around 7:30 she hooked me up to the pitocin. There I was hooked up to the IV, in bed....with 4 adults and 2 kids watching me, waiting. Staring at the monitors, watching Haelie's movement and my lack of contractions even on pitocin was frustrating. Around 8:30 My grandma Donna and Dinah show up! WTF. I about flipped the fuck out. I did not want anyone there but the boys and Scott...we had asked Pat to come to watch the boys, so having her there was fine....but the rest of 'em!? NO. If I heard "can I get you anything" or "are you in any pain" one more time I was gonna fly off the wall. I have a nurse, if I need anything I'll ask her. NO I'm not in any pain, look at the f-ing monitor...NO CONTRACTIONS. That goes on for quite awhile....I attempted to tune everyone out by watching random tv shows. Didn't work, they still annoyed the hell outta me and Scott too. The dr still hadn't gotten there, he had had a c-section to do also. No Contractions.....and being stared at like a zoo animal, it was all getting on my every last nerve. After some time, and lots of stress, I started having some regular contractions. Nothing painful, 2-3 minutes apart lasting 30-40 seconds. Then like a sign from above, the dr shows up at a little before 10. I kicked everyone but Scott out! HA. They check me again and I had made it to 4.5! WTF. I was getting really worried. Dr talked to me a little and decided not to wait any longer to break my water (thank the lord)...so at 10:17 he broke my water. Knowing my history of fast labors they were afraid to leave me...so they sat there and stared at me for a little while talking about hunting and etc. At 10:30 the dr checked me and Haelie had moved to 0 station but I was only dilated to 5.5. He said it'd probably be a couple hours to get me to a 7 or 8 then after that it would go fast. Ugh...more waiting. The dr said he was going to get some coffee and would check back in on me in a few minutes. The nurse stuck around for a few more minutes and decided to do the same. At that point I started feeling the contractions. Not extremely painful at first, but hard to talk through. Dr and nurse show back up at around 10:45. At this point I was uncomfortable and in pain. I knew it was only going to get worse and asked for some Nubain. Nubain is an IV pain med. The nurse gave it to me and checked me again. I was at a 10!!!! Thank the lord. I went from a 5.5 to a 10 in 20 minutes! The Nubain pissed me off. I felt drunk but still felt EVERYTHING. It didn't do ANYTHING for the pain or the discomfort, just made me dizzy and groggy. Close to 11, I was feeling an extreme amount of pressure and sudden urge to push. While the nurse and Scott were trying to roll me over from my side to my back and legs into the stirrups the dr was putting his gloves on and had me start pushing. After 4 contractions, lots of screaming and pain, and what seemed like forever, Haelie was born at 11:08. They put her on my chest for a second, until I asked them to take her. I did not feel good. Feeling drunk, extremely tired, and still in tons of pain and waiting to pass placenta, I did not want her on my chest when they could be cleaning her up etc. Scott cut the cord and the nurses went to work on her. Her APGARs were 9 and 9. She demonstrated her healthy set of lungs and got handed to Scott. Meanwhile the dr was trying to get me cleaned up after the placenta came and noticed I had tore in two places. Not where I had torn with the boys....My whole body throbbed in pain and requested more Nubain before they even touched me. They gave me the Nubain and dr stitched me up. 2 stitches each tear, 4 stitches total. By this time I had lost a lot of blood, which wasn't helping the woozy feeling...not to mention I was hungry! Scott had Haelie and I could hear her screaming in the background. He was trying so hard to console her. The nurses and dr didn't give her back to me until around 1 to nurse her b/c of my state: losing blood and weak. Sometime during all this the boys came in to see their sister. They went back out to Pat and all the "guests" went to eat lunch. I ordered lunch for myself. Meanwhile I tried to rest. The nurses didn't want me up moving around a lot at first for fear of losing more blood so I tried to sleep and couldn't. Eventually I felt a little better and the guests came back in. They all admired Haelie, 6lbs 8oz, 18" long, and a full head of dark hair. She was/is beautiful. I know I'm biased but She is just a gorgeous baby. Shortly after the guests came in, they all left. wtf. They came and annoyed me so early only to leave when I felt like having people around!?? I felt like taking a shower, hoping to make myself feel better. The shower helped and I tried to catnap in between feeding Haelie. The nurses were in and out poking at my belly and checking vitals on Haelie and I both. It was hard to rest. After that it went pretty fast. Pat went and got us Chilis-To-Go for dinner and we ate. Scott's cousin Michelle came by with her two kids and my dad showed back up...(why dad!? He had annoyed me enough in the morning, why come back so soon). I think he was jealous that Pat had the boys...ugh. We also tried to watch a movie but felt like it needed turned off due to the profanity lol. We didn't sleep well, none of us, well except the boys. They slept like rocks. Morning came quick. The new nurses came on duty and came by to annoy me with blood draws, vital checks and etc. I was ready to go home. A few hours later my dr came in and talked to me and gave his authorization to release me. He also told me that I was losing too much blood still and not to be running any marathons anytime soon. Okey dokey doc. We still couldn't leave until Haelie's doc came in to check on her and release her. So we waited. Pat took the boys to some garage sales and Scott worked on getting Haelie's carseat all fixed up, while I tried to pack. For 1 night in the hospital and no gifts...we had a lot of stuff. That's something else that saddened me...no gifts. Not that I expected anything for me...but not one thing for Haelie. For as much as I've been bugged about "when is she coming" and all the excitement over Scotts family and mine...no one brought her anything. That made me sad for her sake. Oh well. It's not like she's going to remember that when she gets older, but still sad. Haelie's bilirubin finally got checked and the pediatrician finally came and checked her out and my nurse gave me my discharge papers. We left the hospital at 1:30. Haelie wasn't a bit jaundice, she was keeping her temp up, she didn't lose hardly any birth weight, she's perfect. We stopped by walmart on our way home, I ran in quickly for some snack food and some misc baby things I needed. I started feeling really weak at Walmart. Got back in the truck and came home. Colby and Audrey came by a few minutes after we got home and checked out baby Haelie...then they left. I did some minor things around the house and we watched a movie. Sirena came by briefly to check out baby Haelie. I went to the grocery store with Pat and got some hotdogs and brats for dinner, quick and easy. The weather was sooo nice we didn't want cooped up inside, esp after the poor boys had been stuck in the hospital. they needed their play time. I showed Haelie off to the Starks, we ate and went to bed. Everyone slept well. Woke up decently early Sunday morning, got dressed, and went over to Pats. We hung around there for awhile and I took a little nap. We went to FS out of boredom. On our way to FS we drove by Guy and RuthAnns, they were home so we stopped to show off Haelie. We stayed about an hour and left. A trip to FS middle of the day and not going to El Charros would be a crime, so we had lunch. After El Charros we went to Walmart to do some looking around and etc. Scott whined about spending an hour at walmart only to buy a few things, but atleast we werent bored. Eventually we made it back home and turned on a movie. Terry, scott's grandma, and Scott's great-grandma came by to check out Haelie, while Pat went on a walk. After they left, Pat came back over to finish the movie. She had talked to Nick a few times and he wanted to see his niece. We got on Skype and he got to see Haelie and talk to the boys and it was enjoyable. We were all tuckered out as you can imagine and hit the hay. Now it's Monday......

So far, Haelie is a great baby. She doesn't cry unless shes getting a diaper change or I'm taking too long to get her fed. She's beautiful. She makes funny noises (which the boys think is halarious). She loves her hands being by her face and sometimes she tries to stick her hands in her mouth...with her pacifier. lol. I have to take her back to the Pediatrician today to do a weight check sometime, BUT i intend to take bunches of pics of her and get them posted ASAP.