Aida Gene Ingersoll:::Birth Story

Aida’s birth story begins on Friday January 18th. This is the day i had planned to get induced. My parents came to sleep over in thursday night in case i got called in early in the morning. Everything was prepared and ready. I assumed I would get called in first thing in the morning like I did with archer but when they called me the night before, they said they had 2 c sections in front of me, so I thought maybe 10 or 11am would be the time. Austin and i both woke up at 5:45 and couldn’t fall back asleep. We got up and got Allegra ready for school and i got ready so we could get there ASAP when they called. I called at 11 and they told me to call back at 3 because they were super busy with walk ins. That was a bummer. My parents were hoping to take the kids to Idaho with them around that time, so they decided to sleepover another night. I called at 3 and they told me to call back at 6 and this continued every 3 hours until I called at midnight. They told me they were still too busy and that 8  could get called in first thing in the morning. It was such a long day and at that point i was happy to start fresh the next day because i felt like all the fun had been sucked out of the day by just waiting!

I called first thing in the morning and they told me to call back at 11am. When i called back at 12 they told me I had 3 people ahead of me that had medical induction reasons to get induced that took priority over my elective induction and that’s when i kind of snapped a little. I had dr Jones call me and just basically told them how frustrated i was. That nurse told me that at the earliest I’d be called around 6 pm but they couldn’t guarantee anything because they had been so busy. At that point my parents decided to just take the kids to Idaho. They were anxious and didn’t want to wait around anymore and I came to terms with realizing I might night even be induced on Saturday. Austin and i decided to have a fun day and go out while the kids were gone. We were going to do some shopping and go to lunch and keep our lines off the situation. We went to Cafe Rio with jeff and Cindi around noon and at 1:09 they called me to be there at 2:30. We already had our bags in the car and got there early, about 3 and they got us right into a room. It didn’t seem busy at all??  They got me going on the IV and everything and we’re about to start pitocin but wanted to watch the baby’s heartbeat because they had seen some dips. I ended up getting the epidural even before they started the pitocin and they didn’t end up getting me started on the pitocin until about 4:15 and came in and broke my water right after that. Contractions started picking up and i went really fast. All of the sudden i was at a 3.5 and then a 5 and  knew I’d go fast at that point. Cindi got there and Alissa about this point and we hung out for a while. Then i was at a 7 within about a half hour and that’s when the baby'sheartrate stared dropping. They thought maybe that i was changing so fast and the baby was dropping so fast that she was under some stress. They got me started on oxygen and that’s when Arianne got there. I was bummed that i couldn’t talk to anyone with the oxygen on but obviously was more worried about the baby. I kept feeling more and more pressure and about 7:15 i was at at ten. They called dr Jones in to get the baby out fast. I didn’t push at all with the nurse but by the time dr Jones got there until the baby was born was just about 2.5 minutes. I pushed about 5 times and there she came!! Right away dr Jones said this is a big baby, just like i had thought. I told Austin she was going to be almost 9 lbs and she was 8lbs 9 oz and 21 inches, which was 2 inches longer than my other babies. She didn’t look big to me with her skinny legs and body. Archer was 8.1 and looked way chubbier but he was shorter. Anyway she was perfectly fine and Austin cut the corn and they laid her on my chest and I just felt so relieved and so happy to have her here.

It happened so fast I didn’t even get a chance to tell Michelle and Matt that she was coming so i text them afterwards and they got there in about 20 minutes and just stayed until they were ready to move me to mother and baby.

They were so busy that they had no more rooms in the mother and baby so they moved us to this tiny room down this dark hall to their overflow. Cindi stayed with us to watch the baby get a bath. It was fun that they did it in my room so I could watch because I’ve never been able to watch the bath before! I was sooo tired from basically not sleeping for two nights. There was no spot for Austin so he left too. It was a rough night with Aida. She was up a lot and I was too scared to ask them to take her to the nursery because they said they really recommend we keep them in the room. When Austin got there the next day, i got a good nap and we just hung out at the hospital all day.

The next night was also rough and i was soo tired. Austin came early the next day so i could sleep and then we came home on MLK day and waiting for the kids to return. When they got home about 4 pm they were sooooo cute and my heart was about to burst. Archer kept saying....i can’t believe i have a baby sister! Allegra didn’t want to stop holding her. It was a great night!!!