Kristin continues to do well and is managing the contractions well. Contractions are at regular intervals. So far, she is not too uncomfortable but things are increasing in intensity and she'll be having an epidural soon.
In the meantime, I will make sure we can have at least one slow dance to our favorite slow song on our own before she can't feel her legs anymore! But you'll have to guess the songs- there are some things we will keep to ourselves.
After our dance, we will have the epidural placed, and continue waiting and working on this whole birth event. Perhaps the hardest part for Kristin so far has been hearing about or smelling food, since she has not really eaten anything since about 6 PM yesterday.
André was trying to surreptitiously eat a PB & J that Diane prepped for him, and as he ate it, a few feet away, Kristin says, "that smells so good."
Don't even ask about her reaction to the lunch that Yeyo, Wayne and Diane brought for André- a delicious Reuben. Who said hospital food is bad?!
Kristin thought it smelled so good that the box had to be taken out of the room because it was cruel and unusual punishment to leave it, and she doesn't even eat beef.
Here's a picture from today's hospital watch:
Visiting with mom, dad and Yeyo
The plan is for us to continue in the labor room until she is fully dialated, and then we'll move to the OR for the delivery, just in case -DON'T PANIC ANYONE-she needs a c section or if the little people need a little help in the NICCU, since it's next door to the OR.
Then, after what we hope will be a double vaginal delivery, we'll come back to this same birthing room for a couple of hours before moving to a post partum sweet. S-weet!
Before that, the kids will get a little chest skin to skin time with each of us, then brought here to the room works us and put in the salon hair drier with us in the room:
Here's the new baby pac:
Their heartbeats:
The heartbeat and contractions graphs:
And here we are, a little tired, maybe a little nervous, and mostly excited. Thanks again for all your support!
PS - is anyone setting up the waging pool on when they finally come? The winner gets to buy Kristin dinner!
