Day 1 of Aunt-hood

Jul 04, 2008 03:00

2:30AM - Go to bed
5:00AM - Mom calls to tell me they're at the hospital. I tell her to call back later.
6:00AM - Mom calls back, still at the hospital.
7:30AM - Wake up. Get dressed, feed dogs, call out of work.
8:15AM - Call Alison and wake her up for no reason.
8:30-40AM - Get lost on the way to the hospital, but finally get there just as Resa is getting her epidural. Baby is expected to arrive by noon.
9:00AM-11:45AM - Sit uncomfortably in the cold waiting room.
11:45AM-12:30PM - Sit uncomfortably in my warm car. Resa is given a shot to speed her contractions along, and baby is expected to arrive within the hour.
12:30PM-2:30PM - Nap on the couch in the delivery room. Resa is asleep, as she has been most of the morning and will continue to be for most of the afternoon.
2:30PM-6:00PM - Sit uncomfortably in the cold waiting room. Resa is fully dialated since around 3, and is given a second epidural around that time. Baby was expected within 15 minutes of that time.
6:00PM - Baby daddy arrives, no one tells Resa because she does not want him there.
6:00PM-7:00PM - Sit very uncomfortably in the cold waiting room with baby daddy, Nick, and Lauren while Resa finally starts to push and cries and screams out a lot about how much it hurts.
7:00PM - Doctors/mom/Resa decide to go with a C-section. Mom asks me to drive home to feed/let her dogs out.
7:15PM-8:00PM - Drive home, feed my dogs, drive to mom's, let her dogs out and feed them. Baby daddy's mom calls, needs a ride to the hospital. Since she lives in L-town and I am there, I offer to pick her up.
8:15PM - Pick up baby daddy's mom, head back to hospital.
8:45PM - Arrive at hospital a few minutes after the baby is extracted from my sister via C-section. Vincent Daniel Mentana is 8lbs 9oz - huge and healthy, and very bald.
9:00PM-9:30PM - Sit uncomfortably on a bench while everyone oohs and ahhs at baby through the nursery window.
9:30PM - Visit Resa in the recovery room, leave the hospital after 13 hours. Resa tells me she wants cookies.
9:50PM-11:00PM - Waffle House with Jacquie and Travys. (I was feeling self-destructive.)
11:30PM - Kroger, buy cookie stuff
12:00AM - Home. Finally.
12:00AM-2:30AM - Bake a bunch of cookies for my sister.
2:30AM-Present - Watch History of the World Part 1 on TV with Jeff and Alison.
Near Future - Die.
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