Friday started as an ordinary day… our friends Donald and Daisy (stop it) were heading off to Northwest for a scheduled C-Section, and I was waiting Donald’s call to take their older daughter Dani with Laura to sushi that night, and bring some to the hospital afterwards. When I got up, MK was thinking something might be up, but wasn’t sure, so she sent me off to work.
I got an IM to come home about 1:30… looks like our kid didn’t want to wait for a few weeks if Dani’s little sister was coming out today! So I wrapped up things in the meeting I was in and headed back. I arrived at home about 2:30, and proceeded to take Laura up to our friends’ Greg and EBeth for the night. We did a quick pack, and headed out about 4:00. Montlake was of course packed, and we had to cross 520 to get to Swedish First Hill, so we headed up 45th, down Roosevelt, and then up Broadway to Swedish. We made it there at 4:35, according to the valet slip, and MK was screaming every minute or so down Broadway, freaking out the locals.
They brought us a wheelchair at the door, and we wheeled her up to the room. We met a number of people who immediately saw what was going on, and pointed us to the right direction. We hopped into triage, and pop! MK’s water broke. A nice nurse named Allison was right there to calm her down, as it was quite traumatic, and we immediately headed into a delivery room. Much better than the hour wait we had last time with Laura.
We wheeled MK into the delivery room, managed to get the pants & underwear off, and… say, is that crowning? Eek! GET HER ON THE BED! OK, she’s on the bed, someone get the doctor, PUSH! squirt! “Mary Kaye, we have a son!” It was 4:45. Yup, 10 minutes from when we pulled up… now that’s cutting it close!
Allison, the nice nurse, got credit for the delivery. Our OB, Dr. Lowdermilk, arrived a few minutes later to handle the afterbirth and stitch up some tears. I was over with our son, John Henry, named after my great uncle who passed away some years ago.
Mom and baby are doing very well, and we’re all happy and home now. Our daughter Laura is loving being a big sister, and just loves holding John. So.. not sure how much time I’ll have to blog, as I’ll be out for a few weeks taking care of MK, Laura, & John.
But here’s a cute baby pic to tide you over!
