First big hospital trip

Saturday night as I sat in the waiting room with my baby girl Emme I think about my other first trip to the hospital with Alexis. It is no fun to see your children so sick that you have to go to the hospital but it also makes me thankful that William and I have the ability to go to the doctor and the hospital.

I got up early on Saturday with the girls and got them ready for the day. I went up around 8:30 and woke William up we had a huge day. It started with a soccer game at 11:00, a makeup appointment at 1:00 for me and then our Strawberry Hills Party which we are co-hosts. I am off to workout I left Will with a bottle and Alexis getting dressed for soccer. I came back about two hours later and when I walked in the door I could tell there was something wrong. The was silence and as we all know silence is never good. I walked upstairs the washing machine is going, William was changing clothes and Alexis sitting in her bed. I think what is going on. I ask William "is everything ok?" he replies "did you feed Emme the new formula we got the other day?" I say "I do not think so" he replies "if you did there might be something wrong with it, Emme threw up twice all over me and the towels." I reply "oh no so that is what is going on" I walk in to the babies room and she is asleep but she has thrown up all over herself. I called the doctor and they said to wait and try and get just little pieces in her. So back in the bath the baby went, this is her third today. So that was our mission, we tried all day but nothing would stay down.

Soccer was canceled, I canceled my makeup appointment and we concentrated on the baby all day. We had my father come and stay with Emme and we went to our party. We had a great time our best couple friends and their son meet us at our house and we followed each other to the party. The kids had a great time playing in the bouncer and with all the other kids. Jonnie and Alexis really play well together and it is great to have friends that both you and your husband enjoy it is really hard to find this type of friends but we are really lucky and we love hanging out with them. Angela and I both had on our fancy new Joe's Jeans and our fancy shoes. We both just had babies and if I can say so myself we looked hot!!!! We had a great time.

When we got home the kids watched a little bit of a movie then I went upstairs and checked on the baby and I knew when I walked in she had been sick again and we were headed to the hospital. I called the doctor and he confirmed. So we called my dad and we where off to the hospital.

We waited for awhile in the waiting room and that is when I came down with the same thing. Oh lord thank god Will was there. They got us in a room and the doctor saw how I was doing and gave me my own room while they took the baby into the other room to give her tests and an IV. I slept and William handled everything else, how lucky am I, my husband is the one who when he goes to the doctors office and the girls get shots he makes me hold them down and then swoops in to comfort them, he does not like to be the one to hold them down. So when the baby had to get an IV he was really upset to be the one to holding her down, the sad part was they had to call in three nurses including my husband she is so strong, the ladies were very impressed, she gets more and more like her daddy everyday.

So after the IV and all the blood work was done the baby was exhausted they brought her back into my room and I climbed in bed with her and we slept. At one point I woke up and looked at my sweet sleeping baby girl and a huge sad but sweet sorrow hit me, this is the first time Emme has slept with me since she was a baby, she will never sleep when she is bed with me she just wants to play so she when she wakes up at night I feed her and then she goes back to her room, but tonight I get to feel her sweet breath and hear her little snores. I think how is it possible to be so in love it consumes me, it is like nothing I have ever felt or would have understood without my own, and I thank god for my baby girl's in a little prayer as I drift back to bed.

We make it home at 4:30am my sweet father is sleeping in a chair in my living room. I remember why I love Richmond and being close to my mom and dad. I slink in sick and very tired, I wake my father and he leaves as I try to run to bed I realize the washing machine is going he has washed all the infected clothes, sheets and towels. I ma so blessed to have my mommy and daddy close to my family. I tell William not to sleep with me I am so sick. The next day I sleep all day with just a couple visits from my oldest daughter who cries when I tell she can not touch me or give me a kiss, she says "you are hurting my feelings" I try and explain she does not care, she has her feeling hurt and runs to her daddy. This makes me sad and realize again what amazing children we have. So I sleep and William takes care of the girls. I normally would love to have a day off but today I realize I miss them everyone of them, my husband who loves me and our girls with all his heart and he has brought me home to be near my Mommy and Daddy, Alexis his little lover she is so kind and cares about others, and Emme is so much like him and we just learned almost as strong.

I woke up this morning and Alexis immediately asked if I was better, I told her "I feel a little better" she said "Mommy I love you, I love touching your face" she stroked me face and hugged me. Wow what a great way to start the day.

OK so next blog I will write about Alexis' first trip to the hospital. Now that is a story.