April 5th?

I had told Mary last week that I wouldn't be surprised if I had Luke on Tuesday. Tuesday was my last Non Stress Test/Pre-Op appointment before my scheduled csection on Thursday. The doctor wasn't having the best morning, her schedule was packed, and I jokingly said to her," let's go ahead and have this baby today" as they were hooking me up to the machine, and I don't think that she wanted to squeeze a csection into her packed day. Luke looked good on the monitor, but I had to stay on it longer than normal because he didn't want to want to wake up. When it came time to check my blood pressure it was 160/110, my highest to date. I went in the room for only a minute to wait on the doctor, and I could hear her calling the hospital trying to figure out when we could schedule the surgery for. Tuesday was going to be Luke's birthday! Mom, Ella, and I left the doctor and hurried home, I had less than two hours to get back up to the hospital. I ran around the house grabbing things, fed Matt, and then he and I were off to the hospital. The section was scheduled at 3:00 and we were blessed to have some wonderful nurses in Triage. As well as you tube to watch comedians online (you could hear Matt's laugh all over the floor). Things got pushed back a little bit because the doctor couldn't get there in time. Dr Travis was on call that day, and she would have to do the surgery. At 4:00 we found out that Dr. Harrington was on her way, because she wanted to do my surgery herself. I was so excited to see her face! It was great to start this adventure and end it with the same doctor. At 4:15 they took me back. Mary stayed with Matt while they hooked me up and I faced the dreaded spinal. It wasn't that bad. They let me choose what music I wanted to be played while Luke was born (sorry if this dissappoints anyone) and so they switched between the Beatles and CCR on pandora throughout the surgery. Matt came in by 4:30, and at 4:38 Luke Steven Siak took his first breath! The big difference in this section and the others, is that they have this incredible camera system now. As soon as he went to the warmer, the anesthesiologist pulled a flat screen over to me that was streaming video over the bassinett. I got to watch everything they did to Luke! After only a few minutes with Luke, the pediatrician on call came over to tell me that everything was perfectly fine. This started my crying all over again. What an answer to prayer that our little man was perfectly healthy - no NICU. Overall this delivery, the nurses that took care of us, my recovery, the support of family and friends... have all been so amazing, so much more than we could have dreamed of or asked for.