For me pregnancy is not any fun. I am sick and sore and this time around by the end I was just plan old exhausted!!! It is amazing to me that less than 24 hours after giving birth how great I feel.
Emily and I had a great 24 hour stay in the hospital before we got to go home. We had Emily at the Kaiser in Roseville, which is this brand new, state of the art hospital and clinic. My room was so nice and the nurses and doctors wonderful. I think not only were they great but they were so understanding every time I said, she is my 4th. They really left us alone for the most part and I was able to rest and spend a quiet day with Emily.
After her delivery they cleaned her and myself up and around 9:00 we moved over to a different room for post labor. After the long night John and I both fell asleep within minutes of getting situated. Around 10ish my mom came in and a while later John took off to head home to be with the other kids and take care of a few things that he needed to!
It was great to have my mom there to be with Emily so I could nap and get some rest, I was able to shower and get clean and just spend some quiet time recovering! Emily has been just wonderful all day, she slept most of the day and rarely even made a peep!
Around 9:30 Emily was a sleep and I was falling asleep when my nurse came in and said that the hospital had a fully staffed nursery and if I would like Emily could go over and they would bring her back to me in 3 hours so I could nurse her. None of the other hospitals I delivered at would take your baby to the nursery and bring them back so you could nurse, if you sent them to the nursery they would give them formula. Not that I have a problem with formula at all but it was so nice that they wanted the moms to get rest and still nurse. I tried to wake up Emily at this point to nurse her and around 10:30 the nurse came back and got her. I was asleep within minutes and at 1:30 when the brought her back it woke me. Emily had slept the entire 3 hours and I had to try to get her awake again to nurse. After an hour or so of this the nurse came and got her again and I slept like the dead until almost 6:00 when Emily was brought back to me (again she had slept almost the whole time). I feed her and then she and I both slept again for a few more hours. Truly it was heaven. After not being able to sleep well for the last few months I felt like a whole new person in the morning.
On Friday morning John came out early and we waited for discharge to be done (oh yea we also still had to decide on her name!) Emily at this point was slightly jaundiced so we scheduled an appointment for Sunday for her to be checked again.
Around 12:30 we were all packed up and headed home!
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