How the months fly by with three kids!
Wade Fisher Alonzo was born 12/5/11.
After no sleep that night due to excitement and just being uncomfortable; the alarm went off a 4:30am just like it would for work but this time it was for yet another life changing event. I had spent most of the night thinking about being a family of four, how fast times goes... it seems like I just went in to have Natalia. I got up to pee three times and watched an episode of the Kardashians, really just mind numbing TV trying to fall asleep for at least a few hours.
The house was quite at 4:30am except for Joe opening his drawers to find a t-shirt, the girls were asleep in their beds and Joe's mom was asleep downstairs. I turned off my alarm and continued laying on the couch, which had been my bed for the last three months. I didn't want to hurry this day knowing it was the last time I would be pregnant. I took a quick shower trying to wake up since I could not have anything to drink and this would be the first day since the day Natalia was born that I didn't have coffee.
After taking a picture of my giant belly we were ready to head out, kissing the girls real fast as not to wake them and telling Grandma Pumpkin Pie that we would see her later. She wished us luck and we were off. I seriously hardy remember the drive to Bellevue. It was 45 min that has slipped my mind. I don't remember anything accept arriving at the hospital and checking in. Were were taking into my room and filled out a bunch of paperwork, hooked up to machines and just told to wait for an hour until it was time to go into the the operating room.
Joe put on the scrubs and started speaking in that odd accent that is his "Dr." accent. We were all laughing at him and it was a good distraction while getting my spinal. Before long I could not feel from my chest down. An oxygen mask was put on me, sheets went up so I could not see my lower body and my arms were strapped to boards to the sides of my body. I could tell that they started cutting because I could feel a "popping" sensation in my mid section which my Dr. said was normal. Very strange though because I don't remember it with my other two. The lights above me were bright and I tried to just breath and relax but I could feel myself becoming more and more scared/nervous/overwhelmed. I know the next few moments went pretty fast but I was in slow motion. My Dr. was talking to the nurses about a move she had seen over the weekend as I could see my full insides now out of my body in the mirror above me. I was trying to look everywhere but at the mirror but the reflection of red blood all over was etched in my mind when I would close my eyes. I looked at Joe to my left, at the machines to my right, closed my eyes so I would not see the reflection in the mirror...
Finally I heard a small cry and knew that the baby was part way out. The baby was out from the head to the belly so no one knew the gender yet as the nurse sucked all the goo out of the baby's noise. I remember closing my eyes tight and repeating "please be a boy, please be a boy, please be a boy." Like the power of my mind could change the gender if it was a girl? I and then I hear Joe say in a choked up voice "Jessica it's a boy, it's a boy!" Oh I totally lost it, tear ran down my face. I was so happy to be able to use the name Wade. It's the boy name that we had both liked since before we knew Selena was going to be a girl.
I think my eyes were closed for at lease 5 min while they cleaned him up, weighed and measured him. I knew he was a big and when I opened my eyes he was all head and belly. He had cute chunky stubby legs and a giant perfectly bald round head. Oh, I was in love. I knew he was going to be such a mommy's boy.
After they tied my tubes and sewed me up I was taken into recovery and passed out. I was so tired from no sleep and the excitement that I was done and needed to rest. Joe took on baby duty as people came in and out for the next few hours until I was wheeled into the room that we would be in for the next few days.
I just sat in bed staring at baby Wade in my arms thinking he is the biggest of the three kids yet looks incredibly tiny! And then I though, "I am starving!" Of course they would not feed my a full meal until the next day but I did get some yummy broth soup and pudding cup. So I would read the menu planning my meals and thinking about eating food.
Selena, Natalia and Grandma Pumpkin Pie showed up with cute outfits for baby Wade and presents for me. My mom sent flowers and we called/texted everyone we needed to. Of course thanks to Facebook we got the word out pretty quick to all out extended family and friends.
Natalia and Selena took turns holding and fighting over baby Wade. Selena would be so gentle and talk to him and Natalia just wanted to poke him in the eye like any 2 1/2 year old. Friends stopped by to hold him, it was a constant stream of Dr.'s and nurses that first 24 hours and then Joe and I were left on our own to bond before bring this calm baby into the craziness that is our house.
It was nice to just focus on one kid at a time so thank you Grandma Pumpkin Pie for staying with the girls!
I'm back to posting so I will be posting updated pictures and the latest with the Alonzo 5!
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