She's Here

Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Neil woke me up at 6am to tell me that Kim had just called. She had started labor at 2am, she was now going to have a shower and head on over to the hospital. Neil told her we would get our showers, pack and be on our way in 1 hour, and we were.

Just as we were getting onto Interstate 5, Josh texted and asked if we were headed up north. Yep, we are on our way. A few minutes later he called and said a substitute teacher had been canceled and the secretary called the sub to see if he wanted to come back and sub for Josh. Yeah, he did, so Josh was able to go too. It was meant to be. Josh dedcided to drive up in his own truck just in case she(no offical name yet-Jason picked out the name and is keeping it hush, hush until after she is born)arrives later than 8pm. It is a 2 hour drive to his house. Josh had to work the next day and wanted to get home early enough to get some rest.

We arrived in Grants Pass at 10:45am. Called and let Jason know that we were there. He said that the contractions had stopped and they were at the doctor's office. Kim was having some tests done and then they would be going back to the hospital. Told not to go to the house, so we went to Walmart and bought some diapers. Kim said she could use lots of diapers that she had everything else she needed. After getting the diapers we went to the hospital and signed in, received green stickers to put on to show we could visit Kim that day. The nurse heard Neil checking in and said that Kim was there and she was just getting Kim settled in and would come get us when Kim was ready for visitors. We waited and waited and waited, Josh and Lidia arrived 1 hour after us-got a text from Jason that Kim wanted her mom to come right in when she arrived. Nurse made her wait awhile too. Hospital volunteer said Kim was in intense labor and the doctor was with her giving her an epidural. Nurse told us to go get some lunch and by then Kim should be ready for visitors.

We went to Sonic Burger for lunch. It tasted pretty good. I must have been hungry. Back to the hospital to wait some more. We took turns, 2 people at a time visiting Kim for about 15 minutes each and then letting her be checked out by the nurses every little while and try to let her get some rest. She said she was not tired. The epidural was not working too well for her. She could not lay flat on her back, it made her sick, nausea, dizzy, she even passed out twice. She ended up laying on her side but needed to keep rotating from one side to the other so that the epidural would work. Said this labor is harder than when she had Bailey her first daughter.

While waiting we kept wondering what name Jason had picked out for the baby. After Lidia(Kim's mom) came back from one of her visits she said "I know the name of the baby." What is it we all asked and she replied "Medley". We all said Medley? Where would you get a first name for Medley. We had heard it as a last name for some people-a pro baseball player. We even went onto the computer to see if there were people with the first name Medley, did not find anyone. So she is going to have an unique 1st name. Well come to find out as Neil and I were visiting Kim in walked the doctor and we were introduced to Dr. Medley. So was the baby going to be named after the doctor? No, Lidia and the rest of us had seen the name on the delivery cart and as we walked out the door and really looked at what was written down, realized that it was the doctor's name. This kept us entertained for part of the afternoon.

During the late afternoon and evening we watched the baseball playoffs (Texas vs. New York Yankees, Phillies vs. Giants)between visits. While we were visiting Kim we were watching the Phillies vs Giants and missed the winning homerun. The nurse had just walked in and was telling us the doctor was on the way, Kim was now dialated to a 10, time for the the baby to come. When we turned back to the TV, fireworks were going off. The Giants had won. That's Kim's favorite baseball team.

Went back out to the waiting room. Neil and Josh went out to get pizza. Just as they came back and walked into the waiting room "Rock-A-Bye Baby" music came on over the intercome. Our little granddaughter was here. October 20, 2010 at 9:24pm. Jason texted the baby is here. Still did not give us her name and until we walked into the room later and saw it posted on the board.

We are so excited our little granddaughter Riley is here. That she is cute, precious, beautiful and healthy. Such a little miracle. Kim is doing so much better after this birth also and feel so blessed that she is doing good too. Big smiles, loves and hugs, lots of picture taking. What a wonderful day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY RILEY LANE LIDIA ALLEN!!!!