Waiting…

It’s 730pm MDT and we’re in the Royal Alexandra Hospital waiting…  I’m sitting in room 3914 (station 39) in Women’s Hospital with Gabby.

Early this morning at 130am MDT Gabby’s water broke. At the time we didn’t know or think it was her water that broke. I was frantically (but trying to keep a straight face) searching the net for information… I ended up visiting a 24hr Shopper’s Drug Mart for litmus paper or some sort of pH test to test the “water”. They didn’t have anything like that but the pharmacist looked more worried than me and said I should go to the hospital immediately.  Well, when I got back, Gabby was in bed and resting and said that it seemed to stop so we thought we would wait a little bit. This morning we got up and went to our scheduled Obstetrician appointment at 11am MDT this morning and they did the test and confirmed it was her water that broke. She wasn’t having any contractions just slight cramping. So, timing wise, we had only arranged for relative(s) to come out starting tomorrow.  My mom was going to fly in at 930am MDT Thursday, tomorrow.  It was on my mind and Gabby was pressuring to figure out what to do with the kids and she was getting upset with me and I was getting upset with her saying I will take care of it. 🙁   We went back to the Ronald McDonald House and packed a few things and I put a note up on Facebook because I wasn’t sure what we could do with Hayden and Hayley. There was no way they could be relaxed or entertained while we were in a small room. The kids being present weren’t going to be good for Gabby either.

So then I was flooded with text messages and voice messages on my phone and facebook messages. Wow, how amazing was that God answered prayers and provided us with many options. Cindy had already arranged for 2 people on standby to come to Ronald McDonald House and watch our two kids. Gabby had arranged with her mom to come early tonight instead of later and her mom will fly into Edmonton at 10pm this evening.  Then Cindy had arranged for transportation of Gabby’s mom to get to the Ronald McDonald House from the airport this evening.  Wow, Cindy and Vern have been awesome in helping us.  We also had some calls from Megan and Candee about extra help as well and we are so ever thankful for them being able to go out of their way to help us.

So we’re very thankful that everything is taken care of to this point and that Gabby can focus on delivering the baby safely as well as taking care of herself…(even though I know she still worries about the kids regardless).   I am completely at peace knowing the children are in good hands.

A few updates while I was typing this…

7:43pm MDT – Gabby has a tight contraction.  She’s slowly remembering the pain she says.

7:45pm MDT – Gabby thinks she’ll be in more pain this time cause she’s not as exhausted as she was with Hayley.  I encouraged her that she is stronger this round and to ‘git ‘er done!’

7:50pm MDT – Gabby has another tight contraction… about 15sec long she guesses…

It’s 7:55pm MDT now… and going to try and relax a bit…