The wait was finally over on August 22nd, as Ainslee Ruth joined us just before 5 p.m. She weighed in at 8 lbs 4 oz, and 20" long. I had had contractions for a few days leading up to it, even went into the hospital on Thursday night only to be sent home because she was still pretty "high up there". Little did they know she wouldn't come down til the last minute. We came home, and I got an exceptionally good night of sleep on Friday night-when I woke I told Jason I hadn't slept that good in a long time, and his response was "maybe that means something". Sure enough by 10 a.m. my contractions were 5 minutes apart for about an hour, so I called in to see when the midwife wanted me to come in. Given how quickly Laura came, she thought we should head in-the 3rd time around you're much calmer, and almost paranoid that you're afraid it's a false alarm, but in the same sense you don't want to have the baby in the car on the way there, lol. So we headed in around 12:30, the midwife broke my water around 2, and I had her 3 hours later. Labor was much harder this time around than with Laura, it was an extra hour of natural labor so by the time I had to push I was exhausted. Nontheless, I pushed so well that the midwife didn't even have time to put her gown on. Aside from her shoulders getting stuck for a bit, she came out without a hitch.
Since she came out so quickly, her heart rate and breathing were quick in an effort to work off the fluid in her lungs that didn't get squeezed out. They kept her in the nursery for the night, so I went in and held her for a good few hours and then headed to bed. The next morning they wheeled her in bright and early, and she stayed-and got held lots and lots the entire day:).
We've been home about a week and half, and it's amazing how quickly reality sets in with the 3rd baby and you don't even really get that "honeymoon" phase. Jason took a week off, so it helped with the kids transition; even moreso Alex started school this week so they've adjusted relatively quickly since we pretty much had to jump back into "life". Alex is almost too good w/ her, talks to her a lot and is in her face and kissing and touching her all the time. Laura is getting there as well, at first she was a little physical and didn't know how to be careful-but she's improved a lot in the past week. They both really don't show a whole lot of jealousy, and if they do-it's in the form of being naughty towards Jason and I, so we can handle that:)
I've been blessed with another good sleeper so far (knock on wood), she already only wakes twice-and technically since her second waking is at 5:45 it really isn't nighttime anymore. She's a content baby, and I love holding and enjoying her every second I can-especially knowing she's my last. So far she has dark hair, and I'm guessing she'll have blue eyes to match her siblings. And with my luck all that dark hair will fall out and come back in blond just like Laura's, I laughed as a friend of mine told me "you have cookie cutter babies, they all come out looking the same", to which I responded- "I have Wuest babies". My mom is holding out hope this baby has dark hair probably cause she feels sorry for me, but I'm not holding out hope-Ainslee is who she is, and looks like herself just as my other kids do.
Here is an album with some photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/dobiluvr/Ainslee#.
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