48 hrs at the hospital

Remember two months ago when I said stay tuned for the detailed blogging about the 48 hr hospital stay for the birth of Seth. Well, I think tonight I can finally put thoughts together and complete this one task.

You know the biggest challenge for me as a mom to a newborn (which is new to me because I have never had a newborn before) is time management. I guess this is the biggest challenge for all new moms, but WOW - I am having a rude awakening. Let me get on with the 48hr blog before I continue to ramble.

Here I am sitting in bed at 2:00am. Gave Seth a midnight bottle and could not go back to sleep. Let me take you back to August 6th, 2007 - We received a call from the attorney's office around 4:00pm to say that Seth BM was admitted to the hospital, she had a doctor's appointment at 2:30 that afternoon and from there they admitted her. At around 6:30pm, we received a call from the BF stated that BM was admitted and that she was feeling ok, she was walking around and that he would call us as the evening progressed.

Well sure enough, the calls came in periodically throughout the evening, around 11:00pm, Herb and I decided to try and get some sleep, as I laid my head on my pillow - I thought okay tonight is the beginning of the sleepless nights for a while, as a nervous smile came about my face and my mix emotions continued to flutter my heart. All of a sudden, at least it seemed that way, the cell phone rang, it was 12:30am, a voice on the other end (BF) says, congratulations your son was born. I could not believe it !!!! I said oh the baby was born already and he said yep and I said how is he? And he replied perfect - the baby is healthy, he was born at 11:14pm, and he weighed in at 7lbs 11 oz and was 19 1/2" long. As I took in a big breath and was silent on the phone for a fraction of a second, the BF said well are you all coming over to the hospital? My response was if it's ok with the BM and they said of course and so within a few minutes, we were all in the car and on our way to the hospital about 35 minutes away from our home.

Who went to the hospital at 1:00am? My hubbie, me, our son anthony and my mom. As we approached the parking lot of the hospital, we all got out of the car and I look from a distance and I see the BF outside walking towards us. As he approached us, he came up to me, gave me a hug and said congratulations, as he shook Herb's hand and told him the same thing. I was in complete awwhh. This was the beginning of the many ways that Jesus revealed himself to me through out the 48 hrs at the hospital. As we start walking toward the building, I look from a distance and there I see Seth BM sitting outside in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette. I was pretty shocked at that but what can you do. I approached the BM and said how are you feeling? and she smiled and said just like I just gave birth. It was a bit strange but the BF said well when you guys are ready, just go through those doors to the second floor and the nurse station are already expecting your arrival. I walked with Herb and the rest of the family towards those doors calmly but my mind was jolting, I could not get to our son fast enough. We finally made it to the nurse's station and I told them that we were the adopted parents for the (baby- leaving out last name for confidentiality), they called the head nurse in charge. As we waited for the head nurse, our other son Anthony points out to me this sign looking straight at us that reads

"WHEN GOD NEEDS SOMETHING DONE, HE SENDS A BABY AND THEN WAITS" Wow ! What an affirmation that was for me that I was right where I was meant to be in my life. It seemed for that precise moment, all my struggles with my life, our finances, my infertility, our shortcomings in our marriage, time just seemed to stop and I knew that MY GOD was in control. As my thoughts and emotions began to unravel, my attention then turned to the head nurse. She introduced herself and said congratulations, then those worrying words "Can I speak to you folks for a minute by yourselves? Of course, my first thought was Ok there is something wrong with the baby. She takes us into this room and says the baby is perfectly healthy, but I do need to talk to you about something, as I took a breath, she advised I know that you all were expecting to stay in a hospital room with the baby but we have no rooms available, and I said "Oh my goodness, don't even worry about that, it's ok just take us to see our baby". She smiled and said the baby was put in a special nursery for special care, not because there is anything wrong with him but just because we are short staffed and we had to put all the babies together in one nursery. I said to her again, that is fine - just take us to see our son. She then escorted Herb and I to the nursery and introduced us to the nurse in charge at the nursery, she was so pleasant. She said congratulations and she picked up our son and handed him over to me. I can't tell you the emotions that I was feeling, when I first held him in my arms. I could not believe what our amazing God had orchestrated. Here I am, a women who struggled year after year trying to get pregnant and not being able to conceive, going to doctor's and never getting an answer as to why I could not conceive, then we finally move the west coast, taking my struggle to an infertility doctor, sharing my story with him, we try Invitro fertilization - after taking many hormone pills, medicine and shots it finally worked. I finally got pregnant, only to lose the baby 7 1/2 mths later, that was in 2003, fast forward almost 4 yrs later to the exact date and I am holding our newborn baby in my arms., People there is a God and he is real and he comes alive in your life if you seek him with all your heart, mind and soul .

Going back to the nursery room, Herb was standing next to me in aww. He was so happy too. The nurse set us up in a corner there, by this time it was already almost 3:30am. I sat in a rocking chair and fed, and held our new baby boy proudly in my arms. Giving God all the glory and honor for the work he completed.

I will pick up on what happened the next morning at the hospital soon.