Update! Going to be induced!!

Journal:

This past Thursday Kyle tells me that he just “has a feeling” that we will get a call on Monday (our anniversary) about the baby. Well Saturday, April 21^st, we get an update on the young mother and baby - the doctor said that this will be a May delivery – which is what they anticipated anyway. Over the weekend we spent time with my side of the family hanging out. My sister had prom so I got to take pictures of her and both she and my brother had games (soccer and softball) that we got to go to. Monday (April 23^rd) was our two year wedding anniversary! We knew that at some point in the next few weeks we would be traveling to California for baby so we decided not to do anything big on our anniversary because the Cali trip would be our anniversary celebration! J Kyle still wanted to do something sweet so he got up extra early and ran to town to get me some flowers for me to wake up to! It was really sweet and nice to relax with him in the morning before he had to go to work. We had a nice lunch together – I made a pizza and we had an hour to spend time together just having fun. Around 3:30pm I was watching Dr. Phil and I saw that I was getting a call from the Southern California area. I knew the woman we had been working with from Project Cuddle was going to be out of town so she told me about the other woman who would be taking her place – Jenann. I assumed that Jenann was calling to introduce her self and give us another update since our young mother was going to start going for appointments three times a week. Anyway, so she introduced herself and we talked for a minute and she said something like “Well they will be inducing her around midnight tonight so if you can get a flight as soon as possible that would be great!” WHAT?? I was floored! So goes on to tell me that she went in for her appointment and her blood pressure was up and she had levels of Toxemia in her system so they wanted to induce her before it got serious. WOW! So I call Kyle and remind him about his “feeling” of getting a call on Monday our anniversary! I jump online and look at last minute deals and call United. They previously told us that we could use the “emergency flight” to get a discount but now they were saying since she wasn’t a blood relative it didn’t apply! Ugh!! So we book two tickets on a one way flights from Chicago to Los Angeles and we book a car rental near the LAX airport to drive to the Hospital in Orange, California! Our flight leaves at 10:10pm in Chicago (11:10pm in Indiana) and arrives around 12:45am in Los Angeles (3:45am in Indiana)! We get to the car rental place around 1:15am (4:15am in Indiana) and drive to the Hospital – we arrive there around 2:00am (5:00am in Indiana). We park in a parking garage and walk for like 5 blocks trying to find the right part of the hospital – there were these huge Hospital buildings all over the place, it was so confusing and I was so tired!! We finally found where we were supposed to be and met with Julie. We were able to stay in the Family Waiting room and after about a half hour around 2:30am Julie brought our young mother’s mother in to meet us! It was very nerve racking but we decided that it is only as awkward as you make it, so when she came in I gave her a hug and we started talking. We talked for about 2 hours about so many different things (about her daughter, their family situation, and the way they have overcome these circumstances with Christ’s help). It was so encouraging to talk with her and hear her heart. So many people that find themselves in terrible situations react negatively and turn away from God – but these situations have brought their family closer to God and they are leaning on him in this difficult time. Our young mother was induced at midnight and the baby was expected around 7am, but now they were telling us that they expected the baby around noon. Around 5:30am (8:30am in Indiana) we head to get something to eat at the nearby Carl’s Jr. We get back around 6:30am and our young mother told the Project Cuddle worker that the nurses at the hospital said we could use the “bonding room”! So we were able to go and sleep for a while … a long while… It was hard to sleep real well but I slept off and on from 6:30am to 1pm which really helped me feel better. Kyle was only able to sleep for about three hours because it’s hard for him to sleep without a fan. They told us that they would come get us when things started progressing. It was around 1:30pm when we walked to get some lunch. When we left they said she measured 5 cm dialation. We stopped by CVS after eating at Taco Bell and then stopped at a baby store. We got lost again on the way back to the hospital – but we made it. Now its 5:15pm on April 24th and baby still isn’t here. We are hanging out in the bonding room and Kyle has been watching the Deadliest Catch marathon on Discovery channel. Wow! So the last 48 hours has been absolutely crazy!