April 6th!

Tomorrow is the big day! We are so excited but so nervous for the birth of our baby girl Paige, I didn't sleep well again last night. I have so many things on my mind right now about the birth and everything I need to get done to make everything perfect for the arrival of our baby girl! I'm also trying to get all the laundry and everything around the house completely caught up so I don't have to worry about it when I get home from the hospital. Jonathan's mom will be coming in tomorrow morning to be with us and watch Leilani for us during the birth and Joane his sister will be coming in tomorrow evening right when we are supposed to be at the hospital for the induction so my sister will be picking her up at the airport for us to bring her to the hospital. We will all visit for a little while and then they are going to take our vehicle and Leilani and come back to our place to sleep so they will be well rested for the birth on Friday. I've been trying to prepare Leilani so she won't freak out when she has to leave the hospital without Mommy and Daddy. She loves Nana and Auntine JoJo so she will be fine and spoiled as always. We have Wi-Fi in our labor and delivery room so we are going to be updating facebook and this blog to let all our friends and family know whats going on so please continue to keep us in your prayers. All the prayers we have been getting have helped us to get through the last 4 months and we appreciate them so much!

April 5th!

Today we went for our last dr. appt. before being induced on Thursday! Our dr was really sweet and made sure to give us time if we had any questions about what is going to happen and how things are going to work with the induction. My blood pressure was normal this time so thank God for that answered prayer. The only reason I can think it was high last week is because of starting this blog lol but oh well it's definately been worth it with the wonderful response from family and friends who have read about Paige and her wonderful life with her Mommy,Daddy, and Big Sister. It really has helped me to be able to write everything down and just remember all the wonderful memories we have had with Paige the last 9 months! I was still 1 cm dialated and 70% thinned and Paige still seemed to be head down and in position so all is good there. All the nurses and the office staff have been wonderful to us and so sweet, when we left the office the 2 ladies in the office made sure to say they would be thinking of us, going to miss those ladies! We then headed over to the hospital to meet Laura from String of Pearls in the lobby to go to the labor and deliver floor to meet Rose (the neonatal nurse that works at the hospital and helps Laura with String of Pearls) and a couple ladies from Donor Aliance to sign all the paperwork and get the final details on Paige being able to donate her heart valves and liver to other babies after she is born. I was asked several health history questions and after answering no to almost every single one of them I felt very healthy! God has definately been good to me! They needed to draw my blood to make sure everything was healthy with me in order for Paige to be able to donate and I forgot that we were going to have that done during this meeting and hadn't drank any water all day long so I started chugging down a water bottle that Rose had brought for us, but when the nurse went to draw my blood out of my arm she wasn't able to get much so they called someone from the lab to come and do a butterfly on my vein in my hand so I kept drinking the water like crazy so they would get all the blood they would need which was like 4 tubes, the guy from the lab came in and was very gentle with me, didn't hardly feel a thing as I held Jonathans hand and looked in his direction because I hate needles and can't stand to look at them. The good thing is they will be able to use the blood they drew for the Milk Bank also which I am planning on pumping and donating milk for about a month after to also help babies, so yah for not being poked again for that test. Donor Aliance shared with us that Paige could donate her heart valves after she was born even if she wasn't born alive as long as they knew when her last heartbeat was, so that was wonderful news and then we were told she could donate her liver if she was born alive and took at least one breath but then later Laura called us and said they told her they found out she wouldn't even be required to take a breath just have a heartbeat when she is born and would qualify for the donation. The only other qualification for her to help other babies would be she would have to be at least 6 pounds and no infection or anything so pray that the antibiotics they give me for the strep b during labor will clear everything up to make her healthy enough and we still would love to be able to have her born alive so we can meet her that way! I haven't been able to sleep really well the last 2 nights because I have alot of emotions running through my head right now about the birth and everything we have ahead of us. We still know that God could work a miracle and heal her completely but we also know that it might not be his will and purpose for her and I know he will give us the strength to get through all the hard times when we miss her if he decides she should go to Heaven.