We went to our regular Monday appointment at the OB's office for our growth ultrasound, where we found out she was breech and that if she wasn't turned, either manually or on her own, we would be having a scheduled c-secton a week before her due date.
But someone had another plan of her own...
Around 1:30 am on Tuesday morning, I woke up to my water breaking in my sleep. To be honest, I had the hardest time figuring out what was going on at the moment. I woke up, and all I knew was I was peeing, and I could not stop. I was racking my brain to try to figure out what was happening and why, and after a little longer than I'd care to admit, I realized it had broken, and that I should probably call James to let him know we needed to head to the hospital.
After frantically shuffling around our apartment trying to pack our bags for the hospital, we finally got to labor and delivery to find out that she was in fact still breech and the on call anesthesiologist was a stickler about having not eaten for at least eight hours before I'd be allowed to have my c-section.
So after waiting in triage inside of Labor and Delivery for a few hours, they finally took James and I back for surgery. I was so quickly disoriented and itchy from the medication they had given me, that before I knew it, Harper was born.
Harper Malulani Kukuihui'ipo Kahalewai was born at 9:59 am on October 22nd. She was 5lbs and 14oz and 19in long.
Words cannot express how happy this little blessing has made me. Although she was a little earlier than expected, I wouldn't want anything else. Becoming a mother has been the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. And I wouldn't change it for the world.
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