At my doctor's appointment on Friday, Dr. Jenny said she would try to get me in to the hospital for a pitocin induction on Saturday morning, but that she would make no promises (she'd had a patient who was bumped from induction earlier in the week already). So my parents drove down on Friday night and we tried to prep Anna for having a special day with Grandma and Grandpa.
After a restless night for all of us on Friday night, we called the hospital at 6:30 a.m. and they said we could come anytime after 7. So ... we got checked in and settled and had the pitocin drip start around 8:30 a.m. Matt and I had a rousing game of Scrabble in the morning until things really started happening around 11. Only five short (or long, depending on your perspective) hours later, Kate arrived. Just about everyone who met Kate at the hospital couldn't believe that big sister Anna was a full 2 1/2 pounds lighter at birth! So much for Dr. Jenny's prediction that "I just don't think your body makes big babies"!
After we all got a bit cleaned up and had something to eat (I was famished after not having much to eat since breakfast!), Anna came to visit on Saturday night after dinner and stayed for a little while, mainly to deal with some of the emotions of the day. She was more interested in cuddling with Mommy than in having much to do with Kate at that point.
Matt ended up going home on Saturday night so he could get some uninterrupted sleep and since we weren't quite sure what Anna would do (she'd woken up with a bad dream on Friday night and we didn't want my parents to have to deal with something like that).
That left Mommy and Kate all alone (besides nurses and doctors, of course) for more than 12 hours on the first night!
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