Green Acres-Country Meets City: Getting ready to be a family of 5

So excited Mimmie and Pop Pop are here before baby comes. They came on Monday and D-day was on Thursday. Thankfully the baby decided to wait until after they came. I felt alot better that I had my babysitters here for the kiddos in case we needed to leave in the middle of the night.

The day before our due date and baby is still baking

On December 29 D-day we decided to go to the Children's museum so the kids could get out of the house.

The birth story
On December 20 at my appointment I was dialated to 2cm and maybe 70% effaced. I had already started to feel uncomfortable and had felt alot of pain and pressure making it hard to walk. I had had some pain but not any real strong contractions. I was getting kind of nervous because my parents weren't here yet to take care of the kids in case we needed to make a made dash to the hospital and I wasn't sure if my water was going to break at any moment. There was no way to be prepared and know what to expect. I had been induced with our other 2 children so I didn't really know what not being induced felt like. We really wanted to have the baby before the first of the year, for tax purposes and for insurance. At my next appointment on December 28, the day before my due date, there wasn't much change and the baby was too high and hadn't dropped yet. The doctors set an induction date of December 30. I was to report to the hospital that morning. The doctor on call was not my normal doctor but I was ok with that.
At 7:15am on December 30th we went to the hospital. I decided I wanted to try to go drug free and have this baby natural. I survived drug free with the other 2 partly because they came so fast. If labor was long and I was in alot of pain then I would consider drugs but I at least wanted to try it again. They checked me and I was still at a 2. The baby was still high and I had had some minor contractions and cramping. They started pitocin to see if that would help baby to drop and help get things started. The doctor was going to come back around lunch time to break my water. It seemed like it took forever for the doctor to come back. She finally came around 3pm. I felt alot of pressure and I was dialated to 3cm. I felt more intense contractions around 4:30-5 with not much of a break in between. Brian rubbed my shoulders and back and I used the exercise ball to get me through the contractions. I was still on the exercise ball and around 5pm I felt more pressure and the need to push. With not much of a break in between contractions I was somehow supposed to get back on the bed. The doctor and nurses prepared things and with 2 pushes baby Hadley Noelle was born. I had a 2nd degree tear this time and it seemed to take forever for the doctor to sew me up and it was somewhat painful. I just wanted it to be over. I felt like I couldn't enjoy the moment with our baby girl with the doctor sewing me up and pushing on my belly. Brian and I each had different girl names picked out (Gracyn or Auden) then we decided to pick a different name all together. We agreed on Hadley, but Brian was the one that came up with it. If it was a boy we would have used the name I picked out "Cohen Russell." Brian liked Finley for the boy and I wasn't crazy about that name. I wanted the name to flow with Jaxon and Kaelyn and to sound ok with our last name. So Brian has named all of our children. We had first picked out Grace for the middle name but then realized we couldn't use our niece's middle name, so since it was close to Christmas and a December baby we thought it would be fitting to use the name "Noelle"
Jaxon and Kaelyn came to the hospital the night she was born to meet her. They had been excited all day. Brian went to get the kids and have them meet her first and then the kids went to get my parents in the waiting room and told them they had a sister. We had to facetime Brian's parents because they had been sick and were unable to come right away.

Hadley Noelle born at 5:35pm, weighing 7lbs 11oz, 20.5inches long.