Waiting for Baby Ava
Not able to get much sleep, we woke up early and got the boys (our boxers) ready to go to Camp. Then, we headed to the hospital! The latest update at this point was still no baby, and labor had subsided. Doctors wanted to induce if nothing started to progress again soon. Tim suggested we go shopping (yes, I checked to be sure he didn't have a fever! ha!) and not get to the hospital too soon. I was dying to get there, but decided he was right.
Side note: as we were shopping, I got a call from our dog's Camp saying that one of our dogs' rabies shots had expired the day before and he couldn't stay at Camp (agh!). I explained our situation and asked if they had an in-house vet or knew of a mobile vet who could come and give him this shot. Long story short, we ended up meeting our current vet because of his kindness on a Friday afternoon to come to our rescue! :) I jokingly told him later he will forever be a part of Ava's adoption story! :)
I couldn't wait any longer to get to the hospital, and although she still wasn't progressing much, we decided to go. Anddddd, we waited. And waited. And waiiiited. I can't even remember how many families we saw come and go in the waiting room.
We went in to talk to her and see how she was doing. Talk about tough woman! She wouldn't even flinch as a contraction would come (looking at the spikes on the monitor made me shudder)! What I thought would be a brief visit, turned into a few hours. She didn't feel like the baby would be coming anytime immediately, so she gave us suggestions of her favorite restaurants in town to go and eat. We agreed that we should go check in to our hotel and get some dinner, then would be back. Hopefully by THEN there would be some news. :)
During our visit, we showed Ava's birthmother pictures of Ava's newly finished nursery. She asked us what we had decided on a middle name. We told her we had narrowed it down to two names but would wait until we met baby to decide. She asked us what the two options were and we told her, and their significance to us. Her eyes welled up with tears as she explained that "Ava Kate" was the name she had had in mind for this baby all along. Talk about settled! We don't feel like Ava's name is any consequence...
We came back to the hospital and again, waited. Around 12am, doctors had decided she didn't need to be induced because she was starting to progress again on her own. But, they still thought it would be some time before baby arrived. They suggested we go and get some rest and they would call when baby was near.
To be continued...
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