Welcoming Baby Drew...

Drew Jerome Anderson is finally here. I can't believe it. This was the LONGEST pregnancy ever. We have all waited so long for him to come. I am so happy everything went so well and he is so healthy. Nate was working the night shift and I was home with the kids. About two in the morning I woke up and was having really bad back pain. My brother does a paper route in the night so I have gotten really used to calling and talking to him through this pregnancy. It seems I never could sleep due to stress and just being sick and uncomfortable. So I called him and told him my back was really really hurting. I thought I might be in labor. We talked for an hour and the pain never let up. He was laughing at me and didn't think it was labor because I was talking just fine and not really suffering. I decided to go clean out Aspens room. It was now three in the morning. I cleaned her room for an hour. The pain was not going away. I could not time my contractions because they seemed to just be constant. I called the nurse at the hospital. She thought I was fine too. I called my brother back and said "Ok I can't do this I think I'm going to go in." I couldn't call Nate because were not supposed to call out there unless an emergency. Well this kind of was one but I didn't even know the number. I figured I would go in and they would send me home. I have never been early like this before. Drew was not due for three more weeks. Well I called my mom and she came down to watch the kids for me. It was about five when she showed up. Then I drove myself to the hospital. When I got there, the nurse asked who was with me. I told her I drove myself. She said "well either your crazy or really not in labor." They hooked me up and there it was. My contractions were every two to three minutes apart and lasting one minute. Ouch is right. The pain was all in my back because Drew was posterior. At this time it was now six thirty in the morning. Nate was driving home from work so I called him. He came right to the hospital. It was a perfect day. I had wonderful nurses. Nate was tired so he laid on the pretend couch and slept and got a good nap. It was Memorial Day and no one had appointments to be induced. And no one else was in labor. So it was just me in the hospital delivering. It made it so nice. No one was in a hurry and my doctor came and hung out and kept checking on me. This was my longest labor, but it was great. The nurse I had does not like giving to much medicine to make you go to quickly. The doctor did not like her for it. She was cute to me but argued with the nurse. She told her to give me more and the nurse would come in and say "The doctor want me to up your meds but I don't believe in it. I think its better for the baby to come at his speed not ours." Well at Two in the afternoon he was ready to come. They got me all ready and i pushed four times and by Two ten he was out. I could give birth everyday. He was so beautiful and perfect. They let me nurse him right away. Then Nate got to give him his first bath and everything. It was perfect. He couldn't have come on a better day.
Through out my pregnancy I really felt my Grandpa with me. Seeing how Drew was born on Memorial day, we gave him the name Jerome because it was my Grandpas middle name and my uncle who passed aways middle name as well. It seemed so fitting.

Drew was six pounds six ounces and nineteen inches long.

Our family is now a family of six. Three girls and three boys, perfect!

Apen was SO excited. She was so great with him. She didn't need any help holding him. I hope these two become as close as Sage and McKenna.

It was SO cute when McKenna came to the hospital. She saw the two bulbs used for suctioning out the fluid from the baby and said "Oh look mom the baby has merocas". It was darling. We laughed and laughed.

Sage has waited so long for a brother. His primary teacher just told me that a few years ago he told her that when he is eight his mom will give him a brother. I never knew he said that then. I quess he just knew because he was right.