Adelle Sue Boothe

She is here!!!!  Adelle was born Wednesday February 16, 2011 at Utah Valley Hospital at 7:48 PM.  She weighed 6 LBS 14 OZ, and was 19 inches long.  We named her Adelle Sue, but Ross has already affectionatley started to call her Addie Sue.  We LOVE the name Adelle and went with Sue as a tribute to both of the Grandma's in her life.  (Ross's mom's name is Susan but many call her Sue, and my mother's middle name is Sue).

She is just beautiful and so sweet.  We LOVE her little high pitched squeal, and can't wait to continue learning more and more about her.  She has obviously been anxious to get here because my mom came into town with Ethan on Tuesday night, and Wednesday was officially the day I was allowed off of bed rest, and she came that very day.

I woke up Wednesday morning at 5 AM very sick to my stomach, and started throwing up.  I had a doctors appointment already scheduled for 4:20 PM that day, so I called to see if they could bump me any earlier.  They said the only other time they could see me was 11:30 AM, so I switched my appointment.  The rest of that morning I began to have contractions, like I have been having for months now, except they were finally starting to feel more regular and way more intense.  I also began having back labor contractions.  Some of you might have experienced back labor, but with Ethan I never did so this was a new, and not so pleasant experience for me.  I began to have that feeling in my gut, the one that is telling you that today IS the day.  Just to be sure though, I lectured Ross and my mother the whole way to the doctor that we needed to have positive thinking without ANY doubtful thoughts.  In fact, I think I told them that if either one of them were doubting that today was the day, they needed to get out of the car and walk because we needed to have positive thinking!

When we got to the doctor, it was very quick.  He checked my cervix, which was dialated to a four, and said go ahead and head down to the hospital, and he would follow us over and break my water and we could get going!  We were ecstatic, and just when we thought wow that was easy, Dr. Holmes came back and said he just rechecked my chart, and I tested positive on the strep test.  I thought, ok now what? He explained that we had to go down to the hospital and get started on an antibiotic.  We had to have two doses, but the doses had to finish four hours apart.  Then, he said, he would come down and break the water.

Since I could keep nothing down that morning because of nausea, I asked if we could stop and grab a quick 7 layer burrito at Taco Bell before I went down to push my guts out.  Funny enough, although I could only eat like 3/4 of it, that burrito was pretty tasty.  I was glad I had thought of it too, because it was a LONG day.  We got to the hospital right around noon, and they immediately started the antibiotic. We were lucky enough to get Ross's good family friend Emily Vest Covey as our nurse when we arrived.  She is an EXCELLENT nurse, and it was fun to talk and take my mind of everything going on.  Lying there waiting for the IV to drain felt so long, and I finally decided to go ahead and get my epidermal.  I figured since I was just laying there, why not.  Looking back, I probably wished I would have waited because I wasn't in that much pain yet, and once I got it, there really wasn't much I could do but lay there.

I got my epidural, and was sitting there talking to Ross and Emily, when I had the strangest ringing come into my left ear, and then my right.  I yelled to Ross and was telling him I couldn't hear.  (It was weird, I could hear, but it felt like I couldn't).  Then all of the sudden, I felt like I was drifting out of my body, out of the room.  I kept going and going, but still stayed.  It was like I could drift for eternity and still stay in the room.  I could hear Emily and Ross talking and telling me that my blood pressure was dropping.  Emily put an oxygen mask on me, and Ross kept telling me that I was ok.  The anesthesiologist came in and put some saline through my IV with medicine to get my blood pressure back up.  It worked fast, and after that I was totally fine.  I asked the anesthesiologist why that could have happened and one of the things he said was dehydration, and immediately I knew that HAD to be it because of how sick I was that morning.  I couldn't keep hardly anything down, even liquid so it wouldn't be surprising if I was dehydrated that afternoon.


Everything went smoothly after that.  It was amazing to me though how much more present I felt with this second delivery.  I could FEEL so much more and was invested in ways I couldn't have been with the first because it was my first.  I don't remember feeling ANY contractions with Ethan, and the pushing being so painful, but with Adelle, I was TOTALLY feeling contractions and pushing was such a relief!   All I know is if that was contractions with an epidural, I never want to know what they are like without.  For those of you that can, YOU GO!!!


Adelle came out in THREE contractions.  It was amazing!  Not that it wasn't hard, because it was, but compared to the 2 hours of pushing with Ethan, I was amazed.  She was beautiful right from the get go!  No conehead, or any signs of anything.

Anyway, we love her and are so excited for her to be here.  Ethan LOVES her.  He loves to give her kisses, and tickle her.  He does very good at taking care of her.  We are also so grateful to all our friends and family who have been helping us through this crazy time.  We could not have done it without you!


(Addie's coming home outfit)