Our Hospital Stay

While we were in the hospital, we had lots of visitors come see us. It was nice to have support from our friends and family. Heather was actually the first person to get to the hospital. She got there right in the middle of when I was pushing. I heard her outside the room asking for me and the nurse came in and said, "Your sister is here, can she come in?" My response was, "NO." lol. I don't think Heather knew I was in the middle of delivering the baby..lol. So she waited a couple hours before coming in. Later, Antioni came. They were so happy and excited to see Cante. Later that night, Crystal and Hina came. Crystal was holding her and said that her baby was kicking inside of her. Lol. We were saying that they were probablly friends in the premortal life. On Friday, Abe and Amber came to visit with their two kids. They brought us a huge box of diapers which have come in handy. Later that day, Marei, Leatha, Jaya, and Raja came to see us. The kids were so happy to see the baby! Then later that night, Spencer came with Crystal and Hina. They brought pizza for us.

The nurses were so nice and helpful. Its crazy what things they are willing to do for their patients. I really enjoyed the meals while at the hospital. Marlin usually fed them to me because they always seemed to come while I was feeding Cante. Marlin especially enjoyed the endless treats in the father's room.



Cante sleeps like her mom! Mouth wide open.

 The first night at the hospital, I decided to have Cante stay with us in our room. I didn't want her to leave my sight! However, I later realized that it wasn't the best idea for her to stay with us. I could NOT sleep! Every little movement she made woke me up. I seriously had to check on her like every 5 minutes to make sure she was still safe and breathing! lol. After that went on for a few hours, I decided to send her to the nursery. After that, I was able to get some sleep.


We got to take Cante home on Saturday morning. She was actually nameless until like 30 minutes before we left the hospital! Marlin and I were trying to decide between two names and were really indecisive about it. I was leaning more towards Cante and he was leaning more towards the other name..but we liked both names. We were just going back and forth. Then about 30 minutes before it was time for us to leave the hospital, our nurse came in and talking to the baby said, "Hi you nameless little sweet heart!" Marlin wasn't in the room to hear her, but right when she said that, I just laughed and thought...maybe thats a sign..lol. So I told Marlin about it and then made the executive decision to name her Cante Skuya Kingi. The name is Lakota; Cante means heart and Skuya means sweet so the translation is Sweet Heart. And thats exactly what she is, a little sweet heart :)

When we got home from the hospital, Heather had cleaned our whole apartment! It was so nice to come home to a spotless apartment! She also put a sign on our window that said "Its a girl," and tied balloons on our porch. With the baby, and all of our hospital bags, papers, etc it was hard to keep it as clean as she left it, but we appreciated what she had done for us! Shortly after we got home, Becky brought us some lunch from Costa Vida. Later that night, Heather and Antioni came over to visit and Brother Lloyd brought us some pizza to eat :)

Marlin and I were happy to finally be at home with our little family :)