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Our family has been blessed AGAIN with a baby GIRL! We are so grateful for a healthy precious little one. Seriously a miracle. Addison Leah Hunsaker arrived 4.5weeks early after 18 hours of labour. We thought delivering our 4th baby was going to be a snap. NOT so much! My water broke on Thursday, during MacKenna's playdate. After dispersing three girls, getting Cassie checked out of school to pick up girls at dance, and calling Grandpa for backup we headed to the hospital, thinking our new little one would arrive within the hour. Again, NOT so much! It all began to be a comedy of errors; here's a sample: had to slow labour to get antibiotic going, my doc took off to attend her daughter-in-laws UofU program, my IV infiltrated (which means I was getting NOTHING but a big fat swollen arm), getting major blisters from tight blood pressure band, a baseball size blood-ball forming, major finger pricks every hour for gestational diabetes sugar levels, Darren FAINTING during the epidural, my veins collapsing (I have great veins normally), and my leg going numb for two days. FOR THE LOVE! Sitting for 18 hours waiting for baby to arrive and only having a granola bar in the last 24 hours was making me NUTS. My mind started to stress and tears started to come. Baby Addi finally made her grand entrance at 6:29 am. After being told her lungs would have issues and she may not go home with us- Addi proved them all wrong. She was the biggest premie baby weighing in at 6 lbs 3.5 oz. Thanks to Nurse Jessica, Addi learned to eat great and brought those sugar levels right on up. She was able to go home with me and is doing FABULOUS. It wasn't exactly the delivery we'd anticipated, but was an adventure all the same! Nothing like a scare to make one rE-BeLIeVe in MIRACLES!