Allison kindly pointed out today that I didn't update yesterday, correct I didn't update last night, I realized about 730 that I hadn't and told Dill I didn't---but we were in bed by 745, and decided i do it tonight!
Not a whole lot has happened this week, Kynlee is really loving her jumperoo, she goes nuts in it! She's beginning to learn that when she jumps it will play music, so that's been fun watching!
She's still sickly and having a runny nose but it was a little better this morning!
We did learn this week that she needs to stay up past 6, Monday she was so tired that we put her to bed about 545...she was then wide awake at 3 am. gah. It was not fun. So she now stays up later!
NYE was alright, Chris and Amber came up, they were passed out on the couch by 1045, Dill and I went to bed at 1115!
We also asked Allison and Chris to be Kynlee's God parents 'baptismal sponsors' that day, her baptism is set for Jan 24, so i'm very excited about that! We go back to Childrens Mercy the 29--i'm honestly a little nervous about it..i just don't have a good feeling. blah.
so i think that's all for tonight! sorry!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
14 weeks old!
So I've decided I'm going to set Tuesday as my 'update' day to see if that helps!
Kynlee had her first Christmas last week! and it was a white Christmas! How lucky is she? It was a lot of fun, I'll show it too you in pics in just a minute! First updates on her developments this past week, she has become quite the hand sucker, and can hold toys for much longer periods of time, she has also gotten good at putting them into her mouth! Rolling over is no big deal anymore :) she thinks she's hot stuff and flips over as soon as she hits her belly! Her vision has become obviously better over the past week as well. She is much more interested in looking around and is studying everything. because of this she loves reading books now. the first time i noticed it, we laid under the Christmas tree and read 'The Polar Express' and she just stared at the pictures, it was really cool. [this has always been a tradition in my family].We all got spoiled for Christmas as usual! Her favorite toy is her jumperoo, she thinks it's the best thing since a bottle! She had it less than 24 hours and was already wanting to jump all the time! She woke up the next mornin legs agoin!
She's still loving going to the babysitters, and is worn out by the time she gets home. She didn't go today because she's got a stuffy nose and a cough.
So here is her Holidays in pictures!
sittin on santa's lap!
3 months old!
first bath in a sink! :)
first Christmas eve service! (she sang with all of the songs it was so cute :))
tree at my parents!
snow Christmas morning--yes she was up before dawn she was SO excited :)
setting out cookies and milk for santa!
Santa enjoying the cookies and milk :)
all gone!
opening her first ever Christmas gift!
she liked the paper!
one of her christmas outfits!
loving the jumperoo!
so that is all :) it was a fabulous Christmas, although the weather put a damper on our 'normal' activities it was still wonderful!
Kynlee had her first Christmas last week! and it was a white Christmas! How lucky is she? It was a lot of fun, I'll show it too you in pics in just a minute! First updates on her developments this past week, she has become quite the hand sucker, and can hold toys for much longer periods of time, she has also gotten good at putting them into her mouth! Rolling over is no big deal anymore :) she thinks she's hot stuff and flips over as soon as she hits her belly! Her vision has become obviously better over the past week as well. She is much more interested in looking around and is studying everything. because of this she loves reading books now. the first time i noticed it, we laid under the Christmas tree and read 'The Polar Express' and she just stared at the pictures, it was really cool. [this has always been a tradition in my family].We all got spoiled for Christmas as usual! Her favorite toy is her jumperoo, she thinks it's the best thing since a bottle! She had it less than 24 hours and was already wanting to jump all the time! She woke up the next mornin legs agoin!
She's still loving going to the babysitters, and is worn out by the time she gets home. She didn't go today because she's got a stuffy nose and a cough.
So here is her Holidays in pictures!
sittin on santa's lap!
3 months old!
first bath in a sink! :)
first Christmas eve service! (she sang with all of the songs it was so cute :))
tree at my parents!
snow Christmas morning--yes she was up before dawn she was SO excited :)
setting out cookies and milk for santa!
Santa enjoying the cookies and milk :)
all gone!
opening her first ever Christmas gift!
she liked the paper!
one of her christmas outfits!
loving the jumperoo!so that is all :) it was a fabulous Christmas, although the weather put a damper on our 'normal' activities it was still wonderful!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
i'm so terrible about updating.
Kynlee is 3 months old today. Really? Where has time went? How is this possible? I don't want to spend too much time in review, basically the past 13 weeks have been a blur! Lets see she did really really well until the 6w mark and then all hell broke loose. She started nightly screaming fits where nothing would calm her down, the bath tub would work for a while and as soon as she was out of the tub it would start all over. We finally tried a suggestion from the message board of the hair dryer. I remember feeling ridiculous walking to the bathroom to get it that first night, but it worked like a charm. She absolutely loved it! So that was a life saver many nights. Thankfully after about 10/11w she stopped having the fits! But we did suffer through them at Thanksgiving, we also sort of figured out she didn't like to be held during them, she wanted to lay down and be on her own, so that's what we did. Her mobile in her crib entertained her. But needless to say, having a baby that didn't want to be held during the holidays was no fun.
She has also learned to grasp things with her hands so her new favorite place to be is in her bouncy seat with her dangling toys at an arms reach, this week she finally figured out how to get the middle toy, which is the one that plays music.
Last week she did roll from her belly to back a few times, if I get her arms tucked under her far enough she plops right over! The first time she did it I had barely laid her down and she was already over!
She started at the babysitters last week. And I went back to work. I didn't cry as much as I thought I would, I think only her first day was rough, Dill dropped her off for the second day and by the third day when I dropped her off as soon as she heard Candy's voice she was all smiles! So that obviously makes it much easier!
Oh we've also had some belly troubles which required us to make a special trip to Dr Phelps, she was spitting up like crazy and screaming in pain when she was trying to poo. At first we tried reducing milk and soy formula, didn't help and soy tore her belly up worse. Then the dr suggested reducing onions, garlic, and peppers, that seems to have been the trick and for the most part all has been well since then! We're using gentlease formula which she loves and it doesn't bother her belly at all! My pumping isn't producing a whole ton of milk so we've got to supplement.
We've had about 4 nights of sleeping through the night. She'll go two nights in a row of STTN and then goes about 3-4 days of waking up at 1 and 4 and 7. I'm not really sure what is causing the differences, other than her evening naps, she gets so worn out at the sitter that sometimes its impossible to keep her awake in the evening.
I suppose our biggest news is that she was diagnosed with pulmonary valve stenosis at 7weeks. At her 6 w check up they heard the murmur and were hoping that it was just the 'normal' murmur but when we went to Childrens Mercy they found that the leaflets in her pulmonary valve are thicker than they are supposed to be, but not bad enough to do anything 'yet' they will continue to monitor her until she is done growing. If they get any thicker surgery will be required. Thankfully it's less invasive than what Dillon had 20 years ago (obviously) and they would just insert a cath into her leg and go up to her heart and balloon open the valve. I'm not sure if it comes from what Dillon had since he had a kink in his valve, we didn't ask, but I'm going to try to remember in January. When we went it was when she was having screaming fits and the Dr said to just treat her like a normal baby. Strange thing, the NP that was in there first was trying to figure out who Dill's surgeon had been, come to find out we think it was the Dr that was in there with us the whole time! Nuts!
We had pics taken last week for her 3 month photo session, she did AMAZING. We timed it so that she would be hungry as soon as we got to springfield, so she woke up as we pulled into a parking spot (two spaces from the door mind you) she ate, wouldn't burp, so i was terrfied she was going to spit up all over her clothes, she didn't. She was awake and did not cry the entire time we flopped her all over the place for her pictures and then she fell asleep while we were waiting to look at them, so she slept through all of that. What an angel.
Here is a pic of her with Santa.
I think the best part so far has been watching her look at Dillon, she is SO in love with him, she has to see him no matter where he is in room she wants to look at him.
Melts my heart.
so i guess this is all, i'm going to once again promise more updates. I think I'll do it on Tuesdays, when she grows another week older. i start classes soon on wednesdays, yuck!
She has also learned to grasp things with her hands so her new favorite place to be is in her bouncy seat with her dangling toys at an arms reach, this week she finally figured out how to get the middle toy, which is the one that plays music.
Last week she did roll from her belly to back a few times, if I get her arms tucked under her far enough she plops right over! The first time she did it I had barely laid her down and she was already over!
She started at the babysitters last week. And I went back to work. I didn't cry as much as I thought I would, I think only her first day was rough, Dill dropped her off for the second day and by the third day when I dropped her off as soon as she heard Candy's voice she was all smiles! So that obviously makes it much easier!
Oh we've also had some belly troubles which required us to make a special trip to Dr Phelps, she was spitting up like crazy and screaming in pain when she was trying to poo. At first we tried reducing milk and soy formula, didn't help and soy tore her belly up worse. Then the dr suggested reducing onions, garlic, and peppers, that seems to have been the trick and for the most part all has been well since then! We're using gentlease formula which she loves and it doesn't bother her belly at all! My pumping isn't producing a whole ton of milk so we've got to supplement.
We've had about 4 nights of sleeping through the night. She'll go two nights in a row of STTN and then goes about 3-4 days of waking up at 1 and 4 and 7. I'm not really sure what is causing the differences, other than her evening naps, she gets so worn out at the sitter that sometimes its impossible to keep her awake in the evening.
I suppose our biggest news is that she was diagnosed with pulmonary valve stenosis at 7weeks. At her 6 w check up they heard the murmur and were hoping that it was just the 'normal' murmur but when we went to Childrens Mercy they found that the leaflets in her pulmonary valve are thicker than they are supposed to be, but not bad enough to do anything 'yet' they will continue to monitor her until she is done growing. If they get any thicker surgery will be required. Thankfully it's less invasive than what Dillon had 20 years ago (obviously) and they would just insert a cath into her leg and go up to her heart and balloon open the valve. I'm not sure if it comes from what Dillon had since he had a kink in his valve, we didn't ask, but I'm going to try to remember in January. When we went it was when she was having screaming fits and the Dr said to just treat her like a normal baby. Strange thing, the NP that was in there first was trying to figure out who Dill's surgeon had been, come to find out we think it was the Dr that was in there with us the whole time! Nuts!
We had pics taken last week for her 3 month photo session, she did AMAZING. We timed it so that she would be hungry as soon as we got to springfield, so she woke up as we pulled into a parking spot (two spaces from the door mind you) she ate, wouldn't burp, so i was terrfied she was going to spit up all over her clothes, she didn't. She was awake and did not cry the entire time we flopped her all over the place for her pictures and then she fell asleep while we were waiting to look at them, so she slept through all of that. What an angel.
Here is a pic of her with Santa.
I think the best part so far has been watching her look at Dillon, she is SO in love with him, she has to see him no matter where he is in room she wants to look at him.
Melts my heart.
so i guess this is all, i'm going to once again promise more updates. I think I'll do it on Tuesdays, when she grows another week older. i start classes soon on wednesdays, yuck!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
39weeks--Kynlee's Birth Story
Kynlee Grace’s Birth Story
I’ll start with Thursday September 17th, I went to work and wasn’t feeling well so I took it pretty easy that day, I could tell my blood pressure was high and had nurses at work check it for me and sure enough it was. I took most of the afternoon off to rest at home. I called my dr Friday morning as I was still getting reading of 140-150/ 90-100, they had me come in early for my NST, the first few when I got there were okay, but the longer I sat their they started to creep up, I also wasn’t feeling Kynlee move as much, which is an issue with high BP. Dr Phelps asked me to stay on bed rest over the weekend and to come in at 8:50am Monday morning. So I headed home and stopped at Pizza Glen on the way home, Dillon got off work early that day for some reason so we hung out at home the rest of the day. Being on bed rest was not fun, I don’t know how people make months like that. I eventually had Dillon bring our mattress into the living room so that I could lay on it and watch the big tv as the couch was not comfortable anymore. My BP didn’t improve over the weekend. It stayed pretty much the same and even my meds weren’t bringing it down anymore. I felt horrible. I was still having occasional braxton hicks, but they had slowed down even more than previous weeks and her movement was still slow. My head didn’t quit hurting all weekend, I was swollen, and groggy/in a fog from the medication.
Monday Sept 21, I made my way into Dr Phelps office, dizzy and light headed and with a plan to tell her to get this baby out of me it wasn’t good for either of us to keep going, thankfully I didn’t have to. My BP wasn’t as high but knowing that being on bed rest hadn’t brought it down and that I was 39 weeks, there was no reason to keep suffering. When she checked my cervix, I was still a 1-2 cm but had effaced a lot more, however her head was still a bit high. She said I think we need to induce. .All I could say was please and thank you. She left to go see what her schedule was for the week and to call the hospital to see what day would be good for them. She came back about 5 minutes later and said “how’s this afternoon”, I said PERFECT! She told me to check in at L&D at 4 pm and that we would start with cytotec and then try Pitocin. We talked a bit about my hopes for med free, but she informed me that if we did pit I would have to stay in bed, and that if my BP got too out of control they would suggest an epi to calm me and bring down the pressure.
I text Dillon on the way out of the office, and told him to leave work at noon, we were having a baby! I don’t think he believed me at first, I think his response was whatever...then I called my mom and Robin and told them that we were just starting meds tonight, we’ll call when progress is happening, it’ll probably be in the morning. Headed home to make sure the bags were packed and all was in order. Dillon was home when I got home, because I had to go do my NST in the mean time. We had everything ready about 2, and then decided to go grab some food from Smiths, well in the mean time it ABSOLUTELY poured rain, like we almost didn’t make it down 3rd or Ohio street from so much rain! We left the dogs at home, my dad was going to come pick up Truman later on and take him to their house and Izzy just stayed in her pin.
We got to the hospital about 3:30, thankfully we were early because there was huge line! When we got back to the room they went through all the normal stuff, got a hep lock in after several attempts, it ended up in my right hand which made signing releases fun! They asked a million and two questions, and I got in my cute gown. . About 5:15 they came in to give me my first cytotec insert, so Chuck and Dillon went to dinner, since they had brought mine. I had half a pill at 5:15 and was told they could do another one in 4 hours. I got up and moved around a little bit, but only could move for a while as I had to be hooked up to the monitors once an hour for 20 mins. At 9 they came in to put in another ½ pill. Woo it worked almost immediately. Contractions started shooting through the roof. I think I was dilated to like a 2.5-3 and effacing more at 9. So those contractions were painful and in my back, I started with walking around the room and eventually moved into the hall way with walking, but had to stop moving during contractions. They were 2-4 mins apart and lasting 30-60 seconds. Dillon was sleeping on and off and I was trying to relax. Around 1 I asked them to bring in a birthing ball, which helped some, but the pain was so far down into my bottom and in my back that it didn’t help much and the counter pressure wasn’t being effective either, it would work for a little bit but then not. I can’t remember if I had a 3rd cytotec, I don’t think I did as I was contracting well on my own.
About 3 am I was still at a 3 but effacing more and I think this is about the time the nurse started saying she could feel hair! Woot! The nurse also remembered that I wanted a rub with a Jacuzzi tub, so we moved into a room with one and it was fabulous! Especially at first! I labored in it for a good hour and then got hooked up to the machines, contractions while in bed where unbelievable, I absolutely dreaded that 20 minutes. Thankfully my BP wasn’t too bad, they called Dr Phelps about this time and she was okay with my BP and not starting any other meds yet, so I went back to the tub for another 40 mins but it was losing its effect especially as the water cooled off. After I got out the 2nd time I think my water broke while I was on the toilet but I didn’t realize it until later. Humming through contractions was effective a bit too. Dillon was still being supportive and rubbing my back and holding my hand as need be.
About 5 they were getting unbearable and I was barely 4 cm, just still effacing more and she was dropping some. Around 6 am I started crying through contractions, I couldn’t get out of bed as my BP was starting to climb and they wanted me to stay monitored. I had been having off the scale contractions for 7 hours and was starting to get weak physically. I asked when I could get an epi about 6:30 and the nurse said it was still a little early and they were getting ready to switch anesthesiologists and if I could hold out it would be better, so they started giving me fetnol (spelling?), which made me feel like I had just chugged a bottle of vodka, Dillon didn’t like me telling everyone that :). I had 3 doses of that and finally about 8:30 they got an anesthesiologist there an hour after it was requested and I was at an absolute breaking point. I wasn’t sure I was going to live lol, it was horrible and I was sobbing. I didn’t want the epi but knew I wasn’t going to survive without it, my back was hurting so bad, the pain hadn’t went away in over 6 hours, there was no “break” between contractions for me, although it was worse during a contraction, it never totally went away.
They let Dillon stay in the room during the epi which really surprised me, so he was standing in front of me and the nurse and Dr start yelling at each other about them taking so long for a dr to get there to give me the epi. Like literally yelling and I’m sobbing because I was so tired and in so much pain and here they are being unprofessional so I screamed why are we talking about this? And the dr says “I’m preparing your medicine” I said good do it in silence. Then he tells me he’s putting the needle in, then I look up at Dillon and he’s saying hun, hun, hun and his eyes started rolling back in his head and I said are you okay? and he said no and starts falling towards me, as I’m supposed to be sitting still and there is a needle in my spine.....so I holler at the nurse who comes and helps him sit down but she’s holding him so he doesn’t hit his head and the dr is holding a needle in my back and I can’t reach the call button, so the dr just leaves the needle in my back and then goes to get help..they brought him food and I got some pain relief. And all was better. For a while. The nurse also apologized for their behavior, the dr did too a little but not much.
Dr phelps came in to break my water, but it was already broke and I had progressed to a 5 within minutes from before the epi. I was 90% effaced at this point and a zero station. She said looking good and left. I started shaking bad at this point, uncontrollably, they brought me warm blankets, but it didn’t really help. My mom and Dill’s parents got there about 10 am, but they didn’t get to come in because Kynlee started having heart decels with contractions so I was put on oxygen and they wanted me to roll on my side and rest while they watched her. They also put a monitor in me to monitor the pressure of contractions to see if they should have been progressing me more and they put a monitor on her head to get a better heart rate tracing to see if the decels where justified. Parents did eventually get to come back but then had to leave again when dr phelps came back about eleven to check on me again. I had progressed to a 6 then but her head was not dropping at all, her heart would be fine for a little bit and then not fine, and every time they would get ready to do something she would be fine. My nurse started prepping me for a c section though because she knew it was probably coming. Dr phelps said lets give it an hour to see if you progress any more and I hadn’t, and with the level of contractions I should have been moving along. So I was still shaking, my epi was not completely working, I could still feel the pressure/some pain of contractions and I was on oxygen and scared about her heart rate. At 1p Dr Phelps said lets do the c section which was more than fine with me because I hadn’t slept in 48+ hours and was beyond tired and didn’t know how I was going to push. So everything happened pretty fast, Dill got his sexy little outfit on they upped my epi read me my rights, Dr Phelps came in and went over the dangers, the last words she said were “you could die and baby could die” ack. So they take me back and Dill has to sit out and wait. I was still shaking really bad but then Dill came back and they started cutting. That was the strangest feeling ever. I’m not even going to try to describe it you just have to feel it to know. The new dr from anesthesiology that I had was fabulous and explained everything to me. Then they pulled her out at 1:59 am on Sept 22, 2009 and first said woah lots of hair! And then said “It’s a girl” and I said are you sure?! And they said yes...I wish I had a picture of Dillon’s face when they said it’s a girl :) it was priceless and you could tell his life was forever changed. I said is she beautiful? He just nodded. She struggled with breathing at first so they put some oxygen on her and then once she was somewhat okay they came and put her head next to mine, she was beautiful. He left with her while they stitched me up and then took me to recovery. That was the worst thing ever. They did bring me pictures of her and she looked JUST like Dillon when he was a baby. Then they took me back to my room, where Dillon was holding her and seeing him look at her as I came around that corner was amazing, I still tear up thinking about it. The hardest part was that our parents were in there, so we didn’t ever get a family moment, and they had already all held her, which is still hard for me, but it’s alright, she’s here and beautiful. She was wide awake for about 3 hours after delivery which was col and then she was out like a light! And we got some alone time when grandparents went on a shopping spree.
A couple hours later, I got a phone call from a lady who had found Truman out on the highway (a mile down gravel from my parents house) he had been ran over by a truck. She very kindly took him in town and met Allison and Eric with him. They all said he was just scared and stiff but was wagging his tail and could walk. Thank God for them taking care of him, and we called our vet, Elroy at home and he told us what to check and said to bring him in in the morning if we thought he’d be okay through the night. Dillon went home to check on him and he was pretty much okay, he took some childrens tylenol and stayed in his kennel all night his ribs were swollen but he could walk and jump off furniture. I was so upset when I got the phone call, thankfully I was still heavily drugged so I wasn’t as bad as I could have been. And Truman is now fine!
So that’s pretty much all of her delivery!
I’ll start with Thursday September 17th, I went to work and wasn’t feeling well so I took it pretty easy that day, I could tell my blood pressure was high and had nurses at work check it for me and sure enough it was. I took most of the afternoon off to rest at home. I called my dr Friday morning as I was still getting reading of 140-150/ 90-100, they had me come in early for my NST, the first few when I got there were okay, but the longer I sat their they started to creep up, I also wasn’t feeling Kynlee move as much, which is an issue with high BP. Dr Phelps asked me to stay on bed rest over the weekend and to come in at 8:50am Monday morning. So I headed home and stopped at Pizza Glen on the way home, Dillon got off work early that day for some reason so we hung out at home the rest of the day. Being on bed rest was not fun, I don’t know how people make months like that. I eventually had Dillon bring our mattress into the living room so that I could lay on it and watch the big tv as the couch was not comfortable anymore. My BP didn’t improve over the weekend. It stayed pretty much the same and even my meds weren’t bringing it down anymore. I felt horrible. I was still having occasional braxton hicks, but they had slowed down even more than previous weeks and her movement was still slow. My head didn’t quit hurting all weekend, I was swollen, and groggy/in a fog from the medication.
Monday Sept 21, I made my way into Dr Phelps office, dizzy and light headed and with a plan to tell her to get this baby out of me it wasn’t good for either of us to keep going, thankfully I didn’t have to. My BP wasn’t as high but knowing that being on bed rest hadn’t brought it down and that I was 39 weeks, there was no reason to keep suffering. When she checked my cervix, I was still a 1-2 cm but had effaced a lot more, however her head was still a bit high. She said I think we need to induce. .All I could say was please and thank you. She left to go see what her schedule was for the week and to call the hospital to see what day would be good for them. She came back about 5 minutes later and said “how’s this afternoon”, I said PERFECT! She told me to check in at L&D at 4 pm and that we would start with cytotec and then try Pitocin. We talked a bit about my hopes for med free, but she informed me that if we did pit I would have to stay in bed, and that if my BP got too out of control they would suggest an epi to calm me and bring down the pressure.
I text Dillon on the way out of the office, and told him to leave work at noon, we were having a baby! I don’t think he believed me at first, I think his response was whatever...then I called my mom and Robin and told them that we were just starting meds tonight, we’ll call when progress is happening, it’ll probably be in the morning. Headed home to make sure the bags were packed and all was in order. Dillon was home when I got home, because I had to go do my NST in the mean time. We had everything ready about 2, and then decided to go grab some food from Smiths, well in the mean time it ABSOLUTELY poured rain, like we almost didn’t make it down 3rd or Ohio street from so much rain! We left the dogs at home, my dad was going to come pick up Truman later on and take him to their house and Izzy just stayed in her pin.
We got to the hospital about 3:30, thankfully we were early because there was huge line! When we got back to the room they went through all the normal stuff, got a hep lock in after several attempts, it ended up in my right hand which made signing releases fun! They asked a million and two questions, and I got in my cute gown. . About 5:15 they came in to give me my first cytotec insert, so Chuck and Dillon went to dinner, since they had brought mine. I had half a pill at 5:15 and was told they could do another one in 4 hours. I got up and moved around a little bit, but only could move for a while as I had to be hooked up to the monitors once an hour for 20 mins. At 9 they came in to put in another ½ pill. Woo it worked almost immediately. Contractions started shooting through the roof. I think I was dilated to like a 2.5-3 and effacing more at 9. So those contractions were painful and in my back, I started with walking around the room and eventually moved into the hall way with walking, but had to stop moving during contractions. They were 2-4 mins apart and lasting 30-60 seconds. Dillon was sleeping on and off and I was trying to relax. Around 1 I asked them to bring in a birthing ball, which helped some, but the pain was so far down into my bottom and in my back that it didn’t help much and the counter pressure wasn’t being effective either, it would work for a little bit but then not. I can’t remember if I had a 3rd cytotec, I don’t think I did as I was contracting well on my own.
About 3 am I was still at a 3 but effacing more and I think this is about the time the nurse started saying she could feel hair! Woot! The nurse also remembered that I wanted a rub with a Jacuzzi tub, so we moved into a room with one and it was fabulous! Especially at first! I labored in it for a good hour and then got hooked up to the machines, contractions while in bed where unbelievable, I absolutely dreaded that 20 minutes. Thankfully my BP wasn’t too bad, they called Dr Phelps about this time and she was okay with my BP and not starting any other meds yet, so I went back to the tub for another 40 mins but it was losing its effect especially as the water cooled off. After I got out the 2nd time I think my water broke while I was on the toilet but I didn’t realize it until later. Humming through contractions was effective a bit too. Dillon was still being supportive and rubbing my back and holding my hand as need be.
About 5 they were getting unbearable and I was barely 4 cm, just still effacing more and she was dropping some. Around 6 am I started crying through contractions, I couldn’t get out of bed as my BP was starting to climb and they wanted me to stay monitored. I had been having off the scale contractions for 7 hours and was starting to get weak physically. I asked when I could get an epi about 6:30 and the nurse said it was still a little early and they were getting ready to switch anesthesiologists and if I could hold out it would be better, so they started giving me fetnol (spelling?), which made me feel like I had just chugged a bottle of vodka, Dillon didn’t like me telling everyone that :). I had 3 doses of that and finally about 8:30 they got an anesthesiologist there an hour after it was requested and I was at an absolute breaking point. I wasn’t sure I was going to live lol, it was horrible and I was sobbing. I didn’t want the epi but knew I wasn’t going to survive without it, my back was hurting so bad, the pain hadn’t went away in over 6 hours, there was no “break” between contractions for me, although it was worse during a contraction, it never totally went away.
They let Dillon stay in the room during the epi which really surprised me, so he was standing in front of me and the nurse and Dr start yelling at each other about them taking so long for a dr to get there to give me the epi. Like literally yelling and I’m sobbing because I was so tired and in so much pain and here they are being unprofessional so I screamed why are we talking about this? And the dr says “I’m preparing your medicine” I said good do it in silence. Then he tells me he’s putting the needle in, then I look up at Dillon and he’s saying hun, hun, hun and his eyes started rolling back in his head and I said are you okay? and he said no and starts falling towards me, as I’m supposed to be sitting still and there is a needle in my spine.....so I holler at the nurse who comes and helps him sit down but she’s holding him so he doesn’t hit his head and the dr is holding a needle in my back and I can’t reach the call button, so the dr just leaves the needle in my back and then goes to get help..they brought him food and I got some pain relief. And all was better. For a while. The nurse also apologized for their behavior, the dr did too a little but not much.
Dr phelps came in to break my water, but it was already broke and I had progressed to a 5 within minutes from before the epi. I was 90% effaced at this point and a zero station. She said looking good and left. I started shaking bad at this point, uncontrollably, they brought me warm blankets, but it didn’t really help. My mom and Dill’s parents got there about 10 am, but they didn’t get to come in because Kynlee started having heart decels with contractions so I was put on oxygen and they wanted me to roll on my side and rest while they watched her. They also put a monitor in me to monitor the pressure of contractions to see if they should have been progressing me more and they put a monitor on her head to get a better heart rate tracing to see if the decels where justified. Parents did eventually get to come back but then had to leave again when dr phelps came back about eleven to check on me again. I had progressed to a 6 then but her head was not dropping at all, her heart would be fine for a little bit and then not fine, and every time they would get ready to do something she would be fine. My nurse started prepping me for a c section though because she knew it was probably coming. Dr phelps said lets give it an hour to see if you progress any more and I hadn’t, and with the level of contractions I should have been moving along. So I was still shaking, my epi was not completely working, I could still feel the pressure/some pain of contractions and I was on oxygen and scared about her heart rate. At 1p Dr Phelps said lets do the c section which was more than fine with me because I hadn’t slept in 48+ hours and was beyond tired and didn’t know how I was going to push. So everything happened pretty fast, Dill got his sexy little outfit on they upped my epi read me my rights, Dr Phelps came in and went over the dangers, the last words she said were “you could die and baby could die” ack. So they take me back and Dill has to sit out and wait. I was still shaking really bad but then Dill came back and they started cutting. That was the strangest feeling ever. I’m not even going to try to describe it you just have to feel it to know. The new dr from anesthesiology that I had was fabulous and explained everything to me. Then they pulled her out at 1:59 am on Sept 22, 2009 and first said woah lots of hair! And then said “It’s a girl” and I said are you sure?! And they said yes...I wish I had a picture of Dillon’s face when they said it’s a girl :) it was priceless and you could tell his life was forever changed. I said is she beautiful? He just nodded. She struggled with breathing at first so they put some oxygen on her and then once she was somewhat okay they came and put her head next to mine, she was beautiful. He left with her while they stitched me up and then took me to recovery. That was the worst thing ever. They did bring me pictures of her and she looked JUST like Dillon when he was a baby. Then they took me back to my room, where Dillon was holding her and seeing him look at her as I came around that corner was amazing, I still tear up thinking about it. The hardest part was that our parents were in there, so we didn’t ever get a family moment, and they had already all held her, which is still hard for me, but it’s alright, she’s here and beautiful. She was wide awake for about 3 hours after delivery which was col and then she was out like a light! And we got some alone time when grandparents went on a shopping spree.
A couple hours later, I got a phone call from a lady who had found Truman out on the highway (a mile down gravel from my parents house) he had been ran over by a truck. She very kindly took him in town and met Allison and Eric with him. They all said he was just scared and stiff but was wagging his tail and could walk. Thank God for them taking care of him, and we called our vet, Elroy at home and he told us what to check and said to bring him in in the morning if we thought he’d be okay through the night. Dillon went home to check on him and he was pretty much okay, he took some childrens tylenol and stayed in his kennel all night his ribs were swollen but he could walk and jump off furniture. I was so upset when I got the phone call, thankfully I was still heavily drugged so I wasn’t as bad as I could have been. And Truman is now fine!
So that’s pretty much all of her delivery!
Sunday, September 20, 2009
38th week.
Shockingly still pregnant. Feeling much worse. Very tired of being pregnant. I know I should LOVE being pregnant, and I do, I'm extremely thankful for it and that it was so easy for us to get pregnant. But I hurt, I'm tired, my feet and hands are swollen on the time, my head hurts all of the time, and i'm taking meds that make my heart slow down and make me groggy. I went to the dr tuesday after some pretty good cramping/contracting over the weekend I was looking forward to the internal. Hadn't dilated much more, she could get a finger tip through, she had asked if i wanted membranes stripped so that incase we had to induce my cervix would be more favorable, but i wasn't open enough. However, I had effaced some which apparently is just as good if not better than dilating. So that's good. She upped my BP meds again. Ugh. She had said she would induce, but nope more meds. Annoying. So by Thursday my BP was 150/110 at one point. I was having a bad day at work and hadn't gotten one of my meds filled so i missed it, but even after I took it i only came down to like 145/89. So Friday Morning after feeling terrible all night I called. They wanted to repeat some lab work they did tuesday and do the NST earlier in the day. So my lab work came back fine again, which means everything inside is in working order, which is great news! Of course my BP was fine during the NST, until they faxed it off to the dr then it started creeping back up. She put me on bed rest for the weekend which I've been doing and it's still high. 130-140's/80-90's and I feel worse. Heads hurt all weekend, stomach is completely nauseated, dizzy...all the same ol same ol just a lil worse. I'm praying she'll bring up induction tomorrow. If she doesn't I'm going to be brave and do it! Since it's going to be have baby or bed rest, i'd rather have the baby if i'm going to be using work days..hope she sees that as just cause :)
Babies movement really comes and goes these days..sometimes it goes nuts..then other times I'm super worried because I haven't felt it in a while.
Your Baby
Your baby's intestines have accumulated a considerable amount of meconium (the code name for black, tar-like baby poop), which is usually eliminated shortly after birth and gives you your first experience with the 100-wipe diaper change. Here's what else is up:
Your baby might just scratch herself in the womb as the fingernails have grown over the fingertips now. Resist painting them hot pink when she arrives.
Baby's lungs continue to mature and her brain and nerve function are working better every day. The latter two will continue to mature until Junior is a teenager, at which point she'll know it all (or at least she'll think she does).
Your baby weighs about 6½ pounds and is around 19 or 20 inches long—as long as a duffle bag (in case you needed an excuse to go shopping for a new bag for your labor gear).
Babies movement really comes and goes these days..sometimes it goes nuts..then other times I'm super worried because I haven't felt it in a while.
Your Baby
Your baby's intestines have accumulated a considerable amount of meconium (the code name for black, tar-like baby poop), which is usually eliminated shortly after birth and gives you your first experience with the 100-wipe diaper change. Here's what else is up:
Your baby might just scratch herself in the womb as the fingernails have grown over the fingertips now. Resist painting them hot pink when she arrives.
Baby's lungs continue to mature and her brain and nerve function are working better every day. The latter two will continue to mature until Junior is a teenager, at which point she'll know it all (or at least she'll think she does).
Your baby weighs about 6½ pounds and is around 19 or 20 inches long—as long as a duffle bag (in case you needed an excuse to go shopping for a new bag for your labor gear).
37th week full term!
So we would have had the u/s this past week..it went well baby slowed down growing BIG time and was perfectly on track for the date i had planned from the beginning the 29th!
so it was about 6 1/2 pounds..all else looked good, nst went well. my mom went with me since dill was out hunting or whatever. baby liked the ice chips! my bp is still struggling at this point but what's new. i've slowed down working quiet a bit in order to relieve it a little since i'm sure work is a major cause of it! Thursday of this week I started to get a little excited I was having some good contractions about ever 3-5 mins lasting 45 seconds to a minute...then exactly an hour in the quit. ugh.
Your Baby
Huge news this week: You're carrying a full-term baby! If you were to go into labor today, all systems would be a go. Woohoo! Even though you can't wait for the little bambino to quite literally rear his head, keep in mind that your bun benefits from every day in the oven. Other ticker-tape-worthy developments:
Baby's growth slows down dramatically this week, which is great news for your birth canal. His bones are still soft and pliable and will solidify after he's born. More great news for your birth canal.
So if he's all cooked and ready to go, what the heck is he still doing in there?! He's busy practicing for "life on the outside," working on his breathing, sucking, sleeping, gazing and peeing abilities. The only thing he can't practice yet is his ability to scream at the top of his lungs when he's hungry—but he'll do plenty of that in a few weeks.
At this point babies vary in size, but the average length is between 19 and 20 inches and most babies weigh approximately 6 pounds. About the size of an average largemouth bass caught in Minnesota by your cousin Earl.
so it was about 6 1/2 pounds..all else looked good, nst went well. my mom went with me since dill was out hunting or whatever. baby liked the ice chips! my bp is still struggling at this point but what's new. i've slowed down working quiet a bit in order to relieve it a little since i'm sure work is a major cause of it! Thursday of this week I started to get a little excited I was having some good contractions about ever 3-5 mins lasting 45 seconds to a minute...then exactly an hour in the quit. ugh.
Your Baby
Huge news this week: You're carrying a full-term baby! If you were to go into labor today, all systems would be a go. Woohoo! Even though you can't wait for the little bambino to quite literally rear his head, keep in mind that your bun benefits from every day in the oven. Other ticker-tape-worthy developments:
Baby's growth slows down dramatically this week, which is great news for your birth canal. His bones are still soft and pliable and will solidify after he's born. More great news for your birth canal.
So if he's all cooked and ready to go, what the heck is he still doing in there?! He's busy practicing for "life on the outside," working on his breathing, sucking, sleeping, gazing and peeing abilities. The only thing he can't practice yet is his ability to scream at the top of his lungs when he's hungry—but he'll do plenty of that in a few weeks.
At this point babies vary in size, but the average length is between 19 and 20 inches and most babies weigh approximately 6 pounds. About the size of an average largemouth bass caught in Minnesota by your cousin Earl.
i did good for a while...
And now i have no clue what i need to tell you about...ugh..i think this is the week that one of my NST's took over two hours to complete..baby would NOT wake up. i had water, juice, crackers...finally it decided to kick just enough..i was contracting pretty majorly the whole time..but not getting movements, the heart wasn't deceling with contractions tho so that's good!
here is the 3d info for week 36..the other info from that week is below! that's when she did the GBS test.
our Baby
Your baby continues to put on weight at about ½ pound each week. This layer of fat will help your baby regulate his body temperature after leaving your climate-controlled womb. In fact, your baby will be 15 percent fat at birth (and you ... well that's another story). Even in the womb, your baby can listen, feel, touch and see. The only thing separating him from living in the outside world is a little thing called the birth canal. Other highlights this week:
His gums are firm with ridges that look somewhat like teeth, though his actual pearly whites won't start breaking through until he's between three months and a year old.
Your baby has definite patterns of sleep and wakefulness—opening his eyes while awake and closing them while sleeping. Your baby will become alert and turn his head toward light and sound just as a newborn would—except when you put on that Celine Dion CD. Then the baby puts his hands up, turns away and gurgles, "Oh no you didn't!"
Your baby is now around 18½ inches long and nearl
here is the 3d info for week 36..the other info from that week is below! that's when she did the GBS test.
our Baby
Your baby continues to put on weight at about ½ pound each week. This layer of fat will help your baby regulate his body temperature after leaving your climate-controlled womb. In fact, your baby will be 15 percent fat at birth (and you ... well that's another story). Even in the womb, your baby can listen, feel, touch and see. The only thing separating him from living in the outside world is a little thing called the birth canal. Other highlights this week:
His gums are firm with ridges that look somewhat like teeth, though his actual pearly whites won't start breaking through until he's between three months and a year old.
Your baby has definite patterns of sleep and wakefulness—opening his eyes while awake and closing them while sleeping. Your baby will become alert and turn his head toward light and sound just as a newborn would—except when you put on that Celine Dion CD. Then the baby puts his hands up, turns away and gurgles, "Oh no you didn't!"
Your baby is now around 18½ inches long and nearl
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