Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The birth story



sorry these pics aren't in order, it just takes too much time to do that!









So its been awhile, but I've been super busy, i had no idea that having one more kid could be so hard!


On the 20th we went to Ogden Regional to have the baby and we got in on our scheduled time which was really cool. I was dialated at just a 2+ to start. They put me on the pit and the dr came in and broke my water and a couple of minutes after that I got light headed and passed out. I managed to scare my husband and the nurses and immediately became more of a priority :) They put me on oxygen and monitored my heart rate which was irregular and my pulse would go from really low to really high the whole time. They ordered an EKG and I got to be just like ET with stickers all over my chest. I asked the tech "I'm gonna look like ET right?" and Jared said "no more then usual" which still makes me laugh. The EKG showed that my heart beat had an irregularity like an extra beat now and then. The student nurse told me that everyone on the floor is concerned about me and watching me really closely. As for Konnor he was a trooper the whole time and kept a normal heart rate even when i passed out. The next shift i found out that i was assigned my very own nurse, she didn't have any other patients except me. I did have an epidural and it was fantastic, at one point it wore out and for about an hour i could feel the contractions so they gave me an extra boost of something that helped them disappear. I was on Oxygen the whole time up until delivery. The really cool thing was that i didn't throw up the whole pregnancy even during delivery! After around 10 hours of labor, at 8:27 pm, I had my sweet little boy, who looked huge compared to Makayla when she was born. He weighed 7 lbs 14 oz and was 20 1/2 inches long. And he still looks like he's gonna be a red head which I'm actually okay with cuz i love him so much! I guess he can say that he was jinxed by his mom too.



He is now 12 days old. The first couple days home from the hospital i was pretty sure I was turning into a crazy lady and my 2 year old was gonna push me over the edge. She has managed to find all new ways to get in trouble, I thought for sure my house was toddler proof but i was so wrong. This past week I've been able to get it all together and not feel so overwhelmed, I think it helps that nursing isn't hurting me as bad and i can be nicer. Not that anyone really wants to know but Thursday night i felt so yucky and had a fever and then later found out that i had mastitis in one breast, the other breast had been bleeding so after i noticed my child was drinking my blood i decided to pump until it had a chance to heal, so needless to say nursing has been my own personal hell with this child.


Yesterday I got to take Konnor in to get circumcised, and it was super sad, i stayed in the room and i didn't really watch but managed to make myself nauseous, he screamed the whole time even though he had been numbed and i told Jared that we can only have girls from here on out.



He is doing good today when they weighed him yesterday he was 8lbs. 4 oz. so he is eating good. I've only weighed myself once and it was just a couple days postpartum and I'm ten pounds shy of being back to my old weight, but i think that I've lost more since and a good 5 lbs has to be in my breasts. So overall i feel pretty good and if this child continues to eat like he has been I'll be skin and bones really soon. Pretty much that sums up what I've been up to the past whatever.