Welcome Kinleigh ShaeAnn Bring on 2010!

So my last update I was pregnant and the boys had just had a great birthday party. Yikes I am a slacker :p

Baby O was induced October 28th due to low fluid and the fact that the baby was not growing much and was small. Steven and I showed up to the hospital at 6am to check in and get the induction process rolling. My mom stayed home with the boys and got Kaeden on the school bus. Later in the day she took Kailer over to Christina and Tim's house and we had Heather pick up Kaeden from school while Mom and Steven hung out with me at the hospital.

Induction started out smoothly. Boring. Steven even went and visited his Mom and Ross while I sat in my hospital bed waiting for some action and updating on facebook. ;) Thank goodness for my laptop during labor, it rocked! When we were bored we started checking out pictures of people at Walmart. gave us all a laugh. Things moved slowly in the morning. The lady that put my IV in made a giant mess with blood everywhere and it looked like a massacre had happened on the floor. gross lol The crappy thing was she put the IV in my left arm and the IV pole needed to be on my right side so I had tubes and stuff laying across me the whole time.

Dr came in and checked me around 11ish and broke my water saying baby was down low enough and that should get things moving along. It was very similar to when Kaeden's water was broken. No huge gush and soaked bed like with Kai. Just trickles and small amounts of water. I was a bit nervous and hoping that baby was blocking water cause I didn't want to push out a baby with no water again! I just knew at this point things would continue on and we'd have a baby by 2pm like with Kai! I was super excited to get things moving. We called Mom and told her they'd broke my water and go ahead and head on over. We were dissapointed to have to tell her that we had learned the hospital was not allowing visitors or children due to the stupid swine flu. I was very upset that Kaeden and Kai would not be able to meet their new baby that day after school :( But I reminded myself we'd be home the next day and they would never know the difference. Unfortunately labor did not jump start as we had hoped and we had to keep upping the pitocin and hoping for contractions! I was slowly dialating. Let me tell you I did NOT like the nurses with small hands checking my cervix! you'd think that would be more pleasant then a man's hands but NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They had to push so hard to get their fingers up high enough to find the cervix that I thought they were going to rip me in 1/2 ! I'd never felt anything like it before. I was very excited when those exams were over with. I had to keep reminding myself it was all for a good cause and soon enough baby O would be here and it would all be over with. While we waited Steven surfed the net looking up boy and girl "k" names as we had not settled on a name either way yet LOL The nurses kept telling us that baby was taking so long because we hadn't chosen a name yet and once we did that the baby would be born. Steven had me write up a list of boy and girl names that I liked so he could decide of those what he liked. He circled his 2 favorite. Kendrick for a boy and Kinleigh for a girl. I was sure we'd be introducing Kendrick Stone into our family in a few hours to bring home and have a houseful of little men. We did not decide for sure on names as I wanted to see the baby and choose from those lists which name we would use. but at least we had a list ;)
We started trying different positions to get contractions moving along. I sat on the birthing ball and really liked that. It seemed to help move the baby down and get the contractions going nicely. I was brave and strong like my labor with Kailer and when the contractions started to hurt I just sat quietly concentrating on it and getting baby down and out and did not make a sound. Steven and Mom always knew when contractions were coming on because I would just get quiet and close my eyes. bummer was Steven thought it was fun to pick on me and push me around on the ball while I was mid-contraction. The nurses said I had my own personal comedian in the room with me. Yes my life is lived with my own personal comedian and I love him to pieces! He did however do some mean stuff to me during labor. I WAS STARVING! I did not eat breakfast cause stupid McDonalds was closed at 5am and they ddon't allow you to eat when they induce labor. Thankfully being that I had gestational diabetes they gave me some oatmeal to and toast before starting but wow that did NOT fill me up! I was ready to have that baby just so I could eat!!!! Steven brought back homemade empenadas from his mom (some of my favorites!) and ate them in front of me!!! TURD!!!!!!!! He's lucky I am such a pleasant lady when I am in labor or I might have had to kill him.
Being on the ball finally got contractions going but this was taking forever~! Baby was having decel's when I'd have a contraction and nurses said the pattern was nice and I could go ahead and get epidural as I was at a 6 or 7 and contractions were regular enough. That epidural kinda sucked. I was prepared for the pain cause I remembered from kailer but I was still nervous. Didn't want to go paralyzed or something! Totally freaked me out when I felt an electric jolt go through my right side and my leg jumped! Finally gets the epidural in and I start to get relief, however I am also getting super itchy and a little cold. the itches sucked. I remembered those with Kailer too. Don't however remember having itches with Kaedens epidural. Finally was able to relax and enjoy some labor. I knew that this had to hurry up and happen already! Was taking longer then I had hoped. Baby O was stubborn! Then stubborn baby made things more difficult. Heartrate started dropping TOO much during contractions. We had to call the dr in and turn the pitocin down because baby was not liking the hard contractions. I was itchy and starting to feel the pain again and telling them I could feel the pain but they told me I shouldn't. So I figured oh well , I have an epidural but I'll feel contractions more then I did with kai. Wasn't totally miserable but didn't feel pleasant either. Things from here on out got a bit fuzzy rushed and crazy. I stayed calm. Baby's heartrate kept dropping but baby had apparently moved back up and was not pushing down on my cervix dialiating it and ready to come out. Was very scary to listen to that heartrate go slower....slower......... slower.............. and to watch the nurse look like she was about to cry. You know something is wrong at that point and it is terrifying! Next thing I know the baby heartrate slowed to a stop. Nurses told me to flip over on my elbows and knees NOW! My body went into autodrive and my heart seemed to stop. It felt a bit like time was standing still when that monitor was silent. while on my knees and elbows the nurses commented how quickly I had done that for having an epidural and I said I told you guys I could feel everything!!! At that point I had every nurse in the room taking turns putting their arms up in me. They were pushing around on baby to push baby up and get heart going. I just knew my baby was dead and I was a bit numb. Nurses were apologizing for having arms up my crotch and telling me they knew it was uncomfortable but all I cdould think about was that I was going to deliver a dead baby that I had waited for for so long and it was all over. Then I heard heartrate slowly come back up. It wasn't stopped for very long but those seconds or whatever were the longest of my life!!!!!!!!! Once heartrate was stable again Dr came back in. Pitocin was turned completely off. We tried doing some pushing with the pitocin off to see how baby would do. I felt kinda like a gymnast cause I got to use this bar thing LOL. As long as I heard baby's heartbeat on the monitor I was able to keep a smile on my face. but I will say while on my elbows and knees after the heartrate came back and nurses came in and asked if I was doing ok I cried a bit. I was overwhelmed and lost composure for a few minutes. Dr came in and I was at an 8 or so and we started trying some pushing to see if baby would come down. Dr Lyons said I was a good pusher and we might be able to do this. I kept pushing different positions. I had Dr hands up my crotch pushing on baby while I pushed. Not so pleasant being that I could feel this all~ But at this point I was so focused on getting baby out they probably could have jammed anything up there and I would not have cared. I was able to dialate to a 9 but baby just was not budging. I managed to get sick and throw up and we hoped that would push baby down, but unfortunately no :( We turned pit back on very low to see if we could try this again during pushes as the contractions were going away. Unfortunately baby still did not like the contractions and heartrate started dipping again. After Dr Lyons talked with another Dr on call he made the choice to push a few more times. After that did not work he said c-section it is. I wanted so badly to push baby out and did NOT want a c-section but I knew it was for the best and at this point it was our only option. I asked if my Mom could come in with Steven and I and of course they told me no. I just wanted to cry.
I went into the operating room alone as they had to prep me for surgery before steven could come in. They strapped me down and started shoving stuff in my epidural to numb me. Put up the curtain so I couldn't see anything. The ride from the delivery room to the operating room made me sick and when they transferred me from one bed to the operating table I just knew I was gonna vomit. Thank goodness for whatever cocktail of meds the guy gave me cause I managed to not vomit. They kept asking if I could feel things and yes I could! I was getting scared. I felt things going numb but I still felt these terrible contractions. They told me I would feel pressure but no pain. I felt pain from the contractions! They started talking about putting me to sleep and if I was put to sleep Steven couldn't have come in. I told them I was numb and ready. They didn't want to wait much longer they wanted baby OUT. They started cutting and I asked whereSteven was??? They had to go get him. Thank goodness I asked ~! I did not feel them cutting me open at all. What I did feel was the contractions while they tugged and pulled to get baby free from contracting uterus. Baby was being a pain in the butt when it came to c-section too!!! I was trying to be strong but at this point I broke down and started crying out in pain from the contractions. All day being strong was enough for me and I couldn't stop it at that point. I figured I had the right to make some noise while I gave birth right? lol The anesthesiologist kept pumping me with pain meds but it did not help until after baby was out. They pulled baby out and commented on baby being small. I was in shock I had a small baby??? They took the baby over to the table and started cleaning the baby up. I could hear baby crying so knew it was alive YAY~!!! I told steven to go over and take pics!!!! He did not want to leave my side, I had to force him. I was fine. I thought I heard a she and a her.... I finally had to ask since no one announced... Well what is it?????? They turned and said oh yea you didn't know did you? It's a girl! I started crying I was so shocked relieved happy. I got a girl! Did NOT expect that! I held the curtain to the side a bit so I could watch them clean her up. she looked like her brothers. She had lots of hair and she looked so small to me. I was instantly in love! I was also super sleepy and drugged after all the pain meds kicked in AFTER we were done LOL And then the recovery process began....
My baby girl weighed 6lb2.5oz and was 18" long. She dropped down to 5lb10oz. We ended up staying in the hospital until Sunday Nov 1st. I was devestated that I missed out on Halloween with my boys.. Stupid swine flu kept me confined to that hospital with no visitors for 5 days. We did get Christina in and snuck Deb in LOL But they kicked Deb out. Steven's Mom was able to come as well. Other then that it was me, baby girl Kinleigh and my Mom or Steven, whichever was hanging with me for the day at the time ;) I do remember being in recovery and they had Steven come in to try to help keep me awake cause all I wanted to do was sleep and apparently I liked to stop breathing while sleeping :p when he came in he announced that we had a baby girl Kinleigh. I was so pleased he had chosen the name Kinleigh. That is how I learned what our daughter would be called.
And that is Kinleigh ShaeAnn's birth story. I have so much more I could type about our stay in the hospital but my fingers are tired and I am just pleased to get this typed up an announce her birth! She left the hospital at 5lb13oz and is now a healthy 10lb 10oz 21" short girl :) She's finally starting to smile and coo at me a bit. Very difficult to catch her smiles on camera though. She's a HAPPY baby in comparison to my boys. She HATES to have gas and gets very angry fussy and screams when swhe's gassy. But she is also content to lay and talk to herself for small moments which is something the boys never did. She is my angel and I am now complete. I know I'm done having kids. I would almost go for #4 if I thought there wasw a snoballs chance in hell steven would allow it, but I am totally content to say that I am pleased happy and at peace with my family. I have my 2 little men that love their baby to pieces and my baby girl and everything is right with the world :)

On a sad note. Kinleigh was born October 28th at 10ish pm (need to check on the time, things were crazy!) And we had to make the decision October 29th to put our baby girl Jazzi down :( Her seizures got very bad the day or two before we went to have Kinleigh and she just never came out of them. It was horrible to welcome a baby girl into our lives and to say goodbye to our other baby girl. The house was not complete without a Boston. On Thanksgiving Day we found a new Boston and welcomed her into our home. Her name is Jinxi. She looks nothing like Jazzi and has a crazy personality!