Kenley's COMPLETE birth story!!! Better late then never!!!

I was sitting here thinking that not everyone has heard Kenley's entire birth story... and since I have a ton of time right now since both little one's don't feel good... I'm going to write it out. ENJOY!!!

Friday July 9th I had my 37 week appointment with my doctor. The week before I was at 3cm dialated, so I was really hoping for some more progress since I had been walking like a mad woman. Well progress was there... I was now at 4cm dialated and he said the baby was VERY low. He made sure to put it in my brain that I could still go a few more weeks since I wasn't really having contractions. He also reminded me that he was going out of town that weekend so if I DID happen to go into labor I would get the on call doctor. Since I wasn't really worried about going into labor that day... I kept my promise to Justin and brought Aiden to Louisville so Aiden could spend the weekend with his dad.... who knew it would be GREAT timing.

The next day I woke up not feeling right. I didn't feel sick just something didn't feel right. It was my dad's cousins wedding later that day, so I took it easy and lounged around. About 5pm I got up and started getting ready for the wedding. I started to notice that the contractions I were having were getting closer together and stronger... for most of the day I had thought they were just the Braxton Hicks. I didn't think anything of it and finished getting ready. About 6pm I told my mom about the contractions and she started helping me time them. At that point they were about 5-10 minutes apart and kept varying. I knew the hospital wanted them consistent so we continued to time them through the whole wedding ceremony. After the ceremony we walked over to the reception. I had heard that if they are false contractions they will stop when you move around... and mine didn't. I went to the reception and timed them. I got up to talk to my cousin and at that point stopped timing them so closely, but still noticed that they weren't going away. My mom thought I was lying about them since I was laughing and joking around with people. BOY WAS SHE WRONG!!! At 7pm my mom put a call in to Labor and Delievery and they told me to take Tylenol, lay down and call back in a hour if they didn't go away. We went home around 8pm and they still hadn't gone away. I changed into my pajamas and called back up to L & D. They told me to come in and be checked so off me and mom went to the hospital. I figured they were going to send me home so I didn't even bring my hospital bag... bad move!!!

We got to the hospital and they hooked me up to the monitors and THANK GOD the contractions were showing up... I had a strange fear that they wouldn't and I would look like an idiot. My blood pressure was also up a little, but I thought it was from the pain of the contractions. My labor nurse Jamie came in and checked me and said I was a good 4 cm. With every contraction Kenley's heartbeat would drop... as low as 80 at one point... so Jamie went and called the on call doctor..(not the one I hated thank God). She came back and told me that they were going to keep me overnight to monitor Kenley's heartbeat and if her heart beat stayed stable they would induce me in the morning. If her heartbeat kept dropping, the doctor would come in during the night to start inducing. YAY... baby would be coming. Through all of this I was in triage so Jamie asked if I was ok to walk to an actual room and I said I was fine. So around 11:15pm I walked down the hall to a room. I noticed that my contractions were getting stronger and I was thinking my plan to go med free was about to fly out the window. I got into the bed in the room and Jamie got the monitors hooked back up and my IV in. She had me turn onto my side to try and help with Kenley's heartbeat. At this point my contractions were getting intense and I couldn't feel a break between them. I was in so much pain and crying and telling my mom I couldn't do this. Jamie told me after my next contraction she would check me and see if I had progressed anymore. At that point I felt like my water had broken and all of a sudden got the urge to push. I rolled onto my back and Jamie went to check me. She grabbed the phone and said that I was complete. She told me not to push and to pant... there was no doctor there... AT ALL!!! A group of nurses rushed in and I couldn't stop the pushing anymore and Kenley flew out... literally... onto the bed. They had just enough time to grab my legs and pull them up, but not enough time to get the bed taken apart!!! It was insane. Kenley was born at 11:28pm weighing 6 pounds 1 ounce and was 19 inches long.

The doctor finally came in... only 9 minutes after she was called... she must have been speeding.. lol!!! She delievered the placenta and stitched me up. I was kind of upset that this point because I hadn't gotten to see Kenley yet and they had taken her out of the room and to the nursery because of her breathing and since she was cold. The baby bed/warmer thing wasn't on yet... MY BAD!!! I kept asking how she was and they just kept saying she was fine. FINALLY after 2 hours they brought her in to me. SHE WAS PERFECT!!! I just couldn't believe all the hair she had. Jamie came back in to help us with breastfeeding since I had NO idea what I was doing. Kenley latched like a PRO!!!

Everything was great. My blood pressure stayed up for a while and they even had to insert a catheter to get urine to get a clean sample. NO BUENO!!! Luckily it all came back fine. The only bad thing was Kenley had developed Jaundice and had to be on a biliblanket. Pete came up to see her and stayed with us the whole day until we were released from the hospital. Finally on July 12th around 6pm we were allowed to go home.

Things have been great since. We had a bout with Thrush, but got through it. Breastfeeding is going well... Kenley is growing well.... its great. MINUS the fact that both kiddos aren't feeling the greatest today. I just can't believe that it has been 6 weeks... my little bug is 6 weeks old. Here is a picture of her today at 6 weeks, boy has she changed!!!

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