Welcome to the World, Baby!

I know it's been a while since I've updated my blog, and so much has happened.  Let's see.... Halloween came and passed and with only 6 weeks till my due date, Kyson & I dressed up like a devil!  There are only so many options with you are massively prego!  Danny wore some perverted Gyno t-shirt and some beer goggles... we were festive, lemme tell ya :)  Then there was Thanksgiving... first off, let me say that all of our "first holidays" together have been so much fun!  As some of you already know, this year has been Danny's first year EVER celebrating holidays, coming from a religious background & all where they don't celebrate holidays.  Anyway, Thanksgiving was spent at my grandparents house in Las Vegas and we had a very good time.  I was MISERABLE by then but I ate my heart out that day... and that night!  We got back to St. George just in time to do some midnight Black Friday shopping.  That was scary!  We went to Walmart just hoping to get a few movies and such and it was like a freakin mad house in there.  Everyone was crowding around the stuff that was on sale and the second it turned midnight... people jumped all over everything!!  I was so scared, got elbowed in the gut once, and was having crazy contractions!  Anyway, we got what we went there for and when we left I wanted to push those contractions even further so we went to the Zion Factory Stores.  For lack of better shoes, we didn't walk much but we were there for about an hour.

Moving on... My last day working at the bank was December 9th.  The branch that I worked at officially closed on the 31st, so sad :(  but anyway, that's a different story.  So, when I left the bank I was 70% effaced and dilated to a 1.  I thought for sure I'd have him the next week.  Welp, my due date came and passed.  He stripped my membranes on Tuesday the 14th which dilated me from a 1 to a 2 by the 17th.  I went back to the doc on the 17th where he stripped my membranes again and told me he was putting me on the list to be induced for Tuesday the 22nd at night.  Holy hell I did NOT sleep good on Monday night.. I was so nervous and my mind was wondering all night long.  I did manage to finally get some good rest and I spent Tuesday tidying up the house and doing some last minute things but most of all, relaxing!  Danny & I went to breakfast that morning then to a matinee movie.  It was a good last day ALONE together!  They ended up calling me that evening around 7:45 and told me to come on in.  My heart escalated to my throat, I was so anxious.  But we grabbed our bags and headed right out the door!  I made him stop at McDonald's on our way there though so I could have a good "last meal" before having him haha!!

Hospitals scare me.  I thought for sure that the second I would walk in there, I would start bawling.  But surprisingly I didn't!  I was hooked up to pitocin by 8:30 and Dr. Chalmers met me there and explained a few things to me before breaking my water.  That was a weird feeling, just sittin in bed and letting all this water go everywhere.  I got up to pee about an hour after that and after a few steps I felt this pressure and all the sudden I had a big gush of water just come pouring down my legs and it went all over the hospital floor and followed me to the bathroom.  It was awful! I was so embarrassed!  Well, I went into the hospital convinced I was going to do this natural, without an epidural.  I was doing really great at first and had a few visitors like Jadee & Tony, Kim & Amy, and of course my mom and Danny were there by my side the entire time.  I was admitted to the hospital dilated to about a 2 1/2 and 80% effaced.  My contractions were coming on pretty fast and strong as they would increase the pitocin.  By midnight, I was having a lot of back labor.  Most of my contractions were not even showing on the monitor because it was all in my back.  At 2 o'clock, after 5 1/2 hrs of labor, the nurse came to check me.  When she told me I was only dilated to a 3, maybe a 3 1/2, I about shot her in the face!  How could I be having so much pain for so many hours and only progressed half a centimeter?!  At that point I knew it was going to be such a long night.  I knew my coaches wouldn't be able to hang in there with me for another 12 hrs AT LEAST at the rate I was going.  That's when I DEMANDED an epidural!!  First off, epidurals are amazing and they were invented for a reason!  Second off, that was the most awful part about the entire delivery.  When he came in with his little tackle box of shit and told me to sit up on the edge of the bed and hold really still I wanted to pull this baby out of his vagina!!  I had to withstand three contractions HOLDING STILL to get that amazing thing injected into my spine.  During one contraction or another, I think I may have called him an "evil, evil man", which I later took back and thanked him for his services... after I couldn't feel my legs of course!  About an hour after that I was at 5 cm, then an hour after that I was at 6 cm, and so on.  We were on a steady pace after that.  I did manage to sleep a few hours somewhere in there, and Danny did too.  My mom went home for a few hours to rest as well but was back at the hospital by 8:30.  Anyway, at 6 am and again at 7 am I was only at 6 cm.  The nurse told me I had platueaed and would ask the doctor if she could increase my pitocin.  She went to call him and came back at 7:45 but checked me before doing so and that's when I was at 9 centimeteres!!  By 8:30 we were fully dilated and 100% effaced.  She elevated my head a little and told me he still needed to drop some so she wanted gravity to take play and let me sit like that for about an hour.  By 9:30 I had 2 nurses at my bedside coaching me through every push, through every contraction.  The doctor arrived at 10:15 and I told him I wanted to have this baby by 10:22 so his stats could be 12/22/10 at 10:22 and he told me I had a lot of work to do!!  I really aimed for that time too.  But, he didn't want to come until 10:29 am!  The delivery was crazy... I could feel so much of it, while feeling so little at the same time.  I reached down to feel his head coming out which was a neat experience!  Touching his little head of hair made me freak just a little though!  I was so exhausted and so emotional.  When the doctor laid him on my chest I could hardly focus on him through all my tears :(  Danny was crying, mom was crying, it was amazing!  He was definitely worth all the work... and he was a lot of work, that's for sure.  He weighed 9 lbs even and was 20.5 inches tall.  I had to have 4 stitches because I tore.  The whole thing... the entire experience, and actualization that I just had a baby... is so, surreal.  It's the most amazing, emotional roller coaster.  Watching Danny hold him for the first time was definitely the best part though!

Danny and I have just been enjoying our time with him and getting used to the whole parenting thing.  Its definitely a big change in lifestyle and can be hard at times.  We took Kyson to see Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, that was fun!  My mom has been so great and has stayed here a few times to help me rest and heal.  I have healed wonderfully, by the way!  My mom has been so excited about becoming a grandma, it is so cute!  She babysat on Thursday the 30th while Danny & I went on a date!  We had Olive Garden for dinner and went to see "Little Fockers"... it was crazy!  I enjoyed my pregnancy, up until the last few weeks, but I have enjoyed not being pregnant much more.  I gained about 50 lbs with him and to date, I have lost 30 lbs.  Most of that was water, but I feel amazing right now.

Now, I'd like to introduce you to Kyson.  He has such a funny personality!  He loves to be held, I mean, what baby doesn't.  Just when you think he's officially knocked out asleep, he'll peer out of one eye to make sure you've still got him.  And if you don't, he lets out a scream!  He was nursing really well in the beginning but wants NOTHING to do with the ninny now :(  so I am pumping and bottle feeding but can't quite produce enough to feed this chunk so he's on formula as well.  When he cries, he makes a little squeaky noise that is so adorable!  He whimpers in his sleep like he has just had the most awful day and he is such a little drama queen.  One time, after he had just dozed off, he let out one of his high pitched squeaks so loud it startled him and woke him up.  He was so scared, he started bawling!  Danny and I were laughing so hard, it was the cutest thing ever!  When daddy kisses his cheeks with his facial hair he scrunches up his face, it is so adorable, but he never cries about it.  He hates being naked unless he's in the direct sunlight.  We have enjoyed having him in our lives... he has changed everything and we are so happy!  We have taken a MILLION pictures of him on every camera and cell phone in the house!  My mom comes to visit him every day, even if for just a second.  He is definitely gonna be a little grandma's boy!  We love him so much!

To see more pictures, just check us out on facebook!  Thank you all :)