I would like to introduce to you, our little guy!
Koy Dalan Gardner
Born 4/21 at 11:48pm 5 lbs 11 oz 20 inches
Now are you ready for the whole story? I've got to write it down before I forget.
It all started yesterday morning. At 5:00am I got woke up and noticed that I having some regular contractions while I was sleeping. I didn't pay too much attention to them because I have contractions all the time. They were consistent for about 2 hours and they went away. They were horrible and I was able to sleep through must of them. When I got up and to get ready for church, I got out of bed and I felt like I had peed my pants. I went to the bathroom and noticed some bloody discharge. I told Terry that something was happening, maybe my water broke. I soon learned that I was passing the mucus plug.
I jumped in the shower and we continued to get ready for church because I wasn't having many contractions. I called my mom and told her about it and soon after she was on the road to get here. We got everything all ready for church, got bags packed just in case something happened. We got to church an hour late, but went to all the meetings. The whole time I was desperately praying that my contractions would continue to progress and stay consistent. During Sacrament meeting, they finally started to get more regular and more real. They started to be more in my back. Once they were strong enough for me to be uncomfortable, we headed down to North Platte and left the kids with some friends from church.
The drive wasn't bad, the contractions were consistent and we made it there just fine. We checked in at 5:30pm and got put onto the monitor. My contractions were about 3 to 4 minutes apart and pretty strong. Finally at 6:30 they checked to see if I was dilating anymore. I was a 2 and 75% effaced. I was so mad and devastated. That is what I was at on Friday and I had just had 4 hours of contractions. I talked with the nurse and told her that I live 2 hours away and she agreed that they couldn't send me home.
So they had me walk around and do some ball exercises because he was flipped the wrong way. The contractions were definitely getting stronger, they were at the point that when they came I just wanted to go into the fetal position. They were all in my back. Finally at 8:00 she checked me at I was at a 4 and 90% effaced. I was so glad that I was finally progressing!
I still had to do the excercises because his head wasn't engaged yet, so I sat on an exercise for awhile and then I had to do some other things to try to open up my pelvis. Around 9 she put in my IV and checked me again and I had gotten to a 5. By then I was ready for the epidural, I had had enough. So we ordered that and by 9:45 it was in and I was feeling much better.
I was able to relax and so Terry and I watched some tv. I still could feel the contractions but not nearly as bad as they were. At 10:15 I got checked again and I was almost at a 5. It was taking awhile to progress and he wasn't engaged yet, so she had me just sit straight up in bed for an hour. It wasn't bad at all, I just sat there watched tv. I could feel the contractions getting stronger, but it was mostly just pressure.
At 11:20 the nurse checked me and I was at an 8 and my bag of waters were bulging, so she called the doctor and to come break it. At this point I was feeling great, I wasn't really in any pain. The epidural made the contractions very mild, I could feel the pressure but it wasn't super painful. They started getting ready for delivery and the whole time I'm thinking that it's still going to be awhile because all of the other kids took awhile. The doctor gets in at 11:35, breaks my water. By then I was at 9.5 and as she was breaking the water I immediately went to a 10. I seriously had no urge to push or anything, I was just hanging out and just shocked that they told me it was time to push.
We got everything set up, they told me to try to feel a contraction, I really couldn't. So I just pushed when they told me too. I went through one contraction and the head was out. And in the middle of contractions the doctor told me to just push lightly, so I did and he was born at 11:48pm.
I seriously felt great and it was weird that I just had a baby because I wasn't in much pain at all. I got to hold him for quite a bit before they cleaned him up and weighed him. He was so cute and little! They had to really mess with him to get him to cry, he was just content.
Minutes after he was born.
Terry getting to hold him for the first time.
Isn't he just so cute?
He is just so sweet and content. He hasn't cried much at all. He was so alert when he was born and it was so fun to just talk to him.
Today he has been sleeping more and more. But we have been getting some good chatting time. I love how alert he is!
We are doing really well. I feel great, I honestly feel so much better than I did 24 hours ago. I just don't like being pregnant. I am loving having a little baby again. There is nothing like a newborn baby. They are just so sweet and innocent. He is just so tiny. His head is nice and full but his body is so tiny. He definitely looks like a Gardner. Mostly Tyce.
This morning it started to snow in Ashby, so I sent Terry home to get the kids and Mom and Dad made it there (yay!). I'm so glad that everyone is here safely. It's such a relief! Koy is doing well but he's having problems eating and his blood sugar is low, so we have had to give him some formula to get the blood sugar up. He doesn't mind it but is having a hard time latching on, so we need to work on that.
We are here until Wednesday morning. I had strep B, so we have to be here 48 hours after he was born. So feel free to text, call or message me on Facebook... I have plenty of time and no one to talk to :)
