It's a .......

When they got me into the Operating Room I was still a bit upset about the C-Section. I had calmed down a little when Christopher sat down next to my head. My attention turned more towards how he was going to be than the fact that they were going to cut me open in just a few minutes. Christopher has never been good with needles or blood I really did not know how he was going to react if he somehow saw the baby coming out of my stomach. We started talking out what to do if Christopher passed out. Considering that he had a hard enough time when they gave him a shot so that they could do his MRI. For some reason that got my mind off what was going on and I think that I had finally come to terms with the C-Section and actually started to get excited knowing that soon I was going to find out if we had a daughter or a son.

We sat there for what seemed like an eternity and I could hear the doctors talking and putting their gloves on. I looked over at Christopher and he said "I think they are in". I said "No I think they are still prepping". We sat there for another... I do not know how long and it was really quite. I do not remember hearing anything and I was wondering what was going on. Then I heard someone say "would you like to see your daughter?" and they showed the baby to us but all I could see was the head because Christopher was in the way. I did not even know they had taken the baby out I was still under the impression that they were still prepping. I looked at Christopher and said "What did they say?" and he looked at me and said "Its a Girl". I shook my head and said "No really what did they say?" He smiled and said "Hunny it's a GIRL!" I was in shock I could not believe it. I was so sure we were having a boy. I knew it was a boy it was my mothers intuition. Guess I can not lean on that anymore. At that point it finally hit me. I started smiling and I could not stop. They cleaned her up and handed her to Christopher and for the first time since we were teenagers I saw Christopher cry. It was not a huge crying fit, but just a few a few happy tears at the sight of his daughter. He showed her to me and all I remember saying is "Our little Kadence". For a while we just sat there (well I laid there) and stared at our new little daughter, and not a moment later she had put her little tiny thumb in her mouth and was sucking on it. Well there was no doubt at that point that she was my daughter. Like mother like daughter.

It all came back to me suddenly. I was laying on a table and the doctors were getting everything closed up and situated and I started to get a little impatient. I could feel something but I do not know what it was. It was something that was very uncomfortable and I remember thinking I wish they would hurry up and get done so I could go back to the room and get some rest. They worked for what seemed like another eternity and then they were finally done and they moved me back to the bed and placed my daughter in my arms and allowed me to carry her as they wheeled me back to the labor and delivery room #3. As we got to the door I heard my mom asking Christopher what the baby was. If you know my husband this will come as no show to you but he said "it's a baby". My mom said yes we know but what was it and again he said "it's a baby". I assume my mom gave him a mean look since his next statement was "you'll have to ask your daughter." When I got situated in the room my family came in my mom first of course and she said "Well?" and I said "Look mom she is sucking her thumb". My mom said "Ya and..." and I looked at her and said "Mom SHE is sucking her thumb" at that point my mom got it and said "Wait did you say SHE?" and I said "Yes I did". My mom was so excited and then when my dad came in she told him about his granddaughter.

I think it came as a shock to all of us since she was now the first granddaughter on both Christopher's side and my side. At this point it was like 1:30AM and Christopher was on his phone calling his mom. I told him not to call her since she had to get up at 5AM to go to work and I did not want her to be tired, but he said that she would kill him if he did not call. So he called his mom and said "Are you ready to go broke?" remember the comment she had made much earlier in the pregnancy. I could not hear much from where I was on the bed but I knew when she had gone in and told Ashlee because I could hear her screaming all the way through the phone and into the room. For the next couple of hours while we just chilled in the room. Christopher was texting people and I was telling him to stop since it was quite early in the morning. Finally around 3:30 in the morning they had us grab all our stuff and Kadence got to take her first ride in an elevator as they took us up to our room that would be our home for the next 4 days. (Room 228) I think it was about 4AM when both Christopher and I finally went to sleep.

Induction

So the time had finally arrived. We were going to have a baby. I was so excited that I woke up around 6AM and could not go back to sleep. Maybe we should have gone for the 5AM induction. No I do not think Christopher would have liked that idea. As I laid in my bed I tried to think of what life was going to be like once we had our little baby. Everyone always says you'll understand when you have your own kids, and your kids will be just like you so be ready. I was not sure how ready I was going to be but as the clock crept closer to 7:00AM time to get up I got more and more excited. I decided to get up and get ready a little before that though. Bad idea considering now all I could do was sit around the house and wait for Christopher to get ready. (Which takes quite sometime I have come to learn) We arrived at the hospital on April 23rd 2009 our usual 5-10 minutes late but since we were the first ones on the list they said it was ok. We were taken into labor room #3 and once we got all settled in the nurse came in and told me all the things that were going to happen. It takes a lot to have a baby. They hooked me up to the monitors so they could listen to the babies heartbeat which at this point was around 135 bpm. They also told me about the IV, which I was already nervous of since I really do not like needles. I thought about how many times they had to draw my blood just to get pregnant and I figured that I would be ok. Which I was at first. It was not to bad a poke and then a sting, but then it was as if the they had turned up the thermostat to like 200 degrees. I got really hot and started to feel sick. Dr. Mark Curtis who was there with us got a rag of clod water and placed it on my throat which did not help at all since I have one of the worst gag reflexes in the world. Christopher came over and put it on my head which made me feel a lot better. I am surprised that he was ok staying in there since he is worse than me with needles. I think he has passed out a time or two due to needles.

The doctor checked me first thing and I was only about 1 centimeter dialated. They started the Oxytocin which is suppose to get labor going and they also started an antibiotic for my group B strep. That was odd since it made my hand cold when it went in through the IV. Everytime they changed the IV fluid, Oxytocin, or antibiotic it made my hand go cold and numb. For the next couple of hours it was just a waiting game. I started to feel the contractions and it was crazy. I knew that they would hurt but I wasnt expecting them to come so fast and so close together. I only had contractions for about an hour when the doctor came to check me again and said that I was 4 centimeters dialted and that I was ok to have the epidural. I was a little nervous about the epidural. Again with the needles why does it always have to be needles. The epidural was a little odd it was a feeling like when you hit your funny bone and it tingles for a while, but imagine that feeling all the way down your legs. For the next 12 hours we laid on the right side and then the left side and back to the right side. I guess the baby did not like it when I laid on my left side because the heartrate would go down everytime. They said that the epidural works with gravity so that would explin why my right side was more numb than my left. Around 7PM I started feeling contractions again. I guess they had turned off the Oxytocin due to the babies heartrate going down. I had contractions for another hour and they have to give me the max dose of medine that they could give me (before redoing the epidural which I was definatly aginst) before the contraction pain subsided.

It took until 11:15PM for me to reach 10 centimeters. (fully dialated) Dr Mark Curtis had already gone home for the night so the practicing doctor there was Dr. Anders. She is cool I had met her in the office a few times before. She came in and had me push a total of 2 times then she said that she was worried about the babies heartrate which was dropping with every push. She had me push one more time while she watched the monitor. I was getting nervous since I did not know what was going to happen. All I wanted was to have my baby on April 23rd, 2009. Why? Because I am odd and find things in numbers that others do not like the date of birth 04/23/09 would be 4+2+3=9. However it wasnt looking like the baby was going to come with in the last 30 minutes of that day. After what seemed like forever Dr. Anders looked at me and said that we would have to do a C-Section. I am not going to lie I started crying. She told me that if we kept pushing it was going to be like 2 hours before the baby came out and she didnt think that the babies heart would make it through that. I was so scared at this point. I had never had surgery before. I had never had stitches or anything like that. Plus I had heard some stories of people not being completly numb and feeling the surgery. I was really scared and I do not think that Christopher was to excited either.

Almost Time

So the day is almost here. We ended up setting up a non stress test for Wednesday April 22nd, 2009. Christopher came and got me from work at noon where we had just finished having Cafe Rio Mexican Food because we reached some goal. (I am really not sure which one, but hey free food is good food) Our test was scheduled at 1:30 and we had arrived a little early so we sat in the waiting room. We did not talk to much because I think we were both a little nervous. The doctor had said that as long as the stress test came out ok we would start the induction the next morning. It was not a very long test only about 20 minutes. They put this heart monitor thing on my stomach and all I had to do was lay there and let them monitor the heartbeat. It was interesting to sit there and watch the screen. Occasionally it would pick up my heartbeat and the line would drop way down. That was a little scary since we did not know that it was mine until we asked after the test. The doctor was really nice she even gave me a small thing of cranberry juice. They say that it can sometimes get the baby moving. I told her that I had just had spicy Mexican food so I would think that the baby would have been moving a lot. They also did another ultrasound to check the fluid around the baby. Which was at a 12 and the doctor said that anything above a 9 is good. So I guess we were in pretty good shape. The doctor said that the baby passed the stress test and we were good to go for the induction the next morning.

After the test we went home and we waited for the hospital to call and tell us what time we needed to come in for the induction. They had told me prior to this that if someone came in who was already in labor that they would get priority and I would have to wait for an open room. Unless I went into labor on my own before the rooms opened up. We were out at our friend Clayton's shop around 9PM when they finally called. (The said between 5PM and 8PM, I do not know maybe they got busy) The day of my doctors appointment when we set up the induction I was told that I was the 3rd person on the list for that day. Well when they called me they said that the other 2 mothers decided to go and be induced today instead of tomorrow so now I was number 1 on the list. I was like what does that mean? The nurse asked if I wanted to come in at 5AM and be induced. I almost started laughing. Christopher and I had talked a little bit about this earlier in the day and he made the comment about not wanting to get up early the next morning. I told her that we might want to do it a little later and she said how is 8AM? I think that was as close to sleeping in as we were going to get so I said lets do it. I told Christopher about the call and even though he was happy that I did not take the 5AM appointment he still did not think that 8AM would let him sleep in enough. I told him that I did not think I was going to get that much sleep anyway so I did not see any reason to prolong it.

Once we got home we talked for a while I told Christopher that I swear that the lady had said "He" when she was doing the ultrasound to check the fluid level. I told him that for the last week I had a feeling that we were going to have a boy. I was like 99% sure we were having a boy I told Christopher to get ready to meet your son. They say that the mothers intuition is almost always right. So I guess we are looking at having a boy but we wont know until tomorrow. Getting to sleep was going to be a chore since my mind was racing. I can not believe that I am going to meet my son or daughter with in a matter of hours. (Depending on labor of course) I am so excited to become a mother, but at the same time I am worried about how it is all going to be. Not just the labor but being a parent and having to make sure the baby is taken care. There is now going to be more than just me and Christopher to worry about. No more late night trips for food since the baby will be sleeping and we wont want to wake him/her up just to go out. Plus who knows how money is going to be since we are going to have to rearrange our schedules to fit watching a baby. Will I get to see my husband as much as I would like to. How am I going to handle going back to work after having 6-8 weeks off. It seems there are so many questions and no time to answer them all. I guess we shall just wait and see.

Last Doctors Visit

Well its been a while since I have updated this blog, but nothing much has really happened. I managed to lose 13 pounds during the first 3 months of my pregnancy due to being really sick all the time. To this point I have gained 12.5 of those pounds back. Looks like I am going to weigh the same when I deliver as I did when I got pregnant. Which is a good thing and a bad thing I guess. Hopefully I can lose some weight after I have the baby. Monthly doctors visits were great and everything was going well. Nothing really much to report from those visits. It was cool to hear the heartbeat each time. Mostly it was around 140-145 bpm. Which everyone says means a boy, but I have heard so many tales in the last 9 months where you can tell the sex if you put your wedding ring on a string and hang it over your wrist and if it spins one way its a girl and if it spins the other way its a boy, or you can do the same thing with a pencil on a string. Another one is if you are sick a lot its the same sex as you, but I dont know I think we will just wait until the baby comes and see what it is then. It is fun to have people guessing though and driving everyone crazy since we do not know.

In mid February we bought a house and moved into it. I really didnt have to move much of the stuff since I was under doctors orders not to lift more than 20 pounds. Its a nice house with 4 bedrooms 1 full bath and 2 3/4 baths. It has a huge master bedroom with a huge walk in closet. A large back yard and a doggie door already built in. It also has a 2 car garage. I cant believe that we finally found the perfect house. It was like I walked in and it just hit me that I was suppose to live here. My brother was moving in as well. He is renting the basement room from us and I guess he likes it here. He hasnt really said anything to me otherwise. The new ward here is really cool it is actually in our realtors stake so we still get to see her every now and then. Which is cool because she has become like another mother to me and Christopher.

I had a Baby Shower back in March that was thrown for me by the Relief Society in my new ward. It was amazing. I hadnt been in the ward for more than 3 weeks and the bishops wife came up to me and asked if they could throw me a baby shower. Who could say no to that? It was a really nice shower at the Relief Society Presidents house and everyone brought gifts that could be for a boy or a girl. Not really to much clothes, but I got things like a baby bath tub with washing stuff, lots of blankets, books, diapers, wipes, bibs and some of the things that I had put on my baby registry. My mom came with me and one thing that I remember is that my mom kept saying that she couldnt believe that people who didnt even know me that well were so kind to throw such a nice shower for me. It was true when introducing themselves at my shower they would tell me where in the ward they lived and who they were. I was also amazed at the wonderful service they had provided for someone who had just moved into the ward. Another thing that I remember was one gift that I was given. It was from Sister Merchant who I later found out was our Sunday School Teacher. It was a cute little Pink overall outfit with Winnie the Pooh on it. I looked around but she was one who had stopped by with a gift but couldnt stay. The Relief Society President said Sister Merchant had called her earlier that day and asked if we knew what we were having and she had told her No we didnt. I laughed and said maybe she knows something that we all do not, and everyone laughed. I wasnt sure what I was going to do with the outfit if I had a boy but I guess we would cross that bridge when we came to it.

So my due date was April 15th, 2009 and that day came and went with no signs of labor. None what so ever. Everyone at work was like "What are you still doing here?" and "Wow you are carrying really high, are you sure your June 8th, 2009 due date was wrong?" One of them even tried to convince me to have the doctor write me out of work so I could just chill at home and wait for little Baby Fry to come. That is what we nick named the baby: "Baby Fry". Christopher came up with this name because everytime he asked me what I was craving I said French Fries. It didnt matter where the French Fries were from as long as they didnt have any seasoning salt on them. Plain salt was fine, but the seasoning salt made me sick. Another thing that had made me sick over the last 9 months is breading. Anything breaded like Chicken Nuggets, Mozerella Sticks, Onion Rings makes me so sick. Luckly thoes are the only things that do. I also craved Root Beer and the Light Blue PowerAid: Mountain Berry or something like that. So my last doctors appointment was today and the doctor along with Christopher and I have decided that we want to get enduced. The baby was still really high and it was just time for the baby to come. We had to set an appointment for a non stress test to make sure the baby was going to be ok during the labor process which is set for Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 and we are scheduled to be enduced on Thursday April 23rd, 2009. I dont know how long it will take for the baby to come once we are enduced but I can not wait to meet little "Baby Fry".

Ultrasound

Our next doctors appointment was in November . Everything went good the babies heartbeat was strong and the baby was growing as it should have for being 12 weeks along (3 months). The doctor told me that they would do an Ultrasound around the 20 week mark (5 Months). Christopher and I were so excited to be able to see the little addition to our family. It seemed that this would be the final thing that really made the whole baby thing "real" I guess you could say. Not that it was real before but this was the last thing that just made it really "real".

We went in for our December appointment. At this point I was 17 weeks along (4 Months and 1 Week). The doctor did his usual listening for the heartbeat and measuring my stomach to make sure the baby was growing properly. At this point the doctor got this sort of odd look on his face. Ya that is not what I was wanting to see as so far everything was going so well. He looked at me and asked when I got my first positive pregnancy test? I told him September 28th, 2008, I also told him that I had been really sick for the last month just after I had been to my yearly Obgyn appointment. He asked what Dr. Jo Cluney had said at that appointment. I told him that she said that I wasn't pregnant and that was just the results from the urine test. The doctor looked at me and said either Dr. Jo Cluney was wrong and I was further a long than they thought or I was going to have one big baby. He then mentioned that it was possible that there was more than one baby in there. I Was shocked to say the least. Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to have identical twin girls and dress them up in the same outfit but in different colors. I thought it would be fun to watch everyone try to tell them apart. The doctor said that an ultrasound was the only way to tell which possibility it was going to be. I was nervous but excited to set up the Ultrasound appointment. The first day that they had open was December 31st, 2008 (New Years Eve) I would have to go through the entire holiday week (Since my appointment was before Christmas) before I would know what was going on.

Christmas was great and the wait for the Ultrasound was not as bad as I thought. We went to the doctors office and sat in the waiting room. Christopher and I were so excited and nervous all at the same time. We went into the room and the lady explained what was going to happen. They were going to check for all these different things that can show if the baby has a certain defect or shows signs of something worse. That was all quite scary to think about, but it was good that they have these ways to detect all the different things that can go wrong before the baby is born so they know how to treat the baby when in comes out or before it comes out. Christopher looked at the lady that was going to do the ultrasound and before she could even ask he said we don't want to know the sex of the baby so don't ask. Don't say he or she or give any indication of what sex the baby is. There are to few surprises left in this world that we want to have this one. The lady said that now a days it is rare that people don't want to know the sex of their baby. It really didn't bother me not to know what the sex of the baby is and it was going to be fun telling people we did not know and see how they reacted.

The lady started the ultrasound and we were both looking at the screen. She first confirmed that there was only one baby in there. I was happy and kinda sad at the same time. I had gotten use to the idea of twins, but I do not think that Christopher had. She started showing us the different things that they look at. They look for Clef pallet, how long the humerus bone is and other things. Everything thing checked out great there was no signs of any defects or anything else. Then at the end she said ok so it looks like your about 25 weeks right? I was like no I am only 17 weeks. She said well by the size of the baby and what I can see you are 25 weeks. I was like ahhh ok..... are you sure....? She told me that she would estimate my due date to be April 15th, 2009. Wow almost 2 months from my origonal date. Both Christopher and I were shocked and couldn't understand how we had been told that we wernt pregnant in August but we really were.

The doctor said that we should come up and visit with him after the ultrasound so that we could look over what they had seen. We went up and told Dr. Mark Curtis what the ultrasound lady had said about the new due date and what not. He measured my stomach and said that it sounds about right because I was 25 inches which I guess means you grow 1 inch each month. The doctor said that urine tests can be wrong and its not really the best test they do. He said that a blood test would probably have been better, but at the time it was more like if we wernt we were not going to be to disappointed so we did not press the matter of another type of test. So now we are looking at a due date of April 15th, 2009 and we can not wait. We are so excited for our new little addition and are so excited to see if it is a little Rebecca or a little Christopher. For now we are going to ring in the new year 2009 which is looking to be a very good year for us and our new family.

Good News

The next doctors appointment was in October and everything was going great. We were able to hear the babies heartbeat for the first time and that was the coolest thing ever. I remember looking over at Christopher and smiling I asked him if he could hear it? and I don't think he could stop smiling for the rest of that day. In my head I was thinking "Holy Cow, there really is someone inside me." I just could not believe it. It seemed to get more real with every visit not that it was not real before but it was getting more real if you know what I mean.

We had decided that we were not going to tell anyone about the pregnancy until Thanksgiving since by that time I would be 3 months along. I had heard a lot of stories from other women who have had kids that if your going to miscarry it will usually happen before the 3 month mark. So I was going to wait until that time frame was over so there was a less likely chance that we were going to tell everyone and then have to go back and tell everyone that we lost the baby. That would just have been to difficult for me. My mother had 2 miscarriages before she had my older sister so I assumed that it had to be somewhere in my DNA that a miscarriage was a possibility. I was so nervous to tell people about the pregnancy that I thought it best to wait. I did however talk to my older sister Courtney who was living in Washington. (Sorry Mom) She had my nephew Lance just over 2 years ago and I had questions that I knew she could answer. Christopher also talked to his friend Clayton (Sorry again Mom) and had him help give me a blessing for a smooth and healthy pregnancy. It was a wonderful blessing and I will never forget it. I thank Clayton so much for being so willing to help us with it.

We had decided that we just couldn't wait until Thanksgiving to tell people about the pregnancy. My mom had even asked me a couple of times if I was pregnant because every time she saw me I had mentioned that I had been really sick lately. It was really had to lie to my everyone and say no...... and then in the back of my head say yes....

We went over to Christopher's parents house and gave his mom a cute little fabric covered board that was white and hand baby hands and feet all over it in pastel colors. It also had pastel colored ribbons tacked to the board so that you could put pictures under the ribbons. We had cut out a bunch of pictures of babies from a magazine and put them on the board like a collage. Christopher handed it to his mom and said "Here is something for you to put pictures of your grand kidS on." (Since she already had one grandchild he thought she would catch on) It took a few minutes and Christopher saying the statement again before the light turned on. I do not remember if it was his sister Ashlee or his Mom that got it first but it was really awesome when they did. We told them that we were not going to find out if they baby was a boy or a girl in which his mom said it was going to drive her nuts to not know, but she was ok with it. She did tell us that if we had a girl that she was going to go broke because there are so many cute little girl clothes and stuff out there. Well it was now out there and we were on our way over to my parents house to let them in on the surprise.

We got to my parents house and went inside once I managed to get my family (the ones that were there) in the living room I gave my parents a build a bear box. Inside was a sandy brown puppy dressed in a cute little lavender shirt with a dark purple sash and bow around the waist and cute dark purple leggings with lace around the bottom. There were 2 cute lavender bows around the ears. I wondered if my mom would realize it was suppose to be me. (Since my favorite color is purple) Attached to the puppies arm with another lavender bow was a smaller version of the same puppy dog. I had made a recording that they put inside the puppy that said "Were having a Baby" so when I gave it to my mom she was like "What is this for?" and I told her to push the puppies tummy. At first I do not think that she got it because she was like "Wait, What? Hu?" but then it hit her and she was so excited she called my little sister Suzanne who was living in Idaho and ask her if she wanted to be an aunt which was interesting since she already was an aunt to my nephew Lance. She gave me the phone and let me tell my sister the good news. It was all so exciting. It was all out there now well at least out to our families.

Pregnant

September 28th 2008.... I had been really sick since August 28th 2008 and my husband Christopher said why don't you take a pregnancy test? I was like ah no thanks. I had taken so many in the past and they had been negative so many times that at this point I was kind of depressed and did not want another test to tell me that we were not pregnant. Christopher kept getting on my case saying that he knew that we were pregnant, but I was not as sure.

After much coaxing from Christopher we went and got 2 Clear Blue Easy Digital read out pregnancy tests. I wanted to get the digital ones because the ones where they just have lines and colors can sometimes be misread. When we got home I took one of the tests and I did not want to look at it. We were sitting there for a few minutes and then Christopher looked at me and said "I Told You So!!" I was like what? hu? what is that suppose to mean? and then I looked over and saw the little digital read out that read Pregnant. I could not believe what I was seeing. I was sure that I had taken the test wrong or that it was defective.

We both were so excited and could not wait to get things going. I called the doctors office and they set up a phone question thing with a nurse. Which was just so fun. Answering questions like if you have a boy do you want him circumcised? and how much schooling we had? and many other questions Not sure what they all had to do with being pregnant but that's what they asked so I answered them all.

I'm not sure if Christopher knows this or not but I actually took the other pregnancy test that we had about 4 days later. They say for best results to take the test in the morning. I decided just to make sure the other test was correct I would take in the evening when they say it is less likely to get a positive answer unless you really are pregnant. Once I finished that test it there was no doubting that I was truly pregnant. I was happy after the first test but after the second one I was really really happy.

We set up our first doctors appointment for a few weeks later and got a potential due date of June 8th 2009. I was excited a June baby was going to be nice. I would not have to go through the summer being pregnant and I did not know of to many people with June birthdays so it was going to be awesome. The first doctors appointment came and went. The doctor verified that I was pregnant and he checked me out and said that everything looked good. I guess that once I had the doctors appointment it really hit me. I was going to be a mommy and Christopher was going to be a daddy from this point on it was going to be the best 9 months of our lives.