We Three Kings

Before I start talking about November 17th, I am going to jump back to the 16th for a minute. I knew it was going to be my last day pregnant with our Kacy Jo. For some reason even though I knew that it still didn't seem real. I don't know if it is just me but after being pregnant for 9 months you just feel like that is the new you and you will forever and always be pregnant. I felt the exact same way with Rhenn. This time around I knew when my last day being pregnant was because I was getting induced. I wanted to make sure and make that day spending as much time possible with Rhenn. I decided to take him to the animal shelter to see the cat's because those are his all time favorite. They had about 10 kittens and every time he saw them he would scream because he was so excited. We spent the rest of the day just hanging out together.

We spent the morning snuggling on the couch and playing on the Ipad. Getting all the one on one time we could.

While we were at the pound I got the call from the hospital confirming my induction the next morning at 6am. After talking to them it started to become a little more real to me that things were really going to be happening, I was not longer going to be pregnant. That night Rhenn had a sleepover with my parents so we wouldn't have to wake him up early and take him over. Rhenn has always been an awesome sleeper and has slept at my mom's house before, but he knew something wasn't right. Which he had known I think for a while because he wasn't the same little sweet boy like he use to be. A month or so prior he was mean, grumpy and cried all the time. I was told that kids can sense that something is changing or happening, but who knows. When I was putting him to bed he just held onto me and said "NO, NO!' over and over again. Which pretty much killed me! I had this fear that Rhenn was going to be "mad" at me after I had Kacy Jo or that he wouldn't like me the same.... Who knows what I was thinking. I was also worried because it was going to be the longest I have been away from him, even though I knew he could come to the hospital and see me. That night Matt and I were "bad kids" as we call it and had Zubs for dinner and then got ice cream sundae from Burger King. It was nice that my parents had Rhenn and we could just spend time together just the two of us. We were both worried that we wouldn't be able to sleep because the night before neither of us could. To our surprise we both slept great! I was so relieved cause we needed to get all the rest we could. We had our alarm set for 5am so we had time to get everything together and be to Payson Hospital by 6 o'clock. I woke up 10 to 5 and just decided to wake up then and get ready.

Last time taking a picture of this belly.

I turned the alarm off before it went off so Matt could sleep in as long as possible. I got in the shower and gathered up last min items chargers, Ipads, etc. I finally woke up Matt at 5:20 and we were out the door by 5:30. Before we got on the freeway we made a stop to Mcdonald's for some breakfast. I was worried if I would be able to eat or not because of my nerves but I knew I wouldn't be able to eat all day. Thank goodness I was able to eat a little something because as the day went on I got so hungry. We made it to the hospital at 6 on the dot. Since it was so early in the morning you have to check in at the ER. We were the only ones there, it's crazy the difference between Provo and Payson hospital. Once we were checked in we headed up to the second floor to start our journey.

There was a few nurses at the nurses station so we went up to them to give them our paperwork and get in our room. One of the nurses looked so familiar and I ended up remember that when I came to a birthing class with my sister Tashelle she was the teacher. When it came down to deciding who my nurse would be she said she would be mine and I was thrilled. She was such a fun teacher so I knew she would make a great nurse.

Seriously the best nurse. I wish I could have had her all day everyday.

I got in my hospital gown and Matt started making himself at home on the couch. By this time it was somewhere between 6:30 -7 ish. My awesome nurse Sueann starting getting everything ready and was putting all my information in the computer. Another nurse came in to help get all my bands on and get my IV in. Even though I have already had a baby and had to get an IV that time I was still super scared to get one again... I don't know why they have to hurt so gosh dang bad. It's always just my luck too that they never succeed on the first try. They always try and put it in my left arm and every time thus far it ends up exploding the vein part way through drawing my blood. She ended up getting the IV in my left hand and man did it hurt!!! My awesome nurse ended up giving me a warm blanket to wrap my hand in to help it stop aching. It hurt for like a good ten min after she got it in place.

This is my bruise from my IV (the photo was taken a week and a half after it happened)

One of the food people came and told Matt that since I couldn't eat until after I had the baby that he would be getting my meals for the day. We thought that was pretty good because at Provo Hospital they just don't give you food until after the baby is born. Another thing I loved about Payson Hospital is I could have diet coke! Aahh (for those of you who don't know. The diet coke on the mother baby floor at Payson Hospital is the best around. I learned this when Tashelle had Payton.) They told me I could have any see through liquid. He ended up getting my breakfast and lunch for the day, and boy did it look so good. When I was in labor with Rhenn I had no appetite at all, it's so crazy how different things can be. With his lunch he got this cherry popsicle and I wanted to eat it so bad. So we made sure no one was going to come in and he kept giving me tastes of it. It's funny how when you can't eat everything looks and sounds so good but when it actually comes time to eating things don't sound good. Funny how that works. When dinner time came around and I could actually eat my meal the food the brought looked so gross I couldn't even eat it, I had the roll it came with and that was all.

It was the first day of the year that it snowed.

After answering a millions of questions they finally got me started on the pitocin at 7:50. Once I got started on the pitocin I started noticing that I was having contractions but they didn't hurt at all. I decided I was going to wait until I was in pain before I got my epidural. When it came time for the nurse to check me she told me I was dilated to a 2. Shortly after Dr Jeff Nance came in to check me and see how things were going. When he checked me he told me that I was dialated to a 1 1/2, I then told him that the nurse told me I was a 2 and she laughed and said I just told you a 2 to make you feel better. Dr Nance said well if that's the case why don't we tell her she is a 7. Haha funny! The Dr said he had to go do a few things and then he would come back after he was done and break my water. Waiting for him to come back felt like an eternity, we just sat at watched TV and talked while. He finally made his way back to break my water around 10:30ish. I had heard that getting your water broke didn't hurt because the sac had no nerves but they were so wrong. For some reason it hurt so bad and it felt like it was taking forever. My nurse ended up being right next to me and she held my hand because she could tell that I was in a lot of pain. (Matt was there but there wasn't very much room so he just stayed on the couch so he wouldn't be in everyone's way.) Both the nurse and the Dr made sure that I knew I could have my epidural at anytime I just needed to let them know.

Well it didn't take long and my contractions started becoming more frequent and more painful so I called my nurse at 11 letting her know I wanted the epidural. Getting the epidural has always been a huge fear of mine. I mean who isn't nervous, they are shoving a huge needle in your back. When I got mine when I was pregnant with Rhenn it was an older guy doing it and he did amazing I didn't even feel a thing. I knew that probably wasn't going to be the case this time but to my surprise it wasn't very bad. I felt more this time then the first but nothing I couldn't handle, I swear getting my IV hurt worse. One thing that was weird to me was he had me sit on the edge of the bed and had Matt stand in front of me and support me, whereas the last time I laid on my side with my back arched. By 11:40 the epidural was in and I was starting to get numb.

Now that all the main things were done it was just time to sit and wait for my body to do its thing. My nurse kept coming in every hour to check my progress.
-1 o'clock dilated to a 3 1/2 and they said her head and finally dropped a lot compared to earlier.
-2 o'clock dilated to a 4
While waiting for the 3 o'clock checking to come Matt had fallen asleep and I was just doing everything in my power to stay comfortable. I had been propped up on my back most of the morning and I kept getting weaker as the day went on, I felt like I could hardly breath. Like you know when you have a cold and you have been laying in bed all day and when you get up and walk around you can breath so much better. I wanted to do that because I wanted it to make me feel better but seeing how I was paralyzed from the waste down that wasn't an option. The nurse ended up telling me that if I rolled to my side it would help me because sometimes the epidural can feel like it's moving upwards and make it hard to breath. Thankfully that helped, I was worried that I was already so weak and shortly I was going to have to be pushing a baby out of me. During that hour my contractions started to become more painful. During labor with Rhenn my epidural wore off and I had to have the Dr come give me more meds and I was in so much pain. So this time I decided I wasn't going to let myself get in that much pain and just push the little button that gives your more medicine around 2:50. Since Matt was sleeping I just killing time, I noticed that when I had a contraction Kacy's heart rate would drop. It kept happening and I knew that wasn't the best so I was very glad that it was almost 3 because I knew that meant the nurse would be coming in soon to check me. I don't know why but when things are concerning I feel like time never moves. This weird beeping started happening also and I didn't know what it was so I just decided to call the nurse around 3:05 and tell her about Kacy and figure out what the noise was. Turns out that the paper that monitors the contractions and the heart rate of the baby ran out so they just had to change it. While she was doing that I told her about Kacy's heart rate dropping and she informed me that it could be getting closer to pushing time.

The nurse checked me and calmly said wow your at a 10. A million thought's went through my head at that moment and for some reason it didn't seam real, so I said a 10? Does that mean it's time? She laughed and said yes it's time. Matt was still sleeping and he had headphones in so I yelled at him to wake up and told him it was time. He was in shock himself because the last part went so fast and he was planning on waiting for a while longer. Everything after that point went so fast, all the nurses were rushing to get everything ready calling all sorts of people letting them know that I was about to have a baby. Dr Nance showed up and he told me that he was in the middle of a surgery downstairs so he would appreciate it if things went fast so he could get back to the surgery. I told him I was planning on it. Dr Nance then asked one of the nurses if there was meconium in my water and she said there was. Instantly my heart sunk and I went into panic mode, why hadn't she told me? The Dr said call Respiratory and get them up here for when she is born which made me panic even more. I am guessing that is why they didn't tell me because I would have had major anxiety the whole time I was laboring. Matt kept reassuring me that everything was going to be okay and not to worry. All of this happened in such a few short minutes and we were ready to start pushing. About 10 minutes into pushing our sweet Kacy Jo made her way into this world. I was so worried because she wasn't crying I was freaked out that she had swallowed the meconium and something was majorly wrong. Dr Nance told me that he was trying not to stimulate her so that if she had some in her lungs it wouldn't go any further.

I didn't get to hold her right away because they had to take her and suck the meconium out of her. I wanted to see her so bad and hold her so I had Matt take this picture of her for me. After they cleaned her out a bit she started crying right away which was a relief to me. It felt like an eternity before I got to hold her but in reality I was only like 10 minutes.