holy crap holy crap.
i have 2 kids!
we added the second kid on january 31.
so let me tell you about that exciting day.
the due date was indeed friday, january 31st but on thursday, the day before, i had just visited my doc and talked about the possibility of inducing. we decided on inducing on february 5th if nothing happens by then and let's be real, i was shooting to have the baby in february.
everything was all planned. i went to bed at 12.45 that night (my mom and i had a walking dead marathon so i've been going to bed really late lately and being 40 weeks pregnant makes for sleepless nights anyways) and at around 1.30 am on jan 31st my water broke while i was attempting to sleep. i ran to the bathroom to make sure it was my water breaking and not just me peeing myself (at least this time it didn't happen at the mall!) sure enough it was my bag of water escaping me. i woke up my mom and brett and we headed over to the pioneer valley hospital in west valley. my doctor decided he wanted to start delivering babies at this hospital instead of here in tooele, which meant having to haul it to west valley. he's lucky i love him enough to change hospitals.
this time around though i started feeling contractions right away, which is something that didn't happen with everton.
as we got closer to the hospital the contractions got closer and were just a few mins apart and they SUCKED!
we got checked in and were brought to my room.
it was now 2:30 in the morning and the contractions were steady. they had to go through the procedure of making sure it was my water breaking and blah blah blah before they could call the anesthesiologist who lived 30 mins away. i wanted that epidural NOW. with everton i was dilated to about a 3 when i asked for the epidural (i'm a HUGE wimp and have a super low tolerance for pain.) they called the epidural dude and i still had to wait 30 mins for him to get here.
i progressed from 4cm to 7cm in an hour. i thought i was dying. contractions are truly a B!@%$*^$#$&^* the baby's head was more towards my back, which meant having back labor. awful awful awful.
the anesthesiologist finally got there and i told him to shoot me up!
it took a little while for the epidural to kick in and when it did it didn't reach this one spot in my lower back for a while. i couldn't feel anything anywhere else except in that one spot. it felt like hell so the epidural man shot me up with more of that sweet juice.
it finally took effect in my back and now all we had to do was wait for me to get to 10cm.
the epidural did slow down my progress a little but pretty sure i didn't care cuz i just didn't wanna feel those horrifying contractions.
it was about 7ish am when i finally reached 10cm.
i pushed and pushed and pushed and with a little help from a kiwi vacuum i birthed a baby girl at 7:42 and the first thing she did while on this earth was take a poop on me.
THE STATS
-name-CHARLOTTE AVELINE CALDWELL
-weight-7lbs 8oz
-length-20in
brett, here's your daughter.
good luck with her.
my everton, my sweet everton.
when he first met little charlotte, he hung his head, grunted, and exclaimed,
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO."
he eventually warmed up to her.
he would try to roll her hospital bassinet around and reach out to hold her.
officially a fam of four.
and these grandparents are thrilled about this 4th addition to their grandchild collection.
i think she's perfect, but i'm not gonna lie, i was hoping she would have as much hair as her brother did at birth. and again, with how much tums i ate during this pregnancy i thought she'd have a ton o' hair.
but i am glad she does have some hair anyways and it's really dark.
getting ready to go home.
my mom made this AMAZING car seat cover and my sis kyla made charlotte's car seat swaddle blanket.
practically pink in every way.
poor poopsie was so sad to be leaving the cushy confines of the hospital.
me too girlfriend.
it's been an adventure adjusting to life again with a newborn schedule plus a toddler on the loose.
the first night REALLY sucked. charlotte was up what seemed like every hour but the next night we decided to put her in the bouncer and she slept for 5 hours at a time between feedings and she's been sleeping that way since then. we definitely don't plan on having her sleep in the bouncer forever but right now, i've been getting an adequate amount of sleep for having a 2 week old newborn so sleep in the bouncer she shall.
p.s. watching 30 rock is an excellent show to watch while nursing in the middle of the night. thanks be to netflix.
everton has been adjusting to charlotte at home. we're still trying to teach him to be gentle with her at times but for the most part he's sweet to her. he actually loves to hold her (with parental guidance) and loves to shove the pacifier in her nose eye mouth.
she looks like a dancing mushroom from fantasia.
brett took 1 week off and then my parents have been here helping out since brett went back to work.
i'm so thankful for them all! i seriously don't know what i'm going to do when my parents leave. dealing with 2 kids give me the heebie jeebies right now. i've been left alone with them for just a few hours so far and i think everton knows he can get away with murder while i'm glued to the couch nursing. it'll be interesting living life with 2 kids but for now i'm totally going to cherish my dad taking care of everton in the early mornings and my mom cooking amazing food for us. i wish brett could get the same paternity benefits like they do in other countries and get like a whole month off or something.
and if men could help with breastfeeding that would be AWESOME too.
oh my gosh i seriously love having a girl!
i love the pink, the dainty shoes, the frilly dresses, the pink, the flower headbands, the adorable onesies with the ruffle butt pants, and the pink, pink, pink!
thanks for coming to our family, charlotte.
we needed you.
