birth story: part 2

so the game got over at 7:30pm, we got to the er about 9pm. we got checked in and immediately i was taken up to triage on the 3rd floor. i changed into my stylish hospital gown and was asked to leave a urine sample to check for any protien since i have a history of pre-eclampsia. i got hooked up to all the monitors and had some blood drawn for some testing. the nurse checked me and i was dilated to 4cm {i was 3 cm at my 38 week appointment}. she did two other tests to check if it really was my water that broke. by this time i was certain it was because it kept coming out slowly everytime i got up and moved and even when i was just laying there. but, we waited for her to confirm it. before that though she said my blood pressure was a little high and even if it wasn't my water that broke she thought i would probably be admitted anyways to have the baby. but, both tests came back positive for amniotic fluid so it was certain i was staying. my urine test came back positive for protein, but since my water broke it contaminated my urine sample. they hooked me up to an iv and i was moved to room 321. i had to have a catheter put in to collect some more urine to check for protein. it was rather uncomfortable to get put in and to be taken out. it still tested positive for protien, but luckily it wasn't too high. my blood pressure was still higher than normal too. the dr decided to just monitor me rather than give me magnesium {yay! i hated the magnesium}. i still wasn't having any contractions that i could feel {hurray!}. josh asked the nurse when i could get my epidural {probably because he didn't want me to complain about the pain like last time} and she said after i finished my bag of fluids she would get it for me. so at 11:15pm the most favored man in the hospital came in and made the world a better place! when i got my epidural with avery i had already been in a ton of pain so the epidural didn't seem to hurt much. this time that was not the case. i wasn't in any pain so in comparison the epidural hurt a ton! but, i knew it was gonna be totally worth it. after my epidural i got another catheter put in and at 11:30pm they started me on pitocin to get my contractions going a bit more. i was still dilated to 4 cm. they told me to try to rest. ha ha! funny! my blood pressure cuff went off every five minutes to make sure it didn't get any higher and every other time it seemed it made the machines start beeping bc it was too high so the nurse had to come in and shut it off. josh, on the other hand got all comfy {as much as he could} on his pull out bed and dozed off to sleep. i don't blame him really because he had been up since 4:30am. they came in and increased my pitocin at midnight and from then on my blood pressure was checked every 15 minutes because it had seemed to come down a bit from having my epidural. {my april baby was not happening and i was okay with that because may 1 is a pretty awesome birthday i think} at 1:15 am the nurse came in and said my contractions were getting too strong and close together so she turned my pitocin down. i was starting to have some feeling in my right side when i had contractions so she turned my epidural up. she checked me and i was at 8 cm! she didn't expect me to be that far along. she didn't come back till 2:20 to check me again and i was at 9.5cm. i was still feeling some pain in my right side so she increased my epidural and had me lay on my right side and by 2:40am i was feeling great. no pain at all. she came back in at 3:30am to check me and i was dilated 10 cm! it was time!! she reminded me how to push and had me do a practice push to see if the baby was really ready. mid push she made me stop bc the baby was more than ready to come out and she still needed to go get the dr. she came back with dr. munoz and everyone else that needed to be there and 2 pushes later baby boy mitton {he still didn't have a name at this point} was out. 3:49am. josh cut the cord and they gave him to me to hold. he was beautiful. messy, but just perfect. they cleaned him off a bit and let me just hold him. part of me was a little worried that it wouldn't be as "magical" as it was with avery, but it was. the nurse took him to check him out and measure him and he cried the whole time but as soon as she gave him back to me he stopped. he weighed 7 lbs 3 oz and was 20 inches long. dr. munoz was still working on me this whole time and did so for about an hour after delivery. my placenta didn't want to come out i guess and after 30 minutes they have to "go in and get it" but luckily right at the 30 minute mark it came out. but she still was stitching away. i guess i had a lot of bleeding and every time she tried to stop one spot from bleeding it just created more bleeding. so finally after an hour of being stitched up she thought she got it all fixed. my mom and avery were waiting so they finally were able to come in and see us. avery immediately loved her little baby brother. at 5:45am i was moved to my post partum room and recovery was pretty normal i think. with avery i couldn't move without help because of the magnesium but this time i could get up on my own and everything was just so much easier {still hard and painful, but way easier}. my sister, trina, drove from cali to come see us. she came that day to the hospital with avery and mom. my sister, kirsten, and my two nieces came to visit as well. the following day my brother, zeke, came with my mom, avery, trina and my 3 nephews. we were discharged on thursday.

weight stats:
5/1 @ 3:49 am 7 lbs 3 oz
5/1 @ 9 pm 7 lbs
5/2 @ 8 pm 6 lbs 12 oz
5/7 @ first check up 7 lbs 2 oz
5/17 @ two week check up 8 lbs

pictures coming soon.

birth story

kolby had his two week check up on thursday. he is growing like a champ and is up to 8 lbs. he is a predictable newbown--eats, sleeps, pees and poops and eats some more. i can't believe he is almost three weeks old!

here is his story...

he was due friday, may 11th but i was really hoping for the end of april. avery was born 4 weeks early so i thought there was a chance he could come early enough to be an april baby.

as a reminder here is a brief overview of my delivery experience with avery: i woke up a few days before my 36 week mark with what i thought was the flu. i had a fever, the chills and just felt horrible all over. josh was gone all day and i just thought that maybe it would go away with a day of rest. i finally decided i better take my temperature and it was above the limit when they want you to get checked out. so we decided we better head to the er. i assumed i just was gonna be given some fluids and be sent home. i had some blood work done and a urine test done. they found i had a kidney infection and wanted me to stay over night to get some antibiotics. they also found protein in my urine and decided they would do a 24 hour urine collection to see just how much protein since i would be there anyways. my blood pressure was also quite high...not to mention i had severe swelling...all signs of pre-eclampsia. so there i was...not at all what i expected! after my 24 hour stay they decided i was gonna be induced because i did indeed have pre-eclampsia. so after a couple days of cervidil and hours of pitocin i finally started having contractions. they hurt. for some reason i didn't get my epidural until after a couple hours of painful contractions. it finally came and it was amazing.  delivery was smooth and easy. right before being moved to my new post partum room a nurse pushed on my stomach and i bled. a lot. we got cleaned up and moved. i was put on magnesium. it was terrible! they debated giving me a blood transfusion but settled with iron pills and monitored me. we went home a couple days later. so not the most pleasant 5 days {3 of which i was on bed rest and the other 2 i could barely move from the delivery and magnesium} of my life.

kolby was a much more pleasant experience. i really wanted to go into labor on my own and for some reason really wanted my water to break. for days i had read other women's experiences with their water breaking out in public and how it was actually much more common to have it break in the hospital. so i didn't get my hopes up.

on monday, april 30th i had pretty much given up hope that my april baby would happen. i posted on facebook that my chances of having my baby were slipping away {even though i still hoped it would happen and had a slight feeling that maybe it would}. i didn't know that just a few hours later those chances were about to change.

josh works during the day and gets home at 3pm so it was just avery and i at home. okay, here is where it may be too much information, but oh well. as usual i had to pee a ton that day. but, something was a little different. even after i had thought i finished peeing i still was peeing a little. i tried to think nothing of it, but since i had read so many stories about women having their water leak and not fully break it kinda got my hopes up. but i just kinda waited it out to see if it would happen again. it did. and again and again. i told josh when he got home what was going on and he of course didn't think anything of it. i just let it go, but in the back of my mind i knew it wasn't pee. i decided i would just go about my day and headed off to my nieces softball game with avery. at the end of the game i stood up and all of a sudden my pants were wet. i was quite embarrassed. i told my mom and sister that i either just peed my pants or my water just broke. luckily, it was getting dark already so nobody could see my wet pants but just in case my mom walked behind me up to the bathroom. there wasn't much i could do there so i decided i would just go home and try to figure out if it was my water that broke or if i peed my pants. i had read so many stories online about women having to sit on towels and blankets after their water broke so i grabbed the only thing i had in my car--a plastic grocery bag--just in case more came out. i got home and after going back and forth whether or not to go to the hospital to get checked i decided to just go in to be sure. i packed a bag for avery and called my mom to tell her we were bringing her over. i packed a bag for myself {something i didn't get to do when i had avery}. the whole way to the hospital i told josh that maybe we should just turn around and wait a little bit longer to see if i started having contractions because i didn't want to go in and be super embarrassed if i really did just pee my pants. i even sat in the car for a bit because i wasn't sure if i wanted to go in. but, we did.

stay tuned for what happened next {kolby needs me}....

he's here.

kolby joshua mitton

5.1.2012

3.49 am

7 lbs 3 oz

20 inches