Kaylyn's Birth

Daddy and Kaylyn

She weighed 5lb 14 oz

Baby Kaylyn

This was my first baby to be put on my tummy right after birth.

My blood pressure was high on Sunday, so the specialist sent me to the hospital to be observed. (We went to Kennewick General Hospital in Kennewick). We figured they'd send us home again, but we were thinking they would induce soon. But my blood pressure didn't come down enough, and Monday morning at 5 am they decided to induce. By 7:30 I was hooked up to the pit. I had magnesium to stop ceasures and bring my blood pressure down, Pit to induce labor, glucose to keep me hydrated and keep my sugars from crashing, antibotics because we didn't know my strep b: I was grateful they could put all my IV's in one hand. But we were always mixing cabels. I had a cuff on my arm that went off every 5 minutes to 30 minutes. I had my monitors to monitor contractions and baby's heart rate--we later moved to internal meters. We had my cathator. There were cords everywhere it seemed. Monday it seemed that I could doze through my contractions. It took me 6 hours to move from a 2 to a 3. Tuesday morning, we were tired of doing this laboring thing. But my contractions got to be quite strong. I moved from 25 on the monitor to having contractions at 95 strength. It hurt. I wasn't sure I could do this--and they checked me: I was a 4. So I had an epideral. I went from a 5 to a 9.1 in 20 minutes. Despite my epideral, it hurt. I was so glad I had the epideral. Todd didn't even object. And then my body started pushing the baby without any effort on my part. She was coming. She was born on the first push, at 11:23 am Tuesday May 26, 2009 (after 28-30 hours of labor depending on how you count it). And she was my very first baby that they put up on my tummy while they cleaned her up. Todd got to cut the umbillical cord. It's a girl. And she is so beautiful!! We love her so much.