Kaden's Here!

Here is the story of Kaden's birth...

On February 6th, my Aunt Mary and cousin Laura threw a baby shower for my sister and I. We had all of my mom's family over. After everyone left, around 4pm, I started getting contractions. This was not a new thing for me as I had contractions for about 2 weeks at that point. Around 5:30 I started timing them just for the heck of it and they were consistently 5-6 minutes apart. I called the on-call midwife and she said to wait until they hurt so bad they made me cry. I thought that was stupid because I don't cry that easily. I went home from my sister's house and continued to count. Around 9pm I called my sister because the contractions were stronger and about 3 minutes apart. She thought I should get checked, so she drove me to labor and delivery. The nurse checked me and I was dilated 3cm and 100% effaced. She told me to walk around for an hour and they would check me again. Kelly and I walked all over the hospital for an hour and I got checked again around midnight. I had not progressed at all so they sent me on my way. But not before giving me an Ambien to help me sleep.

I went back to Kelly's house to sleep. Around 5:30am I woke up to a burst of water. My water broke. I was so out of it from the Ambien that I went into the bathroom and just sat there trying to figure out what to do. Fortunately, Kelly came out of her room to check on me and I told her my water broke. We got in the car and headed back the hospital. At this point, the contractions were pretty painful but luckily the Ambien was helping me. I got checked in and put in a room around 6am. At 7:30am the anesthesiologist came in and gave me the epidural (OUCH!) After the epidural I felt amazing and everything was sort of a blur. I started pushing at 9:45am and only had to push a few times. At one point, the nurses got pretty serious and told me not to push. Everyone was rushing around and I had no idea what was going on. It wasn't until after the fact that I found out the cord was around his neck. Kaden was out at 10:26am.

Despite being born 2 weeks early, he was a healthy weight and everything was developed. He was slightly jaundice and had some issues with body temperature, but, as of today, he is healthy as a horse!