Welcome To The World

I haven't been doing to well at keeping things up to date around here. I need to do a TON of updating, but for now I will start with the biggest news.

We are now a family of 8. Our #5 son arrived on the 25th.

I'm not sure how many of the lovely details I should share, but I think I can cover the story for anyone who is interested in details.

I was due Aug. 18th, so this really was a little bit of a shock to have our baby arrive 3 1/2 wks early. So, this story starts Tuesday....

We had gone up to the Air Force Museum to spend some time there with Mike's parents and one of his brothers and their family. When we arrived I had more aches and pains and I walked slow, but other than that, things were good. We wandered around and followed the kids :). It was quite hot in there with not enough air flow (in my opinion).






As we were getting done and heading out, I found myself not feeling well at all. I started feeling weak, tired and a little light-headed. I figured I was a little dehydrated and so I was trying to drink the water that we did have. We went back to Mike's parents house and I really wasn't doing well. Mike helped me down to the basement and I layed down and went in and out of sleep. Later I started to wonder about temperature. I started to feel chilly and started thinking that maybe we should be heading to the hospital, especially if I do have a fever.

We ended up leaving Mike's parents at about 7:30. During the drive home, I started having contractions. We decided about Bountiful area that we better head straight to the hospital. I wanted to be home. So we dropped the kids off at a friends house. (Thank you Peterson's!!) We headed to the hospital and got into a room and we found out that I had a fever of 102. The contractions weren't doing anything, so the big thing was my fever and after doing more testing, my white blood count. So we ended up doing more extensive testing and figuring out that I had an infection, but we didn't know where. They kept me overnight and we started a round of antibiotics to help me. Then they just monitored me for awhile to see how things were going.

The next afternoon Mike left to take care of kids and get things figured out here at home. From talking to the nurse we figured the Dr. would be in around 4:30 and he would probably just send me home, so that's pretty much what we figured would happen. Well, come about 4:00 I was on the monitors again and I started to notice contractions more... I had been sleeping off and on and probably didn't notice them until now. By about 4:30, the Dr. wasn't there yet and I was really dealing with contractions so the nurse decided to check me...I was a 5. We were having a baby. So, I called Mike (it felt like a million times trying to get a hold of him) and told him that I was at a 5 and he needed to get to the hospital now. With the nurse I decided that I would get an epidural (I've never had one before), so I could make it through. With not sleeping well and not feeling well, I wasn't sure how long I could handle what was going on. So, Mike walks in as they are prepping me for the epidural and the Dr. walks in about 5 min. after that.

Side not about my epidural... it took way to long and I'm still not sure if it was worth it in the end or not to have gotten it. So, as the anesthesiologist was finishing up, I told everyone that we had a problem...the baby was coming now! So, they hurried to get me laying down so the Dr. could check me and I was complete. I've never sat complete before without delivering, so that was new and probably a good thing because the Dr. still needed to get covered up and there wasn't anyone yet there from the nursery.

Next thing you know, we are delivering and we have a beautiful new baby boy. It was a 1hr 22min labor. He came 3 1/2 wks early weighing 7lb 2oz. I think I'm glad he didn't come at 40 wks, he may have been 9lbs. :) He was 20in long. He did have a temp after being born, probably because of mine. After a couple of hours he was doing just fine and they were able to bring him to me in my room. As of right now, we are thinking that the infection was in my placenta. During delivery it started to tear away from the uterine wall and they did send it to get tested, but I haven't heard yet. I was still running a temp and so I got some rounds of antibiotics to help me get better. We were excited when my temp got down below 100. ;)

Everything ended up going very well and we were both able to come home on Friday (there was a chance that I wasn't going to be able to). We are so glad to have #5 here in our family. The kids love to hold him and want to be with him all the time. It's amazing how much love you can have for all of your children.

Each child sure comes into this world their own way and in their own time. I'm so grateful for each one of my children and the impact that they have on my life. I don't have any pictures right now of the kids with him, but I do have some of just him so I will add them here. :)