More pictures of Kennedy

As of 2:54 PM today my little girl will be one week old. I can’t believe how quickly time has flown by. I have enjoyed every moment of being a mommy. Kennedy is so much fun and she changes and grows every day. We have been taking tons of pictures of her because she changes everyday. She is a good sleeper and lets me sleep for a few hours a time and then will go back to sleep after she eats a little. Feeding her is going very well and I am very Anti-bottle right now. She does so well feeding I don’t want to mess up a good thing. Overall this has been the BEST week of my life:)

I have had alot of people asking about going into labor, so I thought I would tell my story on here since we have Dori here to help right now. 4:00 last Thursday May 14th I woke up with a funny feeling in my lower belly. I thought I had to pee since that was all I was doing the last month of the pregnancy. I got up and went to the bathroom. I then went back to bed. A few minutes later when I rolled over the feeling came back. Needless to say the feeling got stronger and stronger so at 5:00 I woke Jay up and told him I didn’t know what was wrong. By this time the “feeling” was more in my back than in my belly. I got up and took a shower and straightened my hair just in case it was labor I wanted to look pretty for pictures. By this time it was a little bit of pain and it was coming every 5 minutes and lasting almost a minute. at 6:30 Jay said he wasn’t going to go to work just in case it was the real thing. I told him he was crazy and we were going to work. By 6:45 after packing our bags, tlaking about going to work, and Jay cleaning all the toilets in the house we were on the way to the hospital. The pain was making me flap my hands it hurt so bad. We hadn’t determined where labor and delivery was previously, so we were walking into the hospital not knowing where we were going. People kind of looked at me like I was crazy when I said I think I’m in labor where should I go. )Remember I never got to big while pregnant so I looked more like 30 weeks pregnant than 37.) We walked into the labor and delivery floor right at 7:00. Turns out it was time for shift change so they left Jay and I sitting in chairs for what felt like hours (actual time 7 minutes). They asked if I had called my doctor and I told them no. They were shocked because it was his day to work the labor and delivery floor and he was coming onto shift. They then took me upstairs to determine if I was in labor or not. We were in a tiny room and they asked that I take off all my clothes and put on their gown. We did this and were laid in a bed. They hooked monitors up to my stomach to monitor contractions and Kennedy’s heartbeat. They then checked my cervix and I was 2 cn dialated and 95-100% effaced. (I was 1 cn and 90% effaced 3 days prior) They watched the contactions for about 30 minutes and determined that I was indeed in labor. They then gave me an IV which was the worst part of the whole delivery. She first tried to get one in my hand and it didn’t take and bled alot. Finally she got one in my left arm. We then walked downstairs back to labor and delivery where we were put in a very nice comfy room. They asked me a million questions from do I have a pet in the house to do we have running water and heat. She said that she had been watching me from upstairs and as “quickly as I was clicking out contractions” they knew they would see me soon. She then checked my cervix and I was at 3 cn dialted. We talked for a little while and then my labor and delivery nurse came in. She was a rough and tuff lady. No nonsense. Mean even. She asked about the pain and I told her it was bad but not horrible. As time went by the contractions came harder and longer. By this point my mom, sister, and Scott were there and Jay’s family and daddy and Barb were on the way. I was really starting to hurt so I wasn’t good company. All I wanted was ice water and they kept giving me these tiny little cups of water. I didn’t want to hold Jay’s hand or be touched or talked to. The pain got so bad that I would shoot up in bed when I felt a contraction coming. This made the nurse angry. She told me I could not have an epidural until they got a good record of the baby’s heartbeat and contractions. Hello lady….they are coming long hard and strong… what more do you need? Then Doctor Silvario came in and checked me. I was already 6 and a half cn dialated. Only 4 more to go! The nurse told me I had to get through a bag and a half of IV fluid before she would let me get an epidural. The pain was…BAD! OUCH! She then gave me a pain killer in my IV. It did not help the pain. It made me DRUNK! I was then drunk/ high and in pain. Finally in swoops the anethesialogist with the epidural. Getting the epidural wasn’t bad at all, but Nazi Nurse kept fussing at me for twitching. Well then quit telling me when it is coming! After that thing got in I fell asleep. Hard asleep. The family was there and I selpt through their visit. I would wake up every now and then but that was all. After one hour they rolled me over. After two hours on the epidural I told her I was feelinging a twinge. I kicked the family out so she could re-roll me over. She then dicided to take a quick peek. I was 10 cn and she could see black hair! She put Jay to work and we started pushing at 2:25. She rolled a mirror out so I could watch. It was so cool seeing Kennedy coming into the world. After 15 minutes of pushing Dr. Silvario came in to help. We finished up the delivery and Kennedy was as perfect as ever. Lexington does things a little different so they let Jay and I snuggle and kiss her while they cleaned me up. They immediatly gave me a chance to breast feed (during this time she did happen to poop on me…welcome to motherhood.) They then invited the family into the labor and delivery room to watch her be weighed. Everyone agreed with us that she is the prettiest baby ever. Then my mom hung back and got to hold her for a second before she too left. Jay and I had a little more alone time with our princess and then Jay took her to the nursery. During this time I got myself cleaned up and stood up and then was wheeled to my room. My room was also very nice and in no time they brought her in to me. It has been a roller coaster of joy ever since. I do love this little girl so much!