So I had started my weekly appointments with my doctor. About 2 weeks ago my doctor told me that I was 2 cm dilated and 50% effaced. She didn't think that I was going to make it to my next doctors appointment. She said that I had a look on my face like I am so done with being pregnant. That was when I was 37 weeks along. So I told my work that I would work until Wednesday and then I needed to go. So the week went by and sur
prise I did make it to my next doctors appointment. She didn't seem all that surprised to see me again. My doctor checked the baby and his heart rate was good. I was 3 cm dilated and 80% effaced. She told me the same story as last week. I probably wouldn't make until next week....but still you never know when the baby could come. At this point Tyler and I were getting really anxious. But I was able to find things at home to do. I cleaned the house and crocheted a hat and a cocoon wrap for baby to keep him warm. On Friday Sharron called us and told us that they were getting sealed in the temple on Saturday and were wondering if I was going to be in labor. I told her that I most likely would not be and we would be able to
make it. Later that night I started to get contractions. We started to write them down but they weren't very consistent. They were anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes apart and then towards the end they stopped. Which is also what happened the night before. So we decided to just go to bed. We packed up the rest of our stuff in our suite case just in case baby decided to come. We were only in bed for about an hour and a half when I woke up and told Tyler that either I had an accident in the bed or my water had broke. that was at 1 in the morning. We weren't sure if my water had actually broken because there wasn't that much water on the bed. But whenever i stood up it kept coming. We looked in the book but couldnt find much information about when your water broke. But we decided that was what had happene
d. We got to the hospital and checked in. They put us in a delivery room and Tyler and I started to watch Lord of the Rings. They checked me to make sure my water had broken and put 2 ties around my belly. To monitor baby heart and my contractions. We waited until a was more dilated . It took forever for me to get dilated to a 4 and then after that it went really fast. The anesthesiologist came in and gave me an epidural. He had to put it in take it out and put it in again 3 times. I guess it just didnt want to go in the spot that it needed to be. It was pretty painful. But after he finally got it in I started to feel much better. I was a little disappointed that you could only push the button every 15 minutes to get more medicin
e. There were times when I wanted to push it more. So when I was finally fully dilated they moved me from my left to my right for pushing. Which I am glad they did the moving around helped a lot. It also made it easier for baby to start moving down more. Carters heart beat kept dropping every time I would push so we had to wait a little bit for him to recover. We found out that the reason that his heart beat kept dropping was because he had his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. So they had to cut me and give me an episiotomy so that in the next couple of pushes I could get carter out. The epidural started to wear off towards the end so the last little bit was pretty painful. But they were able to get carter out. They cleaned him up a little and let me hold him. He cried a little bit at first but when they were cleaning him up i got worried because he wasn't crying. He has been like that pretty much the whole time.....hardly cries at all just a super good baby. He was 6 pounds 7 ounces 19 inches long.
I cant believe how fast time has gone by. Carter will be 6 months on the 26th! He is growing and changing every day. Some of the things he can do now is sit up . We are still working on that one. He is a little bit wobbly but its getting better. He can hold his head up, roll over both ways. Im not sure if babies usually do this, but he crawls on his back. The hair on the back of his head isn't as thick as it use to be. One of his favorite things to do is crawl on his back to my afghan and get his fingers tangled in it. Its really funny to watch. He likes making all kinds of sounds now and blows bubbles with his mouth. I think daddy taugh
t him that one. I cant believe how wiggly he is. He is always kicking his feet like crazy. I guess that isn't that surprising because he was like that in my stomach as well. He is still sleeping from 10 until 7 in the morning which is really nice. Getting up in the middle of the night is really hard. Once he is asleep there is no waking him up. I think he got that from his mommy. When Tyler gets up Carter is usually in his bed kicking and grabbing his feet. Or playing with his bears on his pack and play. When daddy walks by he gets really exited because he hopes that someone will pick him up. Tyler has to get ready for work so he goes straight to the bathroom, so then Carter starts to make this 
whimper like why wont you pick me up. He is going to have his check up this Friday so we'll see how fat his has gotten. Last time he was 13 pounds so i'm hoping he'll be at least 14 or 15 pounds but we'll see ;) .
