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.
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.
