The story of our sweet baby, kya.

It was Sunday the 25th of September, and I kept telling Chris to get the babies room ready and set up the babies room.  I felt a little stressed, because it wasn't ready.  We recently moved so our apartment was unorganized.  I was planning on getting it all ready the next day.  I felt a little nauseous throughout the day.  Chris's friend Jon came and help set up the crib.  I jokingly walked by and was like I might go into labor tonight you better hurry.  I still had 4 more weeks of pregnancy so I thought I had some time. 

It was 2:00 in the morning and I woke up to a gush of something.  Half asleep I went to the bathroom and thought I wet the bed.  Water kept coming and I knew this was different.  I woke up Chris and told him that I think my water had broken.  We were both in disbelief.  We paced the house for 10 min extreamly nervous.  My sister Elise was expecting her boy at any time.  She was 2 weeks ahead of me.  I called my mom and told her what was happening.  She thought I probably wet the bed.  I didn't have any contractions at all. 

I hoped in the shower, and asked chris to get the midwives on the phone.  He seriously paced back and forth for a half hour doing nothing.  We called the midwife and she told us to come to the hospital when we could because we were going to have this baby.  I was extremely nervous.  I could not believe this was happening now.  An hour after my water broke I started having contractions.  They were about 4 minutes apart and not very strong.  We got to the hospital and they checked to make sure my water broke.  My contractions were getting closer together and increasing in pain.  The nurses were taking there sweet time. The midwife was on her way, and I was starting to experience the joy of labor.

2 hours after my water broke my contractions were extremely painful! I was more than ready for my epidural.  Chris and I was wondering what was taking the nurses so long.  I was in pain!!!!!  They finally got everything together and I was getting the epidural.  My contractions were so painful at this point I felt like I was going to faint and I was throwing up, because of the pain.  I thought I might die.  The midwife checked me and I went from a 4 to an 8.5 in an hour.  This baby was coming with a vengeance.  Kya's heart rate began to drop to 50bpm and everyone was panicing.  The midwife was calling the doctor in for an emergancy c section.  I was moving side to side to try and help kya to stabalize her heart rate.  They gave me a shot to slow down my labor, and she began to stabalize.  My mom finally got there and I was trying to relax from all the stress.  Chris was in shock.

A total of 4 hours of labor and I was ready to have this baby.  I pushed her out in 20 minutes and she was here.  She is goergous.  I have never felt so happy to meet someone in my life.  She's perfect. Our eyes filled with tears and every fear that we had went away.  She has a wraped aroung her little finger.  She was born Sept. 26th at 7:45am and was 6lbs and 18 in.  She was a healthy baby girl.  She had a bit of a hard time breathing.  They took her to give her a bath and we went to sleep.

The doctor woke me up and told me that she was going to be admitted to the NICU.  He didn't know what was going on but thought she might have a infection or something.  I was heart broken.  I didn't know what was going on.  The lack of information that I was receiving was frustrating.  She has been in the NICU for 6 days.  It has been one of the hardest times of our lives.  She is doing good and we hope to have her home this week.  She is the love of our lives, and I can't imagine life without her.  She is so perfect.  Her dad is smitten with her.  I am so blessed to be able to experience motherhood.  I can't wait to be able to take care of my sweet baby, without any cords or nurses. We can't wait for our family to be home together!