Cousin Sadie
first bath
he's such a good dad
gorda:)
We had a baby!!
April 13th Hyrum and I went in for our weekly baby appt and the nurse took my blood pressure and it was about 140/100. Or maybe it was 170/100....who knows, its kinda a blur:) The Dr came in and took my blood pressure again and said she was worried that it was a little high, and that she would induce me that day. She said it like our whole lives weren't about to change drastically. I always pictured balloons and streamers to fall when she announced we would be having the baby. Ok, not really, but it would have made things a little less scary.
Hyrum and headed over to the hospital and they hooked me up to an IV, which is totally yucky feeling. I'm not a fan of needles AT ALL, and to have one stuck in your hand for 2 days is no bueno. But they kept me happy by keeping the grape juice and ice coming. They later wheeled me to the labor and delivery room where they hooked me up to some pitosin ( If that's how its spelled) and the contractions started kicking in. Remember that Im terrified of needles so I tried to let the contractions go as long as I could, but then the time came where it was to much and they called the big bad needle guy in. I didn't look at him once. I was afraid I would catch sight of that scary needle everyone told me about, and to be honest, the needle was the least painful. Its the part where he shoves golf balls into your back, or at least that's what it felt like. The epidural kicked in...bliss. BLAH BLAH BLAH yadda yadda yadda, here comes baby, push, push, push...57 min later baby Dakota popped out with all five fingers and toes. Not to mention the hairball on top of her head ( that explains all the heartburn). She broke the scale at 8lbs 9.4oz and was 20 inches long.
So far she is doing great. Shes dropped a few lbs because nursing is killing me, and she doesn't want to have much to do with it. But, shes still gonna make it. She does what most of us dream of doing, eat,sleep and cries when she wants to. But sleeping is her favorite, we even have to wake her up at night to feed her every 3-4 hours.
Mom just left this morning, so lets see if we can still function without her. We LOVED having her!!!
We have more pictures, but I will have to post them later today:)
