My three sweet kids!
Beautiful baby Reese!
She made it! Little Reese was warmly welcomed into our family June 3, 2011. It was a rough ride to get her here, but she was worth it! Kassi and Tyler couldn't possibly love her more and they are great helpers for me. In fact, everyone always says #3 is so hard, but I have found it to be my easiest transition yet. Kassi was hard just because she was my first and adjusting to working full time and only ever thinking about me to being home full time and NOT thinking about what I wanted all the time was a little rough. Tyler was a hard transition because Kassi was only 18 months and Ricky was working out of town all week every week. Spending all that time alone with very little adult inderaction and two very small needy babies was very very hard on me. Reese has been a very good baby, eating and sleeping well, and being very conent in between. Kassi is very attentive and sure loves her liitle sister. Tyler loves to hold her and kiss her and tell me how cute she is. I love to sit and just hold her while she sleeps or talks to me, so I'm way behind in cleaning my house...but that can all wait. Reese is already 2 months old and it just goes by too fast!
Ok so here is the story: Reese was born on Friday, June 3rd. After weeks of contractions , I was dilated to 3 cm and 80% effaced, but not progressing very much or very fast. My doc was afraid she was getting too big. (Little did he know that I had like 5 lbs of water in there!) So after careful consideration, we decided to be induced. Pitocin started at 1:00. Since I was having such good contractions, and being my third, I was ready for a quick labor and a baby by dinner! My water broke on it's own around 4, and everyone was getting ready for progress- I got my epidural and got excited. Well...nothing happened that was good. I had SO much water that Reese had a really hard time adjusting to the sudden drought. Her heart rate started dropping pretty low after every contraction. Since it wasn't WITH the contractions, but after them, it was not good. So the nurse turned off the pitocin. I was back to square one- lots of regular contractions, but no progression. When my water broke I noticed it was slightly off color, not the usual clear water. Shortly after, I found out why. I started bleeding a lot. I thought that must mean that I was ready to push...but no. I was only at 5 cm. So all the blood was coming from my placenta separating too early. Between the blood, and Reese's heart rate, and NOT progressing but not being able to turn on the pitocin either, I was stuck. My doctor got me ready for a c-section and then we waited just a little longer. At the last min (we are now at like 8:00 at night...a few hours past my anticipated baby time. I was supposed to have a baby in my arms and a good steak dinner in my belly!) I started dilating...even with my weak contractions. Reese still took her sweet time, but was finally delivered at 11:07 pm. Since it was so late, no steak dinner for me. :( She was a very healthy 8.0 lbs and 20.5 inches long. She had a head FULL of hair (which none has fallen out!) and was just beautiful! I was instantly in love with my sweet baby. I love her so much and I'm so glad she is safely part of our family!
