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Kaiden one month old ;)

Kaiden is now a month old and is healthy as can be :) He Now weighs 9 lbs. 5 oz. and is 21.5 inches long and is growing every day. He is already on a schedule where he eats every 4 hours and is doing awesome, at night he'll sometimes sleep for 5 or six hours so me and Jake aren't loosing to much sleep, which is nice. He is starting to smile a lot more as well. Whenever we go out he does really well because the car ride puts him right to sleep. He is such a good baby and only gets fussy when he is hungry or getting his diaper changed other than that he never crys. I love my lil man more than anything and being a mommy is the best feeling in the world. I love putting him first and taking care of him. Words can't explain how much we love him<3 Now for some pictures:  :)

Labor and Delivery story :)

This is going to be my labor and delivery experience! :) My water broke on January 7th around six o'clock PM. at home. I was just about to eat dinner until I felt a little gush of water and I didn't know if it was just discharge at first so I went into the bathroom to check and I just kept leaking clear odorless liquid and then knew my water had broke. When I told Jake this he was running around getting all of the hospital bags in the car, putting a towel on the seat for the way to the hospital and calling everyone we know. He was in such a panic mode it was cute. After I put a pad on I went and ate some oreo's and then decided we should go to the hospital. We waited about an hour and a half until heading to the hospital. When we got there around 8 at night they made sure it was actually my water that had broke. I wasn't having any contractions (that I could feel) at this point so the nurse had me walk around the hospital for an hour before getting checked into a labor and delivery room. Having my water break was automatic admittance and they don't let you go home after that. After I got into my Labor and delivery room with Jake, my mom and Eva, they hooked me up to my IV and a heart monitor for Kaiden and another monitor to watch my contractions. The IV was the worst part because she didn't get a vain on my left hand she had to do it again on the right hand. It sucked being hooked up to everything because every time I wanted to get up and walk or go to the bathroom I had to call a nurse in to unhook me. I still didn't have any contractions that whole night and we all tried to get some sleep. The next day in the morning of the 8th of January they started me on pitocin which is supposed to jump start labor and contractions. It took most of the day until I started to feel contractions. They first started me on a low dose of pitocin and kept increasing it when the nurse would come in. Once they got really strong the nurse came in and asked if I wanted the epidural. Since I have an extremely low pain tolerance I got the epidural which what seemed really scary before I got it, I was sitting on the bed crying my eyes out because I was scared how much it would hurt, I didn't look at the needle either. Luckily my mom Jake and Eva all got to be in the room to comfort me. The lady who gave me the epidural was extremely rude and didn't seem to care how scared I was. Luckily the epi didn't even hurt at all. It felt like when you have a small ache in your back and you need to pop your back. I don't see how mom's go with out an epidural. After the epidural I just needed to dilate more. I was at 3cm for a long time (until later that night) and didn't seem to be progressing much. I also had to put on an oxygen mask because his heart rate would drop whenever I had a contraction. This is the first time they introduced the idea that I might have to get a C-section, which REALLY scared me because I didn't know anything about getting a c-section and had definitely not planned on getting one. So they waited two more hours to see if I had progressed and with a huge relief the next time they checked me I was at 7CM. Only 3 more CM to go. We waited hours to see if I could keep progressing but unfortunately I wasn't. This is when they came in again for the second time saying I was going to have to get a c-section. and this time they were really positive about it. Jake even got the scrubs they make people wear to be in the room. This whole time it was a resident nurse who was checking me and NOT the doctor who was on call. To avoid a c-section my mom and Jake called in the doctor to ask if she thought there was anything that we could do. The doctor then came in and realized that Kaiden was stuck behind my pubic bone and that's why I wasn't dilating. (The resident nurse who was still learning had no idea what she was doing!!) So the doctor then made me change positions and within an hour I was 10cm dilated! :) If it had been the doctor who was there the whole time instead of the nurse it would have saved me so much time of being in labor and I would have had him way sooner! But in saying that I got lucky I had such an awesome doctor and not a doctor who didn't care and just said I needed a C-section. At around six O'clock January 9th almost 2 days later, I was finally ready to push. I had got the epidural so I had figured I wouldn't feel all the pain that labor entails, BUT my epidural had wore off for the second time and the nurse would not do anything about it. So I had felt everything, I pretty much had a natural labor. After pushing for three hours Kaiden was born at 8:57 AM on January 9th. weighing 7lbs. 2oz. and he was 19 1/2 inches long. They had set him on my chest for not even a minute before taking him to the NICU. :/ They had to put him on anti-biotics for a week because he had a high risk of infection since he wasn't born until 39 hours after my water broke. This was really upsetting because I thought he would be able to stay with me until the next day and then we would go home. So after ten long days in the hospital later we got to take our baby boy home. :) Yes, it was a horrible labor experience but everything was worth having Kaiden here and having him come home healthy. A word of advice would be to stick up for yourself because honestly not all the nurses and doctors always know what their talking about. But that's my labor and delivery story :)

40 weeks 4 days pregnant

39 weeks

40 weeks

Yupp.. I'm still pregnant! already 40 weeks and 4 days! almost 41 weeks. It's kinda funny how we thought he would be here before Christmas let alone new years! ha, he must be super comfy cozy in there and doesn't wanna come out. :( On Monday January 9th I am scheduled for an NST which is just monitoring the babies heart for 15 minutes or so to make sure that it stays at a good consistent pace and then right after that I am scheduled for an ultrasound to check that the placenta is still doing its job and that he has enough fluid/ amniotic fluid around him. If everything looks good he is going to be induced on Friday the 13th! but I'm going to try and get him induced on January 11th because I really don't want him born on the Friday the 13th lol. Also January 11th is my brothers birthday! which would be kinda cool. I thought that the doctor wouldn't make me wait that long to have him because if I do wait till the 13th I'll be 41 weeks and 3 days. I really hope he decides to come on his own before than because if I can avoid being induced I would. I have been trying so many methods to induce labor like stretching, squats, bouncing on a birthing ball, acupressure, pregnancy massage, walking, eating pineapple, and getting my membranes stripped and still nothing seems to work. I guess unless a baby is REALLY ready to come out, they won't. Luckily Kaiden is still moving all the time and has a good heartbeat at 140 BPM almost every time I go in. We just want a healthy baby! (: I have retained so much water now, I have swollen feet, calves and fingers and Kaiden continues to grow. A big concern we have is having a natural delivery so I don't have to have a C-section. Because I'm so tiny, and we don't know how big he's going to be we are worried about leaving him in there to long after my due date. So hopefully we will find out all the answers on Monday and hopefully everything goes good! I am also making a video of all my pregnancy pictures that I will post as soon as he is born so I can add some pictures of him on there. So less than a week and baby boy will be here! We can't wait! (:

39 weeks & 4 days pregnant

I am now 39 weeks and 4 days pregnant! No signs of labor yet :( I'm waiting for my lil man to get here! and today is Christmas Eve. I'm hoping he gets here before January. He has dropped a lot and he is really low now. I also had my membranes stripped Last week but it didn't do anything for me. Except I'm not sure my nurse did it right. I also found out last week that my doctor is out of the office for this week and next so if I do go into labor she won't be the one to deliver me, which made me mad that she didn't inform me about this. I have been trying to walk a lot and I also heard that fresh pineapple can help you go into labor but still no luck. Last week I was also still only one centimeter dilated but that really doesn't tell me anything because you can go from 0cm to 10 cm dilated in a day. I'm hoping he comes naturally though so I don't have to be induced. Anyways everyone wish me luck on a quick and easy labor and delivery. :)

35 Weeks pregnant

WOW! I can't believe I'm 35 weeks already! Only about a month left before we get to meet our baby boy!!! :) It's crazy how fast all of this has gone by. We are SO SO excited! But I'm extremely nervous about labor and delivery. We'll get through it though. I just hope he's born before Christmas so we can have our little man with us on Christmas and so we don't spend Christmas in the hospital. He will definitely be the best present ever!  We had our baby shower last Saturday which went really good and was a lot of fun. We got a lot of good stuff that we will need and lots of diapers!(: We are completely set when he gets here! Which is a huge relief. Starting December we are going to clean everything so we are all prepared. Around my belly now measures 40". Kaiden still kicks all the time but I can tell that he is definitely getting cramped in there. He has about 1-2 pounds to gain still. December 2nd is my last 2 week appointment till I start going every week. It still doesn't seem real that he is going to be here so soon! In the midst of the holidays, getting shopping done for Christmas, and Thanksgiving and then finals next week its all going by so fast. Anyways, as I said, we are extremely excited to meet our baby boy and can't wait until he gets here! :)  

32 weeks pregnant

Hey everyone! I know it's been 6 weeks since I've updated but not to much has happened. I'm now 32 weeks pregnant and 39.5" around my belly and I weigh 129 lbs. So I've gained 25 pounds since my pre-pregnancy weight. This week our baby boy weighs about 4 pounds and is about 17 inches long!! Thanks to their recently matured lungs and a strengthening immune system, over 90% of babies born in their 32nd week survive! He will also gain about a pound ever 2 weeks until he is born. Jake and I finally got the baby's nursery set up as you can see in the pictures above. All my pre-natal appointments have been good as well as baby Kaiden's heartbeat which has been in the 140's. At 28 weeks my appointments changed to every two weeks instead of every month. And at 36 weeks I will start going in every week! It's getting so close! only 2 more months till our lil man is here. For cravings I've been craving a lot of sweets! and halloween did not help lol, I also used to never drink milk but lately I have to have a glass of milk with every meal which is really weird for me. A couple weeks ago my appetite really went down though so now not many foods sound good to me. Some days I have to force myself to eat full meals and not just snacks. Also I have been feeling EXHAUSTED! It's hard for me to even stay awake in class, and I get really weak at random times during the day. I passed my glucose test at 25 weeks but I had to start taking more iron and calcium pills which I now have to take everyday as well as my pre-natal pills. On the up side Kaiden hasn't been in my ribs nearly as much, and his kicks have got a lot stronger as you can see in my video from my last blog. Other than that I only have about 5 1/2 weeks of school left! Then I'm taking next semester off to take care of Kaiden. Unfortunately we don't get any more ultra sounds. :/ Also, his baby shower is this month as well! (: So I can't wait to see everyone. That's about all! (:

week 28-32 pics and video

28 weeks

29 weeks

31 weeks

32 weeks

 

 

26 Weeks 5 Days Pregnant

25 Weeks

26 weeks

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't updated for 3 weeks! Not that much has happened, and I've been busy with exam's. Kaiden's been busy getting big and strong for the big day! I have my next appointment October 5th and I'll be 28 weeks exactly! Which means no more monthly appointments, my appointments will now be every 2 weeks until I'm 36 weeks then I have an appointment every week! Another mile stone on Wednesday I will finally be in my third trimester! The last stretch, YAY! Besides being thirsty a lot I haven't had much for symptoms. Kaiden still loves to set him self up in my ribs, and last night he started kicking me in the ribs.. OUCH! We now have pretty much everything we need, we recently got the stroller and car seat that I wanted, his swing, the high chair, and more clothes. We set up his dresser as well. Now we are just waiting for Jake's sister to move out of the room down stairs so we can start setting up his nursery! haha. Since we set up the dresser I washed, folded and organized his clothes. I'm so excited to start decorating. We're still planning on having a baby shower next month sometime so hopefully all that works out ha. About a week ago I weighed 120, so I've gained about 16 pounds since before I was pregnant! And my belly measures about 36.5 inches around. 6 inches bigger from when I was 15 weeks pregnant which I was 30.7 inches. :O Oh and I forgot to mention that my next appointment I get to take my glucose test which checks for gestational diabetes. I get to drink this yummy sweet drink wait and hour an then get my blood taken. lol. I hope the results are good so I don't have to go back for the 3 hour glucose test. Other then that my appointment will just be a regular pre-natal appointment. :) Everything's been going well I will try and update soon.

23W 1D. Baby kicks, and being a young mom.

Hey everyone! Today I am 23 weeks and 1 days pregnant. Not much else has happened, just a few little updates. Lately baby has been kicking A LOT! through out the whole day, and now it's not just kicking, I can feel him moving when I have my hand on my belly. The other night there was a big hard round indent on my belly from where I'm pretty sure his head was. He loves to stretch out now and I can feel him pushing :) I love that feeling!! This week his swallowing reflex will develop so I should start to feel his hiccups soon. :) One thing that has been very uncomfortable is when he pushes on my ribs. If I'm sitting up it can be pretty uncomfortable cause its a lot of pressure, and it gets harder to breath cause he's pushing on my lungs as well. but usually when I lay down it helps a lot stretching out. And also the other night Jake was setting his head on my belly the baby kicks him in the ear lol, he seems to respond a lot to his voice too :) Another thing I wanted to mention is how dedicated to school I've been. I will admit last school year (my first year of college), I didn't try very hard and my grades showed from that. But this semester I had a complete turn around. It's not only because I want to get as many credits as I can before he's born but also cause I want him to be proud of me. Yes, I know I'm having a baby very young like many girls out there these days but I like to think of my situation as something different. I'm not going to quit going to school just because I have a child, I want him to be able to have a better life and so I can support him in every way that he needs. I'm not going to quit going to school and just work at a dead end job the rest of my life because I have a baby. In fact it should be the complete opposite. And because I have so much support that will make this all possible. Because of Jake and my family, I'm not worried about not having what we need now and for the future. If it wasn't for them I don't what I would do. I have such an amazing support group that I can still go to school and get my degree, I can still be with my son, and be financially supported. It's really an amazing feeling. I think that when a lot of girls get pregnant at a young age they think they either have to give up their child, quit going to school, or loose their relationships. This really is not the same situation for every teen mom. So for all the people that think that getting pregnant at a young age completely ruins your life, I'm just proof that it doesn't. I love my life right now and I wouldn't change a thing about it. So please don't feel bad for me because I'll be a young mom. I still have all my dreams that I will reach, I still have my family, my amazing boyfriend, my friends, and everything that I need to be happy in life. :)