The Rising and Falling Action

I (Connie, Kylee's mom) thought I would do this post for Kylee because she is more anxious to post about the baby than the details of the experience so she might have left all of this out.

I got a text at about 2:00pm saying that she had been having cramps pretty much all day and they were happening about every 5-6 minutes at that point. I didn't get to worked up about it because I expected it to be a long time from there. About 2 hours after that she text again and said that they were every 4 minutes apart. I called Kaydee and we decided we better get ready to head up to Logan.

While on our way, Kylee called and told us that they had kind of stopped. We told her to go for a walk. Her and Conner had a couple of last minute things to buy so they went to K-Mart and walked around there for awhile. While there the pains started up again and this time a bit more painful.

Kaydee and I got to Logan at about 8:30. We were all hungry so we took care of that business at Costa Vida. Afterwards we all went for a ride and waited until her pains got a little more intense before we took her to the hospital. Her hips started killing her with each contraction and it actually seemed like she was in real labor! Uto that point the only way we would have dared take her to the hospital was if she agreed to FAKE pain and make it look REAL. We DID NOT want to go in and have them send us homes with our heads hanging!

Kylee made us laugh at the hospital. When we went up to the desk the nurse asked what she could help her with. Kylee looked at us and said, "you tell her, I'm too little."

At the hospital they took her in and put a bracelet on her wrist (I thought, good! that means she's here to say). They even had her take off her clothes and get into a gown (another good sign). We waited a bit for a nurse to come and check her. She told us the magic number needed to be "4" or else we would be going home, despite the bracelet and gown. We were in luck, she was at a 4.5! We were there to stay.

After about an hour they offered her an epidural. She gladly accepted. We were relaxed and settled in watching hippos on Animal Planet when she realized she didn't have the ability to move her lower body and make herself comfortable. Every five minutes we were repositioning her. It wasn't that easy, given the fact that she was DEAD WEIGHT. She had Conner stand at her bedside so that he move her upon demand. She literally started going a bit nuts by the fact that she had no control over her legs and it took us a while to help her get relaxed again. After that she fell asleep (yeah!) and we continued on with watching Animal Planet.

They checked her throughout the night and by 4:00am she had made it to a "10." They told her they would have her spend an hour doing "rest and decend" before she started pushing. At 5:00 am they started the process and he was born at 6:13. (Kylee will get into details from there)
As her mom, I just want to say how proud I am of her. She was not only great through the labor and delivery but has been awesome throughout her entire prenancy. She was a trooper and hardly ever complained about any of it.

I love you both and I'm excited that you have been blessed with such a beautiful and healthly baby. You'll be great parents, it's evident already!

THE FALLING ACTION: