Case Is Here!

 

 

 

 

 

  It all started on Tuesday when we woke up I was feeling kind of crampy and was having a few contractions.  They picked up throughout the day and they didn’t go away when I sat and rested for a couple of hours so I told Denver that we should probably head over to Flagstaff because we might have a baby tonight!

So we packed up our things and called Grandma to meet us there.  We checked into our hotel and told Daley and Grandma goodnight and headed to the hospital.  When we got there my contractions were strong but not regular and I was only dilated to a 2.5 so they sent Denver and I walking for an hour to see if we would have any progress.  We got back and there was no progress so we went back to the hotel and got a good night’s rest thinking the action would happen Wednesday.  So we woke up and decided to do a big day of shopping to get the contractions going.  We even went to the pool and swam with Daley.  She is such a little fish! The only bad thing that happened was Denver got in the pool with his phone in his pocket so he was phoneless for the rest of the trip because we thought we could fix it when we got home.  We had little luck on Wednesday so we called and talked to Jennie and she was giving us all kinds of ideas to get my contractions going.  One of the ideas was castor oil and spicy food so we decided I would take the castor oil Thursday morning and we would do another big day of walking and shopping and eat a bunch of spicy food.  Contractions started up again on Thursday just like they said they would and that afternoon Denver and I decided to go to the hospital again because the contractions were getting painful.  We were excited because we just knew this was it!  Well we get there and I had only progressed to a 4 but when I laid down for them to monitor the contractions, went down to almost nothing.  So they sent us home again! 

I was feeling really embarrassed because we were texting family and telling them we think this is it and then having the hospital send us home.  I was also feeling bad because we were just hanging out in Flagstaff with nothing to do and spending money.  But we sure had fun spending time with Mom.  I also felt embarrassed because I thought other ladies would think I was just paranoid and I didn’t know what the signs of labor were.  I do admit that I probably was paranoid because we lived so far away from the hospital and with how fast labor went with Daley I didn’t know what to expect with Case.  Everything about my pregnancy with Case was different especially the labor part.

Well after we got back to the hotel after the hospital sent us home we decided that we were just going to hang out and enjoy the next couple of days until my induction date on Sunday April 7^th.  Pop and Madi Mad came Friday night!  It was so fun having them there!  We went out to eat and enjoyed the rest of the evening just hanging out.  We woke up Saturday and took Dad to the  Cal Ranch store which is like a Tractor Supply store and we had fun looking at the baby chicks and ducks and we showed Dad a really cool picture that we thought reminded us of him.  It is called Elk Omelet and it’s a picture of a man with his pack horses just about to have a wreck and an elk in the background that probably started the whole thing.  It’s a really cool picture and Dad had to buy it!  We were contemplating on whether or not to go to the Grand Canyon but we decided that we should stay close to the hospital just in case!  Wade, Nanette, Jennie, Koley, and Bentley all came up on Saturday afternoon.  Dad had to do some work on the computer and Wade was exhausted from work so we left them in their hotel rooms and the rest of us all went swimming. We were really hoping that my contractions would start up again but we had no such luck!  After we all got cleaned up we decided to go to Native New Yorker for dinner and cold stone for dessert.  After that we went back to the hotel and went to bed because early Sunday morning is when I was going to be induced and the real party was going to start!

Denver and I got up at 4:30 and headed over to the hospital to get there on time at 5:00 am.  We got there and they did the gels to loosen things up and had us walk for an hour.  When we got back they started the pitosin, which was about 9:00.  Grandma, Nana, and Jennie all came in shortly after leaving Wade and Dad out in the waiting room with the kiddos and Madison.  My contractions started to get painful around 11:00 and so I got my epidural about 11:45.  I was comfortable and enjoying everyone’s company when I coughed and thought I had wet myself because they hadn’t given me a catheter yet.  This was about 1:00 and the nurses looked at my contractions and they were all really strong and happening one right after the other with little breaks in between so they decided to check me.  When they lifted up the sheets they saw stuff that wasn’t urine so they did a quick check and sure enough my water had broke and I was dilated to a 10. 

So the doctor came in and as I started pushing Case’s heartbeat went way down so Dr. Grant had to use a vacuum to get him out really fast.  Mom & Jennie even said that the doctor even had both her hands in there to help get Case out even faster which meant a lot of pain in the recover process on my end.  But surprisingly I am healing quite well!  I have lots of energy and not too painful with the help of some Advil.  After just a few pushes and with the help of the vacuum Case was born at 1:15 pm, weighing 7lbs. 15oz. and 20.5 inches long in Flagstaff, AZ.  Nana and Papa Platt came up from Payson to see him even!  After he was born everyone got to come in to see him.  Daley had a hard time seeing me in a hospital.  Whenever she would come in she didn’t want to look or talk to me much.  It wasn’t until we got settled in postpartum when she would finally sit in the chair next to me. When she sat next to me she would say “Owee Mommy. I’m sorry Mommy.”  It wasn’t until right before her and Denver left back home that she would sit in bed with me.

Case is a healthy baby boy! Denver spent the night with us the first night.   We were thinking we were going to get to come home the day after but because I was trying to breast feed they had us stay one more night in the hospital.  So Denver and Daley went home because Denver had to get payroll done for the restaurant and they left Monday night in a snow storm.  Mom stayed the night with me the second night.  Well Case finally latched on that night and cluster fed so Mom and I were exhausted when they released us the next day.  Before we were released we found that Case had jaundice so we were sent home with a belly blanket and orders to see the pediatrician the next day.  So we had to get another hotel for the night.  So we check into the hotel and kept Case on it all night so at the appointment on Wednesday his numbers were good so they finally let us all come home to be reunited!  We missed Denver and Daley sooooo much! 

When we got home we found out that our power had been out since earlier that morning and it didn’t look like we were going to have power anytime soon.  The funny part of the story was before we got discharged from the hospital and sent home with the florescent belly blanket the questions that they asked me was do you have power at home? And of course I said yes haha.  I guess a transformer went out on our block and they were having a hard time finding where it was.  They did however bring in a generator for us until they got it fixed.  The joys of living on the rez!  Denver went out and told them that we just brought home a brand new baby and that we had to have power that night!  Thank goodness for Denver!  And to top things off, they finally get everything working the next day and  as the power people were leaving they must have cut our phone lines so we didn’t have any internet for another whole day so we were really delayed in getting pictures posted for family and friends to see.

 

Case has been a great little baby so far!  He use to squeel when he was hungry when he was in the hospital and all of the nurses thought it was the cutest/funniest thing! (So did we;) But now he just gives us a patient  yelp.  He gets really hungry A LOT!  Haha...we have cluster feeding days ever few days which nothing gets done around the house but its all good!  It's a great excuse to not do anything haha.  The pediatrician was really impressed when we brought him back for his 1 week apointment when he had gained 6 oz. from his birth weight.  They said they are happy when the babies gain 1/2-1 oz. a day.  Case gained 3oz. a day!  He is changing so much. 

 

Here are some pictures...not in any order...of our fun filled week in Flagstaff!