Daddy's little Cheerleader

I was laughing so hard at this the other night that I had to grab the camera. Daddy is starting her out young!!

One month old... :(

I can't believe my baby is one month old!!! Time is going by way way too fast!

The Story...

I couldn't have asked for a better experience... The pregnancy, the delivery, the recovery. I'm not trying to brag with this post, but I'm more just wanting to document everything so I can remember next time I decide to have a baby... :) and to remember what this one was like. First off, we got pregnant way faster than expected. My family has a long history of infertility, so I just figured I would be the same way. I went off birth control and was extremely surprised the next month when I saw 2 lines on the pregnancy test. A few weeks went by and I expected the nausea to set in, like it does for most pregnant people. I waited and waited... It never came. 10 weeks rolls around and I have my first appointment. I weigh in, expecting the number on the scale to slightly scare me, only to find that I have lost 11 pounds... weird... no nausea or vomiting was involved in this drastic drop. 14 weeks we find out that our little baby is a girl. We were both so excited. She was a little stinker though. It took over an hour to make the discovery and we even checked again a few days later to make sure. The rest of the pregnancy goes on perfectly. I worked all the way up to the week before my delivery. Of course, it's kind of hard not to when you work for your OB. No excuses haha. I was working at the hospital as well putting in another 36 hours in a row there in graveyards. My belly stayed pretty little and no one believed I was due any day. In a previous post, you read about our labor scare. After that day I didn't have one single contracting and didn't progress at all. Another weird.... We woke up the morning of the induction, drove to the hospital totally calm, checked in about 5:10 AM and I got into my gown. The anesthesiologist was called. They started my pitocin around 7 and shortly after Dr Taylor came in to insert my epidural. It was perfect. I didn't feel a thing. Even when he said, "K you're going to feel a little pressure and some burning" I didn't feel anything. I was so surprised when he said he was done. It was a prefect epidural. I could still move my legs and feel my toes, but I never felt one contraction. Nate would look at the monitor and get this look of pain on his face and say, "can't you feel that??? That was a big one!" Nope, didn't feel it. Dr Judd came about 8:30 to break my water. Nate thought that was pretty cool. Kaiya panicked a little. Her heart rate showed her distress, so I had to have oxygen on for about 10 hours and constantly lie on one of my sides to keep her relaxed. 3:00 rolls around and I'm completely dilated. Dr Judd "rests and descends" me. He was busy at the office so I told them to tell him to stay until he was done. I was feeling great and could hold on until he could get there. He came about 5:30. Everything was set up at about 5:45. After checking me he realized her head was turned to the side, preventing her from coming down into the birth canal enough for me to get her out by myself. He got the forceps out. I pushed maybe 6 times and she was out by 5:51 PM. (I thanked him for doing all the work later... :) ) She was a little banged up from her head being to the side and from being in the birth canal for so long, but she was still beautiful. It was the weirdest/coolest experience of my life. It still doesn't seem real that she is my baby. Recovery was a little rough for the first 3 days. My dad came down to stay with me and helped a ton with meals and with Kaiya. Nate had to go back to school. 2 and a half weeks after she was born, I went back to work at the hospital. It's been a crazy journey so far, but I couldn't love her anymore. Nate and I stare at her constantly and just keep saying to each other "I love this girl so much! How is she so beautiful! She is so prefect! I can't stop staring at her!" I couldn't be happier with this experience.




BEST Dr. in the WORLD!!!!

Introducing...

Kaiya Mikaela Blackhurst (KY yuh)
February 14, 2011
6 pounds 10 Ounces
20 inches long
5:51 P.M.

Twas the Night before...

It's officially the night before our baby girl will be here! We're finishing up packing things and getting everything finalized and ready for our 5 AM start! We should be sleeping right now, but we both feel like we still have so much to do! Here is one last belly picture before her arrival! Our next post will be of her cute face!!

Ready or Not here comes Baby Kaiya...

Very long story with no pictures. Sorry. I will try to update my baby bump tonight if I remember. We had a little labor scare yesterday. Here is how it went...

So.... After 4 hours of contracting every 4 minutes during the night, I called my sister in a panic/emotional attack trying to find out if I was really in labor, or if I was just crazy. Worst part of the story is that my family had just arrived in Hawaii and they will be there for an entire week. My sister answers the phone with "You better not be in labor." That's when the tears started. I'm the OB/GYN nurse here. I should know what to do. I should know if I'm in labor or not. I had done everything I tell my patients to do when they think they are in labor. Get in the tub, drink plenty of fluids, lay down on your left side. If the contractions stop you're in false labor. Well... They didn't stop. So after getting off the phone with my sister and mom, I fought with myself for 30 minutes to call my boss, who happens to be my OB/GYN. I decided to call Dr Weibell instead because he was on call, and Dr Judd wasn't and I felt really bad waking him up at 3 in the morning. After a long emotional (on my end) conversation with Dr Weibell, we decided I would just stay home and labor for a few hours and then come in to work at 8 and get checked. So I did. And contracted still every 4 minutes for the rest of the night, getting zero minutes of sleep all night. Nate was slightly panicked and didn't want to go to school. I made him, telling him I would call him as soon as Dr Judd got to the office and he could come over for my exam. Both of us were panicking because we didn't even have a hospital bag packed. I threw a couple things togther after taking him to school, having NO idea what I need. Once I got to work, my good friends and co worker, another RN, insisted on calling Dr Judd at the hospital to see if I should just come over there. He wanted me to come there instead of waiting for him to come to the office. Again, I get all emotional, crying saying that I can't be in labor. I still have 4 more weeks. AND my family is gone for a whole week! So my friend takes me to pick up Nate at school so he can drive me to the hospital. Once there, Dr Judd comes in to check things out. After checking me he says "Are you in full blown Labor? No. Are you going to be very soon? Yes." Great. Now what. I can't have this baby right now! He says I'm 100% effaced, dilated to a 1 and a half and my bag of water is buldging. He said he could break it very easily if he wanted. Awesome. Usually I would be ecstatic with this news. The only thoughts that keep running through my head are- She can't come now. I can't have a NICU baby. What if her lungs aren't ready. My family isn't here! What am I going to do! I still have so much to do to get ready. I don't even have her crib! Where is she going to sleep! So Dr Judd gives me the option to be admitted to stop labor, or go home and try to sleep it off stating I'll either wake up in full blown labor or I will wake up feeling great. I chose to go home. So with dr's orders to take some awesome drugs, I go home and knock myself out. Luckily I woke up to decreased contractions that have since stopped completely. One night of "taking it easy" was enough for me. I was going crazy being home all day and all night. I decided to come to work this morning. What better place to go into labor than at your OB office with your OB right there, right? So here we sit and wait. Not knowing when she'll come. Predicting it will be this week. Dr Judd doesn't think I'll make it to Sunday, but I keep hoping she'll stay put for at least 6 more days. I've been banned to my little office by my co workers. I'm not "allowed" to walk around all day. SO everyone please send the "baby Kaiya you need to stay in there" vibes my way because I need them!! We'll keep you updated!

Baby Kaiya in 3D

We got our baby girl to somewhat cooperate for a 3d photo shoot. We only had to do it 4 TIMES over a 3 week period of time!! This little stinker likes to snuggle (which I really hope lasts when she's here). She always has her little hands over her face and is sucking on her fingers. We got 3 pretty good pictures out of those 4 photo shoots. I still think these pictures are slightly creepy, but they're cute. It will be interesting to see how much she looks like them when she's here!





This was at 26 weeks

29 weeks

29 weeks- Nate says she her eye looks creepy in this picture, but it was the best shot we could get. I love her chubby cheeks. She has had them since 26 weeks.