Stock Family Times: October 2011

As you can tell, I went a bit photo crazy tonight! The kids had fun though :) Sydney is growing up so fast. She'll be 2 weeks tomorrow. I love these kids so much and they love having Sydney around. When she was born the first thing Jaren said to me was if I could jump off the diving board at Mimi's house. I told him of course I can and I'll even show him how to do cannonballs next summer! He is so excited!!! Life is good and I'm so happy with my 5 kids (including Molly)... I never thought I would have a big family but I can honestly say I wouldn't change it for the world. We certainly have our days but it will only get better! As for Ms Sydney she basically just sleeps in her swing, eats, poops, and refuses to cooperate for newborn photoshoots! We will keep trying :)

October 4th went to pick up Mom and Mimi at the airport. Picked Sierra up at school at 2:30 thinking they were supposed to get in at 3:30 but apparently they got there early so Sierra and I booked it up to O'Hare as fast as we could. Talk about bringing on the hard contractions though. The drivers of Chicago were crazy and I was feeling rather tense and not wanting to drive and just get home as fast as possible. When we got to the airport I basically just got Mom and Mimi into the car and drove home pretty fast. Fast enough that we almost beat Amy home from picking up the boys at the bus stop and going back to her house. We ended up going over to Hoover to take Molly out and run around because I was planning on being induced the next day and wanted to have some time making her happy. It was a great time because the kids got to run around and the weather was nice. We got to see a horse and the kids got to pet it which they loved! After we left Hoover we went to Culvers for dinner because I was craving their fish sandwich and french fries. It was getting late so we didn't even get to have dessert but that was fine because I was exausted and just anxious to go home put my kids to bed and go to bed myself because it was going to be an early morning.
October 5th came so fast. Woke up at 6:00 with so much anticipation. I was feeling rather upset and frustrated that my water didn't break and I didn't have this baby on my own. I had SOOO many doubts about getting induced because I really just didn't want it to happen. So, I got showered and packed up and Jake and I went out the door. We were already running late because we had to be there at 7:15 and the traffic was awful. We went to the wrong door and I just kept having the most nervous feeling ever in my heart. We got to labor and delivery and gave them our stuff and they pretty much threw us in a room, told me to pee in a cup and get my gown on. At that point I was already having issues. I couldn't pee in the cup! I knew I was in for a rough day but to start off having a bad aim was already making me crazy! I came out in my gown and they started me on my antibiotics. Since I was tested positive for GBS they had to put me on antibiotics for the baby. What I didn't realize is that I had to have 2 doses which took 4 hours to get in me. I finally felt at ease because I did not want Sydney to have any blood taken from her and it would have taken a lot longer to be able to be with her after the delivery. So they put me on the antibiotic for about 3 and a half hours and finally put me on the pitocin around 10:30. At that point I was feeling really blessed that I could just go through the delivery and not have to worry about Sydney and she would be fine after the delivery. I had Allison my doula there which was awesome. She was my savior of the day! I love my husband to death but as far as being my breathing coach we just have issues. Men are just a bit different from girls I guess!!! Going in I was dilated to a 3 and I was pretty much fine. They had to keep uping my pitocin because really nothing was happening. I had my playlist going which really kept me at ease. I tried watching some shows but I couldn't really focus. I made some phone calls to my dad and let him know they had just put me on the pitocin and life was just REALLY boring at that point. Dr. Harris came in and finally broke my water and was pretty funny. I sat there for a few minutes which seemed like eternity just "letting it go"... I was laughing because I thought it was the greatest moment to just wet your bed and you didn't have to clean it up yourself and was just a total relief of pressure. My contractions weren't really going anywhere, so I finally decided that I needed to get the party started so Justin Bieber came on and I got up doing some squats to the song Baby... I could feel Sydney decending we could SEE Sydney decending which was pretty funny during the contractions. Amy my nurse told me that I should probably lie down so I did. As I was lying there on my bed my contractions were getting stronger and I was still so bored. I had the best view of this tree and all I could remember was focussing on the most yellow leaves and thinking about my best friend Katie and my grandfather thinking I wish they were there with me. At one point I saw their faces and knew they were. Around 1:40 pm I was finally dilated to a 5 and I was kind of loosing my focus. I think I laughed through a few of my contractions and I remember thinking maybe if I pushed a bit these contractions would go faster and this baby would come out a bit faster. At 2:10 I was dilated to a 7-8 and all I could remember was saying that I felt the "poopy" feeling and I was really not ok with life. I had the nurse check me and she called Dr. Harris. Apparently they need to call when I'm dilated to a 5 because between 2:10 and 2:12 Sydney came into this world. All I remember was Amy checking me and I let out a 2 minute scream when I was told by a number of people to calm down, focus, shut up etc... Sorry, but when you aren't on meds and you're dilated to a 10 you can't focus and sing Kumbya! The whole nurses station ran in and Sydney basically slid out. I recall nobody catching her either. Just kind of plopped on the bed! 2 seconds after Dr. Harris ran into the room and all I could say was sorry.... I have only had one Dr. deliver my baby who was James. I felt so good though and there was no mucus or anything when she came out. Sydney came and was completly perfect!!!! After the delivery they were able to place Sydney on my chest and Jake was able to cut the cord. We WERE planning on having him help deliver her but uhmm she came just a bit faster than expected!
We are so blessed to have her in our lives and could not ask for more and will not ask for more!!!