Well it all started back in August of 09. I had been having such bad cramps for a week before my period was due. I just thought I was in for a long hard cycle. I woke up one morning around 3 am in pain. Kyle had been such a great husband rubbing my back every night. He finally said enough is enough. He got out of bed and went up to the drug store. He came back with a box of midol and a preg test. I laughed at him because cramps were not a sign of pregnancy. Oh boy was I wrong. I guess he had a mans intuition. So to humor him I took the preg test. He would not let me have the midol until I did. I was so mad and just wanted my meds. I went into that bathroom mad, and came out in tears. It was positive. Kyle could not believe it. He had to go to work that morning, so I called my friend Jess and we went up to the doctor to get a blood test. That was the proof that we could not deny. We stopped by Kyle's work and gave him the good news. He had a birthday party that night, so we told his friends then. What a great birthday surprise it was!!! A week later I started having awful pains. We thought that I was having a miscarriage, so we went to the ER. We found out that I had 2 ovarian cyst. The doctor would keep a close eye on them through the pregnancy. They caused me a good deal of pain, but they eventually shrunk and stopped hurting me around my 6th month.
The pregnancy was great for the most part. The first 3 months were basically morning sickness and more morning sickness. Whoever named it that should be shot. I had all day sickness. I lost so much weight my first few weeks because I could not eat. Oh but don't worry. It all came back. lol. The next few weeks went great. I had daily headaches and heart burn, but you seriously get used to it. Warm baths became my friend. In December we had a bad snow and ice storm come through. Kyle and I had to run up to the pharmacy to pick up something. Well I had done so good being careful out in the ice. I walk in the store and slipped on some water and fell on my back. According to the manger that watched the video, I flew up in the air and hit pretty hard. It knocked the wind out of me. That was a fun night in the ER. The baby kicked the mess out of me the rest of the night. I guess God knew how worried I was, and let my little angel kick me all night so I would know she was ok. I started student teaching in January. It started out great. Of course I was tired and worn out, but for the most part things were going great. I strted to get pretty swollen towards the end of my first site. I just figured it was normal. Well about 3 weeks into my second site I started to get very ill. I was throwing up quite a bit, and I had stopped gaining weight. My blood pressure was climbing, and I was just in bad shape. We had to make a visit to the ER one night to discover my BP was high and I was showing signs of early labor. They gave me a shot to stop labor and suggested bed rest. I cried on the way home because I knew what this meant. We had to make a very hard choice. I wanted to continue student teaching, but Kyle felt like it was too dangerous. He saw something that I could not see. He saw how sick I was getting. My parents even made comments about how tired and swollen I was. I was heart broken, but I had to let it go. Kaylee Beth was the most wonderful thing in my life. I had to do it for her. I had to step down from student teaching 3 weeks before graduation. I will be making the time up in the fall. So I still get to graduate, just not when we thought I would.
A week before she was due I had my 39 week check up. I was only dilated 1cm. The doctor had worried about this early on. She did not want me dilating too early. Well know it was time, and I had not dilated enough. She wanted to induce that week, but was too afraid to since I had not dilated enough. She told me that if by the next week if I had not gone into labor, she would induce. Well May 22nd came. I went to bed early because I had a bad headache. I woke up around 9 that night with back pain. They would come and go. My mom had told me about her back labor, so I called her. I told her that they were pretty bad, but I could not really time it. She was convinced I was having back contractions. I was not so convinced. Kyle was at work that night. He had to work until 1am. Mom told me to call him and get him home just in case. So I called. I told him that I thought this may be it, but I can't tell. He came home around 11. When he got home, I was on my hands and knees. This actually made it feel better. He rubbed my back and it got so much better. I took a warm shower and it basically stopped. I told him that there is no way this is labor since it stopped in the shower. We decided to go get a pizza at walmart since we had not eaten in hours. This was around 1am. I was having more back pain at walmart, but nothing to write home about. I just thought I had a back ache. They are so common in pregnancy. Well it was around 3 when we got done eating. The back pain was getting worse. I decided to take a shower, shave my legs and wash my hair just in case we have to go to the hospital. Hey, I have to look good for the hospital. lol. Well I had to sit down to do my hair since they hurt so bad. We climbed into bed around 3:30 to go to sleep. We had given up by this time. While Kyle was in the bathroom brushing his teeth, this odd pain in my tummy came. This was like no other pain I had felt. I called Kyle in the room. I grabbed him and squeezed. Yep this was it. This was the pain I had heard so much about. The scary thing was that they were only 5 minutes apart. We called the hospital and started running like chickens with our heads cut off. In between contractions I was getting dressed and grabbing things. I would stop and pound on the wall during contractions. I felt great in between them. Poor Kyle was starting to panic. He really started to panic at 4am when my water broke. I was sitting in the rocking chair waiting for Kyle to pull the car up and it broke. The contractions were now 3 minutes apart. Now he was really in panic. We hit the interstate and got to Lakeside hospital quick. I was on the phone with my mom all the way there.
When we got to the hospital they said I was 4 cm dilated and I could have my epidural in one hour after they get some fluids in me. The doctor kept saying how fast I was moving along. She said most first time moms do not have their baby's this fast. I was thrilled about this. She gave me some pitocin to help make me move faster. I still to this day do not know why she gave me this since I was progressing so quickly. They gave me a pain killer at first that was amazing. So I really did not feel my contractions for long. By around noon I was ready to start pushing. The doc came in and said I could start around 1pm. The nurse came in at one to check me one last time. While she was checking she had this awful look on her face. She called several nurses in and a couple of doctors. The made me roll over to my left side. The baby's heart rate was going down. They scared the mess out of me. They had to put a monitor on her head. The doctor told me that she did not think the baby could handle me pushing. She felt like it would cause her heart rate to go down again. If it did go down again, they may not be able to get it back up, and I will have to have an emergency C-section. So I decided to have the C-section. She would have allowed me to try, but there was no way I was going to put Kaylee in danger. They took me back around ten after 1, and I had a baby girl at 1:38. It is amazing how fast it went. Oh and just for future reference. Do not eat pizza before you go into labor. I had massive heart burn during the surgery. I was screaming in pain thanks to it. I did not feel what they were doing, but oh the heart burn was awful.
Recovery went well. We came in Sunday morning and left Wednesday afternoon with our sweet bundle of joy. I had to run up to the hospital a couple of times to have my incision treated. It came open once or twice, but other then that it was ok. Everything was pretty routine. They were pretty worried about my BP after delivery, but with some meds we got it down. They think it was just the pain that was causing it to happen. Kaylee is now a very healthy 2 month old baby girl.
Ready to go home and start my life with mommy and daddy!!!
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