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Bracken Shane Wootton

Bracken Shane Wootton

March 15th, 2009

7 lbs 13 ounces

18 inches long

Welcome to our family, little one!!

So, I went into labor on Saturday night at 230. After an hour of contractions that weren't consistent but hurt like hell and were between 2-5 minutes apart I woke up Jer. We stayed home for a bit then went to the hospital at 530. They took me in and checked me. I was very thin but only dialated to a 1. They gave me my epidural very quickly, probably because I was screaming during the contractions! I didn't know it could hurt so bad! Then at 730 my doc came in and broke my water and started me on Pitocin. I dilated very quickly after that, but then I got really sick. I was shaking really bad and had a fever, was sweating, was nauseated, and so out of it. The babie's heart rate dropped so they stopped the pitocin and got me back under control. My blood pressure had dropped extremely low so they had to keep putting me on oxygen, but after that one time, it wasn't too low. Once we were feeling better they put the pitocin back on.

After another couple hours of being miserable and so sick I was finally dilated to a 10. So we started pushing and after 15 minutes, they made me stop while we waited another 15 minutes for my doc to get there and get dressed. After he was there I pushed for less than 5 minutes, probably only about 5 times and Bracken had arrived! I was in the pushing stage for only 35 minutes and I wasn't pushing for half of it, so that was better than I had hoped for!

Total, I was in labor for 12 hours and 15 minutes. It wasn't too bad considering what came out of me! I am doing well now, just very sore. Bracken is so adorable and loves to be held. He won't let us put him down - not even at night. So, we don't really sleep. This is going to be a problem.

Here are a bunch of pictures. I have a ton more, but I will do a slide show later to add them.

Jer is such a good daddy and has been helping out so much. He is really good and comforting him and it is so cute to see! Thanks hunny for all you do!

Thanks for everyone's support!! Love you all!

39 weeks and counting

So I had my doctor appointment yesterday and....still nothing. Talk about feeling so dissapointed! I know you don't have to dilate to go into labor and I do want him to be ready, but it's really hard for me to want something so bad and know I have no control over it. I also feel like my body isn't doing what it's suppose to be doing. What if it means I won't dilate and have to have a c-section? I would be devastated. I want to have a vaginal birth and that would really bother me. It really makes me feel like I'm not capable of having a baby. I know it doesn't mean that but it scares me and makes me feel like shit.

On top of making me more worried about birth, I am so tired of restless legs at night, tired of 3-5 bathroom trips each night (I will get up and feed, but so annoying to get up to pee!), I can't get comfortable at night, I wake up with sore sore sore hips, I am so done with the clothes I have, I throw up in my mouth every day/night! Heartburn sucks and I get sick half the time when I eat. I also broke out in zits about two weeks ago and they won't go away. Luckily not on my face, but all aound my butt and front area and in my arm pits and some on my legs. It is so yucky. I feel fat everywhere and am retaining water. And can I say so emotional?

I know I'm making a baby and it's ok to have all these side effects and they aren't that bad and I am so thankful that nothing has been worse and the baby seems to be happy and healthy. I am so thankful so I feel bad complaining, but I am so DONE being pregnant! I cried the whole way home from my doctor appointment yesterday, but it helped me feel better!

My due date at the doctors office is tomorrow, the 15th, but at the hospital they have it as Thursday, the 19th. They won't change it because it isn't ten days different. So I still think I have a chance to go into labor because he really should be about ready.

Sorry for the whinny post...

Keep your fingers crossed for us and that I can have this baby safely! Our next appointment is next wednesday and I will be induced the next Wednesday night/Thursday morning (either way, its less than two weeks). They will start thinning my cervix Wed night, but I probably wont go into labor until Thursday morning.

Silly Story

So yesterday, I was in the office at work and a mom with her little boy walked in and the boy was probably 5.

He looked at me and said, "Do you have a ball?" (referring to my belly).
I said, "Does it look like I have a ball (rubbing my belly)?"
Boy, "yeah, it does."
"Well it is actually a baby."
"Let me see."
"Well he is in my belly, so you can't see."
"I think you have a ball for me (with a smile on his face)."
"I wish I had a ball for you, but it is a baby."
He just looked at me, unsure.
I was walking out of the office and had to walk by him and he bent over and turned his head sideways trying to look up my shirt to see if he could see the "ball." It was the funniest thing! His mom just stared at me and another lady in the office was cracking up. I was trying not to laugh at him, until I left, then I got a good laugh out of it.

38 Weeks and counting...

So I had a doctor appointment today. I have gained 32 pounds so far and two this week. I am measuring at 39 1/2 weeks, but not dialated at all. He said I feel thin, but I don't think he can tell me a percentage because I'm not dialated so he can't actually feel the thinkness. I really wish I was dialating, but nothing I can do about that. He said he is very surprised that I haven't dialated because people with this body type usually are dialated by now. Maybe I'm just a really good oven.

We set up a day to induce me - March 26th. I would go in the night of the 25th and they give me a pill or something to get me started and I sleep there. Then in the morning of the 26th they will give me pitocin or break my water if I need it, if the pill didn't do enough. So he will be here in 20 days, almost definitely. That is so far away though! I am so ready to start this journey and the closer I get, the more anxious I get and just want it to be here. I have been very patient this whole pregnancy, but the last week or so I have really wanted to get the show on the road! I could still go into labor at any time though, so keep your fingers crossed for me!