Introducing Seth

This is our sweet baby that was born on Friday.  He's a sweet cuddle bug that we named Seth after my amazing brother.  He's a little jaundiced and probably has acid reflux, both something that we can deal with.  His siblings adore him and I never want to put him down.  8 lbs 5 ozs, 19 inches long.

 

After a fight between the doctor and the federal regulations at the hospital, we were finally induced on Thursday morning.  The doctor said that I needed to be induced because of my Polyhydramnios and the regulations said that unless they could say what caused it, they couldn't induce me for another week and a half.  They sent me to a specialist to check it out and after a very frustrating 3 hour long appointment with 3 little kids in tow... they told me there was nothing that they could do.  Then the next morning they sent me to do another Glucose test because if I had developed late term Gestational Diabetes then they could go ahead and induce me.  Before I was even done with the test, they called me back and said that they were going to go ahead and induce me anyways because the risks of still births and detached placentas was significant enough that they wanted to be on the safe side.  So we packed our kids off to go to Bear Lake with my brother Seth and my sister Janelle... and Jer, me and my mom headed off for the hospital.  They decided to treat me as if I had GD... so they tested my blood sugar every two hours in case they needed to give me insulin.  My sugar levels were always good... but Seth's heart rate did better when they started giving me a sugar IV... and when he was born, his blood sugar levels were at 30.  Anything above 45 is normal for a baby.  They started me at 10 am... I wasn't dilated and my cervix was still really high so breaking my water was a bit of a painful challenge... and my contractions were more painful with this birth than with any of the others... because I could feel them all the way down into my tailbone and up my back.   When they broke my water, I flooded the bed twice since there was so much amniotic fluid... very exciting to say the least.  Seth didn't like it very much and his heart rate dropped.  We had to wait until he was used to it before putting me on Pitocin.  It was fun in a way... two of my mom's really good friends ended up being my nurses throughout the day and it was fun to hear them chatting and catching up.  By 8 pm I was ready for an epidural.  I got it and could breathe again.  I was tired of being in labor and it was really nice to be able to take a nap while my body kept doing the work for me.  By 11 pm I was nauseous, which usually means that body is starting to transition into the last part of labor.  By 1 am we were ready to push.  12 mins of pushing and he was out.  My most painful labor, but my fastest labor and fastest pushing time.  The placenta and cord were humongous... and my sweet baby boy was here.  8/8 baby.  I've still got swelling, but he's safe and we're glad to have him.

 

When the kids got back from camping, Ada ran up the stairs asking to see the baby.  She said, "Mom, I knew he'd be cute, but I didn't know he'd be this cute!"  Sam just kept saying, "Cute!" and Evelyn wanted to hold him and rock him.... she sings songs to him when we drive in the car.  She was also very concerned that his umbilical cord was "going to pop".  Ada has been following me around asking me if it's her turn to hold the baby yet.  She's been a good help actually.  She held the baby while I got breakfast for the other kids and myself.  Both girls were really curious about breastfeeding.  I talked to them about it and Ada wanted to know if she could feed the baby... 

 

Everything is not easy.  He has rough nights, but hopefully we'll get that resolved soon... but honestly, he's healthy... he's here... and I'm happy. I'm glad to have an amazing husband and an amazing mom.  I'm glad that my brother and sister were willing to sacrifice their weekend so that my kids could play with cousins all weekend instead of sit around waiting for mom to get back from the hospital.  I'm grateful for so many blessings.

My favorite

Nothing I like better than cuddling a newborn... Love this boy already and he's only two days old.

For Sharon

Here's one that I did for my sister. I like this pattern... Turned out cute

Ogden temple openhouse

I am so blessed. I love being surrounded by people that I love. Yesterday was just such a day. No, not everyone I love was there, but quite a few of them.  We got to take our cute kids to the temple and show them the inside before it gets dedicated. Since I'm having contractions, Seth pushed me around in a wheelchair. While I felt dumb to be in one, I appreciated it. And the kids loved it beyond. They took turns pushing me around the lobby and all wanted to walk by me as much as possible. But my favorite was Evelyn. She sat on my lap ohhing and awwing at the ceiling, especially in the celestial room. She'd also sit up straight and tell each of the volunteers, "Thank you!" whenever they told us which way to go. And enthusiastically tell us not to hit into things when we'd get close.

Saturday

Saturday was busy, I got to take Ada to my cousin Whitney's bridal shower. Ada dressed up as a princess and told me she loves showers.

Then we high tailed it out to her best friend's baptism.  They were so cute. I love seeing their support for each other.

Pros and Cons

Pros and cons of this pregnancy...

Pros: 
-I was able to get pregnant and carry him this long
-My acid reflux is soooo much better than the last three times
-My SI joint hasn't gone out... it's gotten sore, but hasn't been so painful that I can't walk



Cons:
-Polyhydramnios
-Pneumonia
-Worry about if he'll be healthy when he's born

Sunday afternoon

Lunchtime princess

Forgot to mention

I completely forgot to mention that we went to How to Train Your Dragon 2 with my family... Ada was so cute, she cried at the sad part.  Sam was beaming at the end of the movie.  And Evelyn has been talking about Toothless and how much she likes dragons ever since.  I had contractions all throughout the movie.  I was still having them after we went home, so I started timing them... I was having them about every 10-15 minutes.... for about 3 hours.  While baby is measuring big, I wasn't sure if his lungs would be ready, so I drank a ton of water and laid down on my side while Jer and I watched White Collar.  Eventually they stopped and I haven't had many since (this was Monday night...) That was weird for me though. 

Well, it's official #1

Well, we're having a baby within a week... so I thought I would need to get caught up on several things... like my blog before we did.  Let me start with the baby.  I've been diagnosed with polyhydramnios, which is extra amniotic fluid in the sac.  They want to induce me early so that it doesn't cause the placenta to rupture.  He's healthy, big and boy does he kick.  I just hope that his lungs are ready to be outside instead of in.  We'll see I guess.  I am excited to be done being pregnant though.  Just saying.

Ada and Sam had their last T-ball game.  They liked it, but I think they mostly liked hitting the ball.  We've got bats, maybe I can remember how to pitch well enough to help them out with that part at home. 

We had lots of cousins here for a while... Marg's family, John's family, and we now have Amy's family here.  We also had Anne and Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Robertson here from Arizona again.  They came because Grandpa Jay's brother, Bert, gave into his cancer and they were here for the funeral.  I love talking to them.  Judy has a gift at asking just the right questions to get Grandma to story tell.  Did you know that she wears blue and white because that was the color of her school uniform growing up... so she just has worn it ever since.  I could see Kate doing that.   Fun fact to remember.... Grandma told me that Ada was her great-grandbaby #50... and now our new baby will be her great-grandbaby #94 and they are both 94 years old this year. 

The #94s

 

Our nephew, Joey turned 5 too.  He's such a sweet kid... he loves to be involved in anything you're doing.  Loves to pretend, and I LOVE that he smiles every single time he sees me. 

 

We've had the Pass of all Passes forever now, and honestly we've been awful at using them this summer.  I wanted to use them at least once on Seven Peaks water park, so we went.  Jer took the day off after Pioneer Day and we went swimming.  Evelyn was so confident in the water with her floaties on... she didn't want my help at all.  The big slides with Jer scared her a little though.  Ada and Sam both LOVE the big slides and talk about which ones they're going to go on next time.  They saw lightning while we were there though, so we all had to get out of the pools and off the slide towers.  When it started raining, we decided to go home.  Poor Rachel though, she waited in line for 3 slides... They told her she was too little for the first two (even though she's 8), and the lightning forced everyone out of line for the 3rd one. 

 



#2

Jer and some of the nieces and nephews got to hike Mt Timp this last week too.  It's so fun to see them grow up and be capable of something difficult like this.  They left at 4am and got home at about 2pm... They're thinking of starting a "I hiked Timp with Grandpa" club... I went down after the hike and hung out with  everyone chatting until it was a good time to take Johnny and Adam home.  Then we hung out and visited up there for a while.  We seem to be chatting a lot lately... I rather like it.

Jer, Mariah, Adam, Johnny, Aubrey, Amy, and Grandpa

Evelyn and Amelia have become little buddies too... so cute to watch.

Mariah, Ada and Jonathan

 

Sunday, Ada wanted a girls night before school started... So I took the girls and hung out with Nella and my mom... and we had Seth and Grandpa as guest girls.  Jer took Sam and hung out with Jonathan and Grandpa Robertson.  They all had a blast.  Ada painted my nails and Grandma's nails (luckily she doesn't know that both of us hate painting our nails...) and Evelyn volunteered to paint my nails.  For a 3 year old, she did great.  Then we turned on music and danced, watched Scooby-doo, and gave Seth and Grandpa foot massages.  Sam "helped" with the irrigation, made a hot cocoa with dad, played games with his cousin, and they just had a blast.

For fun, we met up with cousins again before Amy's family leaves to Arizona and went to the wood park... Love that place.  I sat and held Susan while everyone else did the heavy lifting... she's so cute, that's for sure.