Ready to see some pictures!?!? Good cause there's a bunch! First things first. . . yes we managed to get Carter's nursery done (mostly) just in the nick of time and I love it! There's more that I want to do but at least all the important stuff is done
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| I just love it! |
Now. . . on to the arrival. If you don't want ALL the glory details it's probably best you leave now:) Let's go back to Thursday the 12th. I'm not sure why but it seems that when toddler boys notice that you are low on patience they kick it up a notch and see if they can make you lose your mind:) Luckily Grandma and Grandpa came to the rescue and asked if we would like him to come stay a couple days with him so I could regain my sanity and get some rest. I went to the doctor on friday, was dilated to a 4 and 100% effaced and my bag of water was bulging. The doctor stripped my membranes and sent me home after pretty much promising me that I would be in labor by the next day. I was pretty excited because the doctor I wanted was on call and Hayden was with Grandpa so it was perfect timing! Of course nothing goes as planned. I had a few contractions but nothing came of them. Saturday and Sunday came and still nothing so we got ready to pick Hayden up in Nephi. We were waiting for my dad to get out of church and we decided to run some stuff we borrowed back to a friends to kill some time and I decided to walk since it's just down the block. I started walking and got just in front of our next door neighbor's house and wouldn't you know it my water breaks! Luckily I had jeans on so it didn't gush out onto the cement but holy moly it was alot! And that was just the beginning! We went inside and started grabbing our things for the hospital (matt was running around like we were going to have the baby at home if we didn't hurry!) I went in our bathroom and tried to change clothes and water was seriously just sloshing out ha ha! I went through three pairs of garments before I finally just gave up and put pants on and of course looked like i peed them within like 20 seconds. Contractions started when we got in the car but luckily they were like 5 minutes apart still so I only had like five on the way to the hospital. You really do forget how bad they hurt! When we got onto labor and delivery matt told them my water had broken and when we walked in the nurse looked at me and said "so you THINK your water broke?" Think? THINK!? Look at my pants lady! They took me into an exam room anyway to make sure it had really broken and when the nurse came back with the test strip and saw the water gushing out she decided that it had in fact broken and they took us to our room. They got me all hooked up and checked me and i was dilated to a five so the doctor said i could have my precious epidural any time and of course I told them I wanted it ASAP! Those contractions were starting to kick my butt! The anesthesiologist was in in about 15 minutes (definitely beats the 2 hours I had to wait with hayden) and pretty soon I could feel relief was on it's way! They checked me again and I was a six so a few minutes later matt ran to the car to grab a movie for us to watch while we waited. While he was gone the doctor came in and decided to check me and wam bam I was already a ten! They got everything set up while waiting for matt to get back from the car and shortly after he got back we were ready to start pushing. We're not positive but we're pretty sure that his head popped out on push number 3 and the rest of him on the fourth push. So from start to finish my labor and delivery was just under 3 hours. Can't complain too much about that! We are so happy to have our sweet boy here! He has been such a good baby and I can't help but snuggle him every chance I get:)
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| Just hangin out waiting to have a baby. |
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| Here he is! Carter Cache Bunker) All credit for the middle name goes to Amanda styler:) Thanks Dew |
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| 7 lbs 5 oz 19.5 inches long! |
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| so happy to be holding him finally |
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| I was so excited to see a whole bunch of dark hair! He has the same sweet mullet hayden had when he was born:) I've already had to stop myself from trimming it. We'll see how long i last! |
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| He turns all stiff like this when i change is diaper too |
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| His mouth and nose were bruised from the way he came out. |
My dad arrived with hayden not too long after and he behaved. . . as expected. It was so sad! (for me anyway) He wouldn't even look at me! I think he was super scared of the hospital bed and just the whole situation but it seriously broke my heart!
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| First family picture. Can you tell how happy hayden was to be there! |
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| We managed to get him to give carter a kiss because we told him he could go after he did |
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| Getting ready to go home. It was such a relief to not have him scream bloody murder when we put him in the car seat like hayden did. |
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| I LOVE this picture. It's so precious! Hayden warmed up to him a little when we got home but he did not want daddy to hold him. He kept saying things like "not daddy's carter. mom's carter." and dad not hold carter. hold Hayden." He's doing alot better now and asks to hold him at least a couple times a day. Every time carter opens his eyes he gets all excited and yells "eyes is open!" |
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| I just love his sweet little face in this one. |
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| He has some awesome black arm and back hair! |
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| just taking a nap on the couch.
Since we got home he started getting a little jaundiced (I'm praying that's not the reason he's sleeping so good). We go to the doctor today for his 2 week appointment so hopefully his bilirubin isn't too bad.
It's definitely an adjustment having two but he's been so good (fingers crossed he stays that way) and that has made it a lot easier. We've also been blessed to have meals delivered to us most of the days we've been home. Thank you everyone who has brought dinner over! it's so appreciated! There are so many things that I forgot about having a newborn. Not necessarily about taking care of the baby itself but just everything that goes with it. The mood swings, the body changes, and all the breastfeeding stuff! I don't always remember to put nursing pads in and today I was at the store and ran into a girl i went to hair school with and while I was talking to her i felt my milk come in and all i could do was just pray it didn't start coming through my thin, light grey t shirt!!! But i didn't dare look down to check in case her or her husband saw! aw the joys!
All in all everything is going great and we are loving having this little guy here! Sorry for the longest post EVER!
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