Miles' Birth Story

(A sneak peak of his newborn pictures...)

 I was due the 17^th of June but my doctor let us have the option of being induced a week early if we wanted to. Ummm…yes please!  I love being able to plan on a specific date so that I can have everything ready, house clean, laundry done, fridge stocked, etc. So we set a date for Monday June 11^th.  The only problem was that my dr. was going to be out of town. We still decided to schedule for the 11^th and have Dr. Cloward the on call dr. deliver the baby.

  On Sunday the day before the induction we got a call from labor and delivery asking us if we could be there the next day by 7 am to be induced.  The next morning we woke up bright and early (and so excited) and got our bags packed.  My mom came around 6:45 to stay with the kids and then Landon and I headed off to labor and delivery.  

We got to the hospital and got situated in our room and then everything started going pretty quick.  My cute nurse (who’s name was Kelsey…) started asking all the usual health questions and the other nurse started my IV.  I was already dilated to a 3+ and by about 7:30 everything was ready to go. By 7:40 I was started on the first dose of Pitocin. To pass the time Landon and I started playing Monopoly Deals.  After one game (that he totally dominated) the nurse came and upped the Pitocin a little bit.  After about 5 minutes into another round of Monopoly Deals the contractions started becoming pretty painful.  We stopped the game and Landon became my hand squeezer as I tried to breath through the contractions. At around 9:40 I couldn’t take the pain any more and asked for the epidural.  Luckily the anesthesiologist came pretty quick.  I was in serious pain and the pressure was really bad so the nurse decided to check to see how far along I was.  Well to everyone’s surprise I was already dilated to an 8 and the nurse informed me that the epidural was not going to kick in fully because I was already so far along.  5 minutes later I was at a 10 and ready to have the baby.

 Backing up a little bit, I tested positive for group b strep and because of that I was supposed to have antibiotics running through my IV for four hours before I could give birth.  The on call doctor really wanted me to have the antibiotics for the full four hours.  The only problem was that I was ready to go and only had the antibiotics in for 2 hours.  We decided to sit and wait for one more hour (dilated to a 10…so painful!) and then have the baby. The doctor thought 3 hours of antibiotics and watching the baby really carefully to make sure he didn’t get the group b strep would be all right.  So at 10:40 I started pushing and after 2 pushes at 10:43 little Miles was born and all the pain was forgotten!  He was so dang cute and looked a lot like our other two kids. I was so relieved to have him here and  to see that he was just perfect.  He was our biggest baby yet at 7 lbs. 10 oz and had the most hair of any of our kids.  He is the sweetest little thing and Landon and I just loved spending alone time with him at the hospital.  

A huge thanks to my mom and dad who babysat my two older kids from Monday to Friday. The kids were in heaven going to parks, getting slushies, playing with cousins, and staying up late every night.  I couldn't wait for them to meet Miles and when they saw him for the first time they fell in love!  They have rarely left his side since he has been home and they are so sweet with him! Having our three kids under one roof has been the best!