Caylee Anne Ruhnow

Caylee Anne Ruhnow

Nov 23, 2010.

@ 4:45am

8lbs 1 oz 19" long

Adeleah holding her baby sister for the first time.

Sorry this is about 3 weeks late but I have had my hands a little full:)

We are all doing great and are all in love with Caylee. Adeleah loves her sister (sometimes a little too much and hard).

Here's the story, more for me to remember, read if you want.

I had my last appt on the 15th of Nov and I was almost a 2 and 50%. That night I had so good contractions going on and was still having them when I finally went to bed at 1am but by morning they were gone. That week I had some more and then sat I had more and that night we really tried getting it going by going on a hike but they didn't keep up. Had some Sunday morning, no church because of the temple, then they started back up that night when we were eating dinner. They were 10 mins apart until around midnight and went to 5. I finally had to wake Gabe up at 1am. Well we got to L&D around 3 and I was almost a 3 and 80% but because I wasn't a 4 yet they told me to go home and walk for two hours and they couldn't give me anything for the pain because I was a vbac. But I was told that when we come back they would get things going if it wasn't more on its own. Went home walked and rested a little, since no sleep, dropped Adeleah off at a friends and went back. Well different people then before and they didn't know what was going on and it was a full moon. Well they was like a million women having babies that day and so no bed open. So this oh so nice person gives me something for the pain and tells me to go home and see if I can sleep and if it is real labor or not. We go home I am so done at this point and just want to sleep and really just have it all over! I try to sleep nothing really maybe 30 mins and pain meds do nothing also. I tell Gabe I am just ready for a c-section at this point and very done. (I really don't think that people in L&D believe you a lot of the time.) Well Gabe calls L&D, talks to the one that sent us home and she says to come back in and that I will get admitted. Well we get there and are put in one of the rooms were you get checked first. We end up being in there for about 7 hours because there are no rooms (remember it was a full moon), I had no meds and I think at times they forgot about us. And all this time we were just waiting for a room to open up, they even had all the things for me already ordered and waiting. Finally around 7pm Monday night I get in my room and they get me some meds while we wait for the anesthesiologist to do my epidural. Get it in (didn't work right but I was told it was fine, I know how they should feel from Adeleah), they checked me about an hour after that and I was a 5 and 100%, the Dr broke my water. An hour or so after that he checked me again and was a 6 and caylee was at 0. Then a few hours later, I think sometime around 1:30am Tuesday, checked 91/2 and caylee -2. Said he come back in about an hour. So we both tried to get some sleep again. I woke up just after 3 because of the pain (i could always feel her head pushing down and a little pain, plus could move legs and butt the whole time, epidural wasn't put in right). I try and not think about it but finally it was too my and I was trying not to push. I pushed the call button, nothing. Finally I wake Gabe up at 4:15am to go get some one, they come in about 5 mins later. I told them I wanted more meds and that I really really needed to push/couldn't stop my body from making me anyway. Dr has me do one set of pushes and then tells them to give me more meds and leaves. Its just Gabe and I for a few mins and I had to keep pushing. Nurse comes back with anesthesiologist, still pushing. Gabe and nurse get my legs meds in and start to feel it working:) Pushing, can feel her coming out, nurse pushes button for people to get in the room baby is coming. Everyone else gets in about the time I have her head almost out. Everything is moving very fast, Dr gets there in time to grab head and they get the end of bed off and about 1 or 2 pushes she is out at 4:45am ( about only 30 mins after waking Gabe up). It all happened so fast in the end that the nurse had to ask if we had a camera:) By the time Caylee was born Tuesday morning I hadn't eat anything since Sunday dinner and only had about 2 hours of sleep since Sunday morning. It was a long few days for us. I can't say I am happy about everything in L&D but they did have 23 babies born just on that Monday and it was still crazy when I went to the mother/baby unit. But we are all very happy to have Caylee here and she is doing great. We love her very much!

p.s. I didn't read through this because it took me too long to even write it (Adeleah is so helpful, not), so sorry if its not great.