Labor

Caedon's labor is officially my longest.  With Kyler I was induced, in the hospital 24 hours before he was born, actual labor was about 17 hours.  Melissa was my easy one - 8 hours, start to finish, wonderful home waterbirth that I dreamed of repeating with this one.  Unfortunately my boys apparently love to be difficult.  When Caedon was breech and then turned, I thought we were on track for an easy time.  I mean, seriously, it's my third.  How long could it take.  Little did I know....

I told Brian that I kinda wanted my water to break on it's own because I'd never experienced that.  Be careful what you wish for.  My water broke at 1:10 am on 8/28 and here I am at 5:53 am on 8/29 still holding my son inside my uterus.  My body wasn't ready for labor when my water broke, I guess.  But I want him to get out!  My midwife had me doing several things to get labor going, including drinking castor oil and taking other herbal supplements.  They seemed to work for a while, as my contractions started getting very regular and more intense.  And then they just stopped.  She's told me that by 8 am we have to make a new plan - basically meaning I'll be headed to the hospital to be medically induced.  This is not what I want.  I'm grateful the hospital is there when I need it and that they can get this baby out one way or another and I know that he needs to be born soon since my water has been broken so long but I'm having a hard time giving up the dream of my second homebirth.  Praying for peace, knowing that, above all else, Caedon's safety and mine are what is the most important.

Today is my Papa's birthday so my little man will share this day with him.  And apparently Caedon is very much like his Pawpaw.  My Gran told me yesterday about her labor with my dad - her water broke at 12:30 am on 3/27 and my dad wasn't born until after 3 pm on 3/28.  My dad was her third baby, too, and her water had never broken spontaneously, either.  I guess I take after my Gran.  There are worse people to be like.  :)

Baby on the way

Just want to share that we will soon be welcoming Caedon Joshua to the outside world.  My water broke at 1:10 am.  It's now almost 8 am and I'm still not having any steady contractions, but he'll make his way here eventually!  So thankful Brian is home with me!

Be watching for a new post and pictures of my beautiful little boy!

It's official!

This baby can come whenever he's ready!  We have official word now (and the paperwork to prove it) that Brian can move back home!  There are issues that come with him being back home but after 166 days, I will be thankful to have my family all living under one roof again.  And my children are thrilled that they will have their daddy back home where he belongs!

My bigger little man started 1st grade this week - unbelievable that he's 6 years old and in 1st grade!  How is that even possible???  Look how tiny he used to be!

And now look at him!  So grown-up!  I just love this boy!

 

 

Ready to start his first day!  He asked me if we were leaving in just a few minutes (like we did when we came for Meet the Teacher night) and I said no, he was staying all day and he said, "GOOD!"  :)  I'm so glad he loves to go to school!

I keep scrolling back up to look at that baby picture of Kyler - I also can't believe I'm about to have another one that little!  I can't wait to meet my sweet Caedon!  It could be any time now.  Today is my "official" due date.  I think he'll come some time between Saturday and Thursday (Aug 27-Sept 1).  Just my personal feelings but I could be totally wrong.  I am thankful that Caedon has waited this long, though.  While I'm very ready to have him, I am cherishing my last few days of feeling his movements and having him all to myself!

I've been having a hard time getting good sleep lately.  Not only am I waking up frequently to use the bathroom and switch sides so my hips won't get stiff, but I've been having alot of heartburn at night because I'm laying down.  Yuck.  Last night about 1 am, after waking up 3 times in 3 hours, I moved to the couch and slept sitting up the rest of the night.  I got much better rest that way!

This morning I took the kids to Hawaiian Falls with some free passes that we had.  I don't recommend taking 2 kids by yourself when one of them wants to do everything and the other wants to do nothing.  Not very fun.  Melissa would have had more fun if she hadn't gotten caught under the river of water that dumps from the BIG bucket on top of the children's area every 10 minutes or so.  She got caught under it the first time it dumped after we arrived, though, and then she was freaked out the rest of the time we were there.  Kyler loved the lazy river and the slides - he even wanted to try the slides that he wasn't tall enough to ride yet!  He's so brave.  :) 

Tomorrow is my last day of work for the summer - and then I'll be off until the end of October/beginning of November.  I'm planning to go back after Caedon gets his first round of shots at his 2-month check-up.  I think I'll miss going to work and I KNOW Melissa will miss going to school but I'm sure we'll keep ourselves busy with a very special baby boy!

After work tomorrow I have my 39 week check-up with my midwife and then we have meet the teacher night at Kyler's school.  I can't believe my boy is starting first grade - and he has his first loose tooth!  He's so excited! 

Looking forward to the next couple of weeks - everything is ready for my little man to come and I can't wait to find out what day he'll choose for his birthday.  I just wish everyone would stop asking me when it's going to be....it's not up to me!  :)

Random Sunday morning wanderings

For some reason I've been waking up at 6 am every morning and not being able to go back to sleep.  It's annoying.  And it makes for a very long day with the kids.  I usually try to doze on the couch in the afternoon while they watch a movie.  Just FYI, it's not a good idea to try that when they're watching something like Dora or Diego that asks for frequent audience participation.  It's hard to nap when you keep having Spanish words yelled from 5 feet away.

I'm ready to start being able to sleep on my back again.  And my hips have started hurting at night.  I'm officially ready to just have this baby.  I know he'll probably be late just like his big brother and sister so I likely have another 3-5 weeks and I'm being patient.  But as much as I love being pregnant and am still enjoying feeling his sweet movements, I'm ready to meet him!  And his nursery is ready so he can come whenever he wants!  I'd be overjoyed to welcome him a bit early.  :)  Oh, yeah, and it's too stinking HOT so I'd be happy to be done being pregnant during this heat wave.  Seriously, the hottest summer since I've been born and I get to be pregnant for the entire thing?  Just such a joy.

Caedon is still breech, as far as I can tell.  I'm not great at telling what each little body part is but I'm pretty sure he's keeping his head up close to Mommy's heart.   I'm a little nervous about delivering him breech but my midwife is very encouraging and her student midwife is excited about it - she said she hasn't had the chance to assist with a breech delivery yet.  I'm not thrilled to be the one to give her the experience, but hey, what can I do?  I'm trying all of the tricks I've read about turning a breech baby and so far, nothing's working.

Today my brother Zachary is taking Melissa to lunch and to pick out toys at Wal-Mart.  He took Kyler last week while we were at the baby shower so I guess he felt like Melissa would be jealous.  He told her last week that he would take her soon and she's been talking about it all week long!  She's so excited to spend some time with Uncle Zach!  :)  Kyler and I are going to meet Brian at Wal-Mart and shop for school supplies.  Yippee.

Speaking of school supplies, I got a letter earlier in the summer saying that Kyler was eligible to get free school supplies because of our income.  Yesterday I went to wait in line for an hour to get the said school supplies (outside Lakepointe church, btw.  That church is so huge and they had us waiting in line outside.  Thankfully, I went early so it was only in the 80s while I was out there but they were doing it until 1 pm....).  Anyway, so when I finally get the school supplies it includes one spiral, one box of crayons, one eraser, one glue stick, a pack of construction paper and 12 pencils.  I'm not saying that I'm not grateful for what they gave us, but that's like 1/10 of the school supply list.  If I'd known what I'd actually be getting I would have been buying school supplies all summer when they went on sale...and I likely wouldn't have waited in line in the 85 degree heat at 37 weeks pregnant for those.

Pictures:

Me last week - 36 weeks

Caedon's nursery from the doorway

The left side of his room

Close-up of his cute little changing pad cover

His crib with his adorable bedding that I just love!

Closet full of baby things!