Kenzington Kay Cottle

Kenzie was born at 8:03 pm Thursday January 5th. She was 7lbs 10oz and 19 1/2 inches long. I know its more fun to look at the pictures but I did want to tell about that day so hopefully it's not too long. I started having contractions at 7am Thursday morning. I got out of bed and started timing them. They were about 5 minutes apart but weren't consistent in the intensity of the contractions. I knew that I didn't really dilate on my own but got sent home so many times with the twins I wanted to be sure that my contractions were hard and consistent before I went. I busily started packing up and getting ready. I had most of my stuff already packed but I had not gotten together anything for the girls to stay with their grandma's. The first part of the morning I was able to walk and breath through the contractions still coming every 5 minutes. But afternoon came and I started to have to sit down with them and they were coming every 3 minutes. I called the doctor's office and asked if I could come in and get checked or if he would do the c-section based off of the contractions not the dilation. They decided it was best to go straight to the hospital.

(Side note story) at the same time they told me I should go to the hospital Kloey started coughing really raspy and so hard I thought she was throwing up. I knew immediately that she needed to get into the doctors. So I panic called aunt Ry and asked if she could take her in. She had croup.

It took awhile to get checked in and for them to monitor my contractions. By this time it was after business hours and my doctor was unavailable and we had to wait for the on call doctor. I was pretty mad at myself for not going in earlier because I probably could have had her earlier in the day and with my doctor. But the on call doctor was very nice and I think she did a good job. Because I wasn't to 39 weeks I had to have a doctor's override to have the c-section. The doctor finally got there and came and check me out and to see if I was progressing. I told her about not dilating and just then my water broke. Yep were having this baby right now. It took less than 10 minutes to get into the operating room and deliver the baby. Earlier while we were waiting for the dr. to show up I started getting really nauseous. They gave me some medicine right before the surgery and it helped it to not be so acid but I still felt like I was going to throw up. All through the surgery I had to swallow hard to just keep it down. I hadn't eaten in 24 hours so I didn't know why I felt so sick. Also I had a hard time breathing. I felt like I was running a marathon and almost hyperventilating. But both baby and mother made it through just fine.

I was still really nauseous the rest of the night and even though they kept giving me medicine through my IV to help I finally throw up when I had to take my oral medication for the night. Long story short about the rest of the stay. I didn't sleep one single minute for the first 40 hours I was there and if you know me you know that's a real problem. I was kind of out of it and really tired the whole hospital stay.