My poor baby is sick.

Kimber woke up Tuesday morning around 3:30 am with a little bit of a stuffy nose. She didn't have a fever so I didn't think anything of it and took her to her nana's house while I went to work. When I picked her up that afternoon she felt a little warm and was super contested with gunk coming out of her eye.  We called the doctor and a nurse suggested we bring her in. We decided that it would be better to walk in to the doctors office than wait it out and have to go to the emergency room later. We roughed it out for two hours and the doctor ran the test and she had strep. Kimber is the happiest sick baby I have ever met in my life. This girl was nothing but smiles the whole day. It's never good to have a sick baby but I'm very grateful that it is just strep and not RSV. We've got her on antibiotics that she takes three times a day. She is such a little trooper. I just love my girl. 

Life with Kimber

We have been settling into life with Kimber. This girl brings us so much joy. She has been such an easy baby. She's a good sleeper and just a happy girl. She had a little jaundice there at the beginning and we had to use a billi blanket for a couple days and it cleared right up. She's been such a trooper and is learning so fast. She rolls from back to belly and sleeps through the night. It's so crazy how fast she has grown. 

  We had Joey Scott pierce   Kimber'sears she only cried twice. Once when we pierced them then once when we swabbed them with alcohol. She looks so cute with her little ear rings now though. 

  My how this little girls has grown. She already has her daddy and me wrapped around her chubby little finger. 

Baby Day!

After thirty eight weeks my doctors agreed that it was in everyone's best interest to induce me on June sixth. We had just been in the hospital two days before because my blood pressure was acting up again. I tried to get them to just induce then but they said baby needed those last few days.  We called the hospital that morning after no sleep the night before and headed to breakfast. We decided that was pretty important despite the fact that the hospital serves one of the best omelettes I have ever had. This way they didn't monitor me and check my blood sugars. 

After breakfast we made our way to the hospital. We checked in at nine and started cytotec at ten am. Once they gave me that med and we could start walking it seemed like labor just flew by. We walked and bounced on a bal and walked and walked and walked. 

Our moms showed up around five pm and just hung around with us. By then I was dialated to a four and things really started move quickly.  I got my epidural around nine after the anesthesiologist prepped an emergency c-section and life was good. I tried to nap after the epidural but I was so itchy. I will take itchy over contractions though. 

They broke my water around ten pm and then it all started happening. I labored for another couple hours. Baby's oxygen levels dropped a little bit so I had to wear the mask and it was time to call Doctor Jones! 

I pushed for an hour and a half. Kimber got stuck in the birth canal. She was trying to come out a little crooked and it just wasn't working for any of us.  Dr. Jones so politely asked me if it would be okay to use the vacuum. I knew this was a possibility after our baby class. Which was fantastic and I definitely  everyone take one.  Dr. Jones attached the vacuum to her head and pulled on the next contraction. The vacuum popped off. We attached and tried it again. A few pushes later we had our beautiful girl here. 

At 3:42 am on June 7,2013 Kimber Kay Larson came into the world. She was absolutely beautiful. Our healthy seven pound one ounce baby girl was nineteen inches long and absolutely beautiful. 

After all the excitement we finally made it to our post partem room by six thirty that morning. I then had visits from healthy families, the auxiliary, and two doctors at 7, 7:30,8,and 8:30.  Then baby needed to eat and nurses were checking vitals on me and baby. Then in comes grandma Kay at ten and the visitors just kept coming. Needless to say there was no resting in the hospital. The sweet nurses were  kind enough to keep the baby for a cople hours at night so I could get some rest. 

Overall our labor and delivery experience was better than we ever could have imagined. We love our doctor and the nurses and techs were so helpful. Kimber even got to share her birthday with her cousin Sophia. Seth's cousin Jeremy and his wife Wendy had their baby June seventh at 11:45 pm the same night Kimber was born so we have twin cousins. Such a special day for all of us. 

Third trimester

It seemed like it took forever to finally get to the home stretch of this pregnancy but when I did finally get there it had news for me. My blood pressure had been steadily climbing from 20 weeks. I went in to the dr for a regular monthly check up and my blood pressure registered at 141/96. Mine had always been in the 120/70 range.  I didn't think this was all that bad. I knew it was climbing and my doctors had suggested cutting salt and exercising a little bit. We'll that didn't help. After taking an easy spring break if had an appointment with a high risk pregnancy specialist. While I was there my blood pressure came back 143/97. If my blood pressure were to get over 160/100 on either number. (The bottom is where we were worried for me.) they would have to take the baby.  With protein in my 24 hour urine collection it was official. I had preeclampsia. I was put on strict bed rest for the remainder of my pregnancy. Twelve weeks is a really long time when you are staring at the beginning of it. I had to go tell my principal that afternoon. We got a sub for the rest of the day and the rest of the school year. I've never been so sad in my life. It was like my entire life just stopped. We had to sell our tickets we had bought to George straights last concert.  And I was stuck flat on my back in bed for three months. I had a whole new schedule focused around growing a healthy baby now.  Mondays I would check in at school. Tuesdays I had a nonstress test. Wednesdays I got to pee in a cup all day for a 24 hour urine culture. Thursdays I took that into the lab, and Fridays were my regular appointments with nst and ultrasounds to check fluid levels around baby. We settled into a nice little routine with this and I became very close with my doctors and their staff at gila valley clinic. Amongst all of this

 I also had to do the three hour test for diabetes. And sure enough I got that too. This really bothered me. I had always had the opinion that if I was on bed rest that at lest I could eat whatever I wanted. Nope! Now I had to diet and poke my fingers four times a day. It was probably for the best though. I might have gained a hundred pounds otherwise. Then at 33 weeks I was having pretty regular contractions. They weren't painful but were coming about three minutes apart.  We went in to the hospital and sure enough I was in labor. They tried sand tried to get the contractions to stop. The mess they gave me were terrible and I didn't sleep the first night we were in there. I stayed in the hospital for three days. We figured out I had an electrolyte imbalance. I was very low on potassium and magnesium. Magnesium is what they use to stop contractions. So after getting two bags of magnesium and lots of ginormous potassium pills they slowed contractions down to every fifteen minutes and did a test to make sure I wasn't dilating. I got to go home for another few weeks of baby cooking.  I had one more small hospital stay a few nights before I was to be induced. My blood pressure was high at my 37 week appointment. We had all decided to induce me at 38 weeks to avoid any complications. We were sent to the hospital for observations. My blood pressure went down and we went home for three nights until it was time to be induced. Third trimester was not kind to me.

Second trimester

I was feeling great after the first trimester. I wasn't so sleepy anymore and I could really start getting ready for this baby.  I documented as much of my pregnancy as I could with my chalkboard that I loved making. I really enjoyed checking a week off every Friday. We played the guessing game when we found out we were having a little girl.  We have lots of ultra sound pictures and were just anxiously waiting for her arrival.  I loved feeling her flutter and kick. This trimester came with a few negative symoms too though. I was woken up most nights with some of the worst Charlie horses I have ever had in my life! Other than that I started transitioning into maternity clothes, bought us a family car, and coached my basketball team to a second place finish for the season.   Overall we were having tons of fun and making memories just waiting for baby. 

First Trimester.

Since I'm back tracking instead of keeping up with this as I go I've decided ill just lump the overview of my pregnancy into trimesters.  The first trimester was relatively easy. I started seeing the lovely doctors at gila valley clinic.  I looked forward to my appointments every month. I remember my heart  rising into my throat when I saw that beautiful baby just swimming all over in there. I wasn't too sick in the first trimester. I figured out that if I didn't get too hungry or too full that me and the kid were happy as clams. We had a blast with family and friends over the holidays and I enjoyed all of the food. I'm so glad that my first trimester was nothing like some of the horror stories I ad heard from other women. Heavenly Father definitely answers prayers. We waited so long for this sweet baby and she came with perfect timing. Seth got a new job with empire cat and my maternity leave will work with having the summer off. I've learned through this to just believe in his will and his timing and we have definitely been blessed for it.  Here are some pictures from our first trimester. 

  

We're going to be parents

October of 2012 our lives changed forever. Bethany and Danny were visiting while Danny was on his mid tour leave from South Korea. It was the first time we had met Bethany's new husband and we're very excited to see what the hype was all about. I made some delicious tacos for the four of us. Bethany and Danny were staying with us for the weekend. Our dinner for four quickly turned into dinner for seven when my mom and grandparents showed up too. We had lots of fun talking and eating these delicious tacos. After dinner I started cleaning up. It was like all of a sudden I had caught that dreaded stomach bug that was going around school. I had sent three kids home with the flu that afternoon.  I lied down and took a bath. That is usually my go to to help me feel better. Nothing worked. I just felt more and more dreadful. After finally tossing my cookies(or delicious tacos)at four o'clock in the morning and listening to my sister tell me I was pregnant I decided to use my last cheap dollar store pregnancy test. And sure enough it came bearing good news! I couldn't hold it in. I woke seth up right then and showed him. I've never been so happy as I was in that moment. I absolutely loved sharing that beautiful secret with Seth.  After a year and a half of trying we finally got our sweet answer to all of our prayers and hopes and dreams. We were going to be parents and couldn't be happier. 

It's been a long long time

It's been a super long time since I last blogged and life has definitely changed over the past two years but since Kimber has been born I know I need to document these memories because soon that's all they will be. Time already feels like it's going way too fast and I'm not very good at scrap booking or picture taking but I want something to look back on and remember these happy times.  With that said here it goes.