Sunday, July 26, 2009

A Ten-Year -Old Boy's Idea of a Baby Video.....

March 27th 2009
Colby at 8 weeks old, video taken by Tyler....

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

I Am A Crappy Blogger!

I have decided that I am terrible at "blogging" (among other things, such as: all sports, folding laundry regularly, not eating sugar, etc.) and I will now update everyone on Colby's birth almost 6 months ago!
I was scheduled for an induction on Friday, January 30th, (4 days early) after having to practically beg the doctor to let me have this baby (I'd gone in on Tuesday morning earlier that week with contractions a couple minutes apart, then they all stopped-- lovely! The doctor sent me home, ignoring the fact that I am GBS positive and need antibiotics for 6 or 8 hours prior to delivery and my last labor was only 1 hour 26 minutes long! Grrr....I shouldn't get started). However, I went into labor on my own and showed up a few hours earlier than they'd planned. Things weren't as bad as they could have been, but weren't ideal either!
The doctor only decided to let me have an epidural when I thought I was going to die from pain, the anesthesiologist had to stick me 3 times because she kept hitting blood vessels, then only half of me was numb, so she had to go in and wiggle the needle some more....that didn't work, so they just did something else through my iv (which was HEAVEN) an hour later. When I was ready to push they broke my water and Colby's heart rate dropped, and they wouldn't let me get him out. Then my contractions stopped, and I had to NOT PUSH for almost 2 hours. I think they may have given me pitocin to get things going again (not too sure at this point) and at long last, after 3 pushes our little boy was OUT!

Colby Matthew Schneider was born at 6:51 am, weighing 8 lb.s 1 oz., and he was 20 1/2 inches long, and I felt fine. A couple hours after he was born, his oxygen levels kept dropping and they ended up sending him in for x-rays. The chest x-ray was cloudy and it was unclear whether the problem was congenital pneumonia or amniotic fluid in his lungs, so Colby was admitted to the NICU and was treated preventatively for pneumonia.
My home teacher (who was a nurse anesthetist at the hospital) and another man from our ward (who is an orthopedic surgeon) came and gave Colby a blessing, which was a comfort. I was discharged the second day, but the staff let me keep my room to sleep in while our baby was still in the hospital. Colby was declared healthy after 3 days (it was NOT pneumonia), and we were able to bring him home on Monday. I wonder if it would've been better for him if they'd have just listened to me and let me get him out when his heart rate started dropping-- Ryan and I think that he was hanging out too long in my belly. They CLAIM that he was in the NICU because he was a "precipitous delivery", however, I was able to deliver ALL of my children quickly and none of the others had fluid in THEIR lungs.....
All's well that ends well, though! Colby is so adorable-- every one of us is in love with him, and of course we can't imagine what life would be like without him! He is a good-natured and a giggly little squishy guy-- we are blessed to have such great kids!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Ahhhh, Life

We've had some events in the past couple of months that I haven't kept up with on here-- I turned THIRTY (yes, I am admitting it only this once-- on my birthday Kayla wished me a "happy 27th birthday"-- sweet girl!) in December, then of course we had a fun Christmas, followed by Ryan's and my 10th anniversary on Jan. 9! Married for 10 years, kinda makes us seem OLD! Ryan surprised me with an overnight stay at a bed and breakfast downtown (first time we were ALONE overnight in over 5 years!) at a place I had wanted to go to-- he's such a good husband! (oh, by the way, breakfast was fabulous there-- I'm 9 months pregnant, gotta mention the delicious FOOD!)
My friends (who are also my visiting teachers) threw me my first baby shower on the 17th, what sweethearts Kelli and Abbey are-- it was so much fun!

Riley's 2nd birthday was on Jan 21st! He's such a cute and cuddly little guy and he is such a joy to care for!

Now that all of our "big events" have passed, we are ready for the next one-- THIS NEW BABY! He can come any time he wants to now (I've always gone overdue, but for heaven's sake, my cankles are NOT attractive-- I say it's time NOW!).....