Apparently my children like to do things there own way. Ava Kate was scheduled for induction on March 17th at 5am and at 1am that morning I woke up in labor. It seems her brother has his own schedule as well. On Halloween I had my weekly doctor's appointment and I was dilated to a 1 so Dr. Mascorro went ahead and scheduled an induction for November 16th but she said I was measuring a little small so she wanted me to see the specialist for another sonogram to be sure things looked okay. A few days later we went for our sonogram and Dr. Mayberry said everything looked fine and the baby was about 6lb 14oz. but Jett was being a sleepy head and wasn't moving much during the sonogram so he wanted to monitor me on the heart rate monitor for a while. Once they put the monitor on me that seemed to wake him up and he was moving a lot so they sent me on my way.
Over the next few days I noticed that Jett wasn't moving as much as he usually did so at my next Dr's appt on the 7th I mentioned this to Dr. Mascorro. She said she wanted to put me on the monitor again just to check things out. Once again after they put the monitor on me he started wiggling and squirming around. The nurse came in and told me I was good to go and I asked if I was supposed to come back the next Monday or just show up at the hospital on the 16th. She said she would send the doctor back in. When Dr. Mascarro came back in she told me that at my sonogram with Dr. Mayberry my fluid had been lower than they like it to be and that she thought that was why the baby wasn't moving as much and she thought we should induce a week earlier, that Wednesday the 9th. I knew he would only be 2 weeks early at that point and I was so ready that I said sure! Justin was in Fort Worth at a golf tournament so I called to let him know we would be meeting our son in two days. I had planned to work that entire week but now that we were inducing in two days I decided to just go up to work and wrap things up and that would be my last day. I figured the day before Jett was born we would spend a day with Ava Kate. Then things changed.
I went to work and got things wrapped up and then I went and picked up Ava from school at 3pm. When we got home I noticed I had been having contractions but hadn't paid attention to how regular they were. They continued and seemed to be about 10 minutes apart. At about 5pm they were getting closer so I started trying to monitor them and they were more like 7 minutes apart. I was feeling a little weird too so I called Justin to be sure he was on his way home and my dad came over to sit with Ava and I until Justin got home. By 7pm my contractions were about 5 minutes apart so I called the doctor and she said if that continues for another hour go ahead and go to the hospital. The contractions continued although they weren't that intense but at 9pm we decided we better go ahead and go.
My whole family came along with us to the hospital. The nurse got me hooked up to the monitors, at that point I was still only dilated to a 2. She said they would watch my contractions for a couple of hours and then check me again. When she came back in at 11pm I was dilated to a 3 so she said she wanted to keep me a while longer. The contractions still weren't very intense and weren't that regular. At 1am she came in and checked me and I had not dilated anymore but she said she would call the doctor to see what she wanted to do. Dr. Mascorro told them to go ahead and keep me overnight so finally at 1am they gave me some meds to help me sleep. I slept until early the next morning and the nurse came in and told me my contractions had pretty much stopped in the night while I was sleeping and that the doctor might send me home. I was so disappointed because we'd been up most of the night and then to have to go home just to come back for induction the next day. Somewhere around 7am Dr. Mascorro came in and checked me and she said you are dilated to a 4 now, you're in labor and we're going to go ahead and break your water. Hallelujah, all those contractions had been doing something! After she broke my water, they started me on pitocin to get my contractions going again since they had stopped. After about an hour or two of adjusting the pitocin the contractions finally kicked in and strong! I was begging for my epidural and after about an hour and a half of really intense contractions and some pleading on my part I got it! Wow, what a difference it makes, I was in happy land after that. I rested for a while and at about 12:30pm Dr. Mascorro came in and checked me and said I was ready to push. Thankfully the epidural did it's job and with a few contractions and pushes our sweet boy was here!
What an amazing day that was, I think the days I gave birth to my children will always be the most incredible days of my life! He was absolutely perfect, beautiful lips, a perfect little head, daddy and sister's cute little nose, mommy's long fingers and toes. It was love at first sight! It amazes me how your heart just seems to double in size the moment you lay eyes on them! I immediately knew Jett was smaller than Ava Kate was when she was born. He reminded me so much of his sister from the moment I laid eyes on him. He had the sweetest little cry. Thankfully like his sister he was a champ when it came to nursing and latched right on, an answer to my prayers.
After school Ava Kate came up to meet her new baby brother. I will admit I was really nervous about what her response would be but wow, I couldn't have asked for a sweeter, more precious first meeting for my two children. She walked over to him and said "Ahh, he's so cute!" She crawled up on the bed with me and Jett and loved on him and kissed him and gushed over him. It was priceless! She got to go watch Jett get his first bath and then she went home with Nana and Pop for the evening. We had several visitors that evening and the next day stop by to see our sweet baby boy. Justin and I enjoyed having that first evening alone with him and got a pretty good nights sleep. The next day was a rough one for our little guy with a circumcision and then his PKU heel prick which took them 3 trys, poor baby! After his PKU we got to go home.
It was fun riding home the first time as a family of four, how blessed I felt in that moment! When we got there the first thing big sister did was take Jett's passy and put in her mouth and before we could say anything she had it back in Jett's mouth. It is funny how much more laid back you are with the second one. I guess you've lived through the newborn phase with the first one and realized they are more resilient than you think. As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, we have so much to be thankful for right now especially our two precious miracle babies that at one time we weren't sure we'd ever get to experience. God is good!
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