He got a 9 on his apgar scores.

He is beautiful and healthy.
I am home from the hospital. Zoe is back from her cousins house. We have only had one little meltdown. And things are really going well….

He is such a good baby! I can’t tell if the Zerker was just more work or whether we are just more relaxed. I was breastfeeding at first, but I have to admit that we decided not to now. He stopped latching well and my main goal is to have the least amount of stress possible. This allows for both Nadie and myself to take care of him equally. He is eating well and taking the bottle fine. He likes to chill in the swing and sleeps well in the evening between feedings…..so far, so good…..now to enjoy maternity leave with these crazy beautiful people….

Oh and Happy Mother’s Day to all you mums out there!

The past few days have been a whirlwind.
I went in for the induction on Thursday evening. My water broke on its own before midnight that night and I had steady contractions on my own with only the one cytotec application. I had some nubain and low grade narcotics throughout the evening to get me through the first few centimeters of dialation. By 4:30am I was dialated to 4cm, but I chose to wait until 7am for the epidural.

They started pitocen at low levels and I got my epidural. I continued on with the intention of a vaginal delivery.

That isn’t what ended up happening.

At around 11am my nurse went to change my IV and she couldn’t get it to flow into my hand. Something was wrong with it (from what I could tell after the next few moments she did not do what she was supposed to do by flushing it or something…) The next thing I new she was having troubling finding the baby’s heartbeat on the monitor, her supervisor called in a bunch of other nurses, they stuck me under oxygen, threw in on my side and started doing something to my cervix. Needless to say I was freaked out. I had no idea what was going on. Praying the hail mary over and over again while they were workign away. Then something came to me about what they were doing. They were putting an internal monitor on Z. Nothing was wrong with her. She probably just moved in a way that the nurse couldn’t reach. I balled for a few minutes just getting over the scarieness of that situation.

So that was around 11am, at that time I was dialated to 8cm. When they inserted the monitor they had to stop the pitcoen. When they re-started it they coulnd’t start it at the same level as before because it could cause strain on the baby.
It took some time to get my contractions back to the regularity they had been coming at. Over the next hour or so I dialated to about 9.5 cm. There was a problem though…she was still to far up and my doctor didn’t think my pelvis was going to be wide enough to fit her,

He gave us 3 hours to see what happened. Within the next three hours nothing really changed. She wasn’t going to fit. And I have BIG hips – so evidenty a big butt does not mean you have child bearing hips!

At 3:30pm it was decided that I was going to have a c-section.
C-section began at 4pm.
Zoe Ellen Ruth Kyle was delivered at 4:18pm EST.

Weighing in at a mere 6 lbs 15 ozs – 19 inches long…

Hearing her cry right after she came out was probably the most beautiful and relieving sound I have ever heard. Hearing my husband gasp ‘She is beautiful’ was so amazing, I can’t really explain.

All fingers and toes accounted for. Beautiful color. Really Big Feet.

Breastfeeding is going well so far. I will write more later. It is a very emotional time – adjusting my outlook on life…being so blessed…

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I am scheduled for an induction beginning tomorrow (Thursday) evening.
I am supposed to go in at 7:30 pm to begin cytotec application for softening of the cervix. Then I suppose we will see where it goes.
I have heard that for some, that is all it takes to get things started. That would be cool – since I have heard pitocen can cause some crazy pain…like labor isn’t crazy pain anyways…I guess women who have experienced both natural and induced would be able to explain the difference – but it seems to me like every birth is different so it would be hard to completely contribute it to the drug.

They won’t break my water until sometime on Friday. I assume she will be here on Friday.

So her birthday will probably be 01/09/2009. Not bad. I had been hoping for an even date, but this one has a ring to it.

I put her birth date into a numerology calculator and this is what it said….

9 January 2009
Your date of conception was on or about 18 April 2008 which was a Friday.

You were born on a Friday
under the astrological sign Capricorn.
Your Life path number is 3.

Your fortune cookie reads:
Love always and deeply.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 3, 6 & 9.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 2, 5 & 11.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 4, 7, 8 & 22.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2454840.5.
The golden number for 2009 is 15.
The epact number for 2009 is 3.
The year 2009 is not a leap year.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Goose; your plant is Bramble.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Famenoth, the third month of the season of Poret (Emergence – Fertile soil).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 13 Tevet 5769.
Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 14 Tevet 5769.

The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.19.15.17.16 which is
12 baktun 19 katun 15 tun 17 uinal 16 kin

The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Friday, 12 Muharram 1430 (1430-1-12).

Celebrities who share your birthday:
A.J. McLean (1978) Dave Matthews (1967) Crystal Gayle (1951)
Jimmy Page (1944) Joan Baez (1941) Susannah York (1941)
Bob Denver (1935) Richard Nixon (1913) Gracie Fields (1898)

Your lucky day is Saturday.
Your lucky number is 8.
Your ruling planet(s) is Saturn & Uranus.
Your lucky dates are 8th, 17th, 26th.
Your opposition sign is Cancer.
Your opposition number(s) is 2 & 7.

There are 2 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 0 candles.

Those 0 candles produce 0 BTUs,
or 0 calories of heat (that’s only 0.0000 food Calories!) .
You can boil 0.00 US ounces of water with that many candles.

Your birthstone is Garnet

The Mystical properties of Garnet

Garnet is used as a power stone
Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Emerald, Rose Quartz

Your birth tree is

Fir Tree, the Mysterious
Extraordinary taste, dignity, cultivated airs, loves anything beautiful, moody, stubborn, tends to egoism but cares for those close to it,rather modest, very ambitious, talented, industrious uncontent lover, many friends, many foes, very reliable.