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I finally have a name!
Hello everyone! Well, our little guy decided to come early on us, thankfully not too early, but it still caught us off guard.
What? How could that have caught you off guard? Duh, you have been pregnant for 9 months and you knew eventually that baby was coming out, right?
Well… yes, but I was hoping for a couple more weeks. We had our bags sort-of-packed for the big event, but not really. I was planning on using the weekend that our little guy decided to show up as a power weekend of cleaning, prepping and task achieving.
Here is our little guy’s birth story as it were:
On Saturday, August 25 around 5:30 a.m. I woke up to DH yelling at the cat. Nothing new there…. DH kinda got duped in to marrying a woman with two cats of which the one he didn’t mind recently passed away. Now he is left with the cat he hates. Matrix has an annoying habit of trying to sharpen his non-existent nails on the noisiest thing in the room in the wee hours of the night.
I stirred a bit then realized that I was kinda… moist. I honestly thought I had peed on myself in the night. My sister had a problem with my nephew punching her bladder while she was pregnant (in public and often) so I fearfully thought this was that. I got out of bed and walked toward the bathroom and it was very clear that this was not stopping… my water broke!
I mentioned to DH that I thought my water broke and BOOM, that man was up and dressed before I knew it! I didn’t even know he could move that quickly. I called our doula, Teresa to let her know we were on the way to the hospital. She reminded us that there was no rush, but we were worried since I am old and decided to head to the hospital.
This time it was very different since we had a wild card… Niko-chan. We packed him up at 5:45 a.m. and DH tore out of the garage. We just kept telling him that his brother was coming. Niko started to look for him when we got to the “doctor’s house,” how I wish it could be that easy!
I was hoping that this time I would get to the hospital and they would tell me that I was 8 cm along and the baby would be here within the hour. Yea…. a mighty 1 cm when I got there. Thankfully, they didn’t turn me away since my water broke so up to the maternity ward we went.
I actually got to walk the maternity halls like you see on TV donning a big belly and hospital smocks. I walked them for 4 ½ hours and I dilated another 1 cm to an unimpressive 2 cms by noon. So my doctor recommended my old friend Pitocin. How I hate that stuff, but it does work.
Because Pitocin is the work of the devil, I was in major pain by 4:30 p.m. and I begged to see the anesthesiologist for relief. This is exactly what happened with Niko. I was about 4 cms and several hours into ‘active’ labor with contractions every 2 minutes when I threw in the pain towel. When I did this with Niko, I dilated quickly after the epidural – I think because I could actually relax and I had stopped fighting the pain. I was hoping for the same luck with this one.
It took quite a bit of time to get the epidural this time around – almost 45 minutes. Several pokes later (and the worst pain in my life between the contractions and needle pricks) I was finally getting some relief… ahhhh…..
They checked me about an hour later and boom! I was at 9 cm, completely effaced and at 0 station! We were all very surprised and I now made the nurses VERY nervous. I actually over heard a nurse say I could sneeze the baby out right now and they made several calls to the doctor to get him in the room. I was still pretty pessimistic… I mean, I pushed for over 2 hours to get Niko out. I really didn’t think I was that close.
Dr. Hall (my OBGYN and one of the BEST doctors I have ever had) came in and told me not to do anything because he was pretty much crowning already. A few minutes later of prepping, Dr. Hall told me to give a push and when I got to number 6 he told me to “Stop pushing! He’s out!”
DH and I looked at each other in amazement! No way! I was mentally prepared for 2 hours of pushing, I really wasn’t ready for him to be here already. At 7:13 p.m. we were joined by a tiny 6 lb, 7 oz baby boy. What a blessing.
So, what’s his name? Well... you know, we struggled for a name before he was born. Having bi-racial kids can make naming a bit of a challenge. Will they look like dad or mom?
Our first son Niko looked like I adopted him until he was about 8 months. Seriously, people came up to me and asked what country I adopted him from. Uh… no. Adoptions don’t come with stretch marks.
With our second son, we were kinda surprised because he didn’t really look much like his brother other than the black hair. He actually looked more like my side of the family. Sooo…. the Asian name we picked out didn’t really seem right. (The exact opposite of what happened with Niko.)
Soo….. we went with the name DH picked for the first name and the more Asian name for his second. After waiting until they pretty much kicked us out to name him, we finally came to a decision.Welcome aboard, Ryker Kaito!
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