Baby Pierson is here!

Baby Pierson was born today at 2 pm! He was 3.3 pounds and 17 inches long. Here's the story: I was waking up with cramping again all night. I felt a lot of pressure when I was up. This morning I was emotional and asked Chris for another priesthood blessing. The doctor was worried when I was crying during our visit today instead of smiling. So they kept monitors on and after 4 decelerations in 2 hours, they decided to move me to labor and delivery. Chris and the younger three kids came and when Tim Cluff arrived, I got a blessing. Over there they put in an IV (yuck) then started me on magnesium and gave me another steroid shot for the lungs. Magnesium is awful! I was throwing up and getting hot and felt like I was losing a lot of fluid. My parents came and picked up the kids. Not soon after I had a horrible contraction and called the nurse and told her it felt like a end of labor transition contraction. So she checked my cervix, which they don't like to do with ruptured waters. She said there was no cervix left and she could feel a little bum. I was completely dilated. So they took me into the operating room and he was born via c-section. After a minute he did a cute little cry, but soon had tubes placed to hep with breathing and was taken to NICU. After recovery time I was able to go see him. He can't cry with his tubes, but he looks like he is crying and no sound comes out. Poor baby. But he was pink really quick after delivery, which was great. His hands, feet and diapers are sooooo little! We are all doing well. Thank you again for your prayers!

31!

We made it to week 31 and 6 weeks in the hospital! Yesterday the doctors kept telling me that if we had any more action like all the contractions on Tuesday, then we'd be moved back to labor and delivery. I promised we'd behave and we did have a good day. Marcie brought Bailey to visit me in the morning. In the afternoon a NICU nurse talked to me and gave me a tour of NICU. Needless to say, I have a renewed determination to make it another three weeks. The less time he spends in the NICU, the better!

This morning we had an ultrasound and baby Pierson is still breech and fluid level was a little higher than last week. That is all we found out. My mom and Bailey came for lunch and the Cluff family stopped by to say hi. Chris and the kids came this evening and it was wonderful to see them!

Fun,fun

Another lovely day in the hospital! Unexciting is nice, but I had a few adventurous hours this afternoon when I started contracting constantly again. Pierson did have a deceleration last night so the doctor put me back on monitoring every four hours. Baby did have some issues with some of the contractions. Little stinker! He has been so stable, I was thinking we wouldn't have to worry about this anymore. But we made it through another day! My parents came by earlier and brought me donuts! My father in law brought Bailey after her nap. I spent a few hours with Chris tonight working on office "stuff." It's wonderful to be with Chris, no matter what we are doing.

Spring

It is so nice that March is coming closer to an end. I am looking forward to April. Baby Pierson has been doing great. My main concern right now is that he is breech so we have to keep discussing a c-section. I am trying to encourage him to turn. I have been doing fine. No more close calls since last Wednesday. We are determined to make it a few more weeks.

Brad and Faline's family, Chris' brother's family from Utah, visited this last weekend. It sounded like everyone had fun and I had large groups in my room several times. I enjoyed seeing everyone. Tonight all my family came for fhe.

30!

We made it to 30 weeks! Five weeks in the hospital and four more to go. In the ultrasound this morning, Pierson weighed an estimated 3 pounds. Yay! The fluid was really low, I am assuming from mostly a rough day yesterday. Doctor didn't seem too worried. Just excited to have another day down. I have been feeling better today and only a few contractions here and there.

My sister in law Sue brought me homemade coconut syrup this morning. As soon as she left I ordered a waffle. I am in love! Marcie came to visit and continued cheering me on. I got a little nap then the nurse who gives massages came in. I asked her not to go as deep today and it wasn't torture this time. My mom brought me a mint Oreo blizzard for St. Patricks day. We even played cards. I got Bailey's birthday present ordered this afternoon. Boy, that online shopping sure is fun!

Close call

When I stood up this morning, I got a headache, chest pain, started cramping and felt nauseous. You know it's going to be a great day when that happens. Baby looked good on the monitor, but the nurse said she could tell there was a lot of irritability with my uterus. I text JaNae to see if she could come help with the headache and pain in my neck and shoulders. I started having more pain and asked to be put on the monitor to see if it was contractions. When JaNae got here, I was having one contraction after another. My contraction monitor looked like a mountain range, one mountain next to the other. We were looking at her pictures of Steven coming home at the airport last week. My nurse said she had paged the doctor and was ready to tell him a I was in labor. Then it stopped. The contractions fizzled and I was able to have a massage. I showered and then my mom was here and helped me through the next couple of hours. We did a quick ultrasound and saw baby is still breech. I feel much better now and am thinking we will make it until tomorrow.

Content

Baby Pierson has been looking really good on the monitor. My doctor tonight took me off the medicine trying to stop contractions and said we could now monitor every 6 hours instead of 4. I am excited to have only one monitoring in the middle of the night.

All the family came last night for my dad's unbirthday cake. He said he is done having birthdays. I think that I am about through having them too. Bailey thinks every time we do cake, we are having her birthday. She came to visit me today with the grandparents and my brother Mike and his baby. She got new Dora sandals this morning that might not ever come off her feet.