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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Welcome to the World Shay baby
My Doctor wanted me to be induced this time around. I was so ecstatic because I knew when the day was to be, and I knew that my doctor was going to be the one delivering my baby. Also, we were hoping that since it would be 5 days early that it would ensure that she would be a normal weight and size so my labor would be nothing like last time. I wanted nothing to be like last time!
The hospital called me the night before to inform me I was first on their list..so that meant we needed to be there at 6AM!Come again?? I was not particularly thrilled about getting up so early; I had looked forward to getting up and showering and having a nice breakfast beforehand. So, our plans just had to change a little. My Mom came that night to stay with Calvin since we needed to leave so early, and I just showered before I went to bed. But, did I sleep? Nope! I tried so hard too, but my body was WIRED.
By 6:30 am I was in a bed in a delivery room, but we had to wait until about 7:30 to start the pitocin drip. Like 4 or 5 women came into the labor and delivery around the time I did, but we did not mind waiting. In fact, Jess and I got alot of sleep! Even after the pitocin was going and my contractions had started, we slept until about 10:30 which felt so good! My contractions were very close together with the pitocin, and before too long I really felt like I needed my epidural. I tried to last it out as long as I could, but I am a total wimp about pain, especially when I think about my delivery with Calvin. It still makes me shudder to remember how painful that experience was...although absolutely worth it for my little buddy CK don't you forget it!
This time my epidural went without any problems! I felt my left side regaining feeling after a while and panicked, but pushed my more meds button and rolled onto my left side for a while and it worked with the power of gravity! Go me :)
Jess and I just watched a few movies, and Aly came to join us until the very end around 1 PM. I off and on slept and watched movies while pretending my stupid ice chips were delicious foods. Around 4:20 ish, I had this strange feeling that I needed to push. I had been counting the minutes since 4 and it seemed like time was moving so very slowly. But that feeling would not go away, so I buzzed my nurse and she came in to check me. Sure enough I was fully dilated! Time to push! Unfortunately, my doctor was hung up somewhere else, so we had to wait until 5:15 for him to get there! I just laid there and tried not to think of pushing, but of course it was all I could think of, and my adrenaline was pumping like crazy. Somehow, I managed to hold out.
At 5:28 pm I started to push, and 20 mins later at 5:48 pm my little Shay was born. Pushing was a much better experience this time! I'll take 20 mins over 2 1/2 hours anyday! Whew! The cord was wrapped around her little neck, but nothing too dangerous to her. But once I laid eyes on her little naked body as the doctor pulled her out, my heart melted and I was in tears. Let's face it, I was crying and pretty much unable to push the last time because my emotions were so strong as I knew I was about to meet my daughter.
She was beautiful! And they laid her on my chest..I never go to do that with Calvin. I savored those few moments until they took her to be cleaned weighed and measured. We could not believe how big she was! 8 pounds 1 ounce and 20 inches long! Why do I have such big babies???
Our stay at the hospital was great, and too short. I love being waited on, haha, is that so bad of me? But this time around I had a much more pleasant time in the hospital than last. I still tore pretty badly, so my pain level has been pretty high, but as long as I take my pain meds I feel fine, just sleepy. Hopefully I can heal quickly!
Since being home, she has been a dream. She sleeps great, and eats great! Calvin is not sure about her still, but he will help me get diapers and helps out alot more than I thought he would. He will NOT say her name though, she is just "baby" for now to him. He is probably still hoping that she is going to leave someday soon. Oh well, I know he'll be a great older brother once he comes around to the idea!
We are in love with our little Shay Lynn! I can't imagine our family without her now :)
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Introducing...
Little miss Shay Lynn Butikofer! She arrived Friday December 10, 2010 at 5:48 pm.
8 Lbs 1 Oz 20 Inches long
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Shutterfly Makes it Easy!
I have had a really great experience with Shutterfly in the past. My Sister-in-laws and I uploaded and created an amazingly beautiful photo book of a family reunion for my Father and Mother-in-law. It was so easy for us all to be able to access the website and create pages and post pictures to them. The book turned out amazing! It was a great gift and my in-laws appreciated it so very much.
This year, I am going to use Shutterfly to make our holiday cards. I am very excited that I decided to do this from how lovely my past experience was making that photo book! They have so many beautiful and fun card designs it is almost hard to choose one that I want! I really like the designs that have several photos on them because we are having trouble picking just one photo of our family and the many adventures we've had this year of 2010. I cannot wait to see how my cards will turn out!
Here are some of my favorite designs:
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Start of the Holidays
Jess' family came into town for Thanksgiving and stayed at our house. I was nervous about how tired I was going to be at 37 weeks pregnant, but it was so much fun! Jess' mom and dad came as well as his brother Jake and his wife Jacie and their 3 kiddos Cooper Porter and Olivia. We had a full house and it was so fun. Now that everyone is gone our house seems so empty!
We had Thanksgiving up in South Jordan at their cousins house. There was alot of us, at least 16 adults and who knows how many kiddos! The food was delicious and we played lots of fun games. The kids had a huge playroom to play in and had a blast. Calvin was exhausted by the time we went home! All day any drink he could get his hands on he would steal and gulp down! It's a good thing this was not an alcoholic group :)
Anyways, Thanksgiving was so fun but I did not take ONE single picture! We were having way to much fun! Oh well. Here are some pictures from the weekend:
The day after Thanksgiving we had Calvin's 2nd birthday party! I am so relieved that I was able to have his birthday before this little girl shows up. I was afraid she was going to come on Thanksgiving for some reason, and am glad she did not! It would have been nice if she had come sometime this weekend while Jess' family was here, but it obviously was not meant to be!
Calvin's party was so fun! We grilled hamburgers out on the grill in the frozen tundra and everyone had a great time! Calvin LOVES LOVES LOVES cars and anything that has wheels on it is called a "beep-beep", so I knew his cake had to be car themed. I will have to post the video up, but when we started singing and I brought out the cake his reaction was soooo cute! His eyes got so big and he just kept saying "beep beep!!!!" Then once he got the cars off his cake he refused to put them down to eat cake! And lucky for him most of his presents were cars! He got some really cute clothes, and some sweet books as well. Grandpa Rees and Grandma Kathryn got him a tee-pee tent that he loves to crawl in and take all his "beep-beeps". I would say this birthday was a success!
Saturday night we rode the Trax up to Temple Square to see the lights! It was such a fun experience for everyone, including the kids! We picked a good night to go too, it started snowing pretty bad in the middle of the night last night, so it might have been one of the last nice weekends to head up there before it's too cold! Calvin loved the train ride! And once we got to Temple Square he was amazed by all the lights. He even blew kisses to the temple because I told him it was where Heavenly Father and Jesus lived. How cute is that? Jake and Jacie and their kiddos had to head up to Logan right from Salt Lake so we said goodbye and we ate at the Gateway with Jess' parents before catching the Trax all the way back.
Baby Shower & Pregnancy Photos
My sister Aly, Mom, and Sister in Law Melissa threw me a baby shower in October. I appreciated it so much! Too bad the week of I got a terrible sinus infection so I was super sick at my shower and felt horrible, but still had fun! The night before Melissa took Calvin for Jess and I and he had his first sleep over with his cousins Robbie, Peter, and Belle and he thought that was pretty darn cool :)
Thanks to all who helped put my shower together and all who came! :)
My sister Aly has a really really nice camera, and she decided to take some maternity pictures for me around 34 weeks. Dang, I have gotten soooo huge since these pics! Crazy what just a few weeks will do to ya :) She did such a good job I love them!
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