Jordan♥Katana♥Skye♥Kate: Kate MaRee

So I really enjoyed my pregnancy...really! I loved being pregnant. Skye came right on her due date, so when Kate's due date came...and went... I was just ready to be done and hold my baby! Everyone said your second baby comes sooner, one thing I've learned my babies like to do things on their own time. We set up to be induced on June 22nd. I was a little worried because I really want Dr. Fowers to deliver her and he wasn't on call the weekend before and I just figured she would come then. I was having a lot of contractions and called the hospital but they just weren't hurting enough. So I just went to sleep. I woke up Monday June 22nd at 5:55 a.m. to call the hospital to see when they wanted me to come in (of course I was thinking right then) Well they told me they would call me back in 2-3 hours if I hadn't heard from them by then to call them back. When I hung up I just wanted to cry, please just let me have my baby!! They called me at 9 and said "Ok you can go ahead and come now, we are ready for you." ... Wait... what?! I thought I was ready until it was actually time. All of a sudden I wasn't ready. I just sat down to eat a bowl of cereal and all of a sudden I wasn't hungry. I called Denese and told her "it's time" Hearing how excited she was made me a little more excited. I was so scared. Skye's labor and delivery were so hard, I just wasn't ready to do that again. There are so many things that could go wrong and of course 80% of what people have been telling me the past 9 months is what goes wrong. So we got everything ready, dropped Skye off at my parent's and headed to the hospital. We got there at 10 a.m. they got my iv and pitocin going around 11 a.m. Dr. Fowers came in to break my water around 12:45. It felt so weird! It was warm and just kept coming and coming, I would laugh and more, I got up to go to the bathroom and got it all over the floor. They got my epidural going right after they broke my water. I was so terrified to move, it really didn't hurt that bad. It felt like a bee sting. So it's been going and I'm not supposed to be able to feel/move my legs but I still could. Then my contractions started getting harder, and I could still feel them. I thought I wasn't supposed to be able to feel anything at all! So I just kept waiting and waiting for it to start working. Finally the nurse got the anesthesiologist and he put a big shot into my epidural, it just felt cold. Then I started getting really nauseous, I remember sitting up and I could just feel the sweat dripping down my back. I could hear everyone talking around me but I don't remember what was being said. I did not feel good. My blood pressure dropped, so they gave me some medicine to bring that back up and to help with the nausea. Then I was feeling good! I couldn't feel my contractions and just wanted to relax. There was Jordans Grandparents, Dave and Liz, his parents Joe and Stacey, his brother Vance, my step mom Denese, my dad Bruce and Skye all in my room when all of that happened. It was a little distracting. So everyone went out into the waiting room and I just laid there for a while. Denese sat with me and helped do a couple things, the nurse checked me and I was dilated to a 6, so my dad was going to take Skye and play at the park or something for a little while. I told Denese, Skye should come tell me bye. He walked down to the parking lot, she called him and he walked back up to the hospital. I was feeling a little something, so naturally I pushed the button to give me more epidural and asked the nurse to check me again. She said I just checked you like 15 minutes ago and you were at a 6, but yeah I can. Denese told me I made some weird noise and she looked at me and came over to check me. She did and literally picked up my legs and closed them and told me not move, it was time! She called Dr. Fowers and the other Doctors (they were a little concerned because there was some of the baby's first poop in my water when they broke it) Jordan, Denese and Stacey were in there with me. The Doctors got everything ready and I pushed about 2 times and Dr. Fowers said she has a lot of curly black hair, then I pushed 2 more times and she was born! It was amazing. We did it!! She was born at 3:57 p.m. and weight 7 pounds 11 oz. and was 20 inches long! She has so much hair!! It was so fun! Skye and everyone got to come in and meet her. Then we did skin to skin for awhile and just stared at this beautiful, perfect little girl. I couldn't and still can't believe how good and easy everything was. We moved down into the recovery room and hung out for awhile. Dave, Liz, Joe, Stacey and Vance left. Kate got her first bath! My mom, Ty and Kendal came and visited for awhile. Then we slept for a little while, they took her to the nursery for a little while, but I still got woken up to get my uterus pushed on, then again to get my medicine, so I had them just bring her back in. Jordan left in the morning and went and hung out with his dad and brother. Stacey stayed with me, Skye and my dad came up there for a while. I got to take a shower! Then we got to get ready to go home around 6 or 7. Yay!
I can't find the right words to describe how I am feeling. I can't believe Skye's a big sister now. I can't believe I have 2 kids! I can't believe how absolutely perfect Kate is. I love being a mom so so much. I was so scared to do the baby stage again, because Skye can do almost everything by herself. It's going to be hard to go back to someone needing me 24/7 right? I seriously love it. I love, love, love little Kate. She wakes up in the middle of the night to eat and I don't care, one little bit. She goes back to sleep and I just stare at her and hold her and love her. I don't know what I ever did to deserve 2 amazing, beautiful, perfect little girls but I am so so thankful to have them. They give my life meaning and so much happiness.
Here's pictures :) enjoy!