We are so happy to say that we welcomed Brigham Spencer Young V to this world on October 27 at 10:13pm. He was 5lbs 7oz and 17 inches long. We will be calling him Spencer/Spence..... (we have had a lot of questions about that.) He was on a ventilator, but has now been removed from that. Now he only has a IV in his belly button and a feeding tube in his nose. We are now able to hold his twice a day for skin to skin time, and learning to feed. The doctors predict that he will only be in the
NICU for about 3 weeks. He has Jaundice so in some pictures his hat is over his eyes for protection from the lights that he needs to be under.
As for the Labor Story.......... Well it was Wednesday at 6pm..... we had our boy scouts over and
BJ was carving pumpkins with them, as I started having contractions. They were very
sporadic at this point so I thought it was just the
Braxton Hicks contractions... I was so wrong! at 7 after scouts the contractions started getting a little more
consistent. I started questioning labor at this point so I called my midwife... they said take a hot shower to try to stop the contractions. Ya that didn't work. So as I laid in bed the midwife called back and asked how I was doing... I said the contractions are getting about 8 minutes apart. She told me she was in
SLC and she would start to head down, I asked if there was really anything she could do to stop it and she said no. So I told her to just say in
SLC and I will go to the hospital and let her know what happens. So
BJ, Brooklyn and I head down to the hospital. At 9:20pm we check in and the nurse tells me that I am
dilated to a 6 already. So she grabs the doctor we called my mom to get her down to the hospital to pick up Brooklyn, and then they wheel me in to the operating room. By time this all happens I'm
dilated to a 8 and the doctor decides to break my water. I tell him get my husband in here and as BJ is getting ready to hand Brooklyn to the nurse to watch, my mom shows up to take her and
BJ gets into the OR and I'm ready to push. I push a few
unbearable times and decide I can't do this..... I kept telling
BJ that, and he just kinda looked at me like... huh you really don't have a choice... but instead encourages me and says ya you can. As
BJ is
telling me this the doctor tells me that the baby is posterior and he is not getting oxygen so I need to hurry and get him out. I do one more giant push and he was out.
BJ cut the cord... they got the baby breathing (he was
soooo purple) and
whisked him away. I told
BJ to follow the baby while the doctor finished up. About an hour or two later we got to go to the
NICU to go visit our baby for the first time. He is a
gorgeous baby and I still can't stop looking at him.
Any way overall he is doing great and we want to thank everyone for all the support and prayers that you have given us.
