Welcome Miss Mylee Jo

Mylee Jo Kreider
Friday, March 20, 2009
12:44 pm
Weight: 8 lb 15 oz
Length: 21.5 in.
Head Circ.: 14.5 cm

Jason, Maddy, and I welcomed our new little (or not so little) family member yesterday. She is a "Pudge" as we are calling her, taking right after her sister. I am definitely doomed for huge babies. Thank goodness she wasn't full-term or she could have easily surpassed her sister in birth weight. She is healthy, eating well, and so far has been very quiet. She had a bit of a rough start with a lot of fluid and mucous in her lungs and stomach, which caused her to work really hard and rapidly to breathe. They paged the pediatrician who came in and suctioned 20 mL of fluid out and a bunch of additional mucous from the back of her throat and nose. She continued to monitor her for awhile and I wasn't able to try to breastfeed her for a few hours until her breathing slowed down and they were sure they won't have to take her to the CCN. By the time we tried nursing we missed the alert phase and were into the sleepy phase so it wasn't a very successful feeding but nothing they were concerned about as she clearly has some body fat and her glucose levels were great. Since then she has been nursing awesome but is spitting up a lot probably still some effects from her rough start.

So here's how it all happened:

Thursday, March 19

11:00 - Dr. Apt and Ultrasound
Ultrasound results: Low Amniotic Fluid (AF of 5-7 when it should be above 10)
Estimated Body Weight of 8 lb 11 oz with a 41 wk. head circum.
12:00 - Send to the hospital for induction
1:00 - Meet Jason at home to pack
2:00 - Arrived at hospital
4:00 - Started petosin (1-2cm)
5:30 - Stop petosin (wanted to make sure mom and baby would take well to it)
6:40 - Dinner (Yeah, Jaclynn hadn't eaten since a bowl of cereal around 8)

Hung out and watched basketball for the rest of the night.
Jaclynn slept ok, about an 1 at a time between bathroom breaks. Probably 4-5 hours of rough sleep.

Friday, March 20

6:00 - woke up and showered
7:00 - Started petosin
7:30 - Met Dr. Kean - really enjoyed her. It was the first time we met her.
9:15 - Dr. Kean broke Jaclynn's water (3 cm)
10:15 - asked for epidural
10:30 - 4-5 cm - epidural ordered
11:00 - feeling relieved again. Still a lot of low pressure and burning. I (Jason) was asked to leave while they put in the epidural. Didn't really liked that but I could see it took well as Jaclynn's mood was once again more upbeat.
11:45 - 6-7 cm
12:30 - All systems go, we are clear to push
12:44 - Mylee Jo comes into the world!!!

Jaclynn reduced her pushing from Maddy to Mylee from 3 hours down to 14 minutes! :) So obviously that was a great relief for us both.

Thanks to all for your thoughts and prayers. We are so thankful for our 2nd little precious gift from God. We are really excited for Mylee to meet all of you soon.

Mylee sees Mom for the first time
Eyes wide open

25 minutes after labor-how great does Jaclynn look!!!

Very proud Daddy

Our new bundle

Can you see those back rolls! :) First bath

Sisters first meeting

My girls!!! :)

The family

Happy Birthday Mylee Jo