I wanted to play catch up since I print my blog as my baby / family book!
Monday, March 12, Brandon and I celebrated seven years of marriage. What a wonderful, dramatic, painful, full, and wild ride it has been. Brandon, thank you for all you do for our family. Thank you for loving me so completely!
Since we had a fun kid free night planned for Friday we had a casual dinner with Eli. We had a great time just playing around enjoying our family of three. Little did we know it would be the last dinner out we would have together as a family of three.
On Tuesday, March 13, I went to my 33 week doctor appointment. Kelsey was watching Eli and I told him I would be home before nap time. I had a sono and then a stress test (watching baby's heart rate and movements). During the stress test my doctor came in and told me she wanted me to go to the hospital I was delivering at for a longer stress test. I thought it would be just the afternoon, at most over night.
22 days later I left with baby Luke!
Here is the day by day run down.....
Baby Fleming, the last three weeks
March 13, Tuesday
Dr. G - BPP & NST (non stress test)
During NST baby's HR had multiple decels
Sent to L&D for more monitoring
@ Methodist
Baby looked good over night & day
Dr kept me to make 48 hours of monitoring
Plan to release in am,
March 15, to see Dr. F
@ Methodist
Baby had decels over night
Dr kept me another night to monitor
Baby looked good day
@ Methodist
Baby had decels over night
Dr is transferring me to Arlington by ambulance / Methodist NICU is full
Baby looked good day
@ Arlington
Dr. C - BPP baby looked good
Dr. C wants to keep me
until March 20 for monitoring, then another BPP
@ Arlington
Baby looked good over night & day
PM Having harder contractions (can't talk through them) more often
Cervic checked - 50% afaced, 1 cm dilated at bottom, closed at top
@ Arlington
Baby looked good over night & day
Contractions have slowed down
@ Arlington
Baby had a small decels over night, nurse turned me and HR went up
Dr was not concerned, thinks decel was positional
Baby looked good day
@ Arlington
Baby looked good over night & day
Dr. G - BPP and growth sono
Baby looked good on BPP
Baby measuring, 6 lb, 3 oz & 36 w 2 d
Baby breach
Dr. G is going to keep me until delivery with history of decels in HR and still birth
Most decels are at night so day monitoring would not cover
@ Arlington
Baby had two small decels over night, nurse turned me
Dr thinks they were positional
Baby looked good day
Contractions are back (pm) but not as often as
March 17
@ Arlington
Baby had a good night & day
Contractions are fewer (am)
Contractions picked up a little (pm) but not hard
@ Arlington
Baby had a good night & day
Lots of movement
Contractions light in (am) stronger in (pm)
@ Arlington
Baby had a good night & day
Contractions (am) not regular but getting stronger
Contractions (pm) very few and not that strong
Baby has movement but has slowed down, HB stayed in one place all day
@ Arlington
Baby had a good night, few contractions
Lots of sleep cycles with few acels.
Contractions (am) a few not strong
No big contractions in (pm)
Baby had a good day
@ Arlington
Baby had a good night & day
Contractions (am) every 3-10 from hard to mild, slowed down by
2:00 pm
No big contractions in (pm)
@ Arlington
Baby had a good night & day
Contractions (am) from hard to mild, gone by
10:00
No big contractions in (pm)
@ Arlington
Baby had a good night & day
Contractions (am) very hard, gone by
9:00
@ Arlington
Baby had a good night & day
Contractions on / off all day ranging, mild to hard
@ Arlington
Baby looked good night & day
Dr. G did amnio (am)
Results PG - undetected
Contractions (am) are off and on but not as strong as they have been
Very sore from amnio
@ Arlington
Baby looked good night & day
Dr. F checked me, no progress
If LS is 2.5 or higher we will start with cytotec 50
@ 2:00pm, pit
6:00pm
If LS is lower then Dr. G will let us know when we can start
Birth Story:
The 8:00pm cytotec was not bad, but after the 12:00am round my contractions picked up. The pit was started at 4:00am. Babies heart rate started taking big dips every contraction. I was worried that I would end up with and emergency
C-Section so I went ahead and got my epidural around 6:00am
Brandon and I had a few more hours before family started arriving and my contractions really picked up.
Around 9:00 the nurse asked the family to go to the waiting room, baby Fleming would arrive soon! (I later found out that if I was not ready to push we would have been going to a C-section)
Baby arrived at 9:37am! I pushed once then the doctor said to stop, there was a cord.
She delivered the baby and rushed it to the NICU nurses. They worked on baby boy for about 25 min. They jump started his breathing and sucked his lungs. The NICU nurses said he was doing well enough to stay with me and not go to the NICU.
Brandon and I still had not decided on a name yet but needed to if we were going to introduce Baby Fleming to the family!
So we decided on Luke Austin!
Brandon took the family Easter Eggs, filled with pink candy! Then said "April Fools" when everyone thought we had a girl.
Then he gave them paper with letters on them to figure out the name!
@ Arlington
Some help from NICU with jump starting breathing.
Low blood sugar so 20ml of formula with sugar water.
Luke has latched well on right side and had a 6 min & 20 min feed
Luke has had some trouble latching on left side.
Making noise and flaring nostrils, a sign of breathing problems, will let nurse know.
@ Arlington
Luke had a good night, feeding, slept in nursery, every 3-4 hours, latched well on both sides
First dirty diaper during the night
Circumcision went well, two wet diapers today, no dirty
@ Arlington
BR - 9, a bit jaundice
Dr. W, asked us to make an appointment with Dr. A, by end of week, and we are free to head home!
Dr. Released Deb, back to see Dr. F in four weeks
@ HOME
Long night, Luke didn't sleep but two hours in crib, only wanted to sleep on someone
Sleeping in swing great today!!
Milk came in on both sides.
Luke had his first bath today, he got a little poop on his circ
@ HOME
Luke went four hours two times between feeds last night
Aunt Debbie came to stay the day & night
Eli was at school
Luke had a Dr. appt with Dr. Arca
19 1/2 in & 6 lb 6 oz
@ HOME
Luke had another good night, didn't want to sleep until
12am but went four and three hours between feeds
Kelsey kept Luke so mama, Eli, and aunt Debbie could get out
@ HOME
The Fleming family came over for Easter celebration
We had a great time, took blue bonnet pic with the kids, Easter egg hunt, and dinner
@ HOME
Kelsey did a photo shoot with Luke and a few with both boys
Daddy took Eli out to get food and to Home Depot (HD was closed) they had some big kid time
Aunt LaDell got here today and will be here most of the week!
@ HOME
Luke slept 5 hours last night! Mama had to wake him to feed, then feed for over 30 min.
Luke's cord fell off today
Luke tends to sleep with his left leg up and his right leg strait out (more so when he sleeps on someone)
Luke went out for the first time other than to the Dr. today, to Wal-Mart. Mama used the Moby Wrap and kept him very close
Eli was wanting lots of mama hugs today but enjoys his little brother
@ HOME
First day without help, but Corrie Smithson saved the day! She brought lunch and the kids played great together.
@ HOME
Weight check 6 lb 8 oz
Circ ring feel off today
@ HOME
Luke went out to dinner for the first time with the family, to Chapps Cafe
@ HOME
Luke's first Curry Craw Fish Party
@ HOME
Luke went to church for the first time, made it half way through before needing to eat
@ HOME
Mommy started her week of all her and both boys!
Luke went to dinner with the Sivak's, he slept through the crazy at Stir Crazy
Luke and Eli had their first "brother" bath
@ HOME
First visit to music class with Eli. Luke sleep through it!
Mimi came over to celebrate her birthday with her grandsons!
@ HOME
Luke went to bible study with mommy
Luke meet his new best friend Shepard Wood
@ HOME
Weight check, 7 lb 5 oz!!
@ HOME
Lunch with the family for Mimi's birthday
Papa Bruce came to see everyone!
@ HOME
We had our worst night to date, up from before
2am till past
6am. Mommy ate something that hurt Luke's belly.
@ HOME
Luke went to mommy's PEO social
tonight
@HOME
Luke went to the zoo with Eli and mommy for the first time. He slept through most of it.
Luke met Aunt Karen for the first time
@ HOME
Luke went to his first baby shower for the Kirkpatrick's and his first trip to Jo T's!
We also went to Southlake Town Center for art in the square. Eli loved the bounce houses and Luke slept in the Moby Wrap.
@ HOME
Luke went to church for the third time, even getting there early to feed we didn't make it through service, soon?
Luke had his first bottle today, daddy fed him with help from big brother!
@ HOME
Luke is one month old!!!
Pictures to Come!!
