Mini-Me version 2.0?!

It was the morning of Saturday, June 11th... I had gotten up and casually checked my Facebook acct while I conducted the morning's paperwork. it happened to be my sister Sonia's birthday, and her status said that her wish was to have her nephew born on her birthday. "Nice one", I chuckled, as I quickly wisht her a Happy Birthday on her wall. Emily had planned to go to BINGO as part of her friend's birthday celebration, which happened to be the same day (HI Amanda Shaw!) So... I agreed that I would sacrifice my sleep schedule to hang with Dylan while mommy was away making old ladies cuss (yelling BINGO!). Em left about noon and my little boy and I were left to our own devices. Hmmmm, what to do...

"Dylan, u want some juice?" "Okay."... "Hey, d'ya wanna go downstairs to Daddy's room and listen to RECORDS?" "Weckerds?! Okay! Chwain weckerd?!" "You bet, Mister, the train record, CHOO-CHOO!!" And off we went downstairs to my music room to listen to a few records, but mostly the train record I have and D loves. So I turn on the equipment and drop the needle and then keep him from hitting every button he can see. "Sit nice", I say... "Chwain?! Chwain?!" "Yes!", I say,"It's playing if you will sit still and listen to the record, Dylan." 5 more minutes is all his attention can take, there's just too much stimuli for him, so we head back upstairs to find something else to do... Little did I know that the entire time my phone had been vibrating in my pocket.

I sit at the table to open up the computer while his show is on the tv. Already he has run off to the POTTY to flush it... All of a sudden the front door opens and Em walks in. I'm thinking,"Oh, she had 2nd thoughts about BINGO", until I notice the wet stains on her khaki legs and the look on her face. She blurts out,"I called & called you! Where's your phone?!" "In my pocket, on vibe...I must not've felt it... D & I were just downstairs listening to records... Your water break, babe?!" (Pretty obvious question, I know, but c'mon, I asked didn't I? I'm playin' the role of the concerned husband...)

Yes, the water has broken. Game on, GAME ON!! She tells me me her parents have been notified and we gotta get Dylan ready for them to pick up. Em calls the hospital to find out how soon she needs to come in and they say right away. Of course they're gonna say that. We get D all ready and the rest of what we need. Grandma Becky shows up, Dylan is excited and we tell him when we see him next he's gonna have a new lil brother. "Brother?" "Yeah", we say, "Do you want a lil brother?" "Okay bye!" That made us laugh. Em and I looked at each other when they left and said,"Well, let's go see what happens!" Off to the hospital we go, then up to Labour & Delivery to get admitted.

They had been very busy that weekend and all the regular delivery suites were either in use or not cleaned up yet, so they put us in the overflow/storage room for the time being... Kinda cold but it was all they had at the moment. The nurses were nice and apologetic, saying they had a room for us that was being cleaned up. Em and the baby were being monitored and everything looked okay. Soon enough were moved into a suite and set up camp, hoping it wouldn't be a long labour. Em made sure to tell the nurses she wanted the epidural. The nurse said that as long as she was dilated enough that wouldn't be a problem and advised us to go for a walk to help the progression. Oki doke! We headed down to the gift shop to look around and get a few post-labour snacks. Em started feeling really nauseous and headed back to the room while I paid for the stuff. We got her back to the room to lay down and relax. Then the nurses had another brilliant idea! How bout she get on the big exercise ball and give that a go? Okay! Soon as she did more water leaked out and turned the floor into a skating rink. Nix that, folks- how bout just lay down and chillax. Em was ready for the epidural and welcomed it gladly! I just wanted her to be comfortable. Bing Bang Boom, it was done and she felt waaaaaay better, at least for a bit. Her blood pressure started to drop and she felt really sick. She had to get a couple bags of IV fluid pumped in quick to help bring it back up, then got a touch up on the epidural. I felt relieved! The doctor's checked in to see how she was doing and said it wouldn't be too long.

Before we knew it the nurses and doctor were in the room with us and had Em pushing. She was a trooper! It seemed like lickety-split and our our new baby boy was out and squealing. I cut the umbilical cord and then went to his side to began getting video footage, while the nurse cleaned him up. Now, I don't mean for this to sound blah or anything but his birth just seemed alot easier and anti-climactic than when Dylan was born. I was happy to finally get to meet our son and that he was healthy. The best part was the fact that Emily, Quincy and I got to hangout in the suite by ourselves afterward. It was just so peaceful. Em relaxed in the bed and I just sat there holding our special bundle. Wow, #2!! By 2 o'clock the next afternoon we walked out of the hospital. No messing around.

Oh, and by the way... Dylan LOVES his lil brother!

A little late- Mommy's Story

So finally the big day HAPPENED....MY WATER BROKE!!!!

BEWARE BIRTH STORY

I'm going to admit that this pregnancy has been the LONGEST months of my life, especially near the end. Everyday I would wake up and tell myself that today will be the day. Also every time I would make another dr.'s appt I would tell myself I won't make it till then. lol So of course I did try all the "Home Remedies" to get this baby out that I would read on one of my apps 10x a day. Walk, waddle, waddle, walk, bounce on the yoga ball, clean, evening primrose oil, etc. You get the point, but who knows what worked since I did all of them :) So here's the day...

Saturday June 11, 2011

I was all gun ho on going to play BINGO for my friends birthday. Ryan was staying home with Dylan and even was going to mess up his sleep scheld.just so I could get out with my girlfriends. I go all ready to show off my bump since my friends haven't seen me for a month or two. Just before I left I mentioned to Ryan that my BUMP was HUGE!!!, and he laughed. I got to the bingo hall and none of my friends where there yet, so I texted them and they said they were on there way. So I waited in my van, replied to my sister in-laws status that she wished her nephew would be born on her birthday and decided to clean and organize the glove box from the drivers side. 10 mins later as I leaning over I felt a little bit of warmness, I stopped and thought " Did I just pee myself?" I didn't know so I moved more and nope not peeing myself...MY WATER BROKE!!!! I looked around to see if my friends were pulling up and I couldn't see anyone so I drove home. I kept calling,& calling Ryan to tell him what had happened but he didn't pick up the phone. So as I'm driving still I call my mom and tell her what happened so she could come and get Dylan. When I told her you could tell in her voice how excited she was that the baby was finally coming too, and she got to have Dylan for the next couple of nights :)

I pull up to the house and didn't want to get out of the van because I knew the gush of water would come, and didn't want the neighbours to think I'm peeing my pants. lol I was wearing the khaki pants so you could totally see I had wet pants. Anyways I walk in the door and look at Ryan right away, he asked "Why are you home?" I point to my pants and say the water has broken :) He looked shocked, but smirked a little. He didn't answer the phone because he was feeding Dylan. I told him my mom was on her way to come and get Dylan. I still needed to pack his bag so I grabbed a towel and made my own diaper so I could walked around and pack. I looked pretty funny, but it sure did the trick :) Dylan was excited that Grandma was coming, but he didn't understand that his world was going to change in the next 24 hrs. I got his bag packed, while Ryan got himself ready. My mom came and got D and just asked that we keep her in touch on whats happening.


Ryan waiting in the creepy room

Ryan and I decided before that we weren't going to put it on facebook, tell friends, or family when labor was happening because we wanted it to be special for US. Last time with Dylan there were so many dr.s, nurses, student nurses, etc. Then we also had to keep people in touch with texting, phone calls, etc. So back to my friends who were wondering where I went because they knew I was at the Bingo hall. They asked what happened and all I could think of to tell them is I threw up on myself!!! lol And they fell for it.

After my mom left I wasn't in pain, or having contractions-just leaking! I decided to call Labor and Delivery and see if it was important that I come in or could I just wait it out at home until something happens. They told me to come in to get checked and then decide if I should get admitted yet or not. I agreed to come in. I was already packed, but I had to wait around for Ryan to get his stuff together and get ready to head to the hospital. I didn't want to put a new pair of pants on yet until we were on our way out the door. Finally we were out the door, and on our way. It was just surreal that today was the day. I tried so hard to get him out, that now it was finally happening. Then all of a sudden I remembered all the stuff that happened during labor & after!!!! CRAP!!!

Ryan dropped me off while he parked the car, and I went to get admitted. We got up to l&D and they were busy. So they put us in this back back creepy room with all the old monitors, old bed, just creepy. They didn't even have the proper stuff in the room, pads, gowns, thermometer, etc. They hooked me up to the monitor first off to check on the baby. Baby wasn't active at all, because I hadn't eaten anything ALL day( I was waiting to eat the greasy food at the Bingo hall). So they gave me some juice and that perked the baby right up. As I was waiting for the baby to be fine I started getting contractions....ummmm they started hurting, and STRONG!!! I was getting worried that this baby was going to come out fast, and I wasn't going to get my epidural. I had three nurses come in and everyone of them I told them I was getting contractions and wanted an epidural. They laughed, and I told them serious I don't want to miss my chance. Finally another room got open for me and I got out of the creepy room, and I got a nurse that was there to stay with me. My nurse Carly checked me and I was only 3-4 cm dilated. THAT'S IT??!!! She convinced me to walk around and once I get to a good 4 then I could get my epidural. Ryan and I decided to walk down to the gift shop and buy a paper for that day( it's a keep sake for the baby so they can see what happened in the news the day they were born), and get some candy for the after birth hunger. As we were in the shop I was getting contractions, and then I felt sick!! Like I was going to pass out and throw up. I left Ryan while he paid, and went back up stairs to my room. I told my nurse what happened and she then suggested I go rock on the yoga ball. I did, but then the contractions came on STRONGER, and more gushes of water came out. I told Carly that I was done with walking and the ball. She then decided to check me out and I was a good 4 cm, and was going to order the epi. I was happy, but still feeling sick as well knowing what was coming. I also asked for some gravol to get rid of the sick feeling.

The anesthesiologist Dr. Stewart came in and gave me the best spinal block ever!! My legs were DEAD and the pain was gone!! But all of a sudden I felt sick!!! Lite headed, shaky,hot, I was going to throw up!! Something didn't feel right!!! The nurse that was covering Carly while she was on lunch just kinda kept asking me questions, wasn't doing anything for me. Finally I said something is not right!!! Dr. Stewart came back in the room and quickly grab my IV bag and squeezed it so I would get my blood pressure up, it dropped to 88/43. WOW!!! Right away I felt so SO MUCH better. I thanked her for the epi and for not letting me pass out. She was SUPER NICE!!! But I still felt sick so I got my gravol :) It was about 4-5 pm. I felt great, like lets get this show on the road. I got checked and I was only a 5-6 cm dilated, and my contractions were not progressing or consistent. My nurse Carly told me that if things didn't get going then they might have to give me pitocin to help me along. I had the same stuff with Dylan but this time I knew I was ok because I didn't get my epi till after the pitocin kicked in with the PAINFULL contractions with him, but with this baby I knew I was good if they did have to give it to me because I had my epi. So we just waiting for nature to take it course. Dr. Burton came in to check on me, but told me that his daughter has a dance recital and he might not be here to deliver the baby but Dr. D. Stewart will cover for him if he's not back in time, which was fine because he dad Dr. Cal Stewart is my family dr and he brought me into this world.

Around 6pm we decided that they should call the Dr. and ask if I could start getting the pitocin going. Dr. said sure. But all of a sudden I started feeling the contractions on my right hip which was strange, but PAINFULL ( I don't know how ladies go threw birth natural, I'm a BABY)I even had the little button to push to give me extra medicine, but that wasn't doing ANYTHING in that right hip. They were about to give me the pitocin but I wanted this epi fixed before anything. My new nurse Marissa told me sometimes it doesn't stay working all the time and I might have to go threw delivery how it is. I got scared and told her I didn't want the pitocin until we tried to get Dr. Barb Stewart (anesthesiologist) to come back and fix the epi. She came back(thank goodness) and topped off my meds and made EVERYTHING BETTER!!! I was relieved that I wasn't going to go threw this delivery with pain. Now my legs were supper SUPPER DEAD, like I couldn't even sit up in bed, or roll over. Its a strange feeling, and at one point my legs were falling off the bed and if I fell over I wouldn't be able to do anything!! Just a strange feeling. lol




The sweet bruise I got from my IV

Marissa started my pitocin around 7-7:30 and it sure got things done. Bye 8pm was ready to push. Dr. D Stewart was delivering. The pushing began and I was worried how big this baby was going to be because Dylan was a premie. Then I went to almost full term with this baby I thought it was going to be over 10 pounds!!! I was wrong, baby just had a BIG BIG head thanks to his father. I even told that to the nurses & dr's. They laughed. I always thought that and saw on TV that once the head is out the whole body just comes out. I was WRONG!! The baby's head came out, and I said to the dr. " Get him out??" and he kinda laughs and says " You still need to push him out" lol I can see why the baby didn't come right out because his right should got stuck!!! Finally I gave my last ALL push and the baby was OUT!!!!! I was so relieved!! This may sound bad but I really didn't want to hold him once he was out, I would rather hold him when he's a little cleaned up. So when he came out the dr. was going to put him on my chest but caught himself and placed him beside him on the bed while Ryan cut the cord. After that I started bleeding in my mind lots, and while we were waiting for the placenta to come more gushes of blood came out, even got on the dr.s paints and ALL OVER the floor beside my bed. With Dylan I don't remember bleeding that much, but I wasn't really paying attention as much as this time around. They didn't have to give me any bags of blood, but I kinda wish they did because I was light headed for the next couple of days. All they kept telling me is drink lots of water/fluids. Anyways, I finally got to hold my little Man Quincy William Pierce.....born June 11th, 2011 @ 8:25, 8 pounds 1 0z, 21 3/4 inches long. He is handsome little man, to me he looks just like his older brother. But again I'm never good at telling who the kids look like at this young age :)


Quincy looks a little blue and purple and scrunched up :)






Quincy is again a GREAT baby. He sleeps,eats,poops,sleeps etc. At night he sleeps for about 4-5 hours straight. I can't complain at all. Ryan took the week and a half off which helped out alot with keeping Dylan busy while I fed. BF is going good but my milk supply is in question. I really want to BF and am taking some meds to help keep my milk in. I really like BF at night because you don't have to get up...lol But if I have to go to bottles I'll be really sad. So fingers crossed. Other then that things are GREAT!! I'm in love with the new addition to our family and can't wait and see what kind of character Quincy is going to bring into our lives. :)

39 weeks

The baby is still cooking!! WOWZA I can't believe I've lasted this long to be honest. I had my Dr. appt yesterday and I'm measuring 43 weeks!!!! Holy CRAP this baby is going to be HUGE!!! I go from a 5 pound 14 oz baby to this?? I want this baby out, and I talked with my Dr. about when we start talking about getting induced and he said not till I'm 11 days over will do it. WHAT??? That's a LONG ways away. Every day I say to myself today is going to be the day, and then nothing but braxton hicks/cramping/ & contractions.

Last night I went to L&D because I was having contractions but couldn't time them because while they started I would get a good pubic pressure with lots of cramping. It started in the afternoon, but really got stronger in the evening. Doesn't it always work that way. So I had to wake up Dylan, call my parents to come and get him, then keep Ryan informed because he works nights-didn't want him to take time off work if it was a false alarm. Well it was.....while I was there they hooked me up and baby was doing fine, but there were minor contractions, but nothing she could feel on my stomach. So of course I had to do the walk of shame!! I hate that, but it's better to be safe then sorry. I still have LOTS of pressure down there that I can't lay down, sit on the yoga ball, sit on the couch without it hurting. I don't know what to do, but I just keep telling myself baby is going to be here soon and it's just the process of things. But IT HURTS!!! After I did the walk of shame I told myself that I am not going to go back to L&D until my water has rupture, then I know I will be admitted.

So here's the best picture EVER of me.........NOT!!!! But I told myself with the pregnancy Im going to take a picture every week not matter how fat & ugly I feel. So here ya go.....LOVE ME!!!! lol

What else we've been up too

The baby has decided to still stay cooking in my belly which is good, but not so good on Mommy. I really thought I'd have this baby early so I kinda had it in my mind I wouldn't be prego this LONG!!! I have a new respect for the women out there that go over there due date!! I'm happy that he's staying in because I won't have a baby in the NICU, but with Dylan they put him on a good scheld. and I'll have to do that with this one...on my own...lol Oh well this is me just ranting.....but I'm also SUPER excited to have this little guy out so he can meet us & his BIG brother. I'm 37 weeks tomorrow, so I only have 3 weeks to go if that :)

We've also been potty training Dylan since he knows when he go pee or poop in his diaper he tells us but he's ok with staying in the dirty diaper.(When we want to change him he won't let us) With that it makes it harder for him to understand that he could have a clean bum every time he goes in the BIG boy potty. I haven't used pull ups because I think they are a waste of money, it's just another more expensive diaper with Toys story characters on it. But I could use them down the road for night time use. So what we've been doing at first is just letting him run around the house nekkid and put the potty in front of the tv/front room. First day he had about 4 accidents, but when he would go we give him a treat so every time he would do a little tinkle he would ask instantly for a treat. Little bugger figured it out to get more treats out of us. But if we go out I put on a diaper just because I'm too lazy to remind him while I'm shopping etc. I know I need to suck it up, but we are in no hurry to train him. If he does it great, but if not I know tomorrow is another day :) But this week we are letting him wear big boy underwear and trying to train him to pull them down. These last two days he has done great....I also tell him that Diago doesn't like to be wet..lol It's been working great. So will see how long this will go on, he could fall backwards once the baby is born and I'm ok with that :)



These are picture's of him back in October when I was just trying him on potty training to see if he was ready....and he wasn't


This is him sitting in front of the tv doing his business :)

Also we have been trying to get "My To Do List" done before this baby comes. Which it almost done except our fence needs to get done, but our neighbour is not ready yet. Oh well looks like I'll have an excuse for not helping because Ill be looking after the baby :) Ryan has done a GREAT job with doing the list since I can't do much bending over, digging, etc. Dylan has been loving the freedom he has now outside in the front of the house when we are working. He tries to help with pulling weeds, but can't grab them that good so he'll say "Mommy help?" Oh well some day he'll be doing this for his Mommy :) We need to work on getting rid of our tree stumps without having them removed. We bought stump remover from the states where you drill holes into the stump and place the liquid in the holes and wait for it to dry out. Then you burn the stump....it's going to be a little hard with the stump in the back since it's so close to the house. Well see what happens with that stump, we might have to get it professionally removed.

So that's about it in our household, just waiting now for the baby to arrive :)

Catch Me, Catch Me....

Ok, so I really need to update on a couple (lots) of events that have happened.

First off we did not win the lottery......which sucks!! lol

So Im going all the way back to Easter...I know that's how long its been :)

I remember always doing an Easter egg hunt we I grew up, so we did that with Dylan even though it was easy for adults to find the eggs. Here are some picture's


A place we hid the candy on my window/picture frame

Collecting all the candy and putting them in his Halloween bucket :)

Candy & his toy on his couch

Another easy hiding place

Him eating his candy INSTANTLY for breakfast


Showing his Candy/Easter eggs

His famous smile..."CHEEZE"

Playing with his bubble Easter Bunny from Grandma&Grandpa Shirley....He loves it, and I do too because I don't have to keep blowing bubbles for him :)

Then we went out to Ray Town to Ryan's parents and had Easter dinner, and let the cousins play. Grandpa Coppieters took all the kids out on his quad, which was ALOT of fun for the kids. I'm such a bad parent that I didn't take any pictures. But it was sure cute to see Dylan riding up front with Grandpa honking the horn driving around.

After they kids had fun on the quads, Grandpa took the grandkids to the Fire Hall. I did take picture's of this, and all the kids had a blast!!!


Dylan with Grandpa's Fire Hat

Dylan in front of the Fire Truck

Addi and Dylan on the boat

Again Addi & Dylan on the boat....it almost looks like there holding hands :)

What happening??

This is a warning that this may be a long post and a little too much, but this is for me to document what's going on with this pregnancy :) Now remember Im 32 1/2 weeks.

I've been having off and on contractions/braxton hick/cramping for awhile now- nothing new. But last Tuesday I thought I felt a little gush of liquid that I couldn't stop. I didn't think I needed to go to the hospital, just thought to myself that I would keep and eye on it if my water broke. Nothing was leaking for the next couple of days. Until Friday I was sitting on the couch eating my sandwich with my legs kinda opened. All of a sudden I felt a little gush again!! So I finally tell Ryan what's been going on this week with me "Maybe" leaking, and I asked him if I should go to L&D? Of course he said "yes". Ryan stayed home with Dylan while I went and I didn't think it would take long. They would just do a swab or something and send me on my way.

I get up to L&D and right away I go pee in a cup so they could do a dip and see if they catch any amniotic fluid. The nurse comes back and say there is a "little, Little" trace of something along with traces of maybe a UTI. I've never had a bladder infection, and I didn't have any symtoms of it either. The nurse sent it to the lab so they could do a better test on it. But while we were waiting the nurse wanted to do another test that you swab down there for about a min-rotating the swab (NOT COMFORTABLE AT ALL )This would tell her if I did for sure have fluid. Well when she pulled it out it was BLOOD!! I looked at her and asked " Is this normal?", and she looked at it suprised too and said "No". But then she said this could just be my "Bloody show" The nurse did the test with that swab and it came back to negative with it not being amniotic fluid, which was a relief, but why the blood?? So after that she decided to call my Dr. and see what he wanted done, he decided to come down and check me out.

Dr. Burton came down and wanted to take precaution and make sure we did all the tests to be sure I was not in pre-term labor. So he did three more swabs, 2nd&3rd of them are culture reading that I won't find out the results for a couple of days. The 1st swab is called Fetal Fibronectin test. This test has I think 96% chance of telling you if your going to deliver in the next 7-10 days. I had to wait another hour for the results, and that test came back positive!!! WHAT??? The nurse explained to me that f this test came out neg. then they would know for sure I'm not going into pre-term labor. But because it came out positive then it still Im still in limbo and they don't know what to tell me!! lol So right away my dr. got me my first shot of steroids to help develop the baby's lungs, and for me to come back to next day for my last shot. Then all my nurse could say is if your water breaks breaks, bleeding, or strong contractions then I am to come back to L&D. She also said I can continue doing whatever I was doing before, but I've been taking it easy with LOTS of help from Ryan.

I have been bleeding off and on, but nothing serious. I am a little scared this baby is going to come early, but I feel ok with it since I got the shots to help with the lungs. Dylan was born at 34 1/2 weeks and I'm hoping this baby will last longer. I really REALLY don't want to have another baby in the NICU while still trying to take care of a 2 year old. But if things happen I am prepared :) I have an appt with my dr. today to see what the test result are, and to check me out.

2 year picture's

These are seriously the only 3 poses that we got from him. I would sit him down and say "smile" and he would do that smile but then get up and walk out of the studio. We would get him, place him down and say Smile, then up he went again. He did not want to stay long for picture's. I miss those days when they were babies and you could just plop them down and they would stay still for picture's. I still love these picture's, it just show's the character that he is going to be :)