Kambria

I have been wanting to start a blog so i can remember all the things that happen in our new family, and now we have a baby i have a lot of things to blog about! So bare with me while i figure this all out.

I'm not going to start with events that are happening now but im going to start with the birth of our daughter, Kambria Leigh Schenk. I really want to remember the events that brought her into our lives.(Beware, its just lots of words. But i have to write this all down for my self)

We weren't really "trying" to have our daughter, but we also weren't oblivious to the fact that it could happen. I'm TERRIBLE with taking pills and such (which is why i now have an IUD, thank goodness) so when the pregnancy test said positive we weren't too shocked. BUT i had to go get a blood test to make sure i really was before we told anyone. So that morning we went to the doctor and a few hours later they called and told us that it was positive.We then decided to tell my mother first because i KNEW she would be happy about it and we were very nervous about what everyone would think..well we were wrong. My mother was not happy with us AT ALL! It made me very upset that she wasn't being the supportive mother i needed. So the next day we had made plans before hand to go down to Salt Lake to a Bee's game because Taylor's cousin, Jason, had won tickets to a suite there. We decided not to tell any of them i was pregnant which was very hard to hide, but we had a great night and stayed the night at the Little America hotel. 

The next morning we ate breakfast and decided to go tell my dad and step mom and Taylor's parents. 

My parents were very supportive and happy which didn't surprise me too much. Taylors parents were very happy as well which we were a little nervous about. We decided to wait until we went to the doctor to tell anybody else. 

Our first appt we had an ultrasound so we knew FOR SURE that i was pregnant. It was so crazy to see a little being inside my stomach. I had no morning sickness and was just a little tired so seeing that baby finally made me realize that it really was happening and we were going to have a baby.We spread the news and were happy that most people were happy for us which then made us even more excited. 

We decided after one shopping trip that we had to find out what we were having. I had a feeling the whole time it was girl, and i was right. Taylor would never guess. He said he had no idea and didn't care either way (which i didn't either) During our ultrasound our baby was being very stubborn and didn't want to show us what she was. I even got up and went to the bathroom to see if she would move. Finally, after 30 minutes she moved and we could see she was a girl...well at least that's what the ultrasound tec said. I couldn't see anything so i guess it was the lack of something that made me believe she was a girl.

My pregnancy was VERY easy until the last 6 weeks. I got very big and very uncomfortable. I would have shooting sharp pains that the doctor said was from her sitting on my pelvic bone. I had terrible heart burn and couldn't sleep at all because no matter how i laid down i couldn't get comfortable. At 35 weeks i was dilated to a 1 and 70% effaced. So i thought for sure she was coming early..NOPE. i was wrong. At 40 weeks we set the date they would enduce me. Luckily i started labor on my own 3 days after her due date..April 10th. 

It started at 5:00am. I woke up with really bad gas pains and had really bad diarrhea. So i got in the bath to try and help calm my stomach down and took some Imodium. After sitting in the bath for about 45 minutes i thought to myself that i didn't think gas pains came on so powerful, lasted about a minute and left..coming back another 3-5 minutes later. So i got out of the bath and got my watch and started to keep track of my "gas pains". At about 8:00 i woke Taylor up and told him i thought i MIGHT be in labor but wasn't sure. He got up and took over writing down my "pains" I called my mom and told her what was going on and she told me they had to be contractions.We had taken Lamaze and i had decided that I wanted to stay home as long as possible and try my best to deal with the pains. I lasted until 2pm then i decided i couldn't take it much longer so we headed to the hospital. I was dilated to a 5. My doctor just happened to be at the hospital so she came into my room and broke my water to speed things up.  They asked me if i wanted an epidural and i decided to keep going without it. I lasted until i was dilated to a 7 then i begged for one. I LOVED my epidural. I always thought that they made you completely numb and i wouldn't be able to move, but i could still move my legs and still feel the pressure of the contraction, it just took the sharp edge off. It was AMAZING.

 I don't remember the exact times, but around 7:30 pm i was dilated to a 10. My doctor was at the hospital again to do another delivery so she came in to watch me do a few pushes instead of making me wait the hour of descent that they make all first time moms do...after watching me push she decided i needed to wait another 1/2 hour..which was the worst part EVER! I wanted to push so bad but i couldn't. Finally around 8:30 i got to start pushing..which was very relieving. it actually felt good to be able to push. so i pushed...and pushed..and pushed some more..and nothing was happening. after 2 LONG hours of pushing my doctor came in and told me that she was going to try forceps and if they didn't work i would have to have a c-section. I was so scared. With 1 push and a little pull from the forceps my baby girl was finally born at 10:44pm. She weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces and was 19 inches long. She had a very very bad cone shaped head and it was very bruised. You could see the plates in her head very bad which i wasn't prepared to see but they assured me that it was normal.

During labor i got a fever. I didn't feel any different but i was up to 100 degrees. i didn't think anything of this until after my baby was born they informed me that because i had a fever i could have passed an infection on to my daughter so she was going to have to go into the NICU. I was DEVASTATED. So after an hour with my baby i had to take her into the NICU and LEAVE her to go take care of myself. Taylor decided to stay with me and my mom stayed with Kambria. That was the hardest thing i have ever had to do. Leave my baby hooked up to some machines. It looked like she was so sick, but she didn't act sick at all.

I was able to go down and nurse her every 3 hours. She was such a good nurser from the start and i have been very lucky for that but because i was doing that me and Taylor only got about 4 hours of sleep the ENTIRE 2 days we were at the hospital. We were soo tired! We found out the day i was discharged that Kambria was looking really good and was also able to go home with us. I was SO grateful that they caught her infection early enough that she was able to fight it off so fast and was able to come home with us.

She has been such a healthy and good baby since then. I couldn't imagine my world without her.