We'd like to welcome to our family....
Kennedy Grace Osborne
Born November 15th, 2:32 am. 6lbs 11oz, 19'' long
Kennedy couldn't wait til the 28th to come into our family, and neither could we!!
We are so glad she came 2 weeks early, we cant imagine the last 2 weeks with out her. We choose the middle name GRACE because of the fact she was born right around Thanksgiving. I love the word GRACE, the word has so many beautiful meanings behind it. And it describes our sweet little Kennedy so well.
The Birth Story:
It all started Wednesday the 14th at 1:30am, I woke up with bad contractions...the kind that keep you up at night. I layed in bed and walked around for a few hours hoping they'd go away...but they stuck around. So at 4:30 we decided to head to the hospital. We called Cory's aunt Linda to come by the house to watch the girls. The original plan was to have Cory's mom come by...but she was gone visiting her girls in St. Louis until the 15th.
So as soon as Linda came to the house we headed off to the hospital. We checked into triage, got all hooked up and then they checked me...I was only at a 3! I was for sure thinking I was a lot further along based on how bad the contractions were. They then had us walk around for an hour and then checked again to see if I had progressed....But I was still a 3. psh! We decided to come home since by that point the contractions had lightened up.
Later that afternoon I had a my regular Dr's appointment, and was able to get checked again to see if I made any progress from that morning. I had moved up to a 4 and was 100% effaced. His prediction was that I would be back in less than 12 hours.
I'm not sure if it was the way my Dr had checked me, but he had made me bleed and caused my contractions to come back. By the time I had gotten home my contractions were a lot worse than before. These were about 3-4 minutes apart and the kind that made me cry. :(
I called my mom, and she told me to get to the hospital! I wasn't sure I was in actual labor and I didn't want to make another trip out to the hospital!! But she assured me that I was.
Luckily, Cory was just finishing up work and was picking up some Panda Express. I called him and told him to forget picking up dinner, we need to head back to the hospital and to call your Aunt Linda back!
It was a very emotional evening, I hated leaving the girls in my condition. They were worried about me and the baby in my belly. Miley was so sweet and kept giving my belly hugs and kisses. :)
The drive to the hospital was extremely difficult, sitting down is the worst when your in labor! As we were walking to the hospital, my Dr was just walking out to his car. Haha! He was working a 24hr shift between the 2 different hospitals and told me that he wanted to try to and be there for my delivery! I have really appreciated our Dr, he's such a nice man...not to mention he's LDS and in my Mother-in-Law's ward.
So we were back in triage, same drill as before...I was checked, and I was still just a 4! Seriously! I was shocked that I wasn't further along! So we did the same thing as before, walking around for an hour. By the end of the hour I was so mad, my contractions were barely there! We were literally skipping through the halls trying to break my water. You'd think having gone through 2 other pregnancies that I would have this figured out by now. I can tell you now that each pregnancy and labor are completely different!
When we got back to triage the nurse came to us and told us how lucky we were...my Dr had given the go ahead admitting me and letting my have an epidural and then breaking my water no matter how far dilated I was. So happy! (They typically don't do this) My Dr knew my history of going extremely fast after my water is broken, and figured the same would happen with this pregnancy....and he was right :)
I was still checked and was at a 4.5...a little mad, but it didn't matter cuz I was going to be having a baby no matter what!!
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Heading upstairs into labor and delivery!!
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I was really excited that I would be getting an epidural this time since my last two pregnancies I went
too fast and was not able to get one. I wanted to see what all the hype was all about!
My Dr came in, broke my water and left to do a quick surgery at the other hospital...He wasn't sure if he'd be back in time, but was hopeful. The nurse then said she'd be back in an hour to check my progression...so Cory and I slept, well I attempted to. I had the jitters, and had too much fun watching the monitor going up whenever I had a contraction.
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| Cory thought I looked cute all hooked up and ready to have a baby. Haha |
At the end of the hour the nurse came back with some pitocin to speed up the progress. That's when Cory perked up and demanded that she at least needed to check me first to see how much I have progressed. We couldn't believe that the nurse was about to give me pitocin without really consulting with me or the Dr first! After having her check me, which I was at a 5.5 at this point, my Dr had called to see the status on my condition. I was indeed progressing so I was to wait another hour and to be checked again. So we laid there for yet another hour, and by the end of the hour I started to feel that 'pressure' they kept asking me if I felt...I knew the baby was coming!! We could tell the nurse was surprised when she found out I was at a 10 and the head was "right there."
She goes..."oh umm, let me... just call the Dr..." with a slight tension in her voice. It was quite funny watching everyone hussling around tyring to set everything up. We were so lucky that our Dr was finished with his surgery and was able to swing in and delivery our baby!
With two contractions, I pushed her out. In fact Cory says that with my second push she 'flew' out and the Dr caught her almost like a football. Haha.
We both fell in love with our new little addition!
One last thing our Dr did for us was sing a traditional Swedish birthday song; sung only on the day of there birth, followed with a toast. This was very touching to us, not only because he was giving us special treatment but because Cory's dad had served his mission in Sweden as well as our Dr.
Our Dr didn't even know that Rick had served his mission in Sweden, so that was even more touching. While he sung this song, both Cory and I felt as though Rick was standing right there.
We know Rick has been very busy lately helping user not only our baby, but Kyle and Sarah's baby the day before and then a couple days later Cory's cousins baby.
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| Dr singing the Swedish song with the toast |
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| 6 lbs 11 oz....so sorry about the crotch shot. She's a girl alright. |
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| The girls meeting there sister for the very first time. |
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| We had gotten the girls there own baby dolls and told them that it was a gift from there new sister. They absolutely loved them! |
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First family picture
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| Proud Daddy |
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| Grandma flew in just in time to see us at the hospital. :) |
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| Getting ready to go home! Cory had gone out and bought this cute little outfit for Kennedy. When we were walking into the hospital I had told Cory that I didn't get a chance to buy Kennedy a new outfit for her "coming home outfit.'' My baby shower was to be that weekend so I was just waiting til after that...but she came before. Haha |
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| Putting her into the car seat...we've both forgotten how tricky this is. She's just so tiny! |
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| Mission accomplished! Ready to go! |
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| Can you tell Miley is super excited to hold her baby sister! |
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| They love there new sister. |
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| Love this picture, it shows how tiny Kennedy is. Which one is bigger? Haha, I think the doll is! |
