It's Been Two Weeks...

and our little Kaylee Rae continues to warm our hearts. Life is wonderful here at the Salter home. Thanks so much to everyone who has sent a post and for those who have helped us out. We appreciate everything and especially to my parents who kept the house clean for us, cooked meal and who took the day shift so that Geoff and I could recuperate from the night shift. They have gone home already but we are looking forward to March (9th to 14th) when we will be out in Winnipeg to visit my family and friends.

Some funny things that have happened so far are Kaylee throwing up on Geoff more than once already. His mom has informed us that Geoff used to throw up a lot and now he is getting paid back for that. Kaylee pooping her diaper and Geoff changing it just as another explosive poop comes out of her and all we here is oh crap!! Thanks for making us laugh Kaylee. And all of her funny faces and noises and constant farts (she gets that from her dad too) that keep us giggling. Geoff and I are once again brought closer in love as we have been blessed and entrusted with our wonderful Kaylee Rae.

So far in her two weeks of being on the outside she has toured West Edmonton Mall, been to Swiss Chalet twice with Grandpa and Grandma Maczuga, and gone to Calgary on a day trip 3 hours both ways. Pretty soon she will have her first airplane ride too. How exciting. Time to start another day, or did it already start at 3am....or 7am.....or 830?? I mean they really just all run together into one big day with a bunch of naps. And I think that it is time for another nap.

She's so cute. 

Kaylee and Grandpa Maczuga 

Our happy baby girl. 

Kaylee Rae with her eyes open. 

Isn't she cute in pink.  

Kaylee Rae with Grandma and Grandpa Maczuga.  

Saturday January 7th 6:20 pm

Back at 9am I dropped Geoff off at work and he said that it would be nice if I could have the baby today so that he could leave work early. Well I picked him up at 530pm and we went home to make pizza and watch the hockey game. 620 hits and I have this pain that was not normal to other pains that I have had. Check the time and for the next 20 minutes I have these same pains every 5 to 8 minutes. hmmmm...maybe I should go and pack my hospital bag. I come back and I say to Geoff, I think that this might be happening and that he should pack his bag too because I have to vaccum downstairs yet for when my parents get here. His response, you are not vaccum cleaning anything. He packs his bag, vaccums and we watch the rest of the hockey game with the same contractions. It's been an hour and a bit so we decide that we should go to the hospital.

I go on the monitor for half an hour and the nurse tells me that I am having braxton hicks...oh really. I have no intention of going home now and I ask her, how would I know if I was having real contractions. I wouldn't she says unless my water would break. oh. She says that I can stay for an hour and she'll check if any has happened. So, with Alyssa in mind, I start on the stairs, then walking, then squats and more walking because there is no way that I am going home. Geoff watches the end of the hockey game between vancouver and calgary.

It's now 11pm and I'm back on the monitor, 5cm dialated and still having contractions. I proved her wrong and we get admitted!! Contractions are coming about every 2 minutes and so we get checked again around 1am or so. I'm at 7cm and the doctor has come to the hospital and at 2am he breaks my water. What a weird feeling. And then the next contraction hits me and I think that I am going to die. I look at Geoff and he almost started crying because of all of the pain that he could see in my face and tells me it's going to be alright while thinking that he has no idea whether it actually will be or not. I tried using laughing gas to make it through those contractions but something was wrong with the tank and I wasn't getting anything and so it didn't help. So I had a natural labour with no drugs and I am happy to say that I survived.

45 minutes later I'm at 10cm and more than ready to push. They are paging the doctor to come and I start pushing. Although the first couple pushes sucked because I wasn't doing it right. Then I figured out which muscles had to do the job and started again. I thought for sure that I was going to see a piece of poo fly out of me and hit the wall if I kept on pushing like that. The nurse checked me to see if she could see the baby and she said that all she could see was hair. Then once the baby's head was getting closer I just felt like I couldn't do it anymore. Which worked out kind of because they still hadn't found the doctor so they made me stop pushing. Well I didn't like that at all and finally they found the doctor in the sleep room and I pushed some more. Wow did that burn but I managed to get her head out and it was much better. She then plopped out, another weird feeling and that whole process of pushing lasted 45 minutes. Geoff then asked me if I wanted to know what it was. Of course I did but he forgot what it needed to be a boy or girl and so it took him a bit to remember. He was completely out of it as he had been up since 8am the previous day until now. I had to get some stitches, about 4 and then I got to see her. My precious Kaylee. Geoff brought her over to me and we love her so much.

So that's my story and I hope that I forget the pain so that I can have another one some day.

Kaylee Rae Salter, 7lbs 7 oz, 19 1/2 inches
Born January 8th at 3:33 am

Kaylee and her dad just home from the hospital.  

No Baby Yet...

Well, I'm in week 38 and still no baby. I still have 11 days and my parents are coming from Winnipeg and should be here Monday night. Very exciting since we haven't seen them for six months.

I went to the doctor today and I am very happy to say that since my last apt. Dec 21/05, I have only gained 2 pounds putting me at 167!! Yeah me! The baby's heart beat is still high at 167 and I am 4 cm dialated. Crazy huh! Plus I have no contractions. So I asked her if it was normal for me to be 4cm and not have any contractions and she said that it wasn't for the first baby. I guess we'll see how things go. Other than that I am doing well, just a bit of a cold and not finding it easy to sleep through the night, but oh well.

In other exciting news for the Maczuga's, there are two more babies coming into our family. Since August we had three and then I am the fourth out of five but now there are two more to add. Congrats to Bryce and Patty and Kendra and Randy. Our family just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

In the baby poll, I guess I have to say good guess for Collette but it doesn't look like I'll be going into labour tonight. Hopefully the baby will wait until my parents get out here. I'll keep everyone updated as the time goes.