One day old Scout had her first visitors today. Both her and Cass are doing really well. They are both healthy and happy and the Doctor's even told us that they could leave today, but we decided to stay for one more day of hospital food and nurses. We'll take her home tomorrow morning and be on our own. Just in time for Grandma Dean to be here for a week. Grandma Malufau (Nana) came in last night to see her new grand-daughter. When I called to tell her that we were at the hospital and that Cass was going into labor, she was on the next flight out of Idaho Falls and here within a few hours (Thanks Skywest!). Uncle David, Aunty Jackie, and cousins Jaxon and Tyson came to visit today and our good Brittany Stevens who just got home from Spain came to see little Scout too. It was a fun day and Scout was awake and excited to be looking around and seeing all the new faces. She's starting to eat and doing really well. We're so happy to have her here and part of our family
She's Here!!! Scout arrived today just after 3:00 PM MST on a beautiful Pioneer Day! What can I say, we have a knack for delivering on holidays. It was the culmination of a long last few days. Just to warn you now, this may be one of the longest posts you've ever seen so if you are pressed for time, leave now and come back when you've got an extra half hour. You can read about some of our past Doctor/Hospital visits in my last post, but that was just the beginning. I belive I left off talking about how bummed we were that she didn't come Tuesday right after the cerclage was removed, so I pick up the timeline from there.
Wednesday July 23rd
We went back to the Doctor's office this morning at 9:10 AM to have Cass checked out. She had dialated to four - four and a half centimeters the day before after the cerclage was removed, but because she wasn't having any contractions at all we were told to come back. As the Doctor checked her again, she was about a five. Luckily Cass's Doctor was as anxious to get her here as we were (long story short; her Doctor would be in town and on call for the rest of the week, but then would be on vacation for the next week and a half, and she really wanted to deliver Scout, plus we didn't even try to hide the fact that we would like Scout here as soon as posible and that we were ready for her). She told Cass to give her a call later in the day to see how things were going and that if she felt any contracting at all to head to Labor and Delivery and that should be enough for them to admit her and begin labor. If she didn't feel any contractions, we could come back in and see her again the next day.
We didn't want to just sit around so we tried to think of somewhere we could go and walk around and try to make Scout as uncomfortable as possible so that she would decide she wanted out. Having already been to the mall in Orem, our choice was Cabela's in Lehi. We walked around looking at the fish and stuffed animals for about an hour and Cass was feeling some pain, but not so much contractions. After a while, Cass was worn out and we decided that she just wasn't ready at the moment so we headed home. After a nap the pain had completely gone and other than Scout bouncing off the walls in her padded room, there were no signs of contractions. We decided that it was a mistake to let Cassidy come home and lay down as any chance we had of inducing contractions had been lost, so we decided to try and get them going again. We called the Doctor and it looked like we would need to meet with her tomorrow. We went to the mall in Provo and walked around for a while and then went for another walk around the neighborhood when we got home. Cass was jumping/jogging/hopping most of the walk and we were even tempted to have her take a few bounces on a trampoline that we passed. We got home from our walk around 9:45 PM and Cass was feeling some pretty good contractions. After taking a shower and relaxing a bit, they were still going so we decided to head to the hospital.
We arrived at the hospital around 10:30 and they hooked her up to the monitors and started to follow her contractions. After about an hour of monitoring, the contractions were pretty regular and happening every few minutes or so, but the problem now was that she was no longer dialating. In fact the nurse that was checking her let her know that she was back down to a four. We were so disappointed because we thought that because of this the Doctor wouldn't even bother having us come in the next morning. They gave Cass some Percocet for the pain and discouraged, we went home to try and get some sleep.
Thursday July 24th
Happy Pioneer Day! We woke up this morning wondering if Scout would ever come. Cass decided it was time for me to get a hair cut and not letting me tell her "no" anymore she cut my hair and then called the Doctor. We had originally planed on meeting with her at 10:00 AM but because we weren't sure what the Doctor would want to do since we had been sent home the night before, Cass called her at 9:00 AM to see what the plan was. Lucky for us the Doctor had us come in anyway. The Doctor checked her cervix and she was dialated to six centemeters so the doctor told us at any sign of contractions we should be fine heading to Labor and Delivery again. We walked around a bit to try and get some going and even though they weren't strong, Cass though she felt a few and we headed over to the hospital just after 11:00 AM.
The nurses hooked her up to the monitors again and after another hour or so of tests Cass was showing no signs of contractions at all. We thought for sure they would send us home again, but they called Cassidy's Doctor and the Doctor told them that because of Cass's history she would feel more comfortable keeping her and inducing labor. We were so excited! They moved Cass to a Labor Room and got her situated around 12:30 and the Doctor came and broke her water bag. They told her she could get her epidural whenever she wanted it and Cass let them know that right then was just fine. They also hooked her up to an I.V. and started giving her some Oxytocin to induce contractions. Once the epidural was in she couldn't feel a thing and the contractions started to come regularly. The nurses would come in and check her periodically and she gradually dialated more an more until around 2:20 PM they decided to have her start to push. She did great pushing and at 3:05 Scout was here.
We are so excited to have her here and she's just amazing. She is a perfectly healthy baby at 6 pounds 7 ounces and 18 1/2 inches long and she's doing great. Cassidy is doing just fine also and we are so happy to have our Pioneer Day Baby! We had thought that with her being born on Pioneer day that we would have to name her Emma or Eliza or some other Pioneer name, but "Scout" fits her just fine. So here are some pictures and a video, we hope you enjoy them. Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers. We are so grateful and feel so blessed that our little family is getting bigger.
So yesterday Cass had her cerclage removed and everything went well. Cassidy said it was pretty painful, but she didn't show it at all and took it like a champ. We have been so worried with this Incompetent Cervix thinking that the cerclage was the only thing keeping the baby in and we were completley prepared for little Scout to just fall out as soon as the stitches were removed. So we packed Cassidy's bag and put the car seat in the trunk and went to the hospital ready to have a baby. After the cerclage was removed the Doctor has Cassidy take a non-stress test to see what the baby was going to do and if she would go into labor, but after an hour without a single contraction they told us to go home and come back tomorrow. So we'll head back to the Doctor tomorrow and see what's going on.
We were pretty bummed after being so excited and thinking today would be the day, but we will just have to be patient. It almost seems as if she is overdue and we have to keep remembering that she is only at 37 weeks. We've been trying to get out and get Cass walking around and moving to see if we can start some contractions. Everytime we have the option for stairs or an elevator we take the stairs, Cassidy takes them two at a time jumping and bouncing around, She even threw in a few jumping jacks. We figure if we make it a bumpy ride for Scout then she will want to come out. We know that she will come when she is ready, we're just really excited and anxious.
I just wanted to get a quick baby update posted. Tuesday is the big day! If you reference the baby countdown on the right there are actually a couple more weeks until Cass's actual due date, but for those of you who didn't know, Cassidy had a cerclage put in to help keep the baby in and Tuesday is when they take it out. The Doc said that the baby could come anytime after that. There is a chance that the baby could come Tuesday or it might take a few more days. Either way, we are way excited. We can't wait for this baby to come. We would probably prefer for her to come now instead of having to wait, but it's up to her. Anyway... I'll make sure and keep this updated as soon as we know more.
So the only thing I've wanted to do all summer is go Slip N Sliding. Cass and I were in Wal-Mart back in May and there were a ton of them and I was going to get one, but thought that I could just get one later since I didn't really have a place to do it since our front yard is so small. Anyway, a few weeks later there was a big sale on them so I figured I would pick on up then, but by the time I got to the store, they were all gone and I haven't seen one since. Wal-Mart, Target, ShopKo, Macey's no one has one and no one has had one for the past month and a half. That was the only damper on my 4th of July is that I couldn't Slip N Slide, so yesterday, I figured I would just make my own. My mom is watching my little cousins while their parents are in Chicago for the week, so I had a yard to work with and it turned out better than any Toys R Us version of any Slip N Slide. Mom and the little cousins even got in on it too.
Happy 4th of July! One of the best holidays all year. I love parades, I love fireworks, I love baseball games, I love barbeques, I love my family, and I love America and on the 4th of July you get everything. My parents and grandparents and Aubri and Amaya were in town this year. We went to the Orem Owlz baseball game on Thursday night and watched a big fireworks show after the game. It was a lot of fun sitting out on the grass in left field and when the fireworks show started just behind us we had the perfect seats. We even had to stomp out a few of the burning ashes that landed on us we were so close. On Friday we went to the parade and then just barbequeued and hung out with family the rest of the day. We lit off fireworks that night and wished America a Happy Birthday!!
Last Thursday I passed my multi-engine checkride adding my multi-engine rating to my private pilot's license. It was a huge relief to get that done and be able to move on and continue working on my commercial license. I've been in the Aviation Science program at UVSC (now UVU) for the past year and a half and hopefully, if everything continues to go well, I will be able to have my commercial license and CFI (Certified Flight Instructor) license within the next year.
The Diamond DA-42 Twinstar that I have been flying for the past 3 months. (Not this specific plane, but the same model).
Again, as you can see, it's been a while since I last posted. I keep thinking that it's because nothing really significant has happened lately, but as I think back I realize that not only has there been things happening lately, but that they don't need to be all that siginificant to post them here. So anyway, I am planning on posting something at least once a week, even if there isn't that much going on because I want to get more and more on here.
The last weekend in May, my Aunt threw Cass a baby shower. It was awesome. I loved it, and I wasn't even there (It was a girls only party so all the men went miniture golfing), but we got a lot of nice gifts. We flew Cassidy's sister out from Boston so that she could be there. It had been a while since we last saw them and she had a baby boy in February so we had to meet the new nephew too. Cassidy's Mom and little sister also came up from San Diego and her grandma came down from Ogden. My whole family was there too (minus Aaron) so it was good to get together with everyone again.
Cass and I will all the sweet gifts. We're getting excited for the baby to get here. It will nice for me to have a little friend to play with.
The Generational Photo! (Kailee, Avery, Cass, Brittany, Sandie, and G-ma Stotts)
