Teslie Raelynn

Teslie Raelynn Slaugh
Born 9-23-08 at 2:23 A.M

Our lil girl arrived Tuesday morning Sept 23 at 2:23 am. She was 6 lbs 15.4 oz and 20 in long. We are all doing great I'm going to post my birth story here. i will try and make it very detailed but not to much. but a warning non the less to the squeamish. also this is really long

Sunday was Dayson's Birthday and so we did dinner w. the Grand parents and Cake and ice cream w. everyone else at our house. The whole time i was working in the kitchen i was contracting but nothing regular. so i thought nothing of it.

Monday i put Dayson on the bus and came home and was catching up on my E-mail. That morning i had a lil cramping but i pretty much had myself believing she would be a wk or more late and so didn't' worry about it. I went to the restroom and found i had started to bleed. Which going into labor i had never done before. So i called Dayton first to put him on stand-by since he was over in Colorado and then called the dr. and left a message. Well after half an hour Dayton had called me twice to see what the dr said and i hadn't heard so he asked me to call the hospital and see what they thought. The nurse who i talked to said that even at 40 weeks. i should be checked to see where the bleeding was coming from since i wasn't contracting. So i called Dayton back and called my mom. I was really bad then cause i hadn't eaten or showered and i just felt everything was okay. so i showered ate packed my bag.

Dayson was still at school but i needed to take Ean to my Sister-in-law and head up there. I had myself really believing i was calm and not worried. My SIL (Sister-in-law) was at the church doing aerobics so i went up there to let her take Ean. Once i saw her though i started to panic a lil cause Dayton was so far away and i had to go up there by myself. So the wonderful friend she is offered to go w. me and blow off her busy day. So we dropped the kids off at another wonderful sil's house and we headed up to the hospital.

We got to the hospital about 10 and they had me get a gown on and hooked me up. The nurse commented a couple times on how good the baby's heart rate looked but no contractions. at the time i was dilated to 3 cm but still way high and think. (which didn't make sense. because she said she could feel the baby's head) She called my doc to see what he wanted us to do. He was debating on getting a u/s to see where the bleeding was coming from or not. So they told me to go walk for 15 min to see if anything was going to happen. Daytons gma was in the hospital so we went and saw her real fast and one of my other SIL was there (i have 11 LOL) when i got back they decided to hook me up again by then it was about noon and Dayton and my mom both arrived, and my SIL that was visiting his gma showed up. So they hooked me back up to see what was going on. Still nothing. The dr had decided that most likely the blood was from me dilating really fast and was not worried about it. They gave me the choice to get induced or go home and wait to let her come by herself. Well at that time everyone in the room started talking and i was trying to talk to my hubby to see what he thought. I really appreciated the nurse at this point cause she threw everyone out and let up talk. We both agreed that all we wanted was a healthy baby and she would come when she was rdy. So we decided to go home and rest. i was really glad cause for some reason i really missed my boys, and felt terrible for not getting to tell Dayson where i was going.

So we left. We ran and got some taco bell and came home. The rest of the day i had contractions about 15-20 min apart. i felt em but nothing some Tylenol couldn't help. I tried to nap but Ean woke up and so i got up w. him and let dayton nap since he had already been up since 3:00 am. My mom went home about 6 and i took a warm bath. The rest of the evening i was still having contractions 15-20mins apart. so about 10 i tried to go to bed but the contractions started getting to the point where i couldn't sleep thru them. So i got up and came in the front room and tried to sleep on the couch and was able to doze between em. About 11:30 i decided i needed to get in the tub to see if the water would help the contractions hurt less. Boy did it help em. as soon as i got in they started coming 5 min apart. i timed em for 30 min and boy they hurt. So i decided i needed to go to the hospital cause i was either dilating or getting something for the pain and to sleep.

so at midnight i woke Dayton up and called my wonderful SIL to tell her we were on our way. So we took my boys over to her house. As we were carrying in my boys she asked if i wanted a blessing and boy did i ever. So my BIL and my hubby gave me a blessing. At this point my contractions were coming about 3 min apart so i told Dayton we better hurry.

It was just like in a movie we were flying down the highway w. the hazards on and i'm wiggling in pain. So we get to the hospital at 12:45 and found a nurse and i tell em i'm in labor and strep B+ thinking they would get an IV in as soon as possible. Oh no. they put us in the lil room and had me get changed. Dayton and i were in there for what felt like forever, maybe like 10 mins w. no nurse not hooked up no iv and i was hurting. So the nurse finally came in during one of my contractions and says oh your really in labor. so they moved up to room and hooked me up to the monitor, but still no IV. They checked me and i was a good 4 maybe a 5. I started to cry. I was already hurting and i was so tired. I really try to go as med free as possible for the baby's sake. so i tried to look on the bright side i was half way there.

finally after we were there for a good hr they decided to do the IV. So they got me all hooked to that and they fluid going and let me get up. So i tried the ball but the pressure hurt to bad the best position i found was to wrap my arms around my wonderful hubby and rock. This is where the memory starts to get sketchy. it seems like they checked me one other time and i was like a 8 s0 they set up the room for the baby to be born. when in labor i try and use the bathroom alot to empty my bladder. It helps the baby drop down. So i know i labored for awhile w. Dayton and then decided i had to use the restroom and that there was a ton of pressure in the bottom of my belly even when i wasn't in the middle of a contraction. so the nurse came in while i was on the potty (srry i'm a mommy) and made me get up to get checked. I was complete. they knew i was progressing fast but do you think they called the dr. heck no. they didn't call him til i was complete. So i had to wait for him to drive from his house which they reassured me wasn't far but it felt like an eternity. I've never screamed in labor but this time i did and i begged em to break my water. i begged dayton to make em break my water. Finally the dr got there and i was so pissed at him by then. he is an excellent dr but when i saw him i really wanted to ream him. so he asks how far i am and they told him i'm complete and rdy and he takes his sweet time getting his stuff on. while he is getting dressed the nurses start to break down the bed. so he gets his lil stool out and gets down there and just as he is putting on his gloves and i'm telling him to hurry out comes my sweet lil girl and the dr the nurse and i all grab for her cause he wasn't rdy and my water breaks as she comes out. this is the neat part and i never thought i would want to catch my baby but i did this time out of reflex, and next time i want to do it again. I think when it comes to labor and having a baby i'm going crunchy. My sweet hubby let my mom cut her first grand daughters cord and they had to take her to suck her cause there was meconium in her fluid. everything else looked good. i did tear a lil but not enough to stitch. I nursed her in the delivery room. She was born at 2:23 am. The dr was awesome once he got there. i got a bag of the antibiotic. Since Teslie and I were doin so well they released us at 8 PM that night.

Proud big brother
lol he could of cared less to many other things to play w.
Daddy napping after all the hard work

She really enjoyed her bath. She just laid there til the nurse pulled her out and then boy was she mad. the nurse and i joked that when she was older she would pay for treatment like that. She really seemed to like the warmer too.

3 days old.

She had her first check up today and she was 6 lb 10 oz. Beside a lil Jaundice the dr said she looks great. We have to go get her tested to see if her lvls rise on Sunday w. a follow up w. the dr on Monday. She is nursing like a champ and her brothers love her to death. Dayson has been very protective of her, and calls her his baby. At first i'm pretty sure Ean thought she was a doll until she cried. He is warming up to her but hasn't really had anything to do w. her.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far!!!!! Srry for all the errors it was late. I'll have to edit it later