Welcome to the world KRUE!

Warning: Graphic labor details plus horrible photos of me!

So Krue was born almost three weeks ago so I need to write down what happened STAT before my post pregnancy/ zero sleep brain forgets all of it!

On Tuesday September 6th it was just a normal day.. I think i went to my favorite store target and just did some stuff around the house. Since Ive been on maternity leave its been my goal to really keep up on the house. So i cleaned the bathrooms and swiffered the floor. I told myself if i do something every day the house will stay somewhat clean. Nesting? must have been!!  Ryan and I had a nice quiet evening. Ryan and I cooked dinner and just watched TV on the couch together like we always do. September 6th really doesn't have good TV since its in between the summer and fall line ups. So we found "friends" on Nick at nite! WHAT? I grew up watching "friends" and it really freaked me out that friends was on nick at nite! When i was growing up "I love Lucy" was on nick at nite! WOW I'm officially old. So around 930 or 1000 Ryan and i decide to go to sleep! I started to watch my favorite show on MTV (see I'm still young) "teen mom" at around 1030 i had my first contraction. I thought hmm that was weird but it was probably just a strong braxton hicks! So I thought no big deal.. no need to wake anyone up! About 1045 i had another one! NO this cant be labor... I'm not ready yet! I wanted to go to Pala on Saturday... just try to relax and it will go away! HA! NOPE! More contractions kept coming about 10 minutes apart.. and lasting 30-45 seconds. Around 1130 i woke up Ryan... I let him know this is it.. I think?!?

So I called my mom around 1130 and let her know.. uhh mom.. I think i am in labor. She says what do you mean you think? I have never experienced it before.  But my contractions continued to come and get stronger and closer as the night went on.  My adrenaline kicked in and i couldn't sleep.. I was wide awake Not that i could sleep through contractions anyways. I wanted to do a lot of laboring at home since it is more comfortable.. plus they send you  home if you arnt far enough along! I only wanted to go the hospital once! Around 130 I called my mom again and let her know.. this is it. You need to fly out in the morning. So she made her ticket and drove to Denver for the first flight out to San Diego! Around 230 my contractions were getting longer and stronger so I decided to take a shower. Once i got into the warm shower my contractions stopped! WHAT? So i decided to take a bath.. and they stopped for around 30 minutes! I was so confused... but honestly it was fine with me! So i got out and as soon as i stepped out of the tub they started up again! So i turned on the TV and the only thing that was on was my favorite shower "friends" yup marathon night! HOLLA! at least i didn't have to watch paid programing all night! So Ryan of course packed his bag, finished packing mine up, emptied the dishwater, cleaned, etc. Then Ryan went to sleep for a couple of hours while I continued to labor. Around 515 ryan was still sleeping and i think my panting woke him up! So at 530 and about 8 friends episodes later my contractions were 5 minutes apart and around 1 minute. We decided it was time to head to the hospital!

Good thing the hospital is only 10 minutes away! I cant imagine driving an hour to get to a hospital. Once we got to the hospital i was in a lot of pain! We checked in at admitting and headed up stairs. I thought we would go straight to the triage area but no i labored outside in a chair for about 30 minutes. i was dying! FINALLY we got back to triage and the nurse we had was very overwhelmed! It was almost shift change and to be honest she was doing a half ass job on me and helping my neighbor (who mind you was in zero pain and had a scheduled c section)  She checked me and i was 4 cm dilated and rudely told me my water had broken. I didn't feel anything drip or see any blood or fluid any where. So i thought that was weird! She then told me i would be admitted and she asked me if i wanted an epidural.. I was like YES please! I was doing okay at this point but i was in a lot of pain and i knew i would need one sooner than later. I was then told that i would have to wait since the anasteliologist would be with the girl who has having the section next to me. I agreed that would be fine. Plus my goal was to make it to five cm anyways! I knew a epidural would really slow things down. So she puts the monitors on me and starts to FREAK out! she comes running and yanks me on my side and she said the babies heart rate is dropping during contractions... so then i started to get freaked out that i was going to have an emergency c section. I was then admitted and we were going to have a baby!! HOLY MOLY!

We then called Ryan's parents, friends and family and let them know that this was it and baby mo would be here soon! We got to our room after shift change around 730. Met our nurse Ros who was very nice. Put the monitors and low and behold the baby's heart rate was fine! My BFF Amy went and picked up my mom from the airport and Ryan's parents came to the hospital. I continued to labor and my nurse Ros checked me... I was 6 cm and my water was not broken just leaking a little bit. I was in a lot of pain at this point in time. I was begging for my epidural and the nurse kept telling me he was wrapped up in the section. Then Dr. Calinisan (who was on call for Dr. Safie) came and checked me and then broke my water (ouch!). My contractions at this point got a lot stronger and closer together.  I was not able to breathe through them and i my arms and legs were going numb because i was not breathing! She asked me if i wanted something for the pain and i agreed.  I really wanted to try with no pain medicine but that went right out the window! She gave me nubain and i was able to breathe through my contractions. It was a nice feeling when i didn't have any contractions either. Then about 15 minutes later the anasteiologist came in and gave me my epidural. It was a least 930 at this point. My mom had landed and i was so excited she was going to make it for the birth!  So i was really relaxed from the nubain so it didn't hurt at all. After the epidural we were in business! I felt so good! NO PAIN! i really don't know why everyone doesn't get one! I tried to take a nap since i hadn't slept since 730 the morning of the 6th! I couldn't sleep... maybe a cat nap here and there but not good sleep! My mom got to the hospital around 11! YAY! baby could come now! I was checked again and I was at 8 cm. They put me on pitocin since i was staying at 8 cm and not progressing. Around 130  i was 10 cm. OMG i am going to have to push this baby out!! Instead of starting to push she let me "labor down" so they kept the pit on and just let my body prepare and the head hopefully to come down a little farther! I kept telling the nurse that i could still feel the baby in my ribs. I knew it hadn't dropped yet so we labored down for about an hour and a half. It was nice.. we just turned off the lights and relaxed.

At 3:30 it was time to start pushing. My legs were numb and i was trying to push a baby that was in my ribs down... I couldn't feel anything. I pushed for an hour and I wasn't making much progress. I could still feel the baby in my ribs. My back was really hurting me. i don't know if it was from the epidural lines or the hospital bed or what but it was hard for me to lay flat on my back and push! I kept trying though! I was vomiting the entire time i was pushing. Vomiting while laying flat on your back is not fun wither! Ryan was so supportive the whole time. He kept telling me what a good job I was doing and how proud he was of me. It was very sweet! A lot of fluid was coming out as did meconium. I know what meconium is and it can cause infection in the lung if it is aspirated. So she gave me a little break.. called the doctors let them know. It just so happened that there was a neonatologist in the hospital. He had come in earlier and introduced him self. He said he only comes to murrieta once every month or two and was just going to observe the birth so he can learn and lend a helping hand if needed. Of course it was fine with me.. a neonataolgist from children's in San Diego! GREAT! Well turns out God had him there for a reason! Once Ros came back in the room she turned me on my side and I pushed MUCH better this way! I also developed a fever at this point... So they gave me a dose of antibiotics. I pushed for 40 minutes or so... the baby crowned and then the doctor had to be called. Dr. Calinisan was at loma Linda... so i had to wait for her to get to the hospital. I had the urge to push but they kept telling me to breathe through it! Once she got there (20 minutes later) about 15 people came in the room including the neonatologist and a respiratory therapist who i work with! He was very kind and didn't look at me once. He would always joke with me that he would be in on my delivery too! funny that he actually was! On my next contraction i pushed! I pushed three times and the baby didnt come but the doctor said if you can give me one more push the baby will be here so i pushed one more time and she was right... Baby boy mo entered the world on September 7th, 2011 at 1725! 7 pounds 7 ounces and 19.5 inches long! Since he did have meconium they took him immediately... he didn't get to come on my chest and Ryan didn't get to cut the umbilical cord! But it didnt matter.. the neonatologist swept up our baby boy and just suctioned him and suctioned him! He wasn't crying so then i started to cry! I kept asking ryan who didnt leave my side once if he was okay! He kept telling me he didn't want to leave me.. but i made him go make sure the baby was okay! Once they were done suctioning him he started to cry! I was so relieved. Then ryan went and hung out with him. Everyone was saying that he looked just like ryan! My precious baby boy had arrived. The neonatologist continued to suction him and look after him with the nurse and the RT. We chose to do cord blood so the doctor had to do that and then sew my va jay jay back up and that took around 30 minutes. And it was probably the worst part! She was not very gentle and it hurt SO bad! I just wanted to see my baby too! Everyone kept showing me pictures and saying how he has red hair and he looks just like ryan! I was a little upset because I wanted him to have blonde hair and look a little like me! haha I know how selfish right. But once i saw him... he was perfect! All those thoughts went right out the window!

Finally around 600 pm they let me hold our baby boy. As soon as they handed him to me I just started to cry. I couldn't control it and I couldn't stop! He was perfect and everything i had imagined he would be and more! Ryan and i just stared at him in awe. I couldn't believe that was MY baby and he was mine. I couldn't get over that he was inside of me! He was just so perfect! Ryan and I spent a about an hour with him and then Ryan's parents came up! I wanted to try to feed him so we fed him. He latched on right away. Ryan was over the moon happy! I don't think i have ever seen him that happy. He was so proud of me and of our baby boy. It was so much fun to see him be so proud. After shift change, baby got a bath. My friend Amy came and brought us some dinner. We then were taken to our post partom room... I got really dizzy and light headed on my way there. So once we got there everyone left ryan and i with our baby! SCARY! we didn't get to our room till around 1000pm so once we got settled we went right to sleep! And then woke up every few hours to feed little man! I was already exhausted because I was up 38 hours straight plus i labored for 19 hours! But our first night went well with little man.. he slept most of the night... we kept waking up to change his diaper or to feed him.. we had no idea what we were doing! Plus I was in a lot of pain down there and it was hard for me to get up! Super dad ryan really helped me! At 5 am Dr. Safie came in and said i could go home if i wanted if the baby was discharged too..

The next morning Ryan went home to shower and my mom brought me breakfast.. yup del taco! =] While Ryan was gone the birth certificate lady came and threatened me and basically said i had 20 minutes to name our baby and Ryan wasn't even there! So i frantically called Ryan and said you need to get here now so we can name this cute little boy! So Ryan and I hashed it out.. I basically told Ryan that I like krue and madden so pick! He chose Krue... then we hashed out the middle name... Ryan really wanted alan. I liked Jacob. I wasn't crazy about Alan but it made Ryan SO happy that his son had his middle name. SO low in behold.. Krue Alan Morais was his name. I cant imagine it be anything else! Around 1200 the pediatrician Dr. hurwitz came in.. said Krue could also go home if his bili was ok. It was so around 230 we were on our way out of the hospital! Andrew and Jacki had just gotten there so it was fun to see them and they got to see Krue for a couple minutes! Then the three of us headed home for the first time.