Kellin Cody Carter

My boy is finally here! I guess I cant say finally because my pregnancy FLEW by but we could not be happier that he came a little early:) so I decided to write about his birth so I could have it and so others could read about it.. So it all started Monday November 25th we had a doctors appointment at 10:00 am and at the appointment my doctor was saying well your about a 3 and about 80% so he was thinking around thanksgiving or the weekend. He stripped my membrane and we walked out just a little disappointed because we wanted him here now! As we walked into the lobby of the doctors office I told cody ummm I have to go to the bathroom! I barely made it and my water had broke.. I walked out to the lobby and told cody that I THOUGHT it had broke and he said well go ask the doctor what you should do.. I said no I feel dumb because what if it wasn't my water what if I just thought it was that.. so we walked out to our car and (Gross I know) I still had water coming and eventually it totally felt like I had peed my pants.. you think this would be enough evidence but nope I called my sisters and mom asking what to do and they all of course said to go to the hospital but instead I decide to go to wal mart.... who knows what I was thinking so we walked around wal mart waiting to my mom to come there to talk me into going to the hospital, I felt another gush of water, by then I knew my water broke and then I lost it, it was weird I was so anxious for him to get here but I was actually terrified of labor. I knew I wouldn't be in any pain but I was still so scared. Anyways had a wal mart break down and headed to the hospital. We got there and they did a test to make sure that my water did officially break and hooked me up to a monitor I was already having contractions about 5 minutes apart that I could really feel. We called our family and they all headed down.. I was hooked up to just an iv for about an hour and they checked me to see if I was doing anything and I was still just a 4 but 100% effaced. By now its about 1:00 pm and they put me on some medicine to make my contractions more consistent. I still hadn't had my epidural mostly because I was scared but I just wanted to feel a real contraction lets just say they turned up the medicine and within ten minutes I had had enough of those REAL contractions and wanted my epidural it was not as bad as I thought and after that I felt amazing and wondered why I didn't get it earlier:)  After about an hour or so we asked when they would check me again just so I could call my photographer and we could sorta let people know when to come down they said not for two hours but another nurse came in and said ya know what I am going to check you now because I just had another labor and the girl went a lot faster then they thought. She checked me and she said oh yup you are a 10 and ready to push. I once again lost it haha my poor husband he had to deal with this all day long! So we said goodbye to everything my photographer barely made it and we started pushing just trying to learn how and when to push. I pushed about five times and she said um we better stop pushing and wait for the doctor.. we waited just about 15 minutes and he got there, I pushed about three times and my beautiful baby boy was here! They laid him on my chest and cody cut the cord and he had his eyes just wide open and barely cried he was so content just laying there staring at us. When people say you instantly fall in love it is beyond true I sat there and thought I couldn't believe he was ours, this perfect baby was our responsibility and we were his parents, I was his mom! I couldn't have asked for an easier pregnancy or labor I feel like I was so lucky that everything really did go so great. So our Kellin was born at 5:34 pm on November 25th. He weighed 6 lbs 14 ounces he was 20 1/2 inches long. We love him so much and he is such a good baby. And thank you to kara welker for taking our pictures. We love them!

sorry for the picture overload I swear I take 24 pictures a day of him!:)

 

Philippine typhoon and 37 weeks!

Well it's only been forever since I have posted on our blog so if you want to skip the reading feel free:) So there is a lot to catch up on, as most of you know there was a typhoon is the Philippines. I can't even begin to describe how worried I was about cody and landon, on the weather channel the storm was supposed to go right through Bacolod and somehow the storm split and went around Bacolod, there was still a lot of destruction but nothing near how bad it could have been. To get an idea of how close it was the island right next to us is called Iloilo and that island is just completely destroyed well Iloilo is just a twenty minute ferry right from where we live its just so sad having lived there and knowing how the flipinos are just such good people where some literally have nothing and then to go from your little hut that you live in to not even having that just breaks my heart.  so since being in Utah my only way to communicate with cody is when I have wifi which is usually just at my parents house, So the night of the storm I had to leave so I was trying my hardest to get home as soon as possible so that I could talk to him and just see how he was doing. We talked through the whole storm with him saying if I don't write back don't think anything bad happened just the internet connection probably went down. So stress all around not to mention he flies here next Saturday so what if he couldn't make it home? Lets just say it was a long night but cody and landon are both safe and cody will be able to come to see his little boy born such a relief!
On a brighter note.... i'm officially 37 weeks! Time has flown by I feel like I have been pregnant for a month! It almost makes me sad that I wont be pregnant anymore because I have loved it. Yes it comes with unexpected emotions and hard times of being uncomfortable or trying to fit into your old clothes before you finally go buy a bigger size. Cody has been so wonderful with me and so great about the moments when I would just randomly start crying, times when I didn't even know why I was upset. My number one thing that I have loved about being pregnant is being able to feel him and talk to him. I love sitting in bed before I go to sleep and feeling him digging in my ribs and feeling like he is literally doing a flip inside my stomach. I love that he knows when it's me that is talking to him or at least I like to think he does. I LOVE that when cody puts his hand on my belly he kicks even harder. I have already accepted that fact that he will be obsessed with cody (every little kid is) but I will always be his mom! I cant wait to finally see him and hold him. i have had some pretty terrible heartburn so i will be happy when that stops but people have asked me what my cravings are and so far just cereal and chocolate milk.. i think that is because they don't have milk in the Philippines that i missed it so much and since being home that its about 95% of my diet! I had a doctors appointment last Tuesday and the dr said I was a 1 1/2 and 50% this made me happy in a way because I knew I was at least making progress at 36 weeks but nervous because his dad was not here yet! So the doctor asked me.. when are we having this baby.. I looked at him and said um do I have a choice?? He said well it's not looking like you are going to make it till your due date so i got the option to be started depending on which hospital i deliver at. I am wanting to go on my own but i am not wanting to go late so my next appointment is on Tuesday so we will see where i am at! All i ask is that he waits for dad to get here and then he can come anytime that he wants!
So here is just a few pictures of things i have done in Utah and some other fun pictures:)

this is the day before i had to leave to come to Utah, not too happy but we spent a fun day in Manila

my amazing mom bought this for the baby to stay in while we are here

i have only found EVERY excuse to go hold kaleys baby Kolston

we spent a fun day at black island farms

He falls asleep like this everytime i hold him

35 weeks!

My costume for halloween

one day i looked down and realized i could barely see my feet!

Had such a fun shower my my inlaws

 

36 weeks

fun day of Halloween spent with the fam

i have missed my friends SO much i have loved being able to see them!

i found out how adorable cody was as a baby!

 

 

37 weeks

Had another fun shower by my family

my boy... this was at 35 weeks, at my last appointment he was being stubborn and was really low so the doctor couldn't get a face shot but he did say he had some pretty good chubby cheeks on him and so far weighing about six pounds! with three weeks still to go he will be the perfect size i'm still feeling so great! the only time i feel uncomfortable is at night with heartburn but then i wake up and have to feel my belly because i feel like i just am having a really good dream! I feel so blessed and am still a little in shock that all this is happening but i can not wait for this new chapter with my new little family