My life revolves around my kids. They are what get me through a bad day and yes they can sometimes make a day bad, every parent has those days, lol. So I figured that I should write their birth story and roughly about their first year. So of course I am starting with Shiana.
Me and Jeremy had only been official dating for about 5 months when I got pregnant. I know the weekend that it happened too, lol, fun times at Six Flags. We had gotten an apartment in Sylacauga and they were having a Thanksgiving get together so we decided to go to it. I told Jeremy then that I had not gotten my period and thought I might be pregnant. So we decided to go around the corner to Wal-mart to get a test. When we got back to the apartment it was about 5 at night and I went in the bathroom and it took less then a second for the second line to show. The first words out of my mouth were "Oh S***". I was 18 years old with a crappy job and my first semester in college, in all honesty we were not ready to have a baby. But from then we started to prepare. The next step was to tell everyone. We waited till my parents came home from their cruise to tell them; my mom threw a remote at my head when I told them (had to put that in there and I will tell Shiana and Keylan about it too,lol). It was a rough start to our relationship and we had our fights, but in January me and Jeremy moved in together.
I'll admit it was cool to be living on our own with no rules or parents hanging over us asking what we were doing or where we were going. But, then Jeremy was work all the time to pay the bills and I was in school still. Most of the time he worked out of town which left me alone at the apartment by myself. But, when he was home we would lounge around or hang out with friends and we would also go to walmart in the middle of the night just to walk around. I eventually had my first doctors appointment in January and I was 12 weeks along with a perfectly healthy little baby. I loved knowing that there was a little being growing in my belly. I remember the first time we felt the kicks, we were in the shower and I gave Jeremy a hug and right at that moment we got a nice hard kick. The weeks went by and we had our gender ultrasound, I ended up having to go to it alone because Jeremy was stuck in traffic. That evening I found out that we were having a little girl, I was ecstatic, I had a little girl to put dresses on and the tea parties and ponies; Jeremy not so much at that time, he of course wanted his little boy. So knowing that we were having a little girl we started buying what we needed, most of it was hand-me downs and we were so thankful for them because we would never had been able to afford any of it on our own.
The weeks crept by slowly and we came up with this little girl's name, Shiana Marie. It was different and we like different =) and her due date, July 18, came and went. I was roughly 41 weeks and not dilated or contracting at all, we decided to set-up a day to be induced a week later. The night before I was to be induced we went over to our friends house and talked and played with her 3 month old and then headed home. We made sure everything was by the door and ready to go, picked up and then got in the shower and into bed. Literally just as soon as I fell asleep, I thought I peed myself, my water broke. So we got up and got dressed and went to...walmart. Yup we went to walmart and walked around for about an hour, I was hoping it would start contractions.
Then we headed to the hospital. When we got there we had to go through the emergency room and then headed up to Labor and Delivery. Once we got up there we checked in and my nurse looked at me and said "honey you are a little early you know that right" I told her my water had broke and she said "oh well then lets go have a baby". We got into our room and settled and changed and the IVs hooked up and then Jeremy fell asleep, lol. A few hours later they started Pitocin to get things going and then I started to barely feel contractions. About 9 the anesthesiologist came in to give me my epidural, though I had not asked for it at that time. I was only 2 cm and was wanting more. But I did get some sleep and at noon they came in and checked and I was still 2 cm; at that point we agreed to do the c-section. So at 1:45 ish I was being rolled back to the OR for my c-section. Then at 2:05 PM my beautiful chubby girl was born. She was born July 27th and weighed 9 lbs 9 oz and 21 inches long. Her and Jeremy went straight to the nursery to get cleaned up and then I was rolled over to see her through a window.
From there I went to recovery for about an hour, was suppose to be longer, and then on to my room. Once I got in there, Jeremy was able to bring Shiana in and that is the first time I got to hold her.
So that is enough pictures. I spent 2 days in the hospital and then we headed home. She was a perfect baby, we actually had to wake her up to feed her during the night. But since her birth story is written I will do an overview of the last 4 years with her =)
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