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Mother's Day
Well, David was on call this year just like last Mother's Day.... But.... I still had a great Mother's day!
Saturday night David came home with a huge edible fruit bouquet of chocolate covered pineapples, apples, and strawberries. YUM! It was absolutely delicious. I did share. Some. Not much, but some. Then he took me out to a Mexican restaurant. It made me miss Arizona. The atmosphere was great! Unfortunately we couldn't stay out long because we have 3 sick kids right now.
Honour, Justice and Hope all have the flu/cold. So we went home after dinner.Sunday morning my kids all woke me up at 7am. I made them go away. They came back at 8:30 to get me up. They had breakfast waiting for me on the table. Cinnamon rolls and OJ! I also got to open up some really thoughtful gifts. Too bad David missed it.
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| My gifts from Faith and Courage are nail polish and chocolates. |
Then the kids and I just hung out the rest of the day. We missed church because my kids were sick. But, i didn't mind too much because I got to have a nap. Yay naps!
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| Hope spent all her money on me for these flowers. |
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| Also from Hope. Inside is a beautiful picture of her |
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| from Justice. I love these handprint gifts! |
Life is Good...
Ok. So it has been nearly 10 months since I last posted on my blog. I am going to make a serious go at it again. But, where do I start?
I will just hit the highlights I guess. If you want more info on a particular topic I will do my best to tell more about it. Here goes....
David - Nearly done with residency! Yay!!! 55 more days and counting. Took the boys to a Yankee game for his birthday and Loved it. I accidentally pressure washed him and took his skin off. Well, more like injected him with water and took skin off. He is at work ALL the time and waiting anxiously to be done with residency.
Faith - Got contacts and LOVES them. They are blue. She is getting ready for girl's camp because she is 12 and in Young Women's at church. She is the Beehive president. She is my hero every day... Such a HUGE helper. Had a hip hop recital - did awesome!
Courage - Had mono for 10 weeks and no one knew. Ran the 3000 meter in the JR. Olympics in Chicago and took 4th place (with mono). Runs a 22 minute 5k, which is amazing for a 10 yr old. Really absent-minded and needs serious help. lol...
Hope - Had her 7th birthday. She LOVES to cook with me. She is also in Ballet and had her 1st ballet recital. She did awesome! She had her 1st kiss on the lips with a boy named Diesel. She has her 1st 2 loose teeth.
Justice - Is so stinkin' cute it's insane. Had surgery on both ears hopefully for the last time. Got his hair cut- sad, sad day that was. He loves to dance! He loves HIS cat Cleo.
Honour - 9 months now. So much has changed with him that there is no way I can update it all. I am kicking myself for not keeping up with the blog... He got his 1st 2 teeth. He started crawling. He is now trying to walk. He is currently 30 lbs an 150% for weight. He is very proportionate though and not really fat, excluding baby fat of course. He had his 1st accident an got 3 stitches in his eyebrow. he loves his vegetables but not fruit too much. He definitely likes salty more than sweets. Fell out of my bed one night and so he was moved to a crib. He is the sweetest thing ever!
Me - I finally got my Nikon camera. It is a D3100!!! Stressed out about the move. Back in school and taking some fitness class, but don't really care about it - obviously. I got stopped radomly by another photgrapher to do another free photo shoot. I am kinda excited about it. Need to see a specialist about my TMJ. That Sucks. Trying to work out every day. I decided that I am going to be a Personal Development Consultant and Life Coach. I am also going into Photography. I always need something to do.... I am EXTREMELY sleep deprived.
As a family - WE are preparing for the move to Minot, ND. Not too long now. Working on the house for our renters. We started Geo-caching and love it!
I will just hit the highlights I guess. If you want more info on a particular topic I will do my best to tell more about it. Here goes....
David - Nearly done with residency! Yay!!! 55 more days and counting. Took the boys to a Yankee game for his birthday and Loved it. I accidentally pressure washed him and took his skin off. Well, more like injected him with water and took skin off. He is at work ALL the time and waiting anxiously to be done with residency.
Faith - Got contacts and LOVES them. They are blue. She is getting ready for girl's camp because she is 12 and in Young Women's at church. She is the Beehive president. She is my hero every day... Such a HUGE helper. Had a hip hop recital - did awesome!
Courage - Had mono for 10 weeks and no one knew. Ran the 3000 meter in the JR. Olympics in Chicago and took 4th place (with mono). Runs a 22 minute 5k, which is amazing for a 10 yr old. Really absent-minded and needs serious help. lol...
Hope - Had her 7th birthday. She LOVES to cook with me. She is also in Ballet and had her 1st ballet recital. She did awesome! She had her 1st kiss on the lips with a boy named Diesel. She has her 1st 2 loose teeth.
Justice - Is so stinkin' cute it's insane. Had surgery on both ears hopefully for the last time. Got his hair cut- sad, sad day that was. He loves to dance! He loves HIS cat Cleo.
Honour - 9 months now. So much has changed with him that there is no way I can update it all. I am kicking myself for not keeping up with the blog... He got his 1st 2 teeth. He started crawling. He is now trying to walk. He is currently 30 lbs an 150% for weight. He is very proportionate though and not really fat, excluding baby fat of course. He had his 1st accident an got 3 stitches in his eyebrow. he loves his vegetables but not fruit too much. He definitely likes salty more than sweets. Fell out of my bed one night and so he was moved to a crib. He is the sweetest thing ever!
Me - I finally got my Nikon camera. It is a D3100!!! Stressed out about the move. Back in school and taking some fitness class, but don't really care about it - obviously. I got stopped radomly by another photgrapher to do another free photo shoot. I am kinda excited about it. Need to see a specialist about my TMJ. That Sucks. Trying to work out every day. I decided that I am going to be a Personal Development Consultant and Life Coach. I am also going into Photography. I always need something to do.... I am EXTREMELY sleep deprived.
As a family - WE are preparing for the move to Minot, ND. Not too long now. Working on the house for our renters. We started Geo-caching and love it!
Naked Morning Guest???
What a crazy way to wake up! After I woke up from a dream that I had "Blocked This Application" (facebook lingo) on Honour's crying -i fell back asleep....
Then I woke up again at 8am. But, this time it was to the pounding on my door and ringing of my doorbell. It was almost time for David to get home from working the nightshift at the hospital. And, I couldn't figure out why he just wouldn't use his house key. So, slightly annoyed, I got up from my sleep/nursing to open the door.
To my complete surprise and shock, I found Justice on the other side of the front door. And, he was Butt naked! I totally freaked out wondering how my child got to the front yard on the other side of a locked door naked.
He became very nervous because I was acting totally crazy. So, I calmed down and asked him what he was doing naked in the front of the house outside our locked door.
He told me he had to go to the bathroom, so he decided to go outside in the backyard. And, of course he can't go poop with clothes on.... Yes... He pooped and peed. And, of course our genious dog ate the poop.
Well, he couldn't get the back door open again so he went through the gate to the front yard to come in the house through the front door.
I couldn't help but laugh, but I did have a talk with him about going to the bathroom in the toilet if there is one around. He agreed that he would do that from now on.
Then I woke up again at 8am. But, this time it was to the pounding on my door and ringing of my doorbell. It was almost time for David to get home from working the nightshift at the hospital. And, I couldn't figure out why he just wouldn't use his house key. So, slightly annoyed, I got up from my sleep/nursing to open the door.
To my complete surprise and shock, I found Justice on the other side of the front door. And, he was Butt naked! I totally freaked out wondering how my child got to the front yard on the other side of a locked door naked.
He became very nervous because I was acting totally crazy. So, I calmed down and asked him what he was doing naked in the front of the house outside our locked door.
He told me he had to go to the bathroom, so he decided to go outside in the backyard. And, of course he can't go poop with clothes on.... Yes... He pooped and peed. And, of course our genious dog ate the poop.
Well, he couldn't get the back door open again so he went through the gate to the front yard to come in the house through the front door.
I couldn't help but laugh, but I did have a talk with him about going to the bathroom in the toilet if there is one around. He agreed that he would do that from now on.
Honour's Pregnancy and Birth
What a crazy delivery that was! Honour was due July 29th. He was scheduled to be born July 22nd because he would be my 4th c-section.
But, He was born July 11th.
"Why?"... you might ask. Well, it wouldn't be a Tera Amsbury's baby delivery if there was no drama!
The first trimester I had a major gush of blood that made me and David think I had miscarried. I went into the doctor for an ultrasound the next day and it turned out that the placenta just detached a little from the uterine wall and reattached. It made sort of a "blood blister". Well, that burst causing the bleed. So, all was tentatively OK. But, I had to take it really easily for the rest of the pregnancy and started going to the maternal fetal medicine doctor at that point - every 2 weeks for the rest of the pregnancy.
Starting at 16 weeks gestation, I had to start getting Progesterone shots weekly. They are the worst shots I have ever had. It took about a minute for the serum to get into my tush. PAIN! Then I would have a bruise at the shot site for a week... Just in time to make a new one on the other cheek. But, starting at about the last 3 shots I began to get allergic reactions to the shots. The last one I had put me into Anaphylaxis shock... basically I was quickly losing the ability to breathe because my throat was closing. I had to quickly use the med the MFM gave me to counter-act the reaction. It is like an epi-pen. At that point I stopped getting the shots.
Then, I started having painful contractions continuously. They caused a major sting on the site of my previous c-sections. The thought was that my uterus might be rupturing. So, back to MFM. Turned out it was just breaking up of the scar tissue. Nothing they could do about that kind of pain.
Then I started contracting like I was in labor. So, back to the hospital. This time, I was dilated to 1.5 and 70 effaced. The problem was that I was only 34 weeks along. So, the doctors decided to let me go home and take it easy. They also treated me for a UTI. Once I started that medicine all the contraction stopped. So, that must have been the problem making me contract and dilate.
From the point that I started the UTI medicine and had no more contractions, I thought that Honour would never come because I did not have any more strong contractions. That was a little frustrating, but a little nice because the sting at my c-section site was milder.
But also at that point I started to get Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction or Pelvic Girdle Pain. I dealt with that for the last 3 weeks of pregnancy and was just miserable. It apparently affects 1 in 35 pregnant women and cause intense and severe pain in the pelvic region making it excruciating to move/walk, sit, lift legs, adjust in bed, etc. I was in pain all the time.
I had David check me, and I was still the same 1.5 cm dilated. Nothing was happening to my cervix. But, because I was having other intense things going on, we decided to go to the hospital anyway.
It was about 1:30 in the morning at the time so we had to wait for our friend, Crystal to come over and stay with the rest of our kids.
Once she got to our house we were out with a throw-up bucket and blanket in hand. On the way to the hospital I couldn't stop throwing up and began to feel faint. David made all the calls to my doctor and phoned ahead to the Labor and delivery letting them know the situation and that we were quickly on the way.
Once at the hospital, I was wheeled in from the parking lot up to the L&D floor.
Everyone was waiting for us up on labor and delivery. I was quickly placed in a room and began violently vomiting, so then I just began to dry heave. The nurses did a brief exam and learned that I had a 103+ temperature.
Once I was put on the bed, monitors were hooked up to me and 2 doctors came in the room. The monitors were picking up really fast heart rates from Honour. So, an ultrasound was quickly placed on my belly to confirm what was being heard. And, that was that Honour's heart rate, which was normally 140 bpm was up to 230 bpm. When everyone realized that they all got really quiet and all I heard from everyone in the room including David was “He needs to come out now." "We can't wait any longer" "We don't have time for a spinal." "She needs to be intabated now."
I became very scared and just looked for David. I began to cry when I looked at his somber face that was just blank. I was in serious pain and shaking and terrified.
The next thing I heard was one of the doctors telling me they needed to do the surgery "right now." At that second I was wheeled to the OR. David was by my side and I kept asking him if Honour was going to be OK. He kept saying to me that Honour would be fine. But, he was so somber I couldn't be sure. I must have asked him over and over about ten times on the way to the OR. Once in the OR, within seconds I saw a mask being placed over my face and heard the words take deep slow breaths. I saw the other doctors suiting up and getting instruments in their hands... and I was out.
I had brief moments of suffocation as I began to wake up. My throat hurt from being intabated and I could feel the tube still in my throat. My stomach also killed from being cut. I started to panic and I cried that I couldn't breathe. I cried for them to make the pain go away. Even though I couldn't see anything, I heard David say by my bedside, "It's OK Tera, the machine is breathing for you and they are giving you more morphine...." Then, I fell asleep again.
I woke up about 3 hours later. Hurting. Scared. Wondering about Honour.
David was at my side. His face made me feel better. He told me that Honour was fine. He was in the NICU, but he was fine. Then he went on to tell me what happened...
Three doctors delivered Honour very quickly.The pulled him out bottom first because he was also breech. But he was so big that they also had to cut 20% of my stomach muscle to make more room. Because of my fever, even my uterus was hot. And, still no one knows why I was experiencing anything that I did. Honour was in the NICU under observation in case he had an infection. He was cultured and had to be in there for 48 hours.
They wheeled me down to the NICU after I was stabilized so I could see him. I got about 5 to 10 minutes at his crib side then had to be wheeled up to my room for my own monitoring.
About 12 hours later I was able to go see and hold my baby with some help.
It was all a very scary and crappy situation. But, after learning from David that Honour was safe and knowing that I would NEVER be pregnant ever again, I was beyond happy. I can't even explain the elation I felt. I was overwhelmed with happiness for the whole day despite the pain that I was in. I couldn't stop telling David how much I loved him and how happy I was.
But, He was born July 11th.
"Why?"... you might ask. Well, it wouldn't be a Tera Amsbury's baby delivery if there was no drama!
Here's how it all went down....
The whole pregnancy was not fun. Aside from the general nausea, discomfort and fatigue...The first trimester I had a major gush of blood that made me and David think I had miscarried. I went into the doctor for an ultrasound the next day and it turned out that the placenta just detached a little from the uterine wall and reattached. It made sort of a "blood blister". Well, that burst causing the bleed. So, all was tentatively OK. But, I had to take it really easily for the rest of the pregnancy and started going to the maternal fetal medicine doctor at that point - every 2 weeks for the rest of the pregnancy.
Starting at 16 weeks gestation, I had to start getting Progesterone shots weekly. They are the worst shots I have ever had. It took about a minute for the serum to get into my tush. PAIN! Then I would have a bruise at the shot site for a week... Just in time to make a new one on the other cheek. But, starting at about the last 3 shots I began to get allergic reactions to the shots. The last one I had put me into Anaphylaxis shock... basically I was quickly losing the ability to breathe because my throat was closing. I had to quickly use the med the MFM gave me to counter-act the reaction. It is like an epi-pen. At that point I stopped getting the shots.
Then, I started having painful contractions continuously. They caused a major sting on the site of my previous c-sections. The thought was that my uterus might be rupturing. So, back to MFM. Turned out it was just breaking up of the scar tissue. Nothing they could do about that kind of pain.
Then I started contracting like I was in labor. So, back to the hospital. This time, I was dilated to 1.5 and 70 effaced. The problem was that I was only 34 weeks along. So, the doctors decided to let me go home and take it easy. They also treated me for a UTI. Once I started that medicine all the contraction stopped. So, that must have been the problem making me contract and dilate.
From the point that I started the UTI medicine and had no more contractions, I thought that Honour would never come because I did not have any more strong contractions. That was a little frustrating, but a little nice because the sting at my c-section site was milder.
But also at that point I started to get Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction or Pelvic Girdle Pain. I dealt with that for the last 3 weeks of pregnancy and was just miserable. It apparently affects 1 in 35 pregnant women and cause intense and severe pain in the pelvic region making it excruciating to move/walk, sit, lift legs, adjust in bed, etc. I was in pain all the time.
I just wanted Honour out!
Then, when all was normal on Saturday night, David and I were watching a movie. We sat and ate popcorn, drank juice, just being together... I started to have back spasms around 10 pm, but I just blew that off to pregnancy discomfort. We went to bed about 11:30. The back pain was driving me nuts! Then shortly afterwards I started shivering. That turned into violent uncontrollable shaking. Then I began to vomit. It was getting so bad. So, to calm me down, I decided to go take a bath. I was in the tub for about 5 minutes. I got out once I was relaxed and feeling normal again paying attention to the temperature so I wouldn't over heat.
But, when I got out of the tub the shaking and vomiting resumed. I had David check me, and I was still the same 1.5 cm dilated. Nothing was happening to my cervix. But, because I was having other intense things going on, we decided to go to the hospital anyway.
It was about 1:30 in the morning at the time so we had to wait for our friend, Crystal to come over and stay with the rest of our kids.
Once she got to our house we were out with a throw-up bucket and blanket in hand. On the way to the hospital I couldn't stop throwing up and began to feel faint. David made all the calls to my doctor and phoned ahead to the Labor and delivery letting them know the situation and that we were quickly on the way.
Once at the hospital, I was wheeled in from the parking lot up to the L&D floor.
Everyone was waiting for us up on labor and delivery. I was quickly placed in a room and began violently vomiting, so then I just began to dry heave. The nurses did a brief exam and learned that I had a 103+ temperature.
Once I was put on the bed, monitors were hooked up to me and 2 doctors came in the room. The monitors were picking up really fast heart rates from Honour. So, an ultrasound was quickly placed on my belly to confirm what was being heard. And, that was that Honour's heart rate, which was normally 140 bpm was up to 230 bpm. When everyone realized that they all got really quiet and all I heard from everyone in the room including David was “He needs to come out now." "We can't wait any longer" "We don't have time for a spinal." "She needs to be intabated now."
I became very scared and just looked for David. I began to cry when I looked at his somber face that was just blank. I was in serious pain and shaking and terrified.
The next thing I heard was one of the doctors telling me they needed to do the surgery "right now." At that second I was wheeled to the OR. David was by my side and I kept asking him if Honour was going to be OK. He kept saying to me that Honour would be fine. But, he was so somber I couldn't be sure. I must have asked him over and over about ten times on the way to the OR. Once in the OR, within seconds I saw a mask being placed over my face and heard the words take deep slow breaths. I saw the other doctors suiting up and getting instruments in their hands... and I was out.
I had brief moments of suffocation as I began to wake up. My throat hurt from being intabated and I could feel the tube still in my throat. My stomach also killed from being cut. I started to panic and I cried that I couldn't breathe. I cried for them to make the pain go away. Even though I couldn't see anything, I heard David say by my bedside, "It's OK Tera, the machine is breathing for you and they are giving you more morphine...." Then, I fell asleep again.
I woke up about 3 hours later. Hurting. Scared. Wondering about Honour.
David was at my side. His face made me feel better. He told me that Honour was fine. He was in the NICU, but he was fine. Then he went on to tell me what happened...
Three doctors delivered Honour very quickly.The pulled him out bottom first because he was also breech. But he was so big that they also had to cut 20% of my stomach muscle to make more room. Because of my fever, even my uterus was hot. And, still no one knows why I was experiencing anything that I did. Honour was in the NICU under observation in case he had an infection. He was cultured and had to be in there for 48 hours.
They wheeled me down to the NICU after I was stabilized so I could see him. I got about 5 to 10 minutes at his crib side then had to be wheeled up to my room for my own monitoring.
About 12 hours later I was able to go see and hold my baby with some help.
It was all a very scary and crappy situation. But, after learning from David that Honour was safe and knowing that I would NEVER be pregnant ever again, I was beyond happy. I can't even explain the elation I felt. I was overwhelmed with happiness for the whole day despite the pain that I was in. I couldn't stop telling David how much I loved him and how happy I was.
And, now I have my baby safe and sound on my lap as I write this. In the end...
Is it all worth it??? Oh, Yeah!
Name: David Honour Amsbury
Birth Date: July 11, 2010
Birth Date: July 11, 2010
Weight: 8lbs 15 oz
Height: 20 in
Gestation: 37 weeks
The first time I saw Honour
A very proud daddy
The first time I held Honour
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