Welcome to the world Kyle!
After a long and difficult pregnancy - Aki has endured a broken elbow, suffered terrible hayfever, scratched herself silly with PUPPP, and learned the news that our baby had a Multicystic Kidney - the big day finally came!
Saturday, 2:00am
After sleeping early with Joshua, I woke up to go to the toilet and then found NBA on TV. After watching the Heat finish the Bulls I was wide awake and started playing Tomb Raider Legend. Not long after, Aki came down to the toilet then said she was starting to feel some pain. We went back to bed where her pain came again after about 10-15 minutes.
4:00am
Joshua woke up (by himself) and came downstairs where we were starting to get ready, eating some early breakfast and changing clothes.
4:30am
We dropped Joshua off at Aki's mums house and went to the clinic. The pain was still about every 10 minutes. Aki was 4cm dilated.
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| Leaving home at 4:30 in the morning. "See you soon, Baby Kyle" |
Tried our best to sleep, but it wasn't happening...
8:00am-12:00pm
The pain was getting a bit stronger for Aki, but not too bad. Still about 10 minutes between contractions. She was now 6cm dilated. Glad I had the iPod to play solitaire!
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| Breakfast time! |
The contractions started getting a lot stronger and closer together. Aki had real pain in her back which I kept massaging. Her waters broke at about 3:30pm, but still was not fully dilated.
4:00pm-4:30pm
Things were starting to really happen now. The contractions were just a few minutes apart and Aki was in terrible pain. Now fully dilated, she was ready to go to the delivery room.
4:30pm-5:00pm
It was all happening! I got my scrubs on and made sure Aki was comfortable with massages, fanning her and giving her water. The contractions were really big now and needed a huge effort by Aki to push. The room was full of nurses and the doctor doing their jobs and encouraging Aki!
5:05pm
After the last big push, our baby, Kyle, came out. It was an amazing sight I will never forget! After that, Aki held Kyle and I cut the umbolical cord. He was weighed in at 3502 grams. Joshua and Aki's family came in to see him. Joshua looked very happy, but confused at the same time. After a long day we could finally relax and enjoy our new son and brother!
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| The first photo of Kyle. Still looking a bit purpleish and having a good cry! |
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| The weigh in. Minus 2 grams for the umbolicol tie |
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| The boys |
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| Big bro is happy! |
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| His eyes have a hint of blue, but mostly black |
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| Super mum! |
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| "Hello!" |
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| So cute. |
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