The Sumo Wrestler

I took Kyson to the Pediatrician this week and at 9 weeks old he weighed 14 pounds and 8 oz., and he was 24.5 inches long. He is in the 95% for his weight, the 90% for his height and the 50-75% for his head circumference. The doctor was looking at me puzzled and asked how tall I was and how tall his dad was. She still had a puzzled look after I told her 5'2 and 5'9. She then proceeded to ask if we had big babies in our family. When I told her no, she just said "well I guess some babies are just big".

I wanted to update everyone on how the delivery went. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving which was a week over my due date, I started having contractions about 5:30 in the morning. I had a doctor's appointment that day, but I still was barely dilated to a 1. I was scheduled for a cervical ripening on Friday and if it worked, I would be induced on Saturday. My doctor told me to not go to the hospital until friday unless my water broke. Well I was having really bad back labor all day and night on Wednesday, so I called the doctor on call at the hospital to see if I could do my ripening early because I really wanted some pain relief and my contractions were about 5 minutes apart. He told me that we couldnt change inductions and since I wasn't dilated that I shouldn't go to the hospital unless my contractions were 3 to 4 minutes apart or my water broke. Luckily, my water broke that night around 10 pm and we headed to the hospital. We didn't find out Kyson was head down but turned the wrong way until I was dilated to a 7. Since he was positioned this way, he wasn't pushing down on my pelvis, so that is why I hadn't been dilating and my labor was moving really slow. I was in labor about 16 hours at home and then 20 hours at the hospital. I was scared that after all that, I would still end up having a C section. Luckily I didn't, and after an hour of pushing, Kyson arrived at 6:35 on Thanksgiving day.

We got home on Saturday evening and by Sunday afternoon we were back in the hospital at Primary Children's Hospital because he hadn't had a bowel movement or peed in over 24 hours. Come to find out, he was dehydrated and we ended up staying 2 nights at Primary's. During the second night his heart rate kept dropping and setting off the alarm and nurses kept running in our room, but he would be fine. They took him during the middle of the night for an EKG and an X ray of his heart because he kept having a heart rate in the 70's and 80's and a normal heart rate for a baby is between 120 and 140. Needless to say, it was a dramatic night and we were both exhausted. I was especially, as I had maybe 9 hours of sleep in the last 5 days and was still healing from delivery. Well the results of their testing came back good and they just didn't know why his heart rate was low, and they just said that he must just naturally have a low heart rate, so they sent us home that Tuesday afternoon.