Dax's story

This pregnancy was a tough one...unlike any other. I had cramps almost my whole pregnancy which made it hard to exercise. I had contractions  starting at 3 weeks before my due date. Went into the hospital 2 times thinking it might be labor and was sent home even though my contractions were 2-3 minutes apart. At 36 weeks, I was dilated to a 2 and 50% effaced. Then at 37 weeks, dilated to a 3 and 80% effaced. I was in so much pain I could barely walk.  My siatic nerve was really bad too.  But at 39 weeks, Feb. 16, Thursday, I was induced. Wahoo! The labor wasn't too bad. I went it around 9:30, was hooked up to patocin around 10:30, got my epidural at 11:30. I was basically waiting for someone to come and break my water because once they break my water I go really fast. Someone came  and broke my water at 1. Once my water was broke, I went from a 4-5 cm in about an hour, then a 5-6 cm the next hour and then 6-10 cm in 45 minutes.  From there I was just waiting for my doctor to show up. My nurse wanted me to do a practice push and realized that was not a good idea because with all of my others it take 2 pushes and they are out. So my doctor showed up and I pushed once, and then began to push again when the doctor said STOP. The next thing I knew, blood squirted on me and my mom and Dax was out. The cord was wrapped around Dax's neck 2 times and when I was pushing the cord was chocking him so the doctor had to think fast and cut the cord  and that was what the blood was. It was scary! Dax came out blue! Jake told the kids that he came out blue because he is a BYU fan. :) Dax was born around 3:45pm weighed 7.4 lbs and 19.75 inches long. He had LOTS of dark hair.  Dax had red blood spots in the whites of his eyes because of the strain of the cord around his neck.

 39 weeks

 Excited to go to Me-ma Binghans...and meet baby Dax

Time to get induced!

 Happy Mamma!

 You can really see how blue he is here. The blue bruise look lasted 24 hours. Poor guy!

 Proud Dad

 Me-ma Wright

 Me-ma and Grandpa Wright

 Me-ma Bingham

 Grandpa Bingham

 Dax's first bath.

 Fow-hawk already! What a stud!

 I love this kids hair!!!

 Already lifting his head up at one day old.

 Aunt Jenica

 Ready to go home

 Because of RSV and pertussis, the kids weren't allowed to see Dax in the hospital.

 Meet your new baby brother.

 Brooks loves this little guy so much and is such a good helper.

 Dylan was so excited to give this little bear that he got from his Kindergarten teacher for Valentines day. When Dax was 2 days old, he was holding hi and said in a cute voice," So have you made any new baby friends lately?" and Dylan was in shock that Dax didn't have any teeth and kept talking about it.

 Ryann was so cute and kept saying how cute Dax was. It took her about 30 minutes before she realized that Dax wasn't IN my tummy anymore. Then, she kept saying," Dax is out of your tummy Mom."

 our new family of 6

 opening some presents from the Me-ma and Grandpa Wright

 Ryann loves to buckle Dax car seat but hasn't figured out how to unbuckle it yet.

 Grandpa Wright

 Dylan burping Dax...thats "his job"

 We told Ryann to get her pjs on and this is what she came down with...pjs and a little accessorizing.

 Dylan told me to take a picture of him pretending to be asleep.

 Then of course Ryann wanted to do the same.

 Dax likes to hold his binky.

 my little bear

 tummy time. Dax rolled over at 2 1/2 weeks

 Mary and Gary came to visit and meet Baby Dax.

 Max

 Seth and Hripsime came to meet Dax too.

 posing

 Dylan doing the splits and being totally cool  while doing it.