Does Allie look like Dexton???

Dexton 1 day old                                   Allie 1 day old

Allie MeeYun Nuttall

Allie MeeYun Nuttall 

born on Tuesday September 28th at 3:19am 

Weight 5lbs 8oz

Allie was a nick name my parents use to call me when I was younger and MeeYun is Angies Korean name which my parents gave her as her middle name. 

Allie's Story...

So I was ommited to the hospital on Friday September 24th at 11am.  I had to stay in the hospital for bed rest till I reached 34 weeks which was Monday, September 27th.  Monday at 8am they put me in labor and delivery and started my eyevee and started me on patosium to start the labor at 8:50am.  For some crazy reason from the begining of my pregnancy I have wanted to have this baby with no epidural.  Why you ask, I'm crazy.  With Dexton I had such an easy, pain free labor with no feelings of contractions what so ever, I kinda wanted to know what it felt like plus I was scared of maybe side effects from the epidural though I had none with Dexton.  So I have been talking to Dave about this a lot and he has been against it from the begining.  He does not handle pain well and did not want to see me in pain either.  Friday when we got ommited to the hospital a lady down the hall was delivering, obviously without an epidural and was screaming on the top of her lungs.  Dave was horrified and turned to me and said "Is this what you want?"  Honestly it terrified me too second guessing myself.  Sunday night Dave and i talked about it and came to an agreement that if I was in too much pain not to be stubborn and ask for an epidural, so I said deal.  

So Monday morning 9am I start feeling the contractions, not a big deal at all, very small ones and not to close together.  My dr. comes in to check how dialated I am and I'm at a 2.  Around 3pm the contractions get harder, i'm uncomftorable now but it's doeable.  My dr comes in to check and I'm at a 2 1/2.  It is going so slow!  Around 6pm I'm hurting pretty bad now but sticking it out determined not to have an epidural.  My dr comes in to check me which is more painful then the contactions it self, oh my heck I wanted to die and I'm at a 3, a 3!!!!  Kill me now!  They wanted to keep a better track on my contractions so they stick this long tube inside my uteris...OUCH!  I can do this I can do this I'm telling myself while I bite my lip and hold tight to the bed rails.  10pm comes around, I'm dying it hurts so bad. I'm now questioning myself can I do this???  My nurses are all telling me how well I'm doing, can't believe I'm not screaming from pain though I did want to.  Dr comes in to check me again I'm at a 3 plus.  OMG!!!  Could this go any slower!!!! 11:30pm I'm in so much pain I decide to go walk around the halls with Dave.  Every contraction I lean over to hold onto the rales about to pass out and tell Dave, I don't know if I can do this any longer.  I start thinking "When Allie comes do I have to push while having a contraction?"  There is no way I can hardly breathe plus on top of that I hadn't eaten anything for 24 hours and was so weak, how in the world am I going to do this.  MIDNIGHT my nurse comes to check how dialated I am, I look at Dave while she is doing it and say "If I am not at a 5 I'm getting an epidural!"  All I was thinking is how painful this was and did not want my dr. to check me again because that was ten times worse.  My nurse tells me "um it's about an 4"  I look at her and tell her I think I want an epidural." I ask her how much longer does she thinks it might be and she has no idea.  She looks at me and says "Don't think you have failed because you are getting an epidural. You have done awesome"  I didn't think I was failing, I just really really wanted to experience it without but I couldn't any longer.  I had no idea how much longer it was going to be.  I couldn't imagine another check from my dr and i couldn't even imagine pushing while having contractions.  I looked at Dave and looked at my Nurse and said "I want an epidural."  5 min later the anesthesiologist and the nurse was in my room to give my my epidural.  25 minutes later I was pain FREE!  I could breathe again, talk, laugh, and enjoy being in labor.  3AM my nurse comes to check on me and I"m dialated at a 7.  She tells me she will come back in an hour to check on me again.  Not even 5 minutes later I look at my mom and tell her I can feel the contractions on my left side and they are very painful.  I push on the epidural to give me more but I don't feel like it's working.  My mom said the same thing happened to her when she had my sister Jenny but when it happened to her it was time to have her so she told me to call my nurse to make sure.  So I call my nurse to come in she decides to check me again and says yup your ready! Within 5 minutes my dr is there setting up, there are 3 nurses to help me, 3 nurses to take the baby as soon as she is born, Dave calls his dad to come over immediately because he is our pediatrician, goes down stairs to get my sisters Angie and McKenzie (because they are sleeping in my room) as soon as Dave, Angie and McKenzie walk into the room my Dr. and nurses are ready for me to push!  Oh my gosh this is going way to fast now.  On the count of 3 they tell me I'm going to push...10 seconds later they say one more push...1,2, 3, she's here!!!  1 1/2 pushes!!!  We were all expecting this little premie baby and she was so big.  The nurses grab her immediatly, start to clean her up, check her lungs, give her shots, make sure she is doing ok.  They weigh her, and tell us she weighs 5lbs 8oz, holy cow.  My doctor tells me if I would have gone full term she probably would have weighed 9lbs, holy crap I have big babies!  Dexton weighed 8lbs 11oz and was born on his due date.  After they weigh her they tell me I can hold her long enough to take a picture with her.  So Dave and I take a picture with her and they immediately take her back and send her down to the NICU.  Oh my gosh this was so overwhelming.  So many people, I didn't even get to really see my baby and I was exhausted!  They have Dave go down with them and he watches the whole process of a 34 week baby.  5am I get wheeled down to my room but never got to see Allie again.  I was so exhausted I crashed as soon as I hit the pillow.  10am I wake up and anxiously want to see my baby girl.  She was beautiful! Ivies in her arms, tubes in her nose, cords all over the place I didn't think I was going to get to hold her but they let me for a few minutes.  She is so precious!  My father n'law tells me she is doing awesome!  Most babies at 34 weeks have a hard time sucking and Allie started sucking on her hand so they decided to give her a binky and she loved it.  Dexton always loved his binky from the day he was born so I love that Allie does too!  They say she is healthy, doing well and her lungs look pretty good.  For now they are just watching her to make sure she can eat and stay warm.  The longest she will have to be in there is 6 weeks but it looks like it might only be a week to 2 weeks which is amazing for a 34 week baby.  I feel so blessed right now, I have an amazing husband, and 2 precious healthy kids!  I am so blessed!!!!  I seriously think all the time how did I get so lucky to have such an amazing family.

While on bed rest in the hospital Dexton chilled with me watching movies.

Waiting for Allie to come.

Angie suprised me from California!  She told me she wasn't probably wasn't going to be able to come but all along her and Dave were planning her trip.

I had to keep standing up while in labor because my back was killing me laying in those uncomfortable beds.

The nurses taking care of Allie as soon as she was born.

5 lbs 8 oz 

What a big preemie!

Grandpa Nuttall taking care of Allie

The15 seconds we got to hold Allie

Dave watching them take care of Allie in the NICU

We wanted to make sure Dexton felt special on this exciting day so we promised him a "Big Brother" present.  He opened it up and kept saying "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh it's a dragon!"  He was so excited!  Dexton really doesn't get what's going on.  But I think he will do well.

What do you mean I can't leave???

Crazy day yesterday (Friday) so like I said in the earlier post, my water broke yada yada yada.  Thursday morning they gave me a steroid for the baby and told me to come the next morning to have the other steroid.  Friday morning they called me and told me they were going to give me the shot plus have me take a stress test for the baby.  Dave drops me off they give me the stress test, baby looks great so the dr. on call says I can go home.  The nurse informs me that they have ran out of the steroids so I just need to go to the American Fork Hospital to get the other steroid shot.  No biggy.  Dave picks me up, I run in, tell him I should only be a few min...I walk into the labor and delivery telling them who I am and the nurse says "Oh they must have not gotten a hold of you"  I was confused telling her I'm just here to get a steroid shot.  She says "Are you the one that your water has ruptured?"  I told her yeah but that was Wed night.  Totally thought she was confusing me with someone else.  She says to me "I'm sorry but hospital policy if you are in the hospital with your water broke we can not let you leave."  What, I can't leave, I'm thinking.  I told her my dr (which is the head dr over American Fork Hospital) told me I can just go on strict bed rest, the dr on call said it was fine and my father n'law which is a pediatrician, which works there too said it was fine.  There were probably 5 nurses all standing there, turned around in shock and said "they are letting you go home with your water broke!"  Man, did I feel so stupid.  They said "I'm sorry we can't let you leave.  We need to get you in an ambulance and take you to Utah valley hospital because you are not 34 weeks yet."  Alright now I start to panic!  I call Dave and tell him he better come in, they are not letting me leave.  He comes up with Dexton and they put me in a room while they sort things out.  Dave is PISSED!!!  He can't believe they won't let me go, he says "are we in a prison!"  The nurse comes into our room, Dave asks her what they mean that they can't let us go.  She said "well we can but if you do leave you have to sign papers that say if anything happens the hospital is not reliable therefore your insurance can DENY any payment!"  Oh my gosh are you kidding me.  Dave calls my Dr and tells him whats going on.  My dr. can't belive this, calls the hospital up and tells them it's ridiculous that they are going to make me go to Utah Valley when I'm 34 weeks on Monday and because of legality he can't let me go home either.  He convinces them to let me stay at American Fork, thank goodness!  The biggest reason I did not want to go to Utah valley is because my Dr. does not deliver there.
So now it's Saturday morning.  I have only slept 2 hours but I do feel good.  Not sure why I can't sleep, but after all that I'm glad that I'm here and they can make sure the baby is doing well.  So far she is doing great!  They are most likely going to induce me on Monday and hopefully I will have her then.  I'm so excited for her to come but I am so nervous!  Besides having the nursery mostly done I have NOTHING ready.  No clothes, blankets, bottles, diapers, thank goodness for family!!!
Just want to tell everyone thank you for your love and support!!!  I have heard so many stories with babies coming early from a lot of you with all GREAT turn outs!  Gives me hope!  I love you all and thanks again for just being there!  Alisha, Dave, Dexton, and baby :)

33 weeks

Well I'm 33 weeks today and my water broke last night.  Monday I had major bleeding, went to the dr's again, my placenta was bleeding but baby looked good and they sent me home.  Bleeding stopped Tuesday, thought I was in the clear some what.  Last night (Wed) around 10pm felt fluid coming out, basicly thought I was peeing myself.  It was clear fluid (sorry for the description) so didn't think much of it till 5 min later it happened again.  Went on line, said it could be amniotic fluid but might not be.  So went to bed, woke up ever hour from fluid.  Called my Dr. at 8am, saw him at 8:50am...positive my water broke.  Dangit!  
He said I had a couple of options: 1. Because I am only 33 weeks my hospital American Fork won't take me till I'm 34 weeks therefore I wouldn't be able to keep my dr either.  2. I can go on strict bed rest if I promise to really go on bed rest.  He debated on it for a while, he was nervous for infection but said because I only have 4 more days till I'm 34 weeks he said I could go on bed rest.  They gave me a steroid shot to help fight anything that might happen.  Hopefully she will stay in for a little longer.
Dave is home THANK GOODNESS!  He was scheduled to leave Saturday morning till Tuesday night but called out for emergency.  Dave was happy to get it off only because BYU plays at home that day :) but didn't like that he was having to get it off for this situation, he's more nervous then me I think. 
Well keep us in your prayers.  I hope everything goes well.  I have a positive attitude that everything will work out. 

Happy Birthday Lincoln!

Our good friends little boy Lincoln turned 4!  He had a birthday party in Orem at the Little Gym.  They had so much fun! 

People all the time tell me how different little girls are to little boys.  It was funny to watch the girls and boys at Lincolns party.  For an example here are all the girls standing by the wall like the instructor told them ALL to do...but where are all the boys?  Yeah they were all still running around like crazy not listening to a word the instructor was saying.  

I think this was the kids favorite thing to do. 

  The instructors were getting a work out.

Bachelorette Party!

So my good friend Annie from high school is getting married.  We thought it was only appropriate to throw her a bachelorette party!  So we started at Los Hermonos in Provo for dinner where we had her where a crown that said bachelorette.  Then we went across the street to a lounge called Sparks.  It's a total Mormon bar lol!  They have fu fu drinks all non alcoholic.  There we gave Annie her naughty gifts where she was so embarrassed to open in front of people.  It was so much fun and we wish you the best Annie!!!  Congrats!!!

Go COUGARS!

Dave and his family are die hard BYU fans.  Since Dave has been a little boy his dad has always taken the family to all the BYU games and to this day they all still have season tickets.  Dave has taught Dexton already to be a Cougars fan.  Dexton yells out "Go Cougars"

BYU wasn't even playing when Dave dressed him in his cougar jersey.  We were going to a friends house to watch the first Utah game and Dave was cheering for the other team so that's what is on Dextons face.  Go Pitt.

Happy Birthday Adam!

Dave's best friend from high school celebrated his 31st birthday.  Adam loves to eat out and try new places he has heard good things about.  So we went to this restaurant in Provo called the Communal.  It's an all organic, fresh, seasonal restaurant.  Everything is ala cart.  Did I love it, mmm no.  Did I like it, yes.  I'm just not a fine dining type of girl.  I'm glad we went, it was a great experience.  After we went and had dessert at the Chocolate in Orem.  Had a cookie ala mode.  Mmm it was good.

Happy Birthday Adam!

Adam and his wife Brittany 

The appetizer

 

The Goat Cheese Salad

I forgot to take any pictures of the main courses and sides.  I hate when I do that!

FIGHT CHILDHOOD CANCER!

I need your help! I'm helping with a fundraiser for St. Judes Childrens Hospital held by Chilis. We are hosting a 5K race in American Fork at Chilis on Saturday September 25th at 9am. It's a 5k, $15, you will recieve an awesome t-shirt plus free Chips and salsa! You can walk, run, jog, bring your kids and they can run for free or push them in a stroller. Bring your whole family! It's for a great cause. Let me know if your interested! Our goal is to raise $3,000!!! 100% of all donations goes to St. Judes Childrens Hospital!

My pregnancy

It's so weird to me how different my pregnancies have been.  With Dexton I was sick almost the whole entire time.  I got so freaking FAT, yuck which was my fault by the way.  "Oh I'm pregnant I'll eat whatever I want, even if I'm not hungry." Idiot :)  I was so depressed during my pregnancy.  I hated working, my feet hurt all the time, I swelled up like a balloon, my feet couldn't even fit into any of my shoes.  I got this strange line down my stomic. 
This pregnancy has been so easy.  I have energy, I'm able to work without wanting to die, I am so happy, I actually really love being pregnant!  I have had some scares with this one where with Dexton it was hard on me but nothing scary ever happened to me.  With this one I had the miscarriage with the twins and just the other night I woke up bleeding.  Dave was not home, he was flying but luckily he had his phone on and I got a hold of him at 2am.  I panicked.  I didn't know what to do, who to call to watch Dexton, what was happening.  Thank goodness my brother n'law works at Home Depot and doesn't usually get home till late so Dave called him and he had just gotten home.  My brother n'law lives with his sister and her family and when he went to leave there was a guy breaking into his sisters car.  He called the police and rushed over to my house.  What a brother n'law! If that was me I don't think I would have gone anywhere.  But I rushed over to the hospital and they checked the baby and she was doing great!  Hew.  They didn't have any clue why I was bleeding so much but told me the baby was fine and to go home.  I never saw a dr. once.  Dave was so mad!  He thought they should have atleast taken an ultra sound and I should have seen a dr.  So that day I called my dr. and he told me to come in, I needed to be looked at.  They did an ultrasound and saw that the placenta was bleeding but everything was ok.  He said the bleeding should stop in the next few days which it has.  I am so happy that the baby is good.  I feel her kicking like crazy, I love it.  I am so excited for her to come but not quite ready.  With Dexton I could not wait to get him out but with her I just want a little bit more time with Dexton.  I am so worried about him feeling ignored.  I really want him to feel special when she comes.  I want to do something big for him when he comes to the hospital but not sure what so if you have any ideas please share them with me.  Sorry for the long boring post, just in the mood to write today :)