Mr. Emmett John Hardy

Your Story:
We thought we could get you here before the new year, yay for tax deductions. We tried literally everything! I even went sledding, I thought for sure that would break my water or you would come since I was dilated so far. NOPE.
At 36 weeks appointment I was dilated to a 3 which with Truman I was at a 3 when i was 37 weeks and he came 2 days later. So i thought for sure! However the doctor wanted to keep you in another week hopefully so I did nothing for a week.. no.. and so a week past
At 37 weeks I was a 4, the doctor said if I was having contractions close together to not really take my time or wait at home, since my labors are really fast. Well This was the week we did LITERALLY everything to get you here since it was the last week of the year. You wouldnt budge.
At 38 weeks, I was just barely dilated to a 5, so the doctor said she didnt want me walking around at a 5 especially with the snowy bad weather. This is because if I did go into labor she was nervous I'd probably deliver in the car! So I was scheduled for induction on January 3, 2013
January 3, 2013-- we checked into the hospital at 7:30 am. It was weird slowly walking in and slowly putting on my gown. around 9:00 am the doctor showed up and broke my water and told the nurse to start the pitocin shortly there after. Well our nurse was kind of dilly dallying checking us in but thats ok. So the anesthesiologist was going to be doing a c-section and couldnt leave until it was done. So I told him I would like the epidural before he went in so that if I went into full contractions itd already be kicked in. So I actually got the epidural before nurse hooked up the pitocin. Epidural was around 9:30 pitocin (which starts your labor) was given around 10:00 am. We started to think by 10:30 even though contractions were about every 3 1/2 minutes we'd be there quite sometime so we popped in pitch perfect. It was nice to sit and laugh with Tyler. When the nurse "checked" me around 11:30 I was a 7 and the cathedar balloon was a little in the way of you coming further, therefore she moved it over. TMI? haha right after she left the room I started to feel pretty hard contractions so I called her back in and said I am feeling these pretty hard I think the baby is coming. SO she called the drug doctor in, he thankfully was out of his c-section and he gave me a quick relief of more epidural cause originally he started me on a lower dose. So the nurse checked me then as well and she said you were crowning..meaning your head was right there. She called the doctor, and since the epidural drug was upped I think it was maybe a bit too much because I didnt feel anything they had to tell me when I was contracting. Which was fine but I like to feel a little pressure o well. Anyways the doctor got there at 12:00 pm I pushed twice ( 2 contractions) and you were out. It was so easy and heavenly. I loved it. Probably because I didnt feel any hard hard labor contractions. You were as beautiful as a swollen newborn can get!

We Love you to pieces.Truman Loves you too and I am so glad he has been so good with you.


Now the fact that you came in the new year has actually been a huge blessing to us. You definitely were awesome to wait. We have met our deductible for the year wa hoo..!

When we were going through discharge I had just found out Grandma your great Grandma Hansen had died and I had high blood pressure so they had to keep me an extra day, and put me on meds to lower it. You had to stay with me, but therefore so did dad because technically a patient cant be caring for someone else while admitted, just in case something crazy happens.
When they were checking you right before discharge the pediatrician found a heart murmur. This did not help out my stress level or high blood pressure. He simply said I will be right back I hear a heart murmur. WHY do they do that just leave. But he was just going to go get a diagram to show us what he thought it might be. He told us to follow up with the pediatrician youll be seeing, and if they hear it then to get an ekg and things of that matter from the cardiologist.
So we followed up and she heard it as well and said that the cardiologist would be calling us. She assured me that she thought it was nothing huge and that it would just go away by itself, and not to stress because they see it in children all the time and its no big deal usually..

It always looks way worse than it really is right?

Since you are under 1 month you were considered urgent for the cardiologist. So on January 11 they got us in. Thankfully my mom was still here and could watch Truman while we took you to Primary children hospital. Prior to going I was educated by my dad all about heart murmurs since he knows all about it and often works on little patients just like you who have heart problems, murmurs etc. I was hoping for the best and that surgery wouldnt or anything serious would be the case. I got a blessing and had lots and lots of prayers. When we were at the appointment I think I was more calm than Dad. I knew it was going to be simple and minor. However watching the screen and the techs face who was doing your echo was a bit nerve racking since they cant say anything. I figured since she didnt rush out of the room it wasnt anything serious. Finally after all your scans the doctor came in and said the hole in your hear (heart murmur) is in your muscle YAY! which means it should close as your grow, and that we shouldnt worry. What a relief that was. SO therefore your waiting till the new year was a blessing because medically youve been through a lot and its better that way for the whole year insurance wise. I am sorry you caught my cold and horrible cough your first 2 weeks of life. It'll only you make you that much stronger.