DJ Loves His Little Sister!

So dj is finally comming around! Whenever reagan cries he runs up to her bassinet or wherever she is at and make sure she is okay. Im so glad that he is doing better. The first few days were pretty rough on him, but he loves his sissy now!

Our first few days home...

Hello everyone! well things have definitely gotten better around the smith house! DJ is finally coming around with Reagan. When she cries he will look at her and either start crying or just leave the room. Our first night was HORRIBLE! Whenever Reagan would wake up crying, DJ would wake up crying.... so we would get Reagan and DJ to sleep then the vicious circle would start all over again. So Dave and i got NO sleep. The 2nd night was SO MUCH BETTER, she slept 6 hours and DJ slept the whole night. Last night was good too!

Reagan had her follow up appt yesterday 7/25 and she is down 5oz from her birth weight and still a little jaundice, but the ped isn't to worried about it. so her stats are:

Weight: 6lbs 5.5oz (25th percentile)
Height: 19 inches (25th percentile)
Head 35.5cm (35th percentile)

DJ doesn't have an appt till 10/13 for his 15 month check up and shots. so he is doing great. he has 6 teeth now!!! OMG he is getting so big. I get home from the hospital and just looking at him i can tell he has grown so much in that 24 hour period that i didn't see him.


here are a few new pics of DJ and Reagan...


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Reagans Birth Story

On Monday night i was so stressed out and wanting her to come already, i had a horrible nigh sleep. I wake up around 7am and I'm laying in bed and all of a sudden i hear a "pop" I stand up to go to the bathroom and water just gushes out of me. I get super excited and yell at Dave "My Water Broke!!!!" I put on a pad and new pair of undies and pants and call the hospital to let them know that my water broke. The nurse said that i had to call my Dr and tell him that my water broke and that i was going to go into the hospital... What?!?! So i call my Dr and then call back the hospital and tell them i am on my way. We get everything packed up and DJ packed and head out.

We get to the hospital around 8:30am. We park in the valet spot because there was no way i was going to walk from the parking lot to the hospital while gushing amniotic fluid.. no thank you! So they get me a wheelchair and DJ sits on my lap and Dave is pushing me up into the hospital. We get to 3rd floor L&D and tell them that my water broke and so they take me to a room and tell me "You know the drill"... as though i have been there before ;) Again, peeing in that little cup was a little hard but it was easier this time because i was gushing fluid so i just stuck the cup under me and got whatever i could :)I get into the bed and they hook me up to all of the monitors. Dave and DJ are sitting on the couch watching TV while all of this is going on. Finally i tell Dave that he can either go home or go to my dads and give DJ a nap and i would call him if anything changed or happened. So I'm in the hospital by myself which is kinda relaxing :)

A nurse comes in and tells me that since I'm not contracting that Dr said to start me on pitocin at noon. Okay no problem! 12 noon rolls around and still nothing, so they start an IV line and hook up the pitocin. After about 2 hours of being on pitocin, I was really feeling the contractions. So i tell them that i want some pain med but not my epi yet. They bring the good stuff... Stadol! So i get a shot of that and i feel much better! I was getting a bunch of phone calls from my Sassy Mommas, which i absolutely loved! It was nice talking to someone while i was by myself.

Around 4pm things really get hard, the contractions are getting worse so they give me another shot... which didn't really help. I tell my nurse that i want my epidural now! She checks me and I'm only at 6cm so she tells me that she will put my name down and the anesthesiologist will come in. At 6:15 i couldn't handle it anymore. I called my dads house and told him to get to the hospital because i needed someone here with me. He gets there about 6:30 and i am freaking out because i want my epi and I'm in so much pain.

Finally at 6:45pm the anesthesiologist comes in and gives me my epi, he has to do it 2x to finally get it to work. While i was getting my epidural i kept having the urge to push and my contractions were rolling on top of one another. It was so painful!

Finally I'm getting numb and they check me, I am at 7cm and stretchy. Dave gets this bright idea and wants to go home and get something to eat. The nurse says that it will be a bad idea because he would miss the birth. So he goes down to the cafeteria. While he is gone i magically go from 7 to Lets Roll in about 3 minutes. So my friend Shannon runs after him. When Shannon got to him he had already ordered. She told him he better get up stairs. So Dave and Shannon are running through the hospital trying to get back into my room.. LMAO! They run in and i see Dave with a burger in his mouth. I have my legs in the stirrups and we are ready to go.I give a test push at 7:15pm and her head almost comes out, so my dr quits messing with the TV and comes over and tells me to push. I push maybe 3 times and at 7:26pm Miss Reagan was here! Dave was able to cut the cord and they took her to clean her up and weigh her. She was a peanut at 6lbs 11oz and 19 inches long ** the exact same size as i was**

At around 11pm i finally walk to the bathroom and then its off to the recovery room. This time i didn't get a private room and i had to share with another lady.. Blah! It was so tiny and Dave didn't have any room to stay with me so he went home to get some sleep because he had to pick DJ up from my dads at 5am. So i barely sleep that night and decide to walk the halls of L&D. I finally fall asleep for about a 1/2 hour-45 minutes.

Breakfast time is here! I was so hungry! Even Though the food was horrible i ate it. Dave got to the hospital around 11:30am so DJ can see his little sister. He wanted nothing to do with her! After Dave and DJ leave, my sister and her girlfriend come up and bring me flowers and a balloon! How sweet! My grandma also sent flowers :) The visited me for a little while and then they left. My Dr came in to release me and give me some pain meds :)

5pm we are leaving the hospital.... less than 24 hours after delivering her we were heading home. I was so excited to be going home! As we were leaving one of the nurses stopped us and said "aren't you the dad that was running to get to the birth of your child last night?" OMG I was laughing so hard!!!

My Little Peanut Is Here!!!

Baby's Name: Reagan Khloe
Gender: Girl
Date of Birth:July 22,2008
Original Due Date: July 29, 2008
Height/Weight 6lbs 11oz & 19 inches
here is the outline...
7:15 am~ Water Broke!!!!
8:15 am~ Got to Hospital and admitted.
9:00 am~ Checked at 4cm 70% effaced, and -3
12:00 pm~ Started Pitocin, Wasnt having ANY Contractions. Had it bumped up every 1/2 hour.
2:00 pm~ Got a shot of Stadol, helped take the edge off the contractions cause i couldnt get an epi yet.
4:00 pm~ Checked at 5cm 90% and -1
6:30-7 pm~ Getting strong contractions and feeling the urge to push
7:00 pm~ GOT EPI!!! and the whole time i was having urges to push so i was in a lot of pain... checked at 7cm 100% and 07
:15 pm~ Complete and ready to get the show on the road.
7:18 pm~ Gave a test push and her head was almost out.
7:26 pm~ Reagan Khloe is HERE!!!! 6lbs 11oz and 19 inches long.
her apgars were 8 & 9. i got 3 stitches.. thank god it wasnt 15 like dj!

the funny thing was that after i got my epi dave went to the cafeteria to get something to eat and the nurse said dont go far. he thought he had time, well right when he started to order his foon on the 1st floor my friend had to chase him down so he cound get upstairs to watch his daughter be born, cause i went from 7 to ready in 2 minutes. so the nurses were giving him crap the next day saying i remember you running to get to your childs birth... HAHAHAHA

we are doing great. dj is not sure of her yet. but we survived the first night so i think we will be good!!! She is so tiny compared to dj! she swims in her newborn clothes... lol

here are a few pics! i dont have any from the birth cause dave forgot the camera and i havent gotten the pics from my friend yet... so those will come later!

Reagan's My Stubborn Little Girl!

So thinking that this pregnancy was going to be a piece of cake like dj's well i was completly wrong! ever since i was 9 weeks pregnant she has been trying to come out and see the world. well now that the time has come she doesnt want to come out....

The story with reagan!

9 weeks~ bleeding, thought we lost her. i was changing dj's diaper and thought i started to pee but i ran to the bathroom and it was ALL blood. so the next day my friend went with me to the ER. and thank god we were told that there was still a heartbeat. we still to this day have no idea why i bled. i think it might have been a twin.

14 weeks~ started spotting again. went and had an u/s done and everything was fine. thank god!

30 weeks~ Start bleeding again, and contractions are comming, went to L&D and had 2 terb shots...

33 1/2 weeks~ contractions every 5-7 minutes, had a terb shot and the fFN test.

35 1/2 weeks~ c/o and being sent home...

37 weeks~ fell.. contractions started. and they stopped them.

38 weeks~ 2 min apart contractions and get sent home cause my cervix is not changing.

39 weeks~ go for contractions and get sent home again...

there is the time line of this stubborn little girl!! hopefully she gives her mommy a break and comes out on time :)