I've decided to blog about my little man, Malakai. He is going to be 2 tomorrow! I can't believe he has grown so big.
I remember the night I went into labor, all too well. Divaunte, Derrick and I were at Wal-Mart buying Aspen (My little sister) a candy bag for halloween. I was determined to buy that bag. While walking around, I felt TERRIBLE cramps. Being my first pregnancy and all, I had no idea what to expect with labor.
A few hours earlier, I was asking my mom, "What do contractions feel like?" and she responded, "You'll know it when you feel it."
Well, I didn't know it. I didn't know that I was about to have a baby in the middle of Wal-Mart. Every 30 steps I'd take, the pain was so bad I'd have to stop, hold onto something and breathe. By then, I think we decided they were contractions. Haha!
I grabbed the Halloween bag and we headed to the register. Standing in line with MAJOR pains, I called my mom. I told her that the contractions were about 1-2 minutes apart. Her exact words were, "Yeah, RIGHT! He'd be falling out!!" (I wonder what the people in line around us were thinking.)
Divaunte, being the kind gentleman he is, had me go sit in the car while he waited in line to buy this bag. (That was so much more important than getting me to the hospital hahaha.)
Anyways, I remember sitting in the car trying to breathe, not cry and not scream. Poor Derrick was in the back seat probably scared for his life. Divaunte had finally come out and we arrived home. I went straight to the bathroom knowing I'd be peeing my pants if I didn't. I started to cry telling my mom there was blood. (TMI, I apologize.)
My mom had just gotten done dying her hair and it was still completely wet. I was sitting on the couch and my dad grabbed his keys. My mom asked, "Is it okay if I hurry and blow dry my hair?!" I said yes. My dad said NO. Haha we were off to the hospital.
I sat in the passenger seat while Divaunte sat behind me in the back seat holding my shoulder. We arrived at the hospital and while walking in, a pregnancy class was walking out. (I thought that was pretty funny.) Then, it dawned on me.. We still had 5 weeks left to take a class and we hadn't taken any yet! We had no idea what was going to happen. All we could do was hope that they'd stop the labor. Which was not going to happen. I was dilated to a 5! The nurse was concerned when she told us, "You guys are having this baby tonight." Me and Divaunte looked at each other puzzled and scared. Divaunte had helped calm me down for my epidural because I was so nervous! He held my hand the whole time and comforted me through it all. About 30 minutes after arriving at the hospital, I had my epidural and I was one happy girl.
About 15 minutes after I got the shot, the nurse was checking me. All of a sudden she threw the oxygen mask "SHE'S DILATED TO A 10, LET'S START PUSHING!" I was SO scared! Literally, 2 minutes of 3 pushes and Malakai was out. He was so little! He had major black features when he first came out from being so swollen. :)
Malakai Marcel Oliver.
American Fork Hospital.October 4, 2010.10:55 PM.
4 LBS. 10 OZ. 15.5 INCHES LONG
Malakai was perfect. They had him on the Oxygen machine for 1 hour to make sure he was okay, then took him off and his breathing was great. The one thing we needed him to do was learn to eat on his own. For 2 weeks he was on IV's and had been using a feeding tube to be fed. We were there constantly in the N.I.C.U. with him. Watching him in his incubator, with all of these cords attached to him. Finally, on the 23rd of October, he was able to come home.
Malakai under the lights.
Malakai all Grown up.
We are so blessed to have such a healthy, handsome,fun little boy for our son. He is so happy all of the time and I really am so lucky to have the two happiest boys by my side.
Happy birthday Malakai!:)
