Finding out for certian was hardest with Mark. I was about 22 weeks pregnant when it was confermed, and boy was it confermed!

I had had the feeling for a while that I was pregnant again and had asked several people if it was possible to get pregnant that soon after giving birth. They all told me that it was just where I had just had a baby and that my body just haddnt gotten over the pregnacy. 

We didnt find out about him till I had went to my couciler to get put back on my anti anxity meds, and she said she couldnt get the Pyscologist to approve it untill after I had had a Doctor say I wasnt pregnant. So she called and made me an appointment the next week to see if I was or not.

The before the appointment we had gone to see my husbands grandma. She asked us to stay the night (my mom still had Mike) so that she could be the first to know that I was indeed pregnant again. The next day when we were at the doctors, when the doctor came into the room he put his hand on my tummy and begain to ask me why I thought I was pregnant again and I told him that the check up was just precaution to get my meds, about then Mark desided to KICK for the first time and the doctor looked at me and said well I'd say your pretty pregnant. He asked me when my last period was and I told him May of 2000, he backed up and said that was before you got pregnant with your last one wasnt it. I said yup. So he did a ultrasound to see how far I was. And a few minutes later we knew we were having another boy! my due date was set at January 16th. We went back to my husbands grandmothers home and showed her the pictures. She was just as giddy as can be!  She picked up the phone and called my MIL and told her that I had just told her that I was pregnant.

All went smoothly enuf of course I didnt get my meds renewed, but the pregnany hormones evened me out enuf that I was OK.

We had our old trailor torn down and a big new one put in its place. So that both boys would have there own room.And it would be warmer in the winter (the old one was very old and a little leaky! but it was free so hey)

 

I was a bit more panicy this time because my husband was working construction again and was farther away from home and stayed out of town for a few weeks at a time and I was scared to death that I would go into labor alone and I'd end up having the baby by myself and no one would ever know. (my grandmother had went to stay with my uncle, My dad was at work from 7am till 6pm and my mom slept all day and worked all night!) And I was at home alone with Mike (this was one of the times I had him for a spell)

I went to the hospital twice with false labor cause I didnt trust any little knock inside me not to be labor. with as pain free and as quik as Mike had come I thought I'd go into labor and have him without ever knowing it! So every little twinge I had from 36 weeks on I thought was labor.

Each year for new years my SIL and BIL (my Hubbys little siblings) came over to our house to watch the ball drop with us. And it was no differnt this year we were ringing in 2002 and they were all saying that I was going to have the first baby of the year. I laughed! Yet about 11:30 I started feeling painless contractions that were about 6 minutes apart. I got up and paced the kitchen where we were playing games to pass the time till midnight. Well Midnight came and went and I desided to go get some rest before things took off! About 3am I woke with a pain. I got up and walked a bit and didnt feel it again so I went back to bed before I woke everyone up. Well the next morning about 9am we desided it was probly about time to head to the hospital my contractions were every 4 minutes and had been for some time.

Much to my dismay the car ride stoped them! By the time we got to the hospital I had had no more contractions (oh we left my SIL and BIL at home this time! lol)

they hooked me up to the monitors again and checked me I was 5 to 6 cm and 97% efaced. But after two hours of no further movement or regualr contractions they were about to chalk it up to another false labor. And send me home again. I begged them to let me walk a bit before hand to see if that would help. So they told me to go walk for about 30 min and then come back and they would see if it had helped. When I came back after my sprints up and down the hall. they checked me and I was 7-8 cm and 98% efaced (things were going slower cause my body didnt have time to fully heal between pregnacys)

They desided that it was finally the real thing and broke my water to get things moving on a bit faster. I talked the doctor into not making me have a IV this time which made me very happy! (all it did was let me feel the contractions harder) (I think I felt the pain this time because I was so tence, where the first time I was totally relaxed) I labored for a while more and did some more walking. And was dosing (after all I had only gotten about 3 hours sleep the night before) when pushing hit. It hit so hard and so fast I didnt even fully wake up till after he was born! All I remember was wispering to my husband I wanted to push and then everything going black cause I had pulled him head first over me to where his chest was covering my face! the next thing I knew the doctor had layed the baby over my belly and "daddy" was cutting the cord. time of birth 2:03 pm.

By the time I fully woke up they had cleaned him up and were handing him back to me. He Looks just like Mike! every one said. And then we noticed it the nurses hadnt even seen it while cleaning him up he had an 11th toe! we told the nurse and she took him back to the observation table (where they take them to clean them and warm them when first born) she called for the doctor to come back in (he was at the nurses desk reading the file to the women next door) and showed him and asked him if hed been expecting that!? He pushed her out of the way and looked at the 11th toe and checked the other foot for a 12th one and found none. He said it was very uncommon for one to have just ONE extra that they usually have them on both if they have extras. he was bundled back up and handed back. And I just cuddled him and laughed. And wondered how I had slept thru it! I had again had no drugs. After afew bonding minutes the nurses took him to do all that technical stuff. And I dressed in my own gown and went out to the smoking block with my husband and my mom. (who was actually on the clock!) then some of other ladys my mom works with (who knew i was there to have the baby)  were out there too and asked how much longer we thought it would be. Mom told them I had had him about 20 minutes ago. They all just gasped and asked what I was doing up and walking around 20 minutes after giving birth. We called home and told my SIL and BIL and called my husbands mom and grandma. When we went back inside one of the nurses asked me if we would read over a peice of paper she was holding and sign it if we agreed. Turns out I DID have the first baby born in our county of the year!  and the paper she wanted me to sign was a consent form for them to come do an interveiw and take a picture of us. And of course we did.

The next day the reporter came and the doctor circumsized Mark. And asked us if we wanted to go home that we could if we wanted. My mom asked if we could stay till morning so that she could take us home when she left work. And he said that that would be fine. Well it would have been if my mom haddnt been listening to the weather and heard that they were calling for 6-8 inches of snow to fall between 10 and 1 she called down to L&D and asked if I wanted to get ready really quik and head home before the storm hit. She had already gotten permission to take me home if the doctor would hurry up and relise us. The nurses called my doctor and he rushed over and said that it was a good idea to hurry home that it was already getting bad out there. (it was only about 9:30) So my mom droped us off and headded back to work she ended up getting snowed in and didnt get home till about noon the next day.

We were in all the local newspapers but they misspelled Mikes name and put him down as big brother Micky instead of Mikey! So we all got a laugh.

 

When he was 9 months old and just starting to walk he went to have sergery to have the 11th toe removed. He started walking the day before his 1st birthday.

 

Hes My big helper and is very caring towards his brothers. He started Pre-K this year and is doing GREAT! so far.

 

UPDATE JUNE 23 2009

Mark Mark what can I say about him hes a cutie thats for sure he will be going into 2nd grade in August and is already doing Math of mid 2nd grade level. 

He has a crush on a girl in his class but is too scared to say anything to her. its soo cute. Hes kinda winey thou at times he thinks he should be best at everything and do everything perfect and gets upset when it dont work out that way.

Like his brothers he thinks the world of his sisters. And they all do what they are able to to help with them. He loves video games, and playing "grown up" games (like monopoly, life, clue and heroscape)

He is definitly his daddys boy! he loves his daddy more than any thing and will do anything to please him. Oh and he grew out of the angel/devil thing and is fairly evenly paced

 

DOB-1/1/02 at 2:03pm

Weight 5lbs 13.1oz.

length 19in

head 13in