Kynlee Cecelia Sorensen was born on May 27, 2011 at 2:23pm. She weighed 7lbs 3oz and was 19.5 inches long. She was the same size as Alexia so they tie for being my smallest babies. Kynlee is the only one to be born with actual hair!
Here are some of my favorite pictures of Kynlee in the last couple of weeks.
Poor Kynlee was white as a ghost from the cord being wrapped around her neck twice.
Alexia is one proud sister!
Rayden loves Kynlee to death. His poor friends have to put up with him asking them everyday if they want to "See Kynlee's cute litte face."
These two could be twins except Kynlee has more hair than Simon did.
Going home from the hospital, May 29th.
1 week, 2 days old enjoying some time in the backyard.
Taken this morning. She smiles in her sleep and this is the closest I have come to catching one.
I also wanted to post Kynlee's birth story. I really don't expect everyone to read it but I want it written down for my own sake. Be warned that it is very long and full of details.
I came home from work Thursday afternoon around 3:30pm. I went to the bathroom and noticed that I had lost my mucous plug and was having bloody show. I called DH to let him know that labor could start within the next 24 hours or so. I was having contractions but nothing really different then my Braxton Hicks. I spent the afternoon cleaning house and getting ready just in case. By 8:30pm my contractions changed and were harder and closer so I started timing them. They were 3-7 minutes apart but still not horribly painful. They stayed like that all night and I had tons more bloody mucous! I tried to sleep but I couldn't sleep through most of the contractions so I mostly dozed all night. The next morning DH got the kids ready for school and I called the dr's office. They had me come in to be checked. I was at 5+cm and 80% effaced so she sent me to L&D. This was around 10:15 am.
Our hospital has never been known to be natural childbirth friendly. With my other kids it was always, "This is how we do things and we don't deviate." I was pleasantly surprised when I walked in my room and found a birthing ball already there and they let me know that the on call doula was on duty. My nurse asked me what my expectations and birth plan were and she wrote it all down on a white board on the wall. She was an amazing nurse and I am so glad I had her. They hooked me up to the fetal monitors to check on the babe before letting me get up and walk around. I never got the chance to get up. My poor girl never passed any of her Non stress tests. We tried all sorts of things to get her heart rate where it should be but nothing worked. With each contraction her heart rate would dip way down and take 3-5 minutes to regulate again. So at 1:00pm the doctor decided I needed a low dose of pitocin to get my contractions closer together and get her here. My nurse felt so bad and was apologizing the whole time she hooked me up because she knew it wasn't part of my birth plan, but I knew we had to do something if baby wasn't doing good so I was ok with it. I was nervous about continuing naturally. I turned my iPod on and listened to track after track of my Hypnobabies as the pitocin started to kick in. I'm not going to lie, it was hard! My nurse came in and helped me with my breathing and showed Dirk how to counter pressure my pains for me. This was the first time he had ever gotten involved in the labor process and he was amazing! I knew how uncomfortable he was with the idea of a natural birth but he really stepped up to the plate and made me so proud. I got to a point where I didn't think I could it anymore and that is when Dirk got a text from the girls at work. It said, "Tell Hanne good luck and that we know she can do it!" Talk about perfect timing! A few minutes later the dr came in and said I could start pushing whenever I wanted to. Two pushes later at 2:23pm Kynlee was born with the cord wrapped tightly around her neck twice. We were lucky she could be delivered without cutting the cord during the process. They unwrapped it from her neck and laid her on my belly while the dr helped to pulse some of the blood back through the cord to Kynlee. She was so pale it was scary. They were going to take her straight to the NICU but she started to root so they let me nurse her first and she started to pinken up. She nursed for 30 minutes and got to stay with us for a full hour before they went to run tests to make sure she was ok. She passed all of her tests and is doing great. She was 7 lbs 3 ozs and 19.5" long, the same size as her big sister. Her brothers and sister are over the moon in love with and so are Dirk and I. We are so glad she is here!
