Tyler Cade Wharton

All day on January 17th I was having contractions.  I even went into the doctors office for my appointment and my doctor told me that I would be having a baby soon.  The only problem was I was only dilated to a 3.  My contractions weren't that bad but they were really close together and the doctor told me that since this was my third baby that I should be really careful about not waiting that long to get to the hospital.  So I got home and about an hour later my contractions were about 10 minutes apart.  Long story short Keith came home from work at about 3 and we waited for Eli to come home from school and we were off to the hospital.  It was just after 5 when we got there and my contractions were so hard and about 2 minutes apart.  The nurse checked me and I thought for sure I would be at a 7 if not more.  I WAS STILL AT A 3!  They hooked me up to their machines and she couldn't believe I was only at a 3 too since my contractions were hard and only 5 minutes apart.  They let me stay for an hour without admitting me since technically they couldn't since my water hadn't broke and I wasn't at a 4 yet.  So I sat with Keith waiting, hurting and hoping that I would be admitted.  After an hour I did make it to a 4 so they broke my water and got me in my room were I would be delivering my baby.  This picture is of us all just waiting.

Sandra, Judy, Eli, Bob and Mckenna.

 Here I had been given an epidural and had to keep moving from one side to the other so that the medication wouldn't make me more numb on one side compared to the other.  It didn't work, my left leg still went completely numb and in my right side I could still feel everything.

Still waiting!

 Judy had brought some fun things for the kids to play with and here Bob is helping Mckenna color. 

Bob and Judy were so helpful with the kids. 

 At 9 at night the kids were getting tired and so Judy and Bob took them to their house for the night.  My doctor was ready to give me some medication to get things going because I was still only at a 4.  It was so frustrating because I had all the pain but no gain. So the nurse came in ready to go with the medicine but had to leave because of another girl was getting ready to have a Cesarean.  So once again we just waited, until I became horribly sick!  This same thing happened with Eli and I remembered the nurse telling me that that is your bodies way of helping you get further along.  So after hurling my guts I told Keith that I was feeling the need to push.  So he ran out to get the nurse and when she checked me she said that she was off to get the doctor because it was time to deliver our baby.  The crazy thing was I was feeling so ready to push and I thought Keith was going to have to deliver our baby because the doctor or nurse didn't come back for about 10 minutes or more.  Then when he came in it took 2 pushes and he was out.   

Just arrived.

 For this baby we didn't know if he was a boy or a girl.  I had no idea and kept thinking it might be a girl.  I had Keith give me a blessing and right in the middle of the prayer he asked that "he" would be ok during delivery.  After the blessing Keith and I looked at each other in shock and Keith said, "I'll feel really dumb if it's a girl." (:  But when he came out I had my eyes closed and all I could hear was Keith yell, "It's a BOY!"  I was so surprised and happy!  He weighed 7lb 8oz and was 20.5 inches long.  He is such a joy to have in our family and we can't even remember how life was without him.



So cute all bundled up.



Opening his eyes just for Dad.