She's Here!!!

Kennedy Lynn Payne
11/15/09
5 lb. 6 oz., 19 in.

Here's how it all went down. Sunday Morning, I played my violin at Phanelbs primary program at 8 am. 11 am I go to church and as I am sitting in sacrament, I notice what I think to be contractions happening every 20 minutes or so. Last time I went to the Dr. he said sitting at church you'd probably notice more Braxton Hicks just sitting. So all through church I am keeping track of how often I'm feeling this. Come the last hour, they are happening every 10-15 minutes. So I go home and see if these are the real thing. These pains in my belly are coming every 10 minutes so I call Dawn, Mom, Lydia and Emily to see what their contractions felt like and just ask a million questions. They all gave me their rendition of their experiences and told me what to expect and what I should do and bring to the hospital. So Nate and I went on a walk to see if we could get the contractions to start happening closer together, when we got home, I took a shower thinking, "If I do go into labor, it'd be nice to be clean..." So, at 7 pm I took a shower. As I am washing the conditioner out of my hair.... my water broke.... I get out of the shower, and tell Nate and he is completely shocked. I get dressed and get my things and we head to the hospital. By 7:45 I was in triage having very painful contractions every 5 minutes. 1 hour later, with contractions happening every second the nurses said in order to get the epidural, I had to wait another 30 minutes for my blood to be tested because my blood pressure was so high when I got into triage. So they check and see how far along I am, and at this point, I am 4 cm and fully effaced. Those 30 minutes waiting for the epidural.... I can't even remember, I just know I was in a lot of pain... I finally get to sit on the edge of the bed to get the epidural which ended up taking 30 minutes to put in... mind you, you cannot move while your getting this done and it is nearly impossible to not move while your contracting... So 9:45 the epidural is in and I tell the nurses I am still feeling a lot of pain on my right side so they lay me on my side to see if gravity will help it get to my right side.... at this point, I tell the nurses " uhhhh I have to push NOW". They check me and sure enough I'm ready to go.... They wheel me into labor and delivery and there is one nurse in there setting up the room and I'm telling her, "I have to push NOW!!!!!" She comes over to me and puts my legs into position and I push about 3 times, then my dr. came in and I pushed maybe 2 more times and she popped out! 15 minutes after they finished putting the epidural in, when I should have started to feel the relief from the drugs, I had already had the baby.... She was born at 10:01pm.
Nate was so sweet to me the entire time. Throughout the entire pregnancy, he told me he was not going to watch anything and just hold my hand... but he actually watched the entire thing. He said everything just happened so fast and before he knew it, the dr. handed him some scissors and he was cutting the cord.... and That my friends is the story of Kennedy being brought into the world....
Here are some of the pictures from my sister Dawn who came to support...

This was a very emotional time... for all three of us...

Nate is a DAD!
We love just looking at our daughter.