Baby Hill #3

Life is a Miracle!

Today little Parker is one week old! Wow can't believe how fast this past week has gone. There is no way I could have survived the last week (well 2 really) if my mom and little brother hadn't been here! They have been so much help with Mylie and Taysom! 

Parker James Hill was born on August 5, 2015 at 4:16pm weighing in at 9lbs even and stretching 22in long. MY SMALLEST BABY YET! :D haha. He was an easy delivery which was a blessing because adjusting to life at home with 3 has been more difficult than I thought it would be. 

We went into the hospital at 5:30am...at 6 they hooked me up to machines to monitor baby's heart and get base readings. At 6:30 they put in the iv and started fluids and checked me to get a starting point I was dilated to a 2 (same as it had been at my apt a week previous, and my cervix was soft so that was good). At 7 the nurses changed shifts and I was sad because I loved then nurse we had had for the past 1.5 hours. But my new nurse was just as AWESOME! We loved having her so much! Knowing that then et part would take a while (for the pitocin to kick in and then slowly be turned up) Dust got out the iPad for me and I started getting caught up on some SYTYCD :D turns out my nurse LOVED that show too and we chatted about the season and past seasons which was fun. A little later my doctor popped in and checked on me. Then they started my pitocin and antibiotics (cuz I was strep b positive, which is really common and just means you have to get a antibiotic. I was the same with both of my other kids). Around 11:30 I was dilated to a 3.5 and finally having pretty hard/painful contractions so I got the epidural (best thing ever!). This time I didn't wait till i was a 9-10 haha ;P At noon my doctor broke my water. I stayed dilated to a 5 from about 1-3 which was sorta frustrating. At 3:30 I was fully dilated and felt like I had a bowling ball between my legs haha. In the last half hour ish I had gone from a 5 to a 10. The nurse was pretty surprised things had progressed that quickly and I felt like the baby was coming down more with each contraction and even working a bit if my Dr. would make it back in time. By the time she got there and got all her stuff on for the delivery it was like 4:14 and I had one contraction, pushed 3 times, and he was out in about two minutes!!!! CRAZY! When he came out Dustin's first comment was woa! Deja vu! He looked so much like Taysom, just a little thinner and longer! Haha ;) I tore a little bit, but not bad so recovery has been pretty good! I'm just trying to take it really easy (i didn't with taysom and that was my mistake cuz I felt really good, but then started bleeding again worse when I got home and doing things).

Parker has really long feet like Mylie did and long skinny legs too. He is such a sweet baby and has been really good, except for the eating/sleeping part days 4-7! But I think he wasn't getting latched on well and taking in a lot of air. yesterday afternoon I pumped and he took a bottle good and I think the practice sucking has helped a lot because last night was way better! He slept in two big chunks! 5 and 4 hours which was such a blessing after the night before when he was up from 1-4 fussy! And between the nipple soreness pain and the stomach cramps/gas I have been miserable!!! today is better than yesterday and I know it'll keep getting better.

Funny story: so somehow I lost my phone in the hospital...I think it ended up in the sheets...and into their laundry but by the time we realized it was gone and had them go check the delivery room they had cleaned it and taken all the laundry downstairs...where it then gets put on a truck and sent an hour away to be cleaned...so it was gone! No one could find it, so wed-sat I was without a phone. In a way it was kinda a nice blessing...no distractions! Saturday Dustin got me a new phone. Yay, and it's an iPhone 6! :D and works way better than my old one...and this time I got insurance too ;S haha cuz I'm sure I will need it eventually!

Mylie is LOVING having a baby brother and always wants to hold him and hug and kiss him and says "oh, I love you baby brother" it's so cute!!!!! She is just the sweetest big sister (most of the time ;)! 

Taysom took a while to warm up to him. The first day he didn't want to even look at him, the next day he was ok from a distance but wouldn't get close, but some of that may have been cuz we were still at the hospital cuz Friday when we came home he was finally coming over to him and would point and say "baby". Sunday he climbed up on my lap with Parker and wanted to lay on me by him. "Parpar" is what he has started calling him. :) He wants to give him his binki all the time! even when he is asleep haha, but he is still afraid/doesn't like the little glove things on his hands (so he doesn't scratch his face cuz I can't cut his nails for like two weeks till they grow out and unattach from the finger) Yesterday he even wanted to hold him! I think it was because Mylie had just asked/held him. SO cute!!! :D

SO GRATEFUL to have Dustin here as support and to have my mom and brother here to help! My mom has done lots from cleaning to making food, to helping with the other kids. Daniel is definitely the favorite uncle :P and has played so much with the kids! :D Pretty sure I am going to cry when they have to leave in the morning! At least Dustin will be able to work from home a couple more days after they leave so I won't be alone taking care of 3 during the day quite yet...I can see a lot of Doc Mcstuffins and Mickey Mouse in the near future. :P

Life Happens

Life Happens

Hard to believe that 2 years have gone by and 2 new kiddos have joined our family since I last posted. I was going to try and catch up/fill in a few blanks but right now that seams just too daunting lol. So I'm going to start right were we are in the next post and hopefully back track a little sometime.

We Finally Made It!

Today Dustin and I are official college Graduates! It was great to see all of our family their! My parents even came down from Washington. We had a fantastic yummy party that evening with a beautiful delicious cake! Thanks everyone!!!!

Bowl Game Trip to San Diego!

Bowl Game Trip to San Diego!
Super fun Christmas time trip with the BYU Marching Band!

We got to go to the beach, some awesome restaurants, visited the USS Midway (an aircraft carrier), go to Sea World, and of course the Bowl Game! It was a super fun trip even though we lost the game. Mylie was the perfect little traveler riding in a bus all the way from Provo to San Diego! 

Mylie's Newborn Photoshoot

Pictures Taken at 3 weeks old

Mylie Kay Hill has finally arrived!!! :D

Our sweet little girl Mylie arrived last Sunday, June 10th at 9:15pm.

She was 9lbs 12oz and 22+in long! (more like 23)

I planned on having Mylie naturally but I never ruled out an epidural, I hoped I wouldn't have to have one though. Below is her birth story. Be warned it's a little long. :)

I woke up at 6 am on Sunday morning and had what I though were pretty strong contractions, but I knew they would only get stronger. I had been having contractions off and on for the past couple days but they didn't hurt at all. These ones hurt, although I knew it was nothing compared to what it would be. Dustin was supposed to teach priesthood at church that day (we have church at 8:30) so I figured that he would probly be able to go to church before they got really bad and we had to go to the hospital.


They say that you should go to the doctor when they are about 5 min apart and lasting at least 1 min, and you are having them consistent for at least an hour. Well by 8:15, as Dustin was getting ready to head to church, they were coming every 3-4 min and lasting 1-2 min (I had been timing them since about 7:15 when I had actually gotten out of bed). I called my mom (who was on her way down from Washington, and had stopped at my grandma's in Pocatello) and said "I'm having regular contractions and they hurt but I don't know if they really 'hurt' yet, when should I go to the hospital?" She asked me how far apart they were and when I told her she was like, yeah you should probly be at the hospital right now.


So Dustin called someone in our ward (very last minute) and asked them to teach (good thing we have such a great ward cuz he said yes) and we got in the car and headed off to the hospital. By the time we got there and checked in it was about 9am and I was having a hard time moving during a contraction. They took me back to the room and I put on one of those awesome hospital gowns with no back (dignity out the window, haha). They hooked me up to a couple machines to monitor my contractions and the baby's heart beat. The nurse, who's name was Brittany, checked me and I was dilated to a 4+ and 50% effaced (at my last Dr. Appt, about a week earlier, I had been a 2 and 20% effaced). She told me she'd be back in one hour and if the contractions were still coming consistent they would keep me. I remember thinking, you better keep me, I want this baby out!


When Brittany came back around 10:15 I was a 5+ and 70% effaced. She said "I think you'd better stay here and have your baby today." I replied GOOD! haha :) They hooked me up to an IV with saline fluid and I got to sit and wait while my contractions got harder (they hurt a lot, but I felt I was handling it pretty well) and my body get ready to have this baby.


At about 12 they started me on an antibiotic because I had tested group b strep positive. The nurse checked me again and I was at a 7 and 80% effaced. She told me it would be good if I didn't have Mylie till about 3pm so that the antibiotic could start working better and they wouldn't have to give my baby a shot when she came out. Brittany asked me if I would like to try a birthing ball because I was having a hard time sitting in the lousy hospital bed. I said sure, and I'm so glad I did! It made it so much easier. I could sit and bounce on this ball. She told me to ride the contractions like a wave and had Dustin sit on the edge of the bed and I would lean on him during each contraction. It helped a lot! They kept reminding me to breathe in my nose and out my mouth, A reminder I desperately needed, haha.


At about 1pm Brittany checked me again and I was dilated to an 8 and 90% effaced. She decided she should go and call the Dr. and have him come and break my water. My Dr. wasn't the one on call that weekend so I got another Dr. that was in the same office to deliver my baby. She came back just after 1:10pm and told me that he would come as soon as church was out. We were both hoping that his church didn't start at 1. I have learned that with some doctors, you really are on their schedule, not the other way around. By 1:40 I was dilated to a 9+ and almost 100% effaced (there was a little lip that hadn't effaced yet), so Brittany went and called him again and he showed up just after 2pm and broke my water.


After that I had to stay on the bed and the contractions got a lot harder real fast. I was checked a couple more times in the next hour or so and was fully dilated and effaced, but Mylie wasn't moving down into the birth canal and there was a little lip left on my cervix so I couldn't push yet. By the time 4pm rolled around I was in more pain than I could handle and started hyperventilating. I had been here for 8 hours and hadn't eaten anything but ice chips so my strength was pretty much gone. I had had a bowl of cereal at about 8 that morning but that was it. When they told me that it would probably still be a while before I could start pushing I though I was going to die! My wonderful husband Dustin was so supportive during the whole thing and having him there made it a lot easier. Him and my amazing nurse Brittany were so helpful and kept telling me that I could do it even when I said "I can't handle this any more!" Brittany suggested that I could get an epidural to help with the pain and by that point I was all for it.


Within 5 minutes (although it felt so much longer) the anesthesiologist arrived. He was so nice and excellent! He had me sit up and lean over a pillow into Dustin. It took all my strength to get myself up and into the right position and as he prepared to give me the shot I was praying with all my might that I wouldn't have a contraction while he was giving me the epidural! I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for helping me not have a contraction while I got the shot. It truly was a miricle!!! I had been having overlapping contractions for the past 30 minutes and there was about a 1-2 minute break as he gave me the epidural and then they started again after I laid back down.


The relieve took only a few minutes to kick in and I was so grateful for it! And for the steady hands of my anesthesiologist. He also hooked up a time release drip so that I would keep getting just enough to help with the pain but not too much. It was a weird sensation, I could feel my lower half of my body and even wiggle my toes, but couldn't lift my leg up more than an inch if my life depended on it.


I am so glad I got the epidural because for the next three hours I just sat there and laughed and talked to my husband, mother, and mother in law (who had both arrived around 12pm) and watched my contractions get harder and harder on the monitor. It was amazing that my baby's heart rate stayed very constant through the whole thing. At 6pm the nurses changed shifts and my wonderful nurse Brittany left and was replaced by another girl.


At 7pm the Dr. came back in and checked me and told me that "he liked my baby" because she had finally gotten into position and I could now push, then he left the room and left the nurse to help me start pushing. This new nurse was helpful but not near as positive or encouraging as Brittany had been. My epidural had to wear off enough that I could feel more in order to push and I felt my energy start to drain again. I pushed for over an hour and was starting to get really discouraged. I asked the nurse how much longer she thought it would be and wondered if all the doctors do is show up to catch the baby! She told me that "well if it hasn't come in the next hour..." Another hour! I didn't think I could keep going that long! I had already been pushing for that long at lest!


I was so excited when the door opened and MY Dr. walked in the door!!!! I was so glad to see her :D (it turns out that Brittany had called her to let her know I was in labor before she left and then my Dr. had called the Dr. on call and asked if she could step in and deliver me). I'm so glad that was the case! It gave me the energy I needed to keep going. After she got there my Dr. stayed in the room the whole time! she pulled and stretched on me a ton and I pushed as hard as I could, but at 9pm Mylie was still not quite coming, although they could see the very tip of her head.

My Dr. suggested that she could use forceps to help guide Mylie out (because each time I had pushed her head would crown, but when I relaxed she would go back up a little), I would still be doing the pushing, but it might be that little extra needed to get her to come out. (my Dr. used the forceps to help keep her into the right position as I pushed. When her head was crowning more, my Dr. took the forceps out an I pushed with everything I had a few more times. Her head popped out and my Dr. exclaimed wait, don't push yet, the cord is wrapped around her neck twice. (it was a miracle that her heart rate had stayed constant the whole time, and now we understood why she took so long and it was so hard to get her into the birth canal. If the cord hadn't been wrapped twice he would have come around 3pm after 6 hrs of labor.)

Within a couple seconds she had the cord off and I gave the final push. Finally at 9:15pm on June 10, 2012 Mylie Kay Hill ARRIVED! She was beautiful and the relief was almost instantaneous! They held her up so I could see and Dustin cut the cord. Then they took her over and wiped her off a bit, put some antibiotic ointment on her eyes and gave her a vitamin K shot and put a little hat on her head and a dipper on her. Then they brought her back to me!!!! Words cannot describe the feeling I had when they placed my little girl in my arms. Definitely the hardest thing I've ever done but so so worth it!!!!!

One month left till D-day!

I can't believe it, Dustin and I are expecting our first little girl in only 4 weeks. Her due date is June 4th so she should be here in a month (give or take a week or two). We are going to name her Mylie Kay Hill.

I feel like I pretty much popped out right away, haha. I didn't look too much different from 17 weeks to 26 weeks. But from then on I started to poke out a lot more and developed stretch marks pretty much overnight haha. I don't really feel that big, but I know I look it. A couple days ago one of my friends told me "wow you are really pregnant". haha, I think she meant it as a complement.

17 weeks

26 weeks

28 weeks

36 weeks

We had an ultrasound at 31 weeks because they have been watching her kidney's. She had hydrocephalus (extra fluid) but at this last ultrasound everything was gone and looks great! That was exciting for Dustin and I to find out and revealing. We also got an awesome front shot of her face at just the perfect depth to see her little eyes and nose and lips (if you look close you can even see her eyebrows). We also got a DVD of this ultrasound. :) That was really fun to go back and watch and share with family. I think she was asleep during this ultrasound because she didn't move around much. Usually at my Dr. Appointments if she's awake and moving she kicks the little monitor they use to check her heart beat.

Mylie is just getting so big. I finally reached the point where I have to get up to go to the bathroom multiple times a night. It didn't really happen until about a week ago, which was really nice. 

We are starting to get everything set up for our little girl's arrival. We got a carseat and stroller thanks to all our wonderful Hill family and a crib from my parents! Thanks Everyone!

It's A Girl!

Yesterday Dustin and I found out at our ultrasound that we are going to be having a little girl! :D we are so excited, she is due June 4th. Here are a few pictures from her ultrasound.

Baby Profile

She was moving around a lot and gave us some really great pictures. It was really exciting to see her little profile and perfect tiny hand. Everything looks good with her and we are super excited!

Giving a little wave :)

Picture of her arm and hand

Proving we're having a girl! haha

Beautiful flower from my wonderful husband Dustin to say congratulations! We are having a little girl! Aw, he is so sweet! :D

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Donation's Your Way

Donations Your Way

My husband Dustin has just finished creating this awesome website where people can donate electronics to help various charitable organizations such as Red Cross, National Breast Cancer Foundation, Books for Africa, and anything else you could think of. Or you can receive money for your electronics.

For more details check out his website

Donationsyourway.org

If you have stuff to donate that would be fantastic, or you can just like us of facebook. Feedback is also extremely helpful, so let us know what you think after you check out the website. It's a great way to help without having to donate lots of money.

CRAZY days in band/guard!

CRAZY days in Band/Guard!

This last Saturday was super crazy, crazy, crazy! We had the homecoming parade and football game. Basically our day started around 8 when I dropped Dustin off at the stadium to tune his drum and get ready. Then I parked down by the Richards Building on campus and my coach Ashlee came to pick me up so we could go get equipment and park close to where we were meeting. When we got to the stadium I realized my shirt was in the car, but yes I was wearing another one, haha. So after grabbing the 17 flags and running out of the stadium to the car with them (not an easy task) we hurried back to my car so I could get my uniform shirt. We drove up to the top of campus and as I was getting out I asked Ashlee who was holding the banner, haha ops we forgot that. So we rushed back grabbed that and put it together, arriving back to where we were meeting about 5 minutes before we stepped off, the parade step-off was at 10.The parade was a ton of fun and there were some comments that were so funny/cute. Like one girl, about 3 who was like, "mommy mommy, I want to be one of those when i grow up", aw so adorable. The funniest was probably an about 8 year old boy who said, "wow, they are really hot", haha it was really hard to keep from laughing at that. Dustin did a fantastic job carying his super heavy drum for the full hour it took to march the parade! WOW kudos to him!!!! and I got shinsplints rollstepping that long, haha not used to that. It was fun to see some old roommates and friends watching the parade.Also my freshman sister Kimber helped design and rode on the float for RHA, which she is a part of. Their float got the Grand Marshall Award (meaning best float overall)! pretty impressive. Their theme was about being lost and found and they had a giant mirror and question mark on the float as well as a humongous manila envelope that read CASE SOLVED across it and their theme running around the base with footprints.
For Dustin and I the craziness is not quite up. We have our Rocky Mountain Competition tomorrow night. There will be tons of bands from all over Utah competing starting at 4pm and we will perform around 8:30 as the Host Band, right before the awards ceremony. It's going to be phenomenal if anyone wants to come, tickets are pretty cheep I believe.

Old Man River

Old Man River

One of our shows this year for Marching Band is Old Man River, so we, the BYU color guard, decided to get into character and went canoeing down the Provo river in a 20 person canoe! It was a blast!!!! Dustin and one of the other girl's on guard's husband came along. Dustin almost pushed me in a number of times, partially because I kept standing up, haha. And Ashlee actually caught me off guard and gave me a good shove off the dock when we got out. HAHA (well that's what the pic looks like anyway--it will be up soon).
This is when I maneuvered myself to the front of the canoe and stood up and leaned over the front like the statue on the front of big boats, haha, then I turned around for a pic.

AW SO CUTE!!

I finally got a chance to put up some pictures from our trip to Hawaii! :D Enjoy!

OUR CAR
We ended up renting a mustang convertable, it was really cool! Dustin loved driving it, and the lady gave us a fantastic deal on our upgrade! Thanks Aurora :)

PEARL HARBOR
Our first stop was Pearl Harbor, that was such a cool experience, we got to tour one of the original submarines and go out to the USS Arizona memorial. I am so grateful to all the men and women who fought for our freedom in WWII, including my Grandpa Hayden.
USS Arizona Memorial.

DOLE PLANTATION

We also went to the original Dole Pineapple Plantation, that was pretty cool, they had pineapples from all over the pacific islands, some were tiny and some even red.

i asked for a water cup, this is what i got, haha

DIAMONDHEAD

We also hiked up diamond head crater, that was pretty sweet because for part of it you're inside the edge of the mountain.

The view from the top was Beautiful!

This was my favorite ice cream they had, it was called haupia (coconut) but was super creamy with no chunks and just the flavor, the bottom one was chocolate macadamia nut, DELICIOUS!

The Polynesian Cultural Center
This was one of my very favorite things we did on our trip! It was so cool to be there and see all the cultures, we tried this pasty stuff called poi that they make bread and things out of, it was interesting.Poi
And of course Dustin had some tropical icecream :D hahaHe also threw a spear, it was sort of a game to see who could through it closest to the target
what a man! ;D I LOVE HIM!
At the Lu'au dinner we had they called all of the people there for their honeymoon/wedding anniversary to come up and they played the hawaiian wedding song for us as we all slow danced, it was really cool, there were a couple of couples there for their 50th anaversary!
Dustin even made fire by rubbing two sticks together, well he tried any way, it was really hard, I think only the big polynesian guy acutally got it to work.

THE BEACH

We spent some time out on the beach of course, haha. One of the days Dustin did some body boarding, it was fun to watch him, we also sat out and watched the sunset sometimes at night on the beach, that was so cool!

What a wonderful honeymoon with such a wonderful husband!!!!! :D