Ryker Rustin Miller

Bili Lights

Rustin found Ryker sleeping like this

Baby Cohen

Ryker and his cousin Cohen

The Champs!

I am very slow at updating our blog. Here is how life has been since Ryker was born. The morning of April 2nd I was having cramping. The Dr kept telling us that if I was having any contractions to come in and they wouldn't send me home. The problem was that I didn't know what the contractions would feel like. So Rustin told me that if I was hurting at all to wake him up and we'd go in. So I waited about an hour and the cramping wasn't stopping so I woke up Rustin. We waited about another 20 min and called the hospital, they told us to come in and be checked. We got to the hospital at about 5:30 and got checked, I was a 4 and almost all the way thinned. They Kept Us! Woo Hoo! So at 7:30 they started the pitocin. I got the epidural at about 8:00. The Dr came in a little bit later and broke my water and then we just hung out. I wasn't in any pain, the worse it got was a little cramping. The nurse told me to push my pain button because to make sure the epidural was working since I could lift my legs off the bed and I wasn't very numb. I pushed it alot and started slurring my words Rustin said. Ha ha I was getting pretty tired and loopy. I hit a 10 around 11:30 but there was an anterior lip they said on my cervix that needed to go away before I could start to push. It took about an hour and a half for that to go away. The Dr was in doing a C-Section so we rested and desended while we waited for him. Then it was time to push, I was sleeping through all the resting and desending and had to stop pushing the button so I would have the energy to push. We pushed with the nurse for about 7 contractions. Then the Dr came in put on him whole armor. Boots to his knees, the gown, gloves, hat, face mask that covered his eyes. He was fully covered for this event. We pushed once and he told me to stop because the baby was ready to come and the nurses to clean him up weren't in the room yet. They came in and I pushed about 2 more times and he was out. All white and screaming! The doctor had blood all over him and it went as high as his goggles covering his eyes, he must have known this can get messy:) 2:14 pm 8lbs 7oz 20 1/2 inches. The Dr then stitched me up, he said I tore about 2-3 inches and was way swollen. So since then we have been loving every minute of being parents. From being pee'd on, to staying up at night trying to breast feed, to the 24/7 observation while under the bili lights. He had jaundice and had to be under the bili lights Sunday and Monday after we got home, that was no fun and all the visitors couldn't hold him:( He is doing great and growing good and were getting better at breast feeding, that is that hardest part of this whole thing I think. We got pictures on Saturday so we can do birth announcments. And yesterday his cousin Cohen was born, Jared and Ashley's baby. Rustin had an alumni tournamanent at Northridge all last week and they won it. And Rustin is going to be in Bear Lake this weekend for a party for his friend Jordan that is getting married in about a week. This is the second time since we've been married that he has been gone so good thing Ryker is here to keep me company. Life is great and school gets over this week. Rustin has 5 finals he has to take this week:( Then we have the summer to play and work on the house.