Welcome Baby Ryan

We welcomed our second son into our family last week. As I mentioned in the blog post last time my sore throat was getting really bad on Sunday. I was worried that I was getting strep throat which would have been terrible because strep throat is the worst and because then I wouldn't be able to have my baby on Tuesday like I wanted. I nursed my throat for 2 days. I drank hot drinks and hot broths and rested as much as possible. Scott and our home teacher gave me a blessing. On Monday morning I wasn't totally better but my throat had improved significantly. I continued to just rest as much as possible. My good friend even brought us a delicious dinner. Bless her! We got everything packed up and went and dropped our kids at my brother's house to stay while we were in the hospital.

At 6:00 in the morning on Tuesday I called the hospital to make sure that the induction was still a go and it was! If they are busy with people going into non elective labor they will bump you. We got ready and headed down to the hospital. There's not much to tell with the birth story. My nurse STABBED the IV into me. No joke, it was quite shocking and blood came squirting out everywhere! Things got better between us after that but I wasn't so sure how we were going to do being in labor together all day. We warmed to each other and I ended up quite liking her. I have found with having 4 babies that your laboring nurse can make a big difference. I had a hard time with the epidural working for about an hour or so. This is par for the course for me. I always need an extra dose and some adjustments. Luckily it worked out pretty well. By the time I had to push it was wearing off a bit but it wasn't bad at all. I kind of liked being able to feel the contractions a bit so I could control my pushing better. I probably pushed for no longer than 15 minutes and our baby was born. He practically birthed himself. By the end I wasn't even pushing because he was pushing his own way out. He cried immediately. This is the first time any of my babies have cried straight from the gate. He was born at 3:24 pm. He weighed 7 pounds 15 ounces. He was 20 inches long.

He has the funniest cry ever. It's really high pitched and he often sounds like a cat or dog moaning. It's funny. He was not happy and they handed him to me and he calmed down immediately. I have never had any of my babies warm to me so quickly. He just melted in my arms and stole my heart forever. He loves being held and he is super calm and chill to just hang out in your arms. So far he is still the sleepiest baby ever. When he decides to wake up one of these days we will have to see what he's really like. He's done pretty well at going back to sleep at night as well. Of course it's still exhausting being up feeding a baby multiple times in the night and getting them back to sleep. The last couple of nights Scott has taken over and only given him to me to feed and then taken him right back. It's been awesome.

We had a hard time deciding on a name. Naming a child is hard. We finally decided on Ryan Fielding Cannon. Fielding is a big family name on Scott's side being a descendant of Mary Fielding Smith. I also felt like it's the only way I could name any of my kids after Scott's dad Jeff since his legal name isn't Jeff. His middle name is Fielding so there you go! When Scott was getting his Masters at BYU we were very good friends with another couple named Piper and Ryan. I told Piper that I loved her name and would probably name one of my kids Piper. I also said that I really liked the name Ryan too and joked that we would name one of our kids Ryan also. Well guess what I did! So funny. I love Piper and Ryan Johnston and now I have a Piper and Ryan of my own. Kind of funny!

Nursing is a big cluster cuss as usual. I have been fighting off clogged ducts for several days now and been bleeding and all kinds of fun stuff. Nursing is not easy for me. You would think after years of nursing that I wouldn't have problems but I do. I  guess the problem mostly stems from me producing enough milk to feed triplets. I guess it's a blessing and a curse. At least I know that my babies aren't going to be hungry. I hope that things normalize soon! Nursing is not my favorite! I hope I can stick it out.

We left the hospital on Wednesday afternoon and went and picked up our kids. The next day was Halloween and I tried to rest as much as possible while still somewhat taking care of my kids. That afternoon we carved a few pumpkins and Scott took the kids trick or treating. Wow they got a haul. I don't even think they were gone for more than 45 minutes and they got a ton of candy. Tons of GOOD candy! It was awesome. The next morning Scott met his parents in Burley and they traded cars and took our kids for the weekend. Thank you Jeff and Janet! It has been really nice to be able to just rest whenever I want to but man I am ready for my kids to come back. I miss them! It was WAY too quiet around here. They come back tomorrow and I can't wait. Scott and I have had a lot of fun just hanging out together. Yesterday he took me to the mall for a bit to do a little birthday shopping. We've spent a lot of time watching shows and relaxing and hanging out.

Thumb sucker.

Serious face...Scott! He's a dork!

He's super fun to cuddle with. 

He's got giant hands and skis for feet.

Ha!

Our kids costumes were a little "special." Don't mind Piper's red outfit underneath. Pretty sure she would freeze to death as a little fairy. Corbin wanted to wear his giraffe costume from years ago. Look at those clam diggers. Gabby changed her outfit 3 times at least and finally settled on her Little Bo Peep costume from last year. Whatever dude.