Mary Peyton Driskell

Mary Peyton Driskell, Born March 8th at 732 am, 8lbs 1 oz, 20.25 inches. WOW what another amazing event in our lives. I cant describe the feeling when you go through the entire labor experience and the delivery of a beautiful baby girl. The moment they place her on your body its like nothing you have ever experienced, its an out of body moment. I am always in the most shocking state that it truly is a baby inside, an overwhelming amount of pride and extreme joy/happiness flushes over you. My labor story was very similar to Allison birth story except everyone had not partied the night before :) My water broke at 830pm, I was in bed, Will was upstairs putting Allie to sleep and I felt this terrible pain that lasted for two minutes, I couldnt tell if it was yet another contraction but it was different in that it hurt so bad. Five minutes later I had a flood of water and I immediately knew it was time. I was so calm, and like here we go vs. before when i was like oh sh** its time. I cannot explain how easy this was the second time around, I was not nervous and was so ready to meet Mary Peyton. Labor wasnt terrible, they started the pitocin at 1130, my contractions were still not regular. I called everyone and everyone headed our way. Natalie and Wyatt came from Wimberley, dad from Longview, Mom from Houston, and the Driskells had just settled down in their hotel room in monroe LA. My family got there around 130am in the morning and the driskells got there about 4, they had to drive 8 hours starting at 9 that night. Everyone was very tired but anxiously awaited the new arrival. MY DELIVERY was the easiest thing in the world, I pushed three times and she was here in less than five minutes. I thought she was maybe 7lbs but when they said she was 8.1 I was in shock, and then in my head realized that was why I was so uncomfortable the last weeks of my pregnancy. WHAT a wonderful day. Even the labor part was easy, my epidural worked great and really wasnt even that numb or at least it didnt bother me that much. I will say the part that is hard on both of my deliveries is that I never get to sleep the night b/c I labor that night and that morning. so it sets you up to not having sleep but hey who is counting these days, sleeps isnt at the top of the list. Also because it was in the middle of the night it was another doctor that was on call not Dr Harms. So I labored all night and pretty much knew I wasnt going to get Dr Harms as my doc but around 630am the on call doc came in and said i was almost ready for delivery and that dr harms was the on call doc that switched at 730 and she was hurrying to my room to make the delivery as she was scheduled for a csection that morning but instead got to deliver Mary Peyton. She is such a great doctor and was so encouraging. She also rounded on me the entire weekend which was great. It was such an easy and smooth process couldnt have asked God to have done it any better. I pushed for maybe two minutes (3 times) and she was here. It was again the most amazing indescribable feeling in the world even have been through it once before but when she came out out and was placed on me it is so surreal and unbelievable that a human being was just born. Its complete elation and joy. I couldnt wipe the smile off my face, I was so calm during the entire labor and delivery, I wasnt scared, I was so excited to meet this little miss. When they said she was 8lbs 1oz I was in shock that she was that big of size (for me) as I was used to Allison who weighed 6lbs 9oz, I guess that explains why I was quite uncomfortable during the last of my pregnancy not to mention chasing after a toddler. What an amazing day yet again, what an amazing experience. The rest of the hospital stay was great, breastfeeding went great, MP nursed like a champ and my milk actually came in the next day after delivery which made it nice. I had great nurses except for the first day and they truly helped me. Will stayed with ALlison at night as she was clearly having a hard time so we felt more normalcy was better and I hated for him to be on the couch. MP went to the nursery at night. The hospital stay was actually kindof nice, although annoying too b/c they would wake you up for vitals etc, but they would also bring you graham crackers juice water :) and your baby to feed and then take her back so that I could sleep some. We discharged from the hospital on Sunday March 10th and headed home where mom/fred nat/wyatt and allison were at. It was great going home but I did get a little emotional I think out of tiredness and fear as to how it was going to be. When Allison first met Peyton in the hospital I wasnt holding her, I think Aunt Sabrina was but nonetheless she was terrified of me in the hospital bed and did not want to come near me. I of course felt guilty in a way but completely understood too. I just wanted Allie to be okay, not to mention the night before I went into labor she was sick throwing up all night and also threw up at Uncle Jim and Aunt Brinas as well. You could tell she didnt feel well and was completely freaked out with this new thing in our lives :) The next day she was better although still took a while to warm up to me but I was walking around more so I think that helped. She got in bed with me and watched movies which was good. Aunt Natty and MeMel took great care of her and unlce wyatt and poppy. When we got into the next days at home it was apparant Allie was having a difficult time, she was nice to the baby but did not like it when I was breastfeeding. She would look at us and make this grunting noise like she wasnt going to talk and just be mad. She would sit in the corner etc. She also started throwing up nightly at this point so Will had to be upstairs with her while I was downstairs with the baby, we were afraid it was a virus. It had gone on this point for more than a week so when i called the doc they said that she must have gotten a second wave of the stomach bug. but it was weird as it would only come at night she would throw up once and then act fine the next day. She would eat play etc. Finally after about three weeks of off and on throwing up we took her back to the doctor and they did bloodwork and stool sample tests. COME to find out she has a peanut allergy, which is awful as baby girl loves peanut butter. the only thing she would eat at that point were waffles and peanut butter, but according to the doctor overexposure can cause allergies and im ashamed to say we def overexposed her for sure. we are now peanut free, I am still a little skeptical that it is that but it hasnt come back since we took peanuts out of her diet and she has an appetite now things have really turned around. SO needless to say the first two weeks were kindof brutal because we were dealing with Allie not only being sick and us afraid it was something really wrong with her and her having a hard time adjusting with all the new changes. ALthough she did pretty well as to be expected I just wanted her to be okay. I still had to discipline her as she would throw tantrums and I understood why but there were things she just couldnt do. But we gave her some slack as well.