By Jen, USA
PROM at 27 weeksDelivery at 34 weeks.
Story added: 2000-01-03

My husband and I tried to concieve for 8 long years before our success with our 3rd IVF. My pregnancy was never horribly uncomfortable, in fact I was only sick one time, I rarely threw up, I felt full of energy, and soo soo happy. But my pregnancy was plagued with other hazards such as unexplained bleeding at 5 wks, a tear in my placenta at 9 wks (which healed itself with lots of bedrest), an incompitent cervix at 23 wks. My cervix dialted to a 4 and I had to have a cerclage. (More bedrest). Then at 27 weeks my water broke. all in all I spent 20 weeks of my 34 week pregnancy on bederest either at home or in the hospital.

My husband and I chose to have our son's birth Induced at 37 weeks gestation on January 20th 2000, but our son had a mind of his own and decided to start this millenium with a bang. My labor started on it's own and the dr. chose not do induce because my membranes had been ruptured for 7 wks.

Kyle Andrew Yankee was born New Years Day at 3:35 in the morning! My labor went really fast. It was about 10pm by the time I realized THIS IS IT!

My contractions didn't hurt too much but I was having back labor and with every contraction his head was pressed into my spine THAT HURTS SO MUCH! I had an epidural at 2am just a light dose I could still feel and move my legs freely feel every contraction, but it relieved the back labor :)
I was a happy girl!
*L* I dialated quickly, from 2 to 6 in one hour, then from 6 to 10 in one hour. Kyle was in the birth canal for a while, while we were waiting for the dr. to arrive (as you can imagine the place was hopping) when the dr. arrived I started pushing, it only lasted 10 min...I pushed 3 times with each contraction and by the end of the third contraction Kyle was born!

He was blue and didn't cry, it scared me...but they got him going..his apgar at 1 min was a 6 and at 5 min it was a 9. I got to hold him and see his beautiful face before they took him to the NICU.

He is still there, and although I am being discharged in the morning he will need to stay at least a week (I've been crying over leaving him all day) He is doing well though, breathing all on his own with just a small tube under his nose to give him some extra oxygen. They say he needs to stay until he can maintain a good oxygen level on his own and is eating well.

He is not breast feeding yet, though we try each time to give him the breast, then the bottle and finally end up tube feeding him. He does suck a pacifier, so I am confident he will be eating from either my breast or a bottle soon.


Kyle has SO MUCH HAIR! and it is all a very light blonde. I don't know what color eyes he has (mine are blue daddy's are brown) I'm sure he has the newborn blue eyes that most caucasion babies do, but who knows he doesn't open them often and when he does it's just the tiniest bit. He weight 6lbs 3oz and was 20 1/2 inces long. His dad says he has huge feet! :)
I'm sure he will be taller than me by junior high! He has my hairline and Dad's chin, the rest we will have to figure out as we go along.

I'm the happiest mom in the world. I always told Ken this baby was going to opinionated (all the pregnancy complications and him wanting to get here so soon) We had, had his induction scheduled for Jan 20th, but Kyle decied that he wasn't going to let anyone else choose his birthday, he was going to DO IT HIMSELF! *L* and boy did he pick a great one!

Now at 2 days old Kyle is doing very well, He is on less oxygen every time I visit the NICU, he is alternating between breast bottle and tube feeding and seems to latch on very well although he doesn't have the energy to eat as much as he needs so we suppliment with tube feeding. The dr.'s say he can go home when he is maintaining his own oxgyn level, and eating without tube feedings to suppliment (they are hopeful he will go home within a week).

Happy New Year and good luck to you all!

Love Jen, Ken and Kyle