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** To read “Chayse’s Birth Story – The Delivery” please go here. This post picks up where that one left off ***
After Chayse finished her four hours of monitoring, she was allowed to come back to the room and be completely off all the monitors. Despite her rocky start, she was doing AWESOME. In fact, the only thing they were concerned about at all at this point was that she might have hip displasia from being breech. (Note: All babies who are breech are at risk for this no matter how they are delivered.)
She wasn’t showing any sign of having issues with her hip joints but just to be sure they did want to set up an ultrasound at the Primary Children’s Hospital location just outside of Pittsburgh for when she was one month old. (That’s I guess the best time for them to be able to see anything on the ultrasound.)
I was so grateful that was the only thing we had to be concerned about. 🙂
Here is the rest of our hospital stay in pictures…
Chayse hanging out with Dad.
Eric and Andrea (our friends who were watching Titan) brought Titan to the hospital around 6:30pm to meet Chayse. He was a little unsure at first but warmed right up to her!
While they were visiting they were really nice and took some photos of our little family all together.
First family photo!
I can’t believe we are a family of four now! 🙂 (And…gotta love Ti’s “smile” in this! LOL – You never know what your going to get lately when you ask him to smile.)
I also should point out the little mini Ty Unicorn toy in the photo by Chayse. While we were in Disney World back in May we had Titan select a present to bring Chayse at the hospital. While he was at lunch with Andrea though he saw the little toy that comes in the McDonald’s Happy Meal and he thought that would be the perfect size for baby girl. He was SO excited to give that to her instead. I have no words for how cute it was that he was already thinking about his baby sister. He told me that he would just save the Minnie Mouse he had chosen earlier for her to grow into. He thought this new option was much more size appropriate. 🙂
Daddy’s little girl!
One of the nurses came into my room during the four hours Chayse was being monitored and said that she was just in the nursery and couldn’t believe how sweet Broc was with Chayse. (He stayed in the nursery with her the majority of the four hours.)
She said she walked in and was really confused because they don’t usually have the doctors in the nursery holding and cuddling the newborns. One of the nurses quickly explained though that he was the dad and Chayse was a breech delivery that was being monitored. 🙂
Introducing Titan to baby sister.
LOVE these two!
(Just ignore the no makeup look I’m sporting in all these photos. I meant to do my hair and makeup before we took any photos but time got away from me and really when it boiled down to it, I had just had a baby and a rather exciting/exhausting morning and afternoon so I didn’t really care at the time.) 🙂
Such a proud big brother!
Enjoying some cuddles with baby girl after everyone left. This hospital stay was SO different from my hospital stay with Titan. Since we had just moved here to Pennsylvania and we don’t have any family living here, our only visitors were Eric and Andrea the first night when they brought Titan and then some of the other residents Broc is working with who stopped in after their shifts.
Other than those two visits, the room was quiet and I just got to enjoy this precious girl. While I do wish we had family living closer, I must admit I did really like having a much quieter room this time around and time to rest and just enjoy this new addition to our family. It made recovery, figuring out nursing, etc. all a whole lot easier not having people in our room all the time.
Chayse still a little unsure about all the changes she had experienced! 😉
Friday night Titan stayed with Eric and Andrea at their apartment. Then Broc picked him up in the morning to take him to his T-Ball game and to come spend the rest of the morning and afternoon at the hospital with us. Broc took Titan home after the game to grab some things and didn’t realize that Titan was still in his Sonic pajama shirt. (I guess he snuck out of the house with it under his T-Ball game shirt as an “under”shirt.) LOL
While he was at the hospital with us he was so sweet with Chayse. He would randomly sneak over to give her little touches. 🙂
Chayse spending some “quality” time with Dad and brother.
When it came time for Broc to take Titan back to the Stevens’ he didn’t want to leave. He wanted to stay over night with us. I think it was because he was able to watch lots of videos with dad and the nurses would take him to raid the snack room. (Not sure if that’s a perk all the siblings get or just those who have dad who works at the hospital.) 😉 Siblings aren’t allowed over night though so luckily we were able to talk him into go back with Eric and Andrea.
Morning snuggles with this peanut.
The view from our room. I learned from one of the nurses that the room we were in was a highly requested room. I guess since it’s a corner room and away from the main corridor it’s a quieter room, has a better view than most and has a much larger bathroom. Plus, they said all the older siblings usually love being able to watch the helicopters take off and land right outside the window. The landing pad to the left is just one of the hospital’s helicopter pads we had view of.
I must have looked a little surprised when she was telling me this because she said, “You didn’t know you got this room on purpose?” I told her when I checked in Broc wasn’t with me and so I didn’t know if they even knew that he was my husband. I thought I just lucked out with the room. Her response was, “Oh no. We knew you were coming. And who your husband is.” – I’m hoping that was a good thing?! 😉
Of course, after delivering Chayse breech I was no longer Dr. Parker’s wife but “The doctor’s wife who did a breech vaginal delivery at the last second.” Seriously. Different hospital staff would come into the room like the Human Resources rep, the lactation nurse, etc, look at the name on my chart and go, “Oh, your the doctor’s wife who delivered breech.” Two people even said, “That story was going around the hospital all day yesterday and even at a retirement party earlier today! You had quite the exciting delivery.”
Yep. That’s us. Our children apparently like to come fast and with a little excitement and surprise mixed in. 🙂
Pennsylvania sunrise!
It took us until late Friday evening to decide for sure we wanted to name baby girl Chayse and then after that we couldn’t decide between Chase or Chayse as the spelling. So for a while she was just “Baby Girl Parker”.
For those wondering about the name, Broc and I just both really like the name Chayse for a girl. We always have. We were a little undecided on it though because it’s more typically known as a boys name. Then my sister pointed out though that it’s a family name (my fifth great-grandfather is Heber Chase Kimball) and so we decided to go with it and ultimately (like as of two or three weeks ago) we decided to keep the spelling Chayse to make it a little more feminine when written out. (That was the spelling we put on her birth certificate but then once we got home from the hospital we both kind of went back and forth on switching it to just Chase so it’s spelled like that a few times on social media, etc.)
For her middle name we went with Cambria because 1) It’s a family name. 2) It’s super girly and a good balance to Chayse and 3) We live right next to a Cambria County here in Pennsylvania and so it ties her to her birth place a little bit. In fact, every time I introduce myself here in PA or whenever people ask about Chayse’s middle name they said, “Oh, so like the county? Were you named after the county?”.
The food at the hospital was actually better than most. And they let me customized my order for each meal! Don’t get me wrong, it was still hospital food, but it was nice to be given some options and to be able to decide what I was in the mood for rather than just having a mystery tray delivered.
Of course, I also had Broc pick me up a couple things here and there from the cafeteria as well like these Cadbury Caramello Ice Cream Bars. Um, where have these been all my life? SO ridiculously yummy! (Pretty sure I’ve asked Broc almost weekly to bring one of these home from the hospital since I was there.)
Saturday morning I asked one of the nurses if they by chance had Dr. Pepper (They had mentioned they had Pepsi products earlier and while I can’t stand Pepsi or Diet Pepsi I don’t mind Dr. Pepper so I thought it was worth a try.) She said they didn’t on the nurses floor and I told her that was totally fine and could I please get a sprite and some ice water.
Next thing I knew, she was bringing me in six cans of Dr. Pepper that she had brought up from the Doctor’s Lounge/Area. 🙂 She put them in one of the cupboards and then just told me to let her know whenever I needed ice!
I seriously had the BEST nurses ever during this hospital stay. With Titan’s delivery and that hospital stay I remember liking the nurses well enough and not having any issues with them but I wouldn’t say they were outstanding or especially memorable. (And I do remember my night shift nurses not being very personable.)
The nurses I had here at UPMC though were INCREDIBLE! They seriously went above and beyond the entire time we were there. Of course, to be fair to the nurses at Ti’s delivery, maybe it’s just easier to give more personalized attention in an area where there aren’t TONS of births every day? I think they had 4-5 births the morning/afternoon I was induced here and that was a pretty busy day for them. Pretty sure hospitals in Utah do that many deliveries sometimes in one hour… 😉
Sunday morning Broc had to do rounds. (He was off Friday and Saturday but decided to trade for the Sunday morning shift because he figured he’d be at the hospital any way and it’s only a couple hours.) While he did rounds I hung out with Chayse, showered, relaxed and enjoyed my few remaining hours of having nurses and hospital staff around to take care of everything.
Another thing I enjoyed about this hospital stay is that they weren’t kicking us out at 9:00 or 10:00 am. (I know someone people don’t like staying at the hospital but I like the quiet, the help, etc.) They asked if I wanted lunch and I was surprised because I thought we would have to clear the room before then. The nurse told me I could stay as long as I wanted and even stay for dinner and the 10:00 pm news if I really wanted. (Again, not sure if that’s how they are with all patients or not, but it was nice not to be stressed about having to get out of there by a certain time.)
While the thought of staying longer was enticing, especially since Broc had to work a 16 hours shift the next day, we decided to leave right after lunch. We missed Titan and figured we had imposed on his babysitters enough already. Plus, I knew I’d only be on my own Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then my mom and sister would be flying in to help! YAY!
Getting ready for the car ride home. Chayse was not a fan of her car seat (and still really isn’t)!
Luckily she calmed down once we got her all in and settled.
First photo at home with big brother!
On the way home we swung by the Stevens and grabbed Titan. Apparently he had just gotten home from going to church with them and changed into his “comfy” clothes immediately upon getting back to their place which is why we are seeing the Sonic pajamas…again! 🙂 Our little man took full advantage of the fact that mom wasn’t around to tell him that we only wear those in the house…and at night…and one time per week! 😉
And that is the end of the Chayse’s birth story! It took almost eight weeks to get written and it’s not perfect, but at least it’s written and most the details are recorded.
If you have mad it through the last post and this one, thank you for sticking around and reading. I’ll admit, both of these posts were more for our sake than anyone elses. So thank you for humoring them.
