My baby! My baby is three months old today. My how time flies. I'm pretty sure I say that every time...
There has been lots of cooing and "talking," so many smiles. I love how happy and excited she becomes when her big eyes find me! I love that she loves me because I love her!
We've also been having a special bath time. I never did this with A but I'm enjoying it with V. We just sit in the tub and I lay her on my tummy and let her splash and kick. She has so much fun that she does this for a good 45 minutes to an hour before being done. No laughing (yet!) but you can tell that she absolutely loves it.
She holds herself up like a champ, her head when I hold her myself, and her whole body when I have her stand on my knees. She's also getting really good at tummy time and even tries to sit up in her car seat. She's even been trying to roll over. But nothing yet.
That's okay, stay small, teeny tiny. At least for a little while.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Leap Day
Today is Bryan and my 8th anniversary of becoming engaged. You can read about our engagement story here or watch a very awesome song that I posted last year here.
I'm very thankful for my hubby. He's a good man, a hard worker, a loving father, and a caring and thoughtful husband. I'm very blessed.
I love you Bryan!!
And yesterday V had her two month check up. That was hard. She absolutely hated her shots and it was so hard for me to have her go through that. It was painful. Her cry, oh my word, it was so sad.
She hasn't grown too much since she was born, she's now 10 lbs 5 oz (a little over 3lbs more than her birth weight) and 23 inches (3 inches longer).
Her milestones are:
-Lots of cooing
-Smiles, smiles, and more smiles
-Responds well to loud noises
-Makes eye contact with me when I talk to her
-Holds her head up like a champ
-Very active kicking her legs and wiggling
I love her baby girl. She is beyond the sweetests thing in this gloomy weather.
I'm very thankful for my hubby. He's a good man, a hard worker, a loving father, and a caring and thoughtful husband. I'm very blessed.
I love you Bryan!!
And yesterday V had her two month check up. That was hard. She absolutely hated her shots and it was so hard for me to have her go through that. It was painful. Her cry, oh my word, it was so sad.
She hasn't grown too much since she was born, she's now 10 lbs 5 oz (a little over 3lbs more than her birth weight) and 23 inches (3 inches longer).
Her milestones are:
-Lots of cooing
-Smiles, smiles, and more smiles
-Responds well to loud noises
-Makes eye contact with me when I talk to her
-Holds her head up like a champ
-Very active kicking her legs and wiggling
I love her baby girl. She is beyond the sweetests thing in this gloomy weather.
Friday, February 24, 2012
2 months today 9 weeks tomorrow
Baby V is two months old today! She is getting so big. Her 2 months check up is on tuesday so I'll know then what she weighs and how long she is. I'm excited to find out how big she's gotten. But not excited for her shots.
So happy two months baby V!!
So happy two months baby V!!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Well over a month
My darling baby is now 5 weeks and three days old. Oh my, how time flies. The days have been glorious. Tough learning how to deal with a three year old while soaking in my new babe. Finding the opportunities to clean, spend time with each kid, finding time for myself, time for the hubby, when to run errands. It's all a whole new territory.
Today the three of us ran to T@rget and I almost forgot my wallet at the check out because of V crying and A dilly-dallying around! Life with two is NUTS! But I wouldn't change a thing.
Tomorrow the four of us are going to check out a pre-k for Miss A. She has been begging me to start school. I didn't want to start her in January right after V coming along because I didn't want A to think we were tossing her out for the new babe. But she still begs me.
It seems like a nice school. A friend's kid attends and a lady from church works there. So we'll see what we think of it when we look into it in the morning.
As for tv, I'm into a few new shows that I've just got to mention. Bryan and I are watching Once Upon A Time and we love it. It's about Fairy Tale characters being placed under a spell taking them from their world to ours. So far so good. I'm really bad about watching things on Netflix so I have a hard time waiting to watch the next episode a week later! But I'll just have to wait.. *sigh*
Another is Glee. I know. Don't hate me. Someone mentioned it on FB and I thought I'd see what all the hubbub was about. I love the singing! Such beautiful voices. However, the plot is sorta dumb but funny and lame but intriging all at the same time. I watched both season 1 and 2 in like 4 or 5 days and now have to wait for season 3 to start over or come to Netflix. I wanna know what happens! Ok, shoot me now.
Grimm. It's intriging and entertaining. Bryan and I really dig it.
And the last is Downton Abbey. EVERYone seems to be talking about it and I've only heard good things. I started watching a couple episodes but I wasn't sure I liked it or not. So a lovely friend of mine and I were talking about it the other day and she urged me to keep going with it. So I did and now I'm addicted. I watched the first season on Netflix and went to watch another episode only to find that was the end of the season and I have to start season 2! Only problem is they already started season 2 on TV so I have to wait. But OH! Lovely friend found that it's on the computer at PBS.org!! Lovely friend rocks. So I'll have to pry the computer away from my hubby as soon as he returns home from Worship practice.
And last Saturday my bf Emily threw a Sip&See for V and me. It was so lovely. People could just come and love on V, I could chat with grown-ups, and we could all sit around and sip hot cocoa (or tea) and munch on the goodies that Em made. It was fabulous. And other than having to nurse poor V about 5 or 7 times I think I enjoyed it more than a baby shower! Ok, maybe not. They're both awesome in their own right. But it sure was fun.
Tomorrow is a dear friend of Bryan and mine's birthday. She'll be 82!! She is a good friend of ours because she is the first person who really welcomed us at our church when we first came. We've been friends with her for over 5 years! My how time flies.
Wait... didn't I already say that?
Today the three of us ran to T@rget and I almost forgot my wallet at the check out because of V crying and A dilly-dallying around! Life with two is NUTS! But I wouldn't change a thing.
Tomorrow the four of us are going to check out a pre-k for Miss A. She has been begging me to start school. I didn't want to start her in January right after V coming along because I didn't want A to think we were tossing her out for the new babe. But she still begs me.
It seems like a nice school. A friend's kid attends and a lady from church works there. So we'll see what we think of it when we look into it in the morning.
As for tv, I'm into a few new shows that I've just got to mention. Bryan and I are watching Once Upon A Time and we love it. It's about Fairy Tale characters being placed under a spell taking them from their world to ours. So far so good. I'm really bad about watching things on Netflix so I have a hard time waiting to watch the next episode a week later! But I'll just have to wait.. *sigh*
Another is Glee. I know. Don't hate me. Someone mentioned it on FB and I thought I'd see what all the hubbub was about. I love the singing! Such beautiful voices. However, the plot is sorta dumb but funny and lame but intriging all at the same time. I watched both season 1 and 2 in like 4 or 5 days and now have to wait for season 3 to start over or come to Netflix. I wanna know what happens! Ok, shoot me now.
Grimm. It's intriging and entertaining. Bryan and I really dig it.
And the last is Downton Abbey. EVERYone seems to be talking about it and I've only heard good things. I started watching a couple episodes but I wasn't sure I liked it or not. So a lovely friend of mine and I were talking about it the other day and she urged me to keep going with it. So I did and now I'm addicted. I watched the first season on Netflix and went to watch another episode only to find that was the end of the season and I have to start season 2! Only problem is they already started season 2 on TV so I have to wait. But OH! Lovely friend found that it's on the computer at PBS.org!! Lovely friend rocks. So I'll have to pry the computer away from my hubby as soon as he returns home from Worship practice.
And last Saturday my bf Emily threw a Sip&See for V and me. It was so lovely. People could just come and love on V, I could chat with grown-ups, and we could all sit around and sip hot cocoa (or tea) and munch on the goodies that Em made. It was fabulous. And other than having to nurse poor V about 5 or 7 times I think I enjoyed it more than a baby shower! Ok, maybe not. They're both awesome in their own right. But it sure was fun.
Tomorrow is a dear friend of Bryan and mine's birthday. She'll be 82!! She is a good friend of ours because she is the first person who really welcomed us at our church when we first came. We've been friends with her for over 5 years! My how time flies.
Wait... didn't I already say that?
Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Long(er) Version - part III
My doctor came in to check on me for the second time. She checked my dialation (I got up to 5.5 cm dilated all on my own before the epidural, yay!) and then asked if I wanted her to pop my bag of waters. I asked her if it was necessary and since she said no so did I. I figured it would pop when it was good and ready.
After she left I curled up with my really cozy blanket that I brought from home, got some chapstick on my lips, and shivered while I rested. After a while I thought maybe I had wet myself since I couldn't really feel anything. My nurse checked me and lo and behold, my bag of waters broke. Woot!
The nurse asked if I was starting to feel any pressure. I told her that I thought so. When I had A I couldn't feel anything let alone the need to push because the epidural was just that strong but I could definitely feel pressure with Miss V. She didn't want to check me since my bag of waters had broken so she wouldn't cause an infection. She decided to call in the doctor and wait for her to check me.
Once the doctor came back she checked me and sure enough I was at a ten. By this time it was about three in the morning and it was time to push.
Both my Dr. and my nurse asked again if I was feeling pressure and I was pretty sure that I was. And so I pushed. I pushed with all that I had. With A I didn't know if I was pushing right or not. I couldn't feel it at all and so I couldn't tell but this time I was either going to have a baby or a bowel movement.
As with A, V's heart rate kept dropping but this time I wasn't so numb that I couldn't move at all so they asked me to switch to my side to try to get her heart rate back up. It worked so I went back onto my back to push some more. After pushing her heart rate dropped again. So I went to my other side then back to the right side. Her heart rate went back up so again I went back to my back to push.
This time after pushing when her heart rate went down they had me get on my hands and knees to try to rotate her in case she was on the placenta (I think). That was a task with very numb and heavy legs but I did it. Her heart rate went back up so I went back to my back to push again.
At some point they had removed the monitors they were using and had changed it out for the one that they put into the baby's head. I wasn't very happy about this when I learned about it later on but what can you do? I thought the beeping sound of her heartbeat was from a different machine since I hadn't heard it before but I really didn't think anything about it at the time.
So, I pushed and I could tell my doctor was going to do everything she could so that I could have this baby naturally before a c-section was even an option. She didn't talk much but what little she did say was very calm and straight forward.
For whatever reason, I wasn't pushing her out on my own. The doctor informed me that she needed to do an episiotomy. I asked if she was going to do a pressure episiotomy which, at the time, I didn't think anything of it. All my reading about a natural birth must have stuck because it's best to get a pressure epi... if you don't already have an epidural. So, now I laugh at myself for having asked that question. My doctor must have thought I was a goob for asking such a question but she was good enough to not make me feel stupid for it.
With the epi only helping and not fully doing the trick the doctor informed me that she would need to suction my baby. Thankfully she only had to do it once because with that second to last push her head was out. One final push and my sweet baby was here.
And she was beautiful. The doctor held her up so I could see her right quick before the nurse took her to suction her. It felt like eternity for them to let me hold her. I remember thinking, "She doesn't need to be cleaned up, I just want my baby!"
But while they did that, one of my favorite moments was Bryan coming up to me, with tears in his eyes, telling me that I did it. I did it.
Soon my baby was in my arms and I just cuddled her, loved on her, kissed her sweet mucusy covered head. I was in love for the third time.
It wasn't the dream labor and birth that I had wished for. It didn't go perfectly planned having to need an epidural, the monitors, an episiotomy, and for them to suction her head to get her out. I didn't get to watch in a mirror or sit up to be able to see her come out. I didn't get to hold her right away since she had a bowel movement in the womb. I didn't get to latch her to get the placenta out.
But..
I also didn't have to have a c-section. I didn't have to be knocked out for them to stitch me up while they completely cleaned her up before getting to see her.
I did get to see her after my doctor held her up. I did get to hold her pretty close to right away. I did get to cuddle her while my doctor fixed me up. I did get to be awake and concious the entire time. And I did get the pleasure of being the one to announce her name.
Violet Grace
7 pounds 3 ounces
December 24, 2011
3:47 am
After she left I curled up with my really cozy blanket that I brought from home, got some chapstick on my lips, and shivered while I rested. After a while I thought maybe I had wet myself since I couldn't really feel anything. My nurse checked me and lo and behold, my bag of waters broke. Woot!
The nurse asked if I was starting to feel any pressure. I told her that I thought so. When I had A I couldn't feel anything let alone the need to push because the epidural was just that strong but I could definitely feel pressure with Miss V. She didn't want to check me since my bag of waters had broken so she wouldn't cause an infection. She decided to call in the doctor and wait for her to check me.
Once the doctor came back she checked me and sure enough I was at a ten. By this time it was about three in the morning and it was time to push.
Both my Dr. and my nurse asked again if I was feeling pressure and I was pretty sure that I was. And so I pushed. I pushed with all that I had. With A I didn't know if I was pushing right or not. I couldn't feel it at all and so I couldn't tell but this time I was either going to have a baby or a bowel movement.
As with A, V's heart rate kept dropping but this time I wasn't so numb that I couldn't move at all so they asked me to switch to my side to try to get her heart rate back up. It worked so I went back onto my back to push some more. After pushing her heart rate dropped again. So I went to my other side then back to the right side. Her heart rate went back up so again I went back to my back to push.
This time after pushing when her heart rate went down they had me get on my hands and knees to try to rotate her in case she was on the placenta (I think). That was a task with very numb and heavy legs but I did it. Her heart rate went back up so I went back to my back to push again.
At some point they had removed the monitors they were using and had changed it out for the one that they put into the baby's head. I wasn't very happy about this when I learned about it later on but what can you do? I thought the beeping sound of her heartbeat was from a different machine since I hadn't heard it before but I really didn't think anything about it at the time.
So, I pushed and I could tell my doctor was going to do everything she could so that I could have this baby naturally before a c-section was even an option. She didn't talk much but what little she did say was very calm and straight forward.
For whatever reason, I wasn't pushing her out on my own. The doctor informed me that she needed to do an episiotomy. I asked if she was going to do a pressure episiotomy which, at the time, I didn't think anything of it. All my reading about a natural birth must have stuck because it's best to get a pressure epi... if you don't already have an epidural. So, now I laugh at myself for having asked that question. My doctor must have thought I was a goob for asking such a question but she was good enough to not make me feel stupid for it.
With the epi only helping and not fully doing the trick the doctor informed me that she would need to suction my baby. Thankfully she only had to do it once because with that second to last push her head was out. One final push and my sweet baby was here.
And she was beautiful. The doctor held her up so I could see her right quick before the nurse took her to suction her. It felt like eternity for them to let me hold her. I remember thinking, "She doesn't need to be cleaned up, I just want my baby!"
But while they did that, one of my favorite moments was Bryan coming up to me, with tears in his eyes, telling me that I did it. I did it.
Soon my baby was in my arms and I just cuddled her, loved on her, kissed her sweet mucusy covered head. I was in love for the third time.
It wasn't the dream labor and birth that I had wished for. It didn't go perfectly planned having to need an epidural, the monitors, an episiotomy, and for them to suction her head to get her out. I didn't get to watch in a mirror or sit up to be able to see her come out. I didn't get to hold her right away since she had a bowel movement in the womb. I didn't get to latch her to get the placenta out.
But..
I also didn't have to have a c-section. I didn't have to be knocked out for them to stitch me up while they completely cleaned her up before getting to see her.
I did get to see her after my doctor held her up. I did get to hold her pretty close to right away. I did get to cuddle her while my doctor fixed me up. I did get to be awake and concious the entire time. And I did get the pleasure of being the one to announce her name.
Violet Grace
7 pounds 3 ounces
December 24, 2011
3:47 am
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