Our new baby!

Well, let me start this incredibly long post with a disclaimer. It is long :). Feel free to quit any time. And I know that baby posts can be a sensitive topic for some people. Believe me, I've been there. I just want to give fair warning before I start it all so just in case you aren't interested, you can quit now. :)

Ok. So now for the novel. :) So here I am pregnant. I was so so grateful that I had such a healthy pregnancy especially after my miscarriages last year. I was already a nervous wreck the whole time. I would probably would have been admitted if I had actually had any problems. haha! :). Luckily there were none. This was taken 2 days before I got induced, so you get the idea of how BIG I got.

Anyway. I'll probably be glad to have those pics much later down the road. So my situation with this Sweet Pea was a little sticky when it came to going into labor. I had to have a c-section with Dozer because he was too big to fit. I really really wanted to try a VBAC this time because I would not be able to even try a vaginal delivery if I had 2 c-sections. So this pregnancy was my only chance to try. My doctor said that he would just keep an eye on her weight to see how things got closer to the end. If she got too big, then we might have to have a c-section anyway. Which would have been fine. I just wanted a healthy baby. So as I started getting closer to my due date, she kept getting bigger and bigger. The kicker was, that you are not supposed to induce someone with a previous c-section because ptosin makes your contractions much harder than natural ones and increases the chances of uterine rupture at the c-section scar. So I was a little stuck. Wait until I go into labor and possibly need a c-section because she is too big to fit, or make an appointment for a c-section. I really wanted to try VBAC so I decided to wait. Well, then I got a little lucky :). I was having lots of contractions for 2 weeks prior to my last appointment. Nothing that was close to labor, but they were still doing their job. I was 90% thinned and dialated to 3-4 cm. My doctor said that that looked really good and that I should do really well with induction. He tried to get me into the hospital on saturday, but it was booked full! Apparently the birthday 9-10-11 was a hot commodity. So the soonest they could get me in was tue night :(. It doesn't seem so bad now, but man having to wait 3 extra days was NOT what I had in mind. But I didn't have much of a choice. I tried all sorts of stuff over the weekend to put myself into labor, but none of them worked :(. So my hubby took me into the hospital tue night at 8pm. (let me tell you how long THAT day was.) I was all hooked up and got started at 9pm. They start the ptosin at a 2. which is as low as it goes. The highest setting is 20 u/min. After a while they bumped me to 4. Then my dr came in and broke my water. I know from experience that breaking water=very painful contractions. So I asked for an epidural because I'm not that into experiencing severe pain. Just then, the anesthesiologist sticks his head into my room and asked if I wanted an epidural. He had a c-section to go to and was wondering if I wanted it now or after. wow, what a nice guy! Now please! So by 11 pm I had my epidural, was up to 6 on the ptosin, and dilated to a 5. So now I just get to sit and wait. Who knows how late this was going to go. My luck all night. haha! So I'm just waiting at this point and texting a few people. But I start to feel really sick. Like really sick. I am shaking like I've been sitting in ice water, and I feel like I'm going to throw up. I asked my hubby to bring a trash can over in case I threw up. And also, I'm starting to feel the pain of the contractions. And I am pushing my "extra meds" button as often as I could. I even wondered if I had come unhooked because it was getting so painful. Then my nurse comes in, checks things, looks at me, and says that I don't looks so hot. I told her I felt awful. So she said I might be transitioning and that she would check me. I'll never forget the look on her face! haha! she checked me and I was completely dilated. I went from a 5 to a 10 in an hour! No wonder I was so sick and feeling so much pain! She turned down the ptosin to 2 again to give me a break and gave me some zofran for the nausea. Wow, I felt SOO much better! I had been wondering how in the WORLD was I going to make it through this delivery feeling like this!??! Thank you western medicine! Then they just let me sit for an hour and let the contractions push her down further before I had to start pushing. And also at this point I'm going completely numb because I had pushed the button so many times :) It felt great :) I finally get to start pushing, and it was so amazing! She was moving, her heart rate didn't drop, I couldn't feel it, It was pretty thrilling. Then she was down far enough that they got the dr and the nurses for the baby. I pushed 2-3 more times and the dr pretty much had to catch her when her head came through. They cleaned her off on my stomach. I got to hear her cry. I got to hold her on my chest. It was so beautiful. I just cried :). The births of my children and my wedding day are my most favorite days of my life. The nurses took her at that point and cleaned her off, weighed her and such. And she was just a screaming! :) And she also pooped all over me and the nurses. Haha! It must have been some story because every nurse on the floor knew about it. Then I got to nurse her after I got all fixed up. What a bonding moment. :) And I didn't get a picture of us in the hospital! :( These are in the hospital though. Here's my baby girl!

My mom says she looks like me, but i think she looks like her brother :).

Heck yes that is a pink John Deere blanket!! It was made by one of my close friends :) She is so so amazing! The blanket was a huge hit too! All the nurses loved it!

Very first day home from the hospital :). I just want to point out the super cool punk/poison blanket i made!

First couple days back from the hospital. The little pink bow was made by another of my close friends :) It is so cute! I need to buy outfits to match the bow instead of the other way around!

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Compare this....
to this!!! I think some resemblance yes?

I am having too much fun with a girl!

Little fingers :)

And little feet :)

Super slouch :) This was on sunday. We didn't go to church, but I still wanted to put a dress on her.
This is the bow that goes with that dress :)






Shot of her hair
We gave her a sponge bath and it made her hair all fuzzy :) too cute!

This was the first time Dozer showed any interest in Sweet Pea. He got so giggly when we tried to get him to hold her! It was so cute! I wish my hubby would have been home for these pics though :(

The reason I even look presentable in these is because it was her first check up with the dr. She was at 7 lb 14 oz 5 days after delivery. They only need to be at birth weight by 2 weeks, so she is gaining weight well!

And I took these today. Again the flower was given to me :) I am one lucky girl!

This is how she curls up at night after she nurses :) Melt my heart!

Over all she is a great baby. She is a great nurser. She nurses ALL the time. I try to get her on some sort of pattern or schedule, and she just doesn't care! I'm debating whether its worth the fight or not :). She doesn't like to be put down at all. Which makes me feel bad for Dozer :( I hope he doesn't get too attention deprived. She sleeps well when I can get her to sleep. I just love my two kids so much. My little family is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I don't know how I could survive without them!