Our first time out

Yesterday was our first time out of the house. We had my first doctors appointment. I checked out good except the Dr. Said I might should get my femelem snipped. It might be attached a little too much. It's easier to do it now then later. We stopped at dads work and the ladies cooed a cawed over me. Then we went to Lowes to get some bead board for my pictures. Afterwards grandma Bishop wanted some food so we stopped at Subway. I was hungry too so mom held and bounced me while in line ordering her sandwich. When we got to the truck mom went to change my
diaper and realized it was a blowout. I got it on moms shirt. Thankful we were headed home next.

We took some pictures when we got home (yellow and turquoise). Later that night grandpa Bishop and dad installed the garage door opener so mom can start parking in the garage.

Arrival of our baby girl

Aubree Paige
8/23. 9lbs. 4oz. 22 in. long

We schedualled to induce Aubree on Thursday the 23rd. She was holding out not wanting to come. We had already tried to go walking and it would really only get the contractions going for a few plus hours and then die off again. She needed an eviction nudge with pitocin :-D

We checked in at 5am. It might have been 6 or 6:30 before they got the pitocin hooked up to me. At about 7:30 the Dr. broke my water. That sure felt like I just peed on the table. At this point they could tell the amiotic fluid was darker then normal so she had merconiom (poop) in there. Also somewhere in here they put me on oxygen to help keep baby's heart rate up during the contractions. I went a good number of hours before the pain was becoming unbearable. I kept trying to ask them if they might have an idea as to how long I might have so I would know if I should get the epidural. Ryan was trying to help me to go without it just because of the risk. I bore through a little bit more as I was having them check my dialation to see if things were changing. There were two times in a row that I was a 7 so then I kind of made up my mind to get it.

I dialated to an 8 but she wasn't dropping so they were giving me a heads up that she might be a bigger baby, it may take a while longer and a slight chance that we may need to do a c-section. At that point I said bring on the epidural. It was 1:15 when they administered it to me. It felt like 5 or so strong contractions after that and then I think they started to feel better.

At 2:20 I was an 10 so it was time to start pushing. I pushed on most contractions for about 2ish hours but her head wasn't coming past my pelvic bone. At this time they confirmed that in fact she was a bigger baby with a bigger head. Thankfully her heart rate was steady and strong or that would have surely sent me to the operating room. The Dr. said we have one last chance to try to avoid c-section and that was forcepts. He would us the forcepts to bring her head towards my back while I did the pushing to get her out. I had two contractions, so 8 pushes, to give it my last shot using the forcepts. SO glad I already had the epidural. Before I started pushing with the forcepts the Dr. finished preparing the delivery table. And called in the baby nurses along with two women from NICU, just in case because of the merconium in the amiotic fluid. This gave me some hope that she might be coming.

I pushed with all my might, and down she came. I was able to feel her head before she came out fully. Then I knew she was going to have more hair then I did. I was very relieved that I chose to get the epidural (because of the length of time and her being bigger caused me to tear) and that I didn't have to get a c-section.

Next time I SO am getting induced sooner if things are looking the same as they did with her.

The other picture is her I n the swing so mom could get some rest.

Due Dates are Evil

Why do I say that they are Evil?  Well because if you go past them then you just get anxious.   I really actually wanted to have her at least a day early so that I wasn't sitting around on Sunday and thinking "today is her due date".  Well I guess I jinxed myself because I got to do just that.  Right before Sacrament meeting Ryan go up to go get a tithing envelope and as I sat there by myself I kinda got sad (and glad no one approached me or I would have broken down).  I collected myself and tried not to think about it too much.   I didn't want to break down in front of any of these new friends of mine in the new ward.  Of course since I'm the size of "about to pop" I got asked about a handful of times "no baby yet?".   Thankfully I had my sad moment earlier and was able to joke with them.

Since baby hadn't come yet Ryan wanted to wait till he got a few things done at work today before baby came.  The things that he does at work are some things that no one else at the office knows how to do.  So tonight we'll go walking abound in our neighborhood.  I just ate some spicy Macayo sauce with TCT's to see if that would help at all.

Next time around I think I prefer to have a general due time, not a date.  So for instance I'd rather be on the "oh she's due about mid August so that I'm not anticipating that specific date.  Yes I know that the date is a general date but it's still not fun making it to that date still not having her in my arms.

Oh and we are still trying to find someone to fulfill our lease for the rental property :-(  Not fun!  I really could use that money elsewhere.  A fixing or replacement of my hearing aides would be nice they have been on the downhill for a bit.  Or even if not them, put it towards the truck.  That would be $200 less a month in bills if we had that paid off :-D

Cleaning the Fridge and Baby Hand Me Downs

I love all the extra closet space but I realize how much junk we have and how quickly we fill up spaces in this house. 

Mom was going to come up with Mike and Debbie, but there was a change in their plans so it was only Mike coming up and then going back down to get Debbie one last time.  It was a bum deal.  Mom was pretty sad.

I was going to have her help me clean out an old fridge, put together babies room, the studio, and help my make some freezer meals. 

So I spent yesterday for and hour cleaning the fridge, but didn't want to inhale anymore cleaner haha.  Now I just need to do the shelves that are on the ground.  I was a fridge that was left in the house Mike bought and was all moldy.  Gross!  I still don't think that I want any water or ice out of that machine.  Maybe we can get it moved into the house now so that I don't have to walk out to the other fridge in the garage every time I want a drink or anything out of it.

I spent today washing and cleaning the baby hand me down items and gross again.  The car-seat that I got was nasty.  I still need to hose/scrub out the plastic part of it and the base.  It will almost be good as new after that.  The vibrator seat thankfully still at least vibrates, I'm still crossing my fingers on the swing cause it looks almost new but hopping it swings (I think it was Tara's).   The bassinet was worth the cleaning cause it wasn't near as dirty, and the vibrator/music thing on it works great. 

I decided that hand me downs on items are great if your willing to put forth the effort to cleaning it out haha.  It's prepping my for cleaning out all  of her blowouts and puke (dealt with both before, but now it's all me). 

It's even more fun feeling her moving around now.  I'm not sure exactly why, but it's a little more noticeable that it's either and arm or a leg.  Getting anxious to see her :-D  but getting a little more nervous for labor (less than three weeks, that's if she's not late).  Yikes! Oh and the Doctor checked me on Monday and said that I was only dilated to a 1 but my cervix is starting to thin which is good.  So I didn't put myself into labor moving.  Though I do get a Braxton Hick every morning when I roll over to get off the bed. My whole tummy turns into a hard ball haha.  I've also had a few contractions here and there, kinda feels like menstrual cramps but they extend even higher up my tummy.

And the blinds were hung...

We moved out stuff into our new house over the past weekend and the beginning of this week. We had a lot of helpers from the new ward help us unload stuff into the garage. I like Ryan's thought process of just have them help to put it in the garage. Though this time it was helpful to have them bringing some of it into the house and help put a few the bedroom furniture back together. Mike was here to help us load and unload over the weekend and load on Monday evening but not unload. I knew I wouldn't be able to help Ryan so it was nice to have them bring some of it up. Even then I get really tired and also sore around my tail bone when walking too much especially up and down those stairs too much. One guys especially helped out a fe times and I told him that I want to make him and his family dinner one night in the near future because there was one night that it was just him helping and we had the TV and our mattress. Two things Ryan would not be able to do on his own. If it weren't for him we would be sleeping on the couch that night.

On Friday and Saturday I was installing the blinds because that was something I knew I could do while the guys loaded heavy boxes into the house and garage. We did faux wood blinds on the main level, and the master with mini blinds in al the rest of the rooms. I just hung the last one in the babies room. I knew I could hold off of the ones that were upstairs and people couldn't peek in them.

We spent our first night in the house on Tuesday night. It kind of felt like Christmas in a way, just being able to live in our new house.

We still need to finish up grabbing a few last things (two book shelfs, and a few odds & ends), cleaning, and yard work over at the rental. We thought we had a guy to take over our lease but he's having a little trouble having the management company verifying his employment. I'm kind of nervous because I really don't want to have to come up with the extra money and loose our deposit.

Prego info: I love my new oval tub! It's much easier to shave my legs. Also it was kinda of funny my new neighbor has seen me going in and out of the house bringing more stuff over here and she teased "you're going to put yourself into labor". I hope not, so whenever I feel tired I take a break and sit for a while. One night I was kind of cramping so I decided to sleep in quite a bit that next morning. Take it easy.  She has been stretching out recently, I can feel her pushing downward and also into my ribs.  This pregnancy has gone really smooth so far, the only thing I've been told was to up my iron intake so I go some iron pills and then I got a urinary infection so I got a prescription for that.  My next appointment is on Monday so I'll see it the prescription took care of it and if I have started to dilate.  I also have been taking a little bit of magnesium cause there was one night were I had two charlie's horse's in a night.  I think it's because I got stuck in stop and go traffic a couple of times in our stick shift Jetta (I don't drive a whole lot right now).

There is still so much too do to get our house a little more livable, and quite a few more things I still need to go get to be ready for baby. Also I need to wash the hand me down items. So grateful for all the hand me downs. As long as they all work I don't need to buy a car seat or stroller, swing, bouncer, play mat for the ground, etc. Also I have quite a few cute clothes from Tara so I don't have to go out and buy a lot of clothes. I still need more diapers but I don't want to buy too many since I've heard either your baby is a Pampers or a Huggies baby meaning their body shape will determine if they have less blowout with a certain brand.

Anniversary - Ryan has been working very hard this past week moving the house so he was exhausted so we decided to have pizza ordered in. I set out the nice dinnerware set and candlesticks to make it a little more romantic. Though since it doesn't get dark all that early here the blinds can only block out so much light. Candle lit dinners are better during the winter and will be easier now that we have a place of our own. Ry isn't much of a romantic so it never really turns out quite like I have in my mind, but it's the attempt that counts. I know that he likes when I go out of my way to do something like this (cause he's told me before), it's just hard to read him because he's not great at expressing it.

Great Week

It's a great week. We signed the closing paperwork for our house yesterday and we should be getting our keys today. Our house is all a shambles since we have boxes everywhere hehe. But it's nice that we don't have to go very far for this move so some of the stuff I'm not even boxing. I'm going to pull my drawers out have Ry and Mike load it and then put the drawers back in. Then for the kitchen stuff set them in a box drive it over and then put them in their place. Yesterday was Ryan & I's 4th anniversary. We didn't do anything yet but plan to do something next weekend since this weekend we are planning to move. Yesterday was also one month left mark until baby's due date. It's also nice to know that I qualified for super preferred rate for life insurance even in my third trimester when all my numbers are supposed to be off. :-D Then at church it's fun to hear when people say I look good with my preggo belly but it's especially nice to hear someone say "your all belly" (got that one yesterday) :-D. That's what I wanted to be but I'm not quiet that. I can't even get some of my pants up past my thighs. Maybe next time. But it sure is nice to hear it. Makes you feel better. It is fun to tease with my nurse about the weight though. Last time I started to step on the scale and it paused at 92 lbs and I joked "I'll take that number", but then said "that would be very unhealthy". I don't really get down and out about it too much though. I know baby is healthy and I've been looking forward to having a little one of my own for a long time. That's all that really matters.

Prego 34 wks

Prego facts, just so I can remember them. It's not easy to get up when prego and forget about laying on your back on the ground. It hurts (my tail bone) lying there and to move to try to get up. Though my back is my favorite sleep position, used to be my side. Cross your legs when you need to sneeze if you don't want a leak. When sitting it feels better to lean back slightly or with your knees not so close. Shaving legs and tying shoes are a bit of a task. Hold your tummy if you ate too much cause the stretch marks (just got them this week) hurt when you move.

The goods: It is fun feeling her move around. I like trying to guess if it is her head feet knees arms. I'm not sure if I'm ever correct or not. Though I did guess right on her head being upright at my last appointment. :-D She is sometimes most active or so it seems when I'm lying down for bed or in the morning right after a bathroom break.

I can't wait to see what she looks like and to hold her. I'm glad we are in the moving process because I think that I'd be super anxious to see/meet her, but since I want to get settled in the new house before she comes I'm content (waiting patiently). I want the photo stuff all in the extra room before she comes so that I can capture her sleepy tiny self.