Well, this is more for me than anyone else, but if you are interested you can read this. It is essentially what I remember from L&D two weeks ago. I don't really want to forget it and I may want some of it for a baby book at some point, so I want to get it typed up now. Chris has A, and I've got a few minutes of missing sleep I can do for this. I've slept off and on all day, so we'll see how I sleep tonight...
We started out Monday the 16th as usual -- getting up way too early to get Chris to the train. I was having contractions about 30 minutes apart on Sunday night, so Chris wanted to time them when we got up in the morning. We realized they were much closer than we thought -- about 10 minutes apart so Chris decided that he was staying home to help me since it seemed a hospital trip was imminent. There is already a post on here about that morning so I'll basically pick up from there...
About 1130 we went for a walk because it was a BEAUTIFUL day outside. Plus walking and changing activities is supposed to help you know if you are in "false labor" or "real labor". We took our walk on the pond that I normally run by across the street. We saw a Mallard family that had three ducklings. I wanted to get close enough to take a picture but the Mother Mallard hid the ducklings in the grass since the water is so high and I couldn't get them on camera. We cut the walk a bit short as walking was increasing my contractions. As we were getting close to the street I felt a small pop in my abdomen and said, "I think my water just broke," because that was the only thing I could think of to say. When we got home I checked to see if it was amniotic fluid or urine (since that's a common mistake). It looked like water and didn't really have a smell, so Chris thought it was the amniotic sac. I wasn't sure so I wanted to wait around and see what happened. We ate lunch and Linda came over. We went for another short walk about 130 and I got more fluid to come out. Once we got back from that walk Linda and I played some Mario Party until I decided maybe it really was my amniotic sac that broke and I rang the OB office. While calling the OB office I found it very odd that of the "options" there wasn't one for, "I think I'm in labor." In fact, when I finally got a person to speak to, they were like, "Why are you calling this number, but let me connect you to a nurse." When I told the nurse what happened, she agreed that my bag of waters had probably broken and that I needed to get to the hospital ASAP. We got to the hospital about three.
At the hospital I got "triaged" in L&D. We walked in and I said, "I think my water broke." The nurses were like, "When is your due date?" I answered, "Today" and you could see them thinking, "well, we do this all the time and she'll be going home." The nurse triaged me and took a few samples. Apparently amniotic fluid crystallizes, so they do a quick pH test as well as a couple of slide tests to see if crystals grow. Crystals are supposed to take 5-10 minutes. The pH for me wasn't right, but the slides showed crystals in about 2 minutes so the nurse came back in to the room and said, "You're getting admitted." This meant that I was on the clock since you only get 24 hours after the amniotic sac breaks for the baby to get here, and often after about 16 hours the doctor goes in for the baby.
We started the admission stuff while the nurses attempted to start and IV since I needed antibiotics and the electrolyte solution since I was no longer allowed to eat. During the admission stuff I had to educate my nurses about eosinophilic disorders, and the proper way to start an IV. Apparently I have tough skin and veins that roll. I told them this and told them that typically IVs end up in my hands. They wanted me to have my hands free so that when it came time to push I could easily, but after three sticks they called an anesthesiologist in to start the IV for them. He put it in my hand and then asked if I was a phlebotomist since I knew so much about the IVs. They also called in a lab person to draw blood because the nurse wasn't going to have any part in trying to stick me again. I was having contractions but they were simply causing me to efface, not to dilate.
At shift change we got a new nurse, Jackie, and our friend Laurie (a mother/baby nurse) was also there off and on all night. About seven Jackie came in and said they were going to start pitocin. This was a problem for me because I really wanted everything to be as natural as possible. I didn't want drugs and felt that my body was getting mixed signals since I was having mild contractions and this was a major hurdle for me mentally and emotionally. By about 8 we had the drip going, so I now had three bags attached to my IV pole. The pitocin contractions started getting bad and all of a sudden I had the urge to go clear my bowels, this was probably 830-900. Jackie let me go since I was only dilated to a 2. By about 1030 I had dilated to a 4 and deemed in "active labor." From then on the contractions started coming rather quickly and it seemed like I would only ever get a minute or two break between contractions. Both Chris and Jackie were helpful in getting me through a few of the later contractions.
At one point, the time completely escapes me, but it was probably 12-1230 on May 17, I had the urge to push. I remember telling Jackie this and she said she needed to check me for dilation, she estimated me to be about an 8. She kept telling me to breathe through the contractions but that I had to take shallow breaths. What seems like a few minutes later I had the pushing urge again and she once again checked me, I was at a 9 and change. Apparently you could already see hair though, so baby was coming, and coming soon. At this point the room became rather active and I remember hearing, "get the doctor in here." Jackie had me give a "little" push at this point to see if I'd complete the dilation and hit 10. It worked and baby was intent on coming. I also remember hearing that the doctor was finishing up another labor and would be a minute. This meant that I had to "not push" through several more contractions. This is probably the most difficult thing to do. Jackie and Chris both tried to give me breathing patterns to get through it, but I ended up kind of laughing almost, but the artificial laugh more than a true belly rolling laugh. When the doctor came in I finally got to push! The first contraction I almost knocked the doctor and the baby nurse to the ground. I had missed the pegs. Chris at this point was asked to help hold one of my legs -- a job he had repeatedly said he NEVER wanted to do. The doctor also helped coach me through the next contraction and wanted me to put my hands on the inside of my knees versus on the hand holds to help me push. That was contraction #2 of pushing. Then the doctor told me to both hold my breath and stop arcing my back during the pushing. I did this for contraction #3. At the end of the third big "push" the doc told me to try one more, and out came Alexis. I didn't have to push for shoulders or anything else after that. She was immediately screaming and fussy and I got to see her before they cut the cord. Chris did cut the cord, and the Alexis was dried off, weighed & measured before being put on my chest. The doc sewed my minor laceration up and kept telling me not to move my legs that were shaking worse than any run I've ever done. I also kept having to move them since I had a bit more feeling and my back was a bit uncomfortable. He tried giving me a local anesthetic that didn't really do much seeing as I could feel the threading and stitches going in.
We tried to breast feed and Jackie helped me do a couple of "holds" that were difficult simply because I had so many machines attached to so many different parts of me. Alexis latched quite well though to both sides with all the different holds and Jackie gave me a few pointers. Jackie also gave me a lot of numbers as to how many people come in and get the pitocin and end up with an epidural. Apparently I am one of a few who managed a pitocin induced labor with no epidural as well. I did have a mg or two of an IV opiod anesthetic, but that was towards the end and really to take the edge off the never ending contractions.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
June?!?
I've got about 15 minutes to sit so here's a quick re-cap of the past week and change... I know I should be sleeping, but I've got breakfast (banana bread) in the oven and want that more than sleep. Plus hopefully Miss A will sleep again later today (chances are good) and I'll catch some sleep then.
Grandma Sehorn and Cathy were supposed to come up last Wednesday, but ended up having canceled flights due to O'Hare shutting down. There was dense fog here but that's the only thing that we can figure out would shut down the airport.
Thursday Susan (Chris' mom) came to visit and stayed through yesterday. Well, we saw her last on Monday as her flight left early yesterday, but she came and visited. We had a good visit and managed to do a lot of nothing except caring for A (and me after I got sick).
Chris's birthday was on Saturday, so we went to our favorite Brazilian steakhouse -- Chama Gaucha -- with a few friends. It was nice to get out. As always, people were shocked with A, her being quiet, and her head of hair. Oh, and shocked that I'm the mom since apparently I don't look like I just evicted a baby from my abdomen. We had a lot of fun and they brought out both Chris and A "Happy Birthday" desserts.
Monday we went to the outlet malls and Chris bought some "grown up pants" as he calls them. Basically real pants, not jeans. He now has three new pairs of pants that fit very well and a new shirt. We took A (because we can't go anywhere without her these days) and started off with her in the backpack carrier. She ended up getting really hot since Chris was carrying her, though she could have gotten quite warm with me carrying her as well since Memorial Day was the hottest it has been all year (we hit 90, something we did a handful of times last summer). After Chris got his pants though we finished the circle and Chris just carried A on his arm. It was quite neat to watch all the women and girls look at the two of them. He would basically part the crowds and Susan and I simply followed in his wake. All the oohs and ahhs were impressive. I've never been that impressed by little people so I don't get it, but I do get the "dad carrying around his baby girl" as being a great thing. :)
The days have basically been about the same as "normal" these days -- A wakes up, nurses, goes back to sleep. While she sleeps she makes a diaper and we either sleep or get something done (like me making banana bread). She wakes up eventually and either wants to eat or for us to change her diaper, which we oblige. Then she wants to either nurse or have her diaper changed, and goes back to sleep. One thing we've done is basically go entirely to cloth diapers these days. A was having trouble with the disposable ones (even the sensitive ones from the hospital) so we've started her on little gpants. We're hoping she'll be big enough for our stash of one size diapers soon, but as a mom, I've got to say, I don't want it to be too soon. I both want her to be big and able to tell me what's wrong as well as stay small and cuddly for a while.
Anyway, I've got a timer about to go off so I should go. I hope all is well with everyone wherever you happen to be.
Grandma Sehorn and Cathy were supposed to come up last Wednesday, but ended up having canceled flights due to O'Hare shutting down. There was dense fog here but that's the only thing that we can figure out would shut down the airport.
Thursday Susan (Chris' mom) came to visit and stayed through yesterday. Well, we saw her last on Monday as her flight left early yesterday, but she came and visited. We had a good visit and managed to do a lot of nothing except caring for A (and me after I got sick).
Chris's birthday was on Saturday, so we went to our favorite Brazilian steakhouse -- Chama Gaucha -- with a few friends. It was nice to get out. As always, people were shocked with A, her being quiet, and her head of hair. Oh, and shocked that I'm the mom since apparently I don't look like I just evicted a baby from my abdomen. We had a lot of fun and they brought out both Chris and A "Happy Birthday" desserts.
Monday we went to the outlet malls and Chris bought some "grown up pants" as he calls them. Basically real pants, not jeans. He now has three new pairs of pants that fit very well and a new shirt. We took A (because we can't go anywhere without her these days) and started off with her in the backpack carrier. She ended up getting really hot since Chris was carrying her, though she could have gotten quite warm with me carrying her as well since Memorial Day was the hottest it has been all year (we hit 90, something we did a handful of times last summer). After Chris got his pants though we finished the circle and Chris just carried A on his arm. It was quite neat to watch all the women and girls look at the two of them. He would basically part the crowds and Susan and I simply followed in his wake. All the oohs and ahhs were impressive. I've never been that impressed by little people so I don't get it, but I do get the "dad carrying around his baby girl" as being a great thing. :)
The days have basically been about the same as "normal" these days -- A wakes up, nurses, goes back to sleep. While she sleeps she makes a diaper and we either sleep or get something done (like me making banana bread). She wakes up eventually and either wants to eat or for us to change her diaper, which we oblige. Then she wants to either nurse or have her diaper changed, and goes back to sleep. One thing we've done is basically go entirely to cloth diapers these days. A was having trouble with the disposable ones (even the sensitive ones from the hospital) so we've started her on little gpants. We're hoping she'll be big enough for our stash of one size diapers soon, but as a mom, I've got to say, I don't want it to be too soon. I both want her to be big and able to tell me what's wrong as well as stay small and cuddly for a while.
Anyway, I've got a timer about to go off so I should go. I hope all is well with everyone wherever you happen to be.
Monday, May 23, 2011
What a Difference a Week Makes
So this past week has been one of the best, most exhausting weeks for all three of us now. I keep thinking that I'll sit down and write up the labor story, as I'd really like to, but always end up wanting to sleep and that takes a bit of priority. Right now I'm waiting on the wash to finish so I can grab a nap while A sleeps. She's currently in a milk coma on my chest so the years of bad typing practice with one hand are coming in handy.
A was born last Tuesday (May 17) very very early (107 am). She was punctually on her due date (well we had both May 16 and 17 given to us as due dates) and we stayed in the hospital until Thursday. We were admitted to the hospital last Monday as my water broke when we went for a short walk. Every one has been shocked by the amount of hair she has -- from the nurses to the people we saw as we were leaving the hospital to the people at church. She weighed 7.53 lbs (about 7 lbs 8 ounces) and was 19 inches long. Most of last week is a blur for both Chris and me as we were up for over 24 hours Monday and then with me being in the hospital and Chris sleeping at home yet bringing me food, it all went by rather fuzzily. It is a good fuzzy, but fuzzy nevertheless. It was stressful for all, so I suppose fuzzy is to be expected.
Chris has started going back into work most days, for at least a few hours. He doesn't like having to leave us here, but is willing to to help us all get into a routine. I feel really badly that I have to stay home some days while he goes to work, but someone has to keep working in this family. He continues to have interviews and is talking with several people about a possible job change, so pray that something good comes through. There are a few possible things up in the air right now, and a couple that would be perfect.
While I don't like Chris leaving for the day, it helps me to have the time alone with A and get organized on how to do things at home versus in the hospital. It is quite nice to not have her taken for vitals every few hours and she is slowly learning to sleep through the night. While we were in the hospital she was in my room except to have her vitals taken since we were learning to breast feed and all. Right now she is waking up hungry about every three hours, so we're excited about that. She doesn't seem to do much except sleep, but that's normal for someone just a week old. She is overall a quiet baby thus far, hopefully it will hold out. She doesn't really complain about much and doesn't even seem to have a "witching hour" that infants are known for. She simply likes to sleep, nurse, and cuddle. She seems to be a non-picky cuddler who will cuddle with anyone if given the chance. She'd cuddle with the nurses at the hospital even, so that's excited news! Granted she occasionally will want me (and is starting to want Chris) over other people, but that's okay with us for now.
One thing we've had to do is change from the disposable diapers to cloth diapers. There were a couple of days in the hospital where her bum looked kind of irritated with the diapers. Now that we've got her home a lot of the diapers just made it worse. It didn't really matter if we let her go diaperless for hours at a time, any time we'd put a new diaper on her, the skin wouldn't be happy at the next diaper change. I was looking at doing cloth diapers as soon as she can fit into all-in-ones, so we were more or less ready for this type of thing. Chris though is the one who really pushed for trying out the cloth diapers now, as opposed to waiting, and he really likes them. I like them too, but most importantly, A seems to like them as she's not having any trouble with irritated skin at all.
This coming week several members of Chris's family will be coming to visit, so there will be lots of pictures I'm sure to share. We're excited to see everyone and to share A with family. Anyway, I've now had this sitting at my computer half of the day (so I'm learning to not be obsessive about things) and need to go feed myself so that I can feed Alexis. Then she'll probably go into another milk coma. Hopefully she'll be awake some of the day though, particularly the part when Chris is home so that we can play a bit with her!
A was born last Tuesday (May 17) very very early (107 am). She was punctually on her due date (well we had both May 16 and 17 given to us as due dates) and we stayed in the hospital until Thursday. We were admitted to the hospital last Monday as my water broke when we went for a short walk. Every one has been shocked by the amount of hair she has -- from the nurses to the people we saw as we were leaving the hospital to the people at church. She weighed 7.53 lbs (about 7 lbs 8 ounces) and was 19 inches long. Most of last week is a blur for both Chris and me as we were up for over 24 hours Monday and then with me being in the hospital and Chris sleeping at home yet bringing me food, it all went by rather fuzzily. It is a good fuzzy, but fuzzy nevertheless. It was stressful for all, so I suppose fuzzy is to be expected.
Chris has started going back into work most days, for at least a few hours. He doesn't like having to leave us here, but is willing to to help us all get into a routine. I feel really badly that I have to stay home some days while he goes to work, but someone has to keep working in this family. He continues to have interviews and is talking with several people about a possible job change, so pray that something good comes through. There are a few possible things up in the air right now, and a couple that would be perfect.
While I don't like Chris leaving for the day, it helps me to have the time alone with A and get organized on how to do things at home versus in the hospital. It is quite nice to not have her taken for vitals every few hours and she is slowly learning to sleep through the night. While we were in the hospital she was in my room except to have her vitals taken since we were learning to breast feed and all. Right now she is waking up hungry about every three hours, so we're excited about that. She doesn't seem to do much except sleep, but that's normal for someone just a week old. She is overall a quiet baby thus far, hopefully it will hold out. She doesn't really complain about much and doesn't even seem to have a "witching hour" that infants are known for. She simply likes to sleep, nurse, and cuddle. She seems to be a non-picky cuddler who will cuddle with anyone if given the chance. She'd cuddle with the nurses at the hospital even, so that's excited news! Granted she occasionally will want me (and is starting to want Chris) over other people, but that's okay with us for now.
One thing we've had to do is change from the disposable diapers to cloth diapers. There were a couple of days in the hospital where her bum looked kind of irritated with the diapers. Now that we've got her home a lot of the diapers just made it worse. It didn't really matter if we let her go diaperless for hours at a time, any time we'd put a new diaper on her, the skin wouldn't be happy at the next diaper change. I was looking at doing cloth diapers as soon as she can fit into all-in-ones, so we were more or less ready for this type of thing. Chris though is the one who really pushed for trying out the cloth diapers now, as opposed to waiting, and he really likes them. I like them too, but most importantly, A seems to like them as she's not having any trouble with irritated skin at all.
This coming week several members of Chris's family will be coming to visit, so there will be lots of pictures I'm sure to share. We're excited to see everyone and to share A with family. Anyway, I've now had this sitting at my computer half of the day (so I'm learning to not be obsessive about things) and need to go feed myself so that I can feed Alexis. Then she'll probably go into another milk coma. Hopefully she'll be awake some of the day though, particularly the part when Chris is home so that we can play a bit with her!
Friday, May 20, 2011
A Pictures
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| Just after delivery before they really cleaned A off |
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| Just after the first bath given by our friend Laurie. |
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| Proud papa holding his daughter. She's only a few hours old here. |
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| Ready to go home |
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| Hanging out on dad's lap after he got home from work. |
Monday, May 16, 2011
Maybe it is time...
Well, the past weekend was eventful. We had some fun on Friday thinking I might actually be in labor, but no such luck. However, on Friday Ripley dropped like a cannon, so all the contractions and such were very much worth it. I can breathe again, and I'm no longer really being kicked in the ribs. :) I managed to make a couple of loaves of bread since the weather was cool enough that I didn't mind turning on the oven. Go nesting instinct!
Saturday we kind of hung around and tried to see if we could start labor or not. We made some cinnamon rolls to put in the freezer for the next few weeks. Ripley really needs to get here simply so that we can get rid of some of the food in the freezer that I've been working on for the past few weeks. Saturday night we went to Jessie and Jason's for Jason's "surprise" 30th party. Everyone was shocked to see me, but it was nice to get out and about. Everyone kept going, "You look great" to the inevitable question of, "when are you due again?" with my answer simply being, "Monday."
Sunday we went to church for the early service, since we were up and all. I suppose that officially makes us old if we go to the early service to get it out of the way. It was weird getting up and going to church on Sunday as we've been going to Saturday night services for about six months or so now. It was also quite interesting to see how the room filled as when we started there were probably 50 people there, but ended up with 100-150 or so I imagine.
Now we're up again and Chris is staying home. I'm piddling around as I have contractions that are fairly regular. Chris decided that he would stay home since we'll probably end up with a Ripley today. That means this may be my last post for a bit. I'll try and get some pictures up if nothing else. Hopefully this is it though! Now we're going to be parents. We're excited and ready for it, so the waiting game may finally be over. Overall the pregnancy hasn't been horrid or really all that bad, just annoying more than anything. For me the jury is still out on it being "worth" it, but Chris is super excited, which does help in the "worth" it category. He's sitting there attempting to nap currently while I piddle and say, "okay, here we go," wait a bit and then, "good." Had we known this was going to happen this morning, we would have slept in some, but Chris was going to try and go to work. He was curious about how I was doing so we started timing, little did we know they were quite close together and regular. Anyway, I'm going to do some laundry and such since I probably won't have a lot of time to do that over the next few weeks. I hope that all is well with you!
Saturday we kind of hung around and tried to see if we could start labor or not. We made some cinnamon rolls to put in the freezer for the next few weeks. Ripley really needs to get here simply so that we can get rid of some of the food in the freezer that I've been working on for the past few weeks. Saturday night we went to Jessie and Jason's for Jason's "surprise" 30th party. Everyone was shocked to see me, but it was nice to get out and about. Everyone kept going, "You look great" to the inevitable question of, "when are you due again?" with my answer simply being, "Monday."
Sunday we went to church for the early service, since we were up and all. I suppose that officially makes us old if we go to the early service to get it out of the way. It was weird getting up and going to church on Sunday as we've been going to Saturday night services for about six months or so now. It was also quite interesting to see how the room filled as when we started there were probably 50 people there, but ended up with 100-150 or so I imagine.
Now we're up again and Chris is staying home. I'm piddling around as I have contractions that are fairly regular. Chris decided that he would stay home since we'll probably end up with a Ripley today. That means this may be my last post for a bit. I'll try and get some pictures up if nothing else. Hopefully this is it though! Now we're going to be parents. We're excited and ready for it, so the waiting game may finally be over. Overall the pregnancy hasn't been horrid or really all that bad, just annoying more than anything. For me the jury is still out on it being "worth" it, but Chris is super excited, which does help in the "worth" it category. He's sitting there attempting to nap currently while I piddle and say, "okay, here we go," wait a bit and then, "good." Had we known this was going to happen this morning, we would have slept in some, but Chris was going to try and go to work. He was curious about how I was doing so we started timing, little did we know they were quite close together and regular. Anyway, I'm going to do some laundry and such since I probably won't have a lot of time to do that over the next few weeks. I hope that all is well with you!
Friday, May 13, 2011
No Bake Oatmeal Cookies
As an easy thing to do I'm going to start experimenting with no bake cookies. I will probably be using oats as my main starch, though some other simple stuff may also be thrown in. I want to try a pb version of these, maybe tomorrow, maybe use more pb over milk?
Today I started with a recipe from the site I get my oats from: www.glutenfreeoats.com. It is a variation of their no bake cookie so here it is:
1/2 C butter
2 C sugar (I used 1 c vanilla sugar and 1 c regular sugar)
1/3 C cocoa
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 C cream (I used cream instead of milk since we need to get rid of our cream)
1 TBS vanilla
3-3 1/2 C oats
Melt the butter in a pan. Add the sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, and cream. Continue stirring until the mixture just boils. Add in the vanilla and remove from heat. Stir in the oats (I'd like to try adding in the oats while it is still heating to slightly cook the oats, but I imagine one would need more water to do that). Drop by spoonfuls on a cookie sheet (I also used parchment paper over a cooling rack since I couldn't reach the cookie sheets easily, and it seems to work fine.) If the mixture is "runny" then add more oats. Let them cool. Store for future enjoyment.
This recipe is stupidly simple -- it took me 20 minutes from start to finish. You could also make it with regular oats and it would taste the same.
A couple of notes:
1) The oats seem to be pretty crunchy in these, so adding more moisture and then letting them cook may work to soften them up some. Maybe substituting agave nectar for the sugar would also work -- that would also make the quite diabetic friendly -- as well as giving the solution more moisture.
2) I added a few too many oats I think and the cookies just kind of crumbled.
3) Don't really try and roll the cookies, that just causes them to crumble more. This may be because there were too many oats, so you can try it however you can.
Today I started with a recipe from the site I get my oats from: www.glutenfreeoats.com. It is a variation of their no bake cookie so here it is:
1/2 C butter
2 C sugar (I used 1 c vanilla sugar and 1 c regular sugar)
1/3 C cocoa
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 C cream (I used cream instead of milk since we need to get rid of our cream)
1 TBS vanilla
3-3 1/2 C oats
Melt the butter in a pan. Add the sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, and cream. Continue stirring until the mixture just boils. Add in the vanilla and remove from heat. Stir in the oats (I'd like to try adding in the oats while it is still heating to slightly cook the oats, but I imagine one would need more water to do that). Drop by spoonfuls on a cookie sheet (I also used parchment paper over a cooling rack since I couldn't reach the cookie sheets easily, and it seems to work fine.) If the mixture is "runny" then add more oats. Let them cool. Store for future enjoyment.
This recipe is stupidly simple -- it took me 20 minutes from start to finish. You could also make it with regular oats and it would taste the same.
A couple of notes:
1) The oats seem to be pretty crunchy in these, so adding more moisture and then letting them cook may work to soften them up some. Maybe substituting agave nectar for the sugar would also work -- that would also make the quite diabetic friendly -- as well as giving the solution more moisture.
2) I added a few too many oats I think and the cookies just kind of crumbled.
3) Don't really try and roll the cookies, that just causes them to crumble more. This may be because there were too many oats, so you can try it however you can.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Ready, Set, Wait!
This past week has been quite full. We've managed to get a lot of stuff done and ready for Ripley, now we just need a Ripley.
The biggest thing we've accomplished is getting everything ready in Ripley's room. We now have everything put together and are just working on "stocking" it with what we'll need for a baby once it gets here. We managed to get the recliner into the room as well, so hopefully that will be great for night time feedings and whatnot. We shall see. Here are two pics of the room though. We've got some ideas on what else needs to happen, but for now, we have to wait and see how everything works with Ripley.
We are in the days of waiting for Ripley though which means we're both quite excited. We're looking forward to being three instead of just two, despite our qualms. We're quite thankful to everyone who does reassure us that it really is an okay decision and that it isn't as scary as we might think.
We finally are getting spring here as well. We didn't get a ton of rain this past week, so that means everything has really greened up. It helps that we're getting a TON of sunlight each day though -- by about 445 it is starting to dawn, and twilight starts about 8. As always, we still have a few more weeks until the summer solstice, so soon it will be really really hard to sleep with the light outside. As always though, hopefully this summer makes up for the winter in terms of wonderful weather. This year it will be nice to go out with a baby and enjoy the weather.
Anyway, I'm going to finish doing some stuff in Ripley's room before I take a quick nap and really get my day going. I hope everyone has a great day!
The biggest thing we've accomplished is getting everything ready in Ripley's room. We now have everything put together and are just working on "stocking" it with what we'll need for a baby once it gets here. We managed to get the recliner into the room as well, so hopefully that will be great for night time feedings and whatnot. We shall see. Here are two pics of the room though. We've got some ideas on what else needs to happen, but for now, we have to wait and see how everything works with Ripley.
We are in the days of waiting for Ripley though which means we're both quite excited. We're looking forward to being three instead of just two, despite our qualms. We're quite thankful to everyone who does reassure us that it really is an okay decision and that it isn't as scary as we might think.
We finally are getting spring here as well. We didn't get a ton of rain this past week, so that means everything has really greened up. It helps that we're getting a TON of sunlight each day though -- by about 445 it is starting to dawn, and twilight starts about 8. As always, we still have a few more weeks until the summer solstice, so soon it will be really really hard to sleep with the light outside. As always though, hopefully this summer makes up for the winter in terms of wonderful weather. This year it will be nice to go out with a baby and enjoy the weather.
Anyway, I'm going to finish doing some stuff in Ripley's room before I take a quick nap and really get my day going. I hope everyone has a great day!
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