6 month picture bomb!

Happy 1/2 birthday Ellie!

Weight: 17 lbs. 14 oz. 85%
Length: 26 1/4 in. 70%
Head circumference: 42 cm 45%


On November 12 Ellie turned 6 months old. I really wish time would slow down a little! There have been so many changes is such a short amount of time. She is developing quite the personality! It's so cute. She laughs and talks so much. She is really getting the hang of playing with her toys and really enjoys doing that. She is sitting up on her own now. I will put the boppy pillow around her so that she can't just fall back and hurt herself when she gets tired.She is also rolling over from her back to her belly. She started doing that a while back, I think I wrote a post about it. She's not crawling yet (thankfully :)), but I have a feeling that she will be pretty soon. We really need to get a move on baby proofing our home! She is eating more solids now. So far she really likes sweet potatoes, sweet carrots, squash and peaches. She's not too fond of rice cereal, but she will eat it if I mix in one of the veggies with it. She's also eating anywhere from 4 to 6 oz. at a time. Her favorite things to do are playing with her daddy, bouncing in the bouncer that hangs from the door frame, talking, sucking on her pacifier, and riding in the stroller. The things she HATES are once again that nasal aspirator, public restrooms and the doctors office. I think that the sound of the toilets flushing in public restrooms scares her. She is a ton of fun and cute as ever!

Real cloth diapers!

I am thinking about trying to use cloth diapers to save a little money. They are pretty expensive, so I am taking the cheaper route and making my own. I've made 2 so far. I think that my second one will work much better than my first one. I guess we will see how well they work soon!

Mommy and Ellie pictures

Today my mom took me and Ellie out and took our pictures. I didn't have any pictures of the 2 of us that I liked so this was something that absolutely needed to be done! :)

Ellie was very cranky! She didn't really want to get her pictures taken today.

So I sang to her. That makes everything better!


I even got her to smile a little bit!

My first experience with cloth diapering.

Okay, so I just have to write a blog post on what happened today. It's just too funny! Well I had to change Ellie's diaper today, like always, and I found that I only had one diaper left. I started to put it on her and she decided that that was the perfect time to start going potty. I didn't know what to do so I decided to make my own diaper. We have some of those flat cloth diapers here that we normally use as burp cloths. I put that on her, but I knew that she needed something to go over the cloth diaper so that her car seat didn't get soaked. The only thing that came to my mind was a garbage bag, so I cut one and tied it on her. Luckily she didn't go potty before we bought her diapers because I don't know how well this diaper would have worked. Below are some pictures. :)

4 months!

Ellie is 4 months old now! She's a big girl too. At her last Dr. appointment she weighed in at 15lbs 13oz which was in the 90 percentile, and her height was 24 2/3in. long. She is hitting all of her milestones right on time and is very healthy! Once again it was sad to see her get her vaccinations, but she reacted great and was back to her happy self a few hours later. She is showing more of her personality all of the time. She will just "talk" to anything for long periods of time. It's so cute. She laughs a lot more too. We are on a great schedule now! She takes all of her naps without a fight! I put her in her crib, give her her pacifier and she is out. Every once a while she will pull it out on accident so I'll have to put it back in her mouth, but that isn't a problem for me. She will usually sleep for about 45 minutes at a time. She has been going to bed earlier too. She used to go to bed at around 10:30 P.M. and would sleep for about 8-9 hours. Now she is going to bed at 7 or 8, waking up after sleeping for about 8 hours to eat, then sleeps until about 7:00 A.M. It is nice to have some time to myself in the evenings. I can get a lot of stuff around the house taken care of.

Sorry!

I'd like to apologize if I offended anyone with my last post. I wasn't trying to put down other parenting types, in fact I think they are great! I was just tired of other people putting me down for the way I am parenting my little girl.

Mommy pressure

Before having Ellie I was so excited that I wouldn't have to work (you know, the type of job where you get paid). I looked forward to making my own decisions on how take care of my baby, and I wouldn't have to worry about other people putting me down for the way I raised my baby. Now that I am a stay at home mom I have learned that it is a lot harder than I expected. Don't get me wrong, I love staying with my baby all day everyday. There is just so much more pressure. I do get to choose what to do with my cute little girl, but I have learned that everybody thinks they are baby experts. I'm just going to make a list of all of the things some people think are wrong.

Some people think it is bad to:
be induced
have an epidural
have a c-section
feed your baby formula
get you baby vaccinated
let your baby watch any amount of T.V.
use disposable diapers
let your baby cry at all
put your baby in a crib
use a swing or stroller to help your baby sleep
let your child eat any solids before the age of 6 months (including rice cereal)

I'm sure there are more things to write, but that's all I can think of right now.

So I got my labor induced, had an epidural, feed my baby formula, got her vaccinated, I let her watch some T.V., I use disposable diapers, I've had times where I couldn't get Ellie to stop crying, I don't co-sleep, sometimes I take Ellie for walks in her stroller just because I know she will fall asleep, and I will start feeding her solids as soon as her pediatrician tells us it's okay.

So as you can see, I am a terrible mom (I'm being sarcastic).

To me what really matters is that Ellie is happy and healthy! I don't neglect her in any way, and she is very loved!

Now I have vented and I am going to move on and continue enjoying my baby. Judge away!

2 & 3 month stats

So I have neglected my blog once again, due to this cute little baby that I get to play with all of the time. She has changed so much this past couple of months! She is such a cute and happy little girl!

2 months:
weight: 12 lbs 4 oz
length: 22 3/4 in.

Ellie started sleeping through the night! She hasn't stopped since then! I consider myself to be EXTREMELY lucky because I have heard that only a small percentage of babies do this at this age. If only nap time was that easy! She was and still is hard to get to sleep during the day. She seemed to get very fussy at around 4 P.M. and would continue to be fussy until bed time. One the bright side she started smiling at us. She started out just smiling at her Daddy, but did eventually start smiling at me too. There was one night I was putting her to bed and she was just looking at me and smiling. I went to close the door and she had stopped smiling for a little bit. As soon as I got back her face lit up and she started smiling again. It was so sweet. She started cooing a little as well. We packed up her bassinet in the middle of the month and started using her pack n play. I'm sure she would have done fine in her crib, but I wasn't ready to sleep in a separate room. She became a big fan of baths. She will calm right down when we put her in her little tub. She ate 2-3 oz. every 3 hours.

3 months:
weight: about 14 lbs
length: around 24 in.

Ellie is really talking a lot now! She loves when I make different sounds. She gets really excited when i say papa, click my tounge and make kissing noises. She also loves "singing". One day we were riding in the car and I heard her making her noises. When I turned the radio down she stopped, but she started right back up when I turned it up again. She will also sing with me. She started giggling. It is the best sound ever! She also rolled over for the first time 2 days before her official 3 month b-day :). I was very surprised. I wasn't expecting that to happen at all! She is still sleeping through the night with no problem, but needs extra help taking naps during the day. I have now noticed that she gets tired after being awake for about an hour. Things that help her fall asleep are rides in the stroller, and rocking her to sleep. I can't put her down though. She will wake right up and won't go back to sleep. She eats 4 oz. every 3 hours.

1 month old!

I can't believe Ellie is already 1 month old! The time has gone by pretty quickly. It has taken a while to adjust to having her here, but I think we are getting the hang of this parenting thing. Sometimes it can be tough, usually just when she is crying and I can't figure out what is wrong, but it is usually good. She has really grown! She was 7 lbs 4 oz. and 19 in. when she was born. Now she is about 9 lbs and 21 in. She still fits into most of her newborn clothes, but some are getting a little tight! She is such a sweet little baby. She is very cute, even when she cries. She loves being held, cuddled and talked to. She is also starting to like swinging in her baby swing. She hates being put down so this is a great thing! Every once in a while she will even fall asleep in it. When she is wide awake she will sit in it quietly for about 5-10 minutes before she starts crying. When she is done swinging it is pretty hard to get anything done because she thinks that she has to be held. I can tell you that I get plenty of T.V. watching in most days! Sometimes I'll have to get Steven to hold her so I can do something so I don't go crazy :). Besides being put down, some of her other dislikes are baths and the nasal aspirator. She is slowly getting better with the baths though. Hopefully soon she will like them. She sleeps very well during the night. She usually only wakes up once or twice for a diaper change and quick feeding and goes right back to sleep. This is the only time she will let us put her down in her bassinet.

Another recalled item...

Last week I had received a couple gifts for Ellie. One of these gifts was an Infantino baby sling. It was purchased at the Other Mothers store. We were excited about it and decided to put Ellie in it to try it out. I thought that we had to have put her in it wrong because it looked like she could suffocate very easily. I got online today to see if I could find the proper way to put her in it and I discovered that this type of sling was recalled in March of this year! We did put her in the right way. I guess that some other babies had suffocated while using this product! This is the second time I have had a recalled baby item that was purchased at a children's resale store. The first time we bought a stroller/car seat combo from Kidz Again. The car seat had been recalled. We took it back to them and got our money back. They were very willing to work with us and seemed very embarrassed by there mistake. I know that this was from 2 different stores, but I remember seeing this same sling at the Kidz again store not too long ago. I have decided that I will only buy clothing items from these stores from now on. If any of you shop at these stores in the future, make sure you look certain items up to see if they are safe! They say that they look every item up before putting it out, but they obviously miss certain items.

Our first church adventure!

Today we decided that Ellie and I would go to sacrament meeting. I let Steven go to all 3 meetings thinking that it wouldn't be too difficult to get Ellie ready and then to hurry and get ready myself. Well, I was pretty wrong about that! Ellie had woken up more last night than she normally does. For some reason she has only been having 1 Bowel movement a day for the past 3 days. Because of this I think that she had a tummy ache. Anyway, this morning I changed her wet diaper and got her dressed all cute for church. After changing her diaper I fed her. She was happy for a little while and then started acting hungry again. I fed her again and held her for a while. Finally I felt a little rumble and she had a small B.M.!! Who ever knew I'd be so excited to change a poopy diaper! After changing her diaper she fell asleep so I strategically put her in her car seat so that I wouldn't have to wake her up to put her in it later. I had 15 minutes to take a quick shower, get ready for church, and to get to church by then. I took a quick shower, got dressed and did my hair then Ellie woke up and started crying. I picked her up and fed her a little more. She had fallen asleep again, but I could tell that she really needed her diaper changed. She was very messy this time! I almost got her cleaned and was getting her a new diaper when she started urinating. Now there was urine all over the place so I had to do her laundry. As I was doing that she started crying again. I took her out to the rocking chair, finished feeding her and she happily fell asleep. Finally we were ready to go! I looked up at the clock and it was 11:30. Church had just ended. Maybe next week we will actually make it to church.

Elizabeth Mae

On Wednesday, May 12 at 8:11 P.M. our adorable little girl was born!!! She weighed in at 7 lbs. and 4 oz. She is such a sweet little baby!

I went in to be induced that day. I think that was a great choice for me. We were scheduled to go in at 7:00 that morning, but got a call at 6 saying to call them back later on in the morning to see if they still had room for us. We were pretty scared that we were going to have to wait to have her another day. We were already prepared to go in that day. We would have had to wait until next week if that happened. When we called them a little later, they said to come on in at 9:00. We were pretty excited about that. When we got there the nurse took us to our room and got things started! She had a hard time finding a good vein to put the IV in. She had to poke me twice. Once she did that she was able to hook me up to the pitocin. It didn't take long for that to start working. My doctor came in shortly after that and broke my water. That is a weird feeling. The nurse had to keep coming in to up the amount of pitocin because I wasn't feeling enough pain at first. My doctor said that I could start my epidural whenever I wanted to. I wanted to see how the labor contractions felt first. That didn't last too long when they really started to hurt. I was a little nervous about the epidural because I heard that the needle is really big. Getting the epidural put in was nothing compared to the contractions. It is also the best thing ever invented. After it started to work I didn't feel any pain. I actually hadn't felt that good in months. I went through that part of labor until about 7:00 P.M. when I was finally allowed to start pushing. I was determined to get my baby out and I only had to push for close to 45 minutes. The pushing part was the hardest part of labor with the epidural. It did hurt when she was almost out. Everything was better when she was completely out though. I was so happy to see her. They handed her right to me and wiped her off. She was very alert. She didn't seem to want to cry at first. I don't think she really started crying until they put her little hat on :) She still doesn't cry a lot today. Hopefully it stays that way!
Having a little baby is so wonderful, but it is both emotionally and physically draining. Ellie was very good with feeding when we were at the hospital. Everyone was so impressed. When we got home she ate twice and then she suddenly stopped. She wouldn't even open her mouth. I decided that we should at least try feeding her with a bottle. She still wasn't having it. We took her to see the pediatrician the next morning and they had a tough time figuring out what was going on. Finally the nurse put her finger in her mouth, pushed down on her tongue and Ellie started sucking. It was like she forgot how to suck. It was weird. When they weighed her she was 6 lbs and 12 oz. We have been on quite the feeding schedule since then. She had a hard time eating enough at first. We really had to work at getting her to eat 1 oz every 2 hours. The goal is 2 oz every 3-4 hours though. I got her to down 2 oz one night, but she puked that all up. She is improving though. She is even ready to be breastfed again. It was weird because she suddenly started looking for it again yesterday.

It is hard to sleep at night too. Even when she is sleeping well. I am always so nervous that something will happen to her. Hopefully I will learn to sleep a little better soon. I really need to learn to take naps during the day. It is really hard to stay awake when feeding her in the evenings.Well other than the stressful things that have happened, she has really been fun to have here. She is the prettiest and sweetest little girl ever! I am so lucky to have her as my daughter. Steven is also a great daddy! She is lucky to have him for a father.

39 week appointment!!

I went to the Dr. today. It went well. It hurt pretty bad when he checked my cervix this time. I guess I am pretty swollen. I started spotting right away. It was okay though. When the nurse took my blood pressure I was kind of nervous because it was higher than normal. My urine sample was good though. My Dr. said that at this point in pregnancy the blood pressure gets higher easier and that it is nothing to worry about.

So... Here is the best part of today's appointment. I will be induced on WEDNESDAY!! I am pretty excited about it! I will go in at 7 A.M. and they will get things started! My Dr. said that I am a good candidate for being induced since everything is going great. My baby's heartbeat is right where it is supposed to be for a full term baby. My cervix is still 2cm. dilated, but he said that it is also soft. I'm assuming that means that it has softened all of the way. He didn't give me a percentage this time. Well that is all for now!

Getting Nervous!

So it's getting close to time for me to have Ellie and there are some issues that I have thought about that are kind of making me nervous. I hope I'm not going to sound like a mean person with this post, but I was up really late worrying about this last night so here I go... Right now our apartment is very quiet and peaceful and usually Steven and I are the only ones here. We are both somewhat private people and like our peace and quiet. I really do like to have visitors occasionally, and I would probably like to have people over a little more than we do now, but I am scared that after I have our baby everybody is going to want to be here ALL OF THE TIME! The only extra person I really want here for a while is my mom. She will come and help me with things that I need help with, but I don't know if I'd like the stress of having everyone over everyday expecting me to entertain them. I especially don't want them to take my baby from me all of the time. I think I am going to be one of those mom's that wants to hold her baby a lot. I understand that she is the first grandchild and great grandchild... but nobody comes to see me now. I know that I am probably being selfish for thinking this way, but it kind of hurts a little. Hopefully it wont be all bad and everybody will know their limits. I could just be freaking out about nothing, but I can see this stuff happening. I am really glad that everyone is so excited for her to come and that she is going to be so loved. I just hope that it doesn't turn into a stressful situation. Well I don't know if what I wrote makes any sense because I am just rambling on! I just needed to get this out. Hopefully things will turn out great and I can avoid a lot of stress. I don't want to cause any problems with my family. I really want them to be a part of her life. I'm just hoping that they will respect us.

8 days left!

This picture was taken when I was 38 weeks 4 days pregnant

Today Steven told me that he wants Ellie to be born now, so we decided to run A LOT of errands. Lets just say I did a lot of walking today. I have been told that walking helps things move along for labor. Lets hope that all of that walking will pay off! I am sure going to be sore tonight.

In a past post on this blog I had talked about a car seat/stroller combo. that I bought at Kidz again. Just as a refresher, the car seat was on the recall list and we had lost the receipt. I didn't think we were going to do anything about it so it had just been sitting in our garage for the last couple of months. Well today Steven decided that we should try to take it back and explain what had happened. They were awesome about it. They found the car seat on the recall list and apologized over and over again. They said that they normally look stuff up and make sure that they don't sell bad stuff, but somehow that car seat got skipped. They then gave us a complete refund! I was thinking that if they were going to do anything they would give us store credit or something. They kept the stroller too. It feels really good to have that taken care of. I am really glad that they were so willing to take care of the problem too, especially since we didn't have any proof that we had bought it there. We went over to babies R Us afterward and found a stroller that matches our car seat and are thinking about buying it.

We have decided that we will schedule a day to be induced if Ellie doesn't come on her own by my Dr. appointment on Monday. We have decided on Thursday. I talked to some people and I don't see anything wrong with getting my labor induced. I will only be 2 days short of my due date, so it's not like she will be coming extremely early. I am already dilated and my cervix has already thinned enough for everything to work out okay. I think one of the main concerns is that the mothers cervix isn't ready for labor, but mine is already doing what it is supposed to. I have heard about people who had to get induced really early because of medical problems and there main problem was that their cervix wouldn't do what it was supposed to. I've heard of one person being in labor for over 24 hours and her cervix only dilated to a 1, after being induced. She ended up needing a C-section. I think that my situation is completely different, so I don't think that mine will go that way. My Dr. wouldn't have even mentioned it if he didn't think it would work.

38 week Dr. Appointment

This morning I had my Dr. appointment again. It went well like always. I was pretty much measuring the same as last week, which is a good thing. My Dr. said that he thinks that I might have my baby within this week. I sure hope so! He also said that if I don't have her by next week I have the option of choosing a day to have her. I wanted to say that I was ready now, but Steven has his last two finals tomorrow and my mom has a busy week this week too. I guess that it will be good to wait if I can. I haven't heard a whole lot about getting induced so I don't really know the pro's and cons. It seems like some people have no problems with it and some people are completely against it. Everybody that I know who had their labor induced had perfectly healthy babies. I guess I should learn a little about it before making a decision to just get it done next week. If anyone knows anything about it feel free to let me know what you know!

37 weeks

What a day it has been today! I had my Dr. appointment this morning. It went well. Everything is still average! My doctor checked my cervix again today and I am now 2 cm. dilated and 50% effaced. He said that that is normal for this time during pregnancy.

I've been washing the cute little clothes that we have, and so far I haven't ruined any of them! I don't know why I've been so scared to ruin them. I don't usually have problems like that doing laundry anyway! I still have quite a bit to do today, but I need a break!

Just a little while ago I needed to use the restroom. After going I noticed I was bleeding. I was completely freaked out! I wasn't sure what was going on so I hurried to the phone and called my Doctors office. The blood wasn't heavy at all, it was just pink. It turns out that getting your cervix checked can cause spotting. I was just told to keep watching it and if it gets heavier to go straight to labor and delivery. I bet it will just stop though. I kind of felt dumb after the phone call because I was completely freaked out and I'm sure they could hear that in my voice. Now I know the difference between heavy bleeding and spotting. I used to think that spotting was when you would just have a couple of little spots of blood, but it turns out that it is when it is pink, or brown and light. That is nice to know!

Getting ready for baby

The due date is rapidly approaching so I am taking this next few weeks to prepare for her to come. I've been trying to get our apartment and everything in order and completely cleaned up. I deep cleaned the car on Saturday, then Steven installed the base of the car seat. It is nice to have that part taken care of! I've been trying to get all of the laundry here done too. I started with my laundry, so I still have to wash all of the blankets, bedding, toys and baby clothes. Then I need to clean the bassinet again. It is already all dusty. I have read that it is good to have a bag packed for the hospital. I'm still not quite sure what to pack, but I guess I should start getting all of that ready. I should probably make a list. If anyone has any ideas on what I should pack let me know! I also want to make a bunch of meals that I can freeze in advance so that I don't have to worry about cooking for the first couple of weeks after our baby is born. All I can think of making is chicken enchiladas, so if you know of any good meals that are good for freezing feel free to share them with me :).

swollen feet

The night before last when I was going to bed I took off my socks and noticed that my ankles were a little puffier than normal. I didn't think much of it and went to bed. Last night and tonight my feet and ankles are HUGE! It looks like I injured both of them. I've also noticed that my shoes feel extra tight in the evening. Pregnancy is really a miracle and in a couple of ways it is beautiful, but some of these symptoms really aren't! I feel so weird and huge! Luckily I only have about 4 weeks of this left! Then I get to meet the little girl that makes this whole thing beautiful!

short update..

A couple nights ago Steven told me that he really wanted a longer, more traditional name for our little girl. We got online and looked at baby names again and decided that Elizabeth would work perfectly. That way we can still call her Ellie for short. She is already Ellie to me so a major change probably wouldn't be okay :). So as of right now her name will be Elizabeth Mae.

Today I had my Appointment for week 35. I had to get the group B strep test done and my Dr. checked to see how far my cervix has dilated. He said that it isn't quite 1 cm. yet, but it is right where it is supposed to be at this time. He said that my body is doing exactly what it needs to for a regular delivery. It's pretty crazy that the doctors can tell just by feeling it. My little baby's head is down which is also a very good thing! I weighed the same this morning as I did at my last appointment. That is a good thing though. I kind of pigged out before going to my last appointment so I was a little heavier. I won't share how much I weigh now though. It's crazy that we only have around 5 weeks left!!

33 Weeks pregnant

What a week it has been! On Saturday I had my first baby shower in Twin Falls. It was a lot of fun. We had good company and got a lot of good stuff.This little girl is already so spoiled! I'm really glad that we don't have to worry about her going without some of the things she needs. We could have her now and would have everything we need plus some extra fun stuff. I have another baby shower in Meridian in a couple of weeks. I'm not sure where I am going to put more baby stuff, but I'm excited for it.
I had a doctors appointment yesterday and everything is still looking great. He said that in a few weeks if I go into labor, he wont try to stop it. It's crazy that we are almost done with this pregnancy. I remember that in the beginning I didn't think I was going to make it to my 8 week appointment. Now I only have 6 weeks and 4 days left!

I guess I will write down a few symptoms I've been having. Of course I've had heartburn. It doesn't bother me too much. I still eat the foods that cause it anyway. I have been having the round ligament pain. It's not too bad, but at night time when I'm sleeping and want to turn it is miserable! It hurts to turn, then when I get up in the morning it takes me a couple of minutes to start walking because it hurts. My bladder is also achy. I guess that is because my uterus and baby put a lot of pressure on it. This morning I noticed something new that I didn't realize could happen at this time. Hopefully this isn't too much information, but my body is ready to start feeding our baby. It freaked me out when I noticed it! I guess that is a part of having a baby though. Other than all of that I guess I've just been tired and anxious. I can't wait until Ellie is born. It's funny because I have her with me all of the time, but I just want to see her. It just seems different. Well that is all for now.

4D ultrasound pics/ Week 32!

My mom was so kind and paid for me to get some 4D ultrasound pics done. The first appointment was at 29 weeks, but little Ellie wasn't really cooperating so the lady had me reschedule the appointment. It was rescheduled for last week, but she had something come up and so I had to wait until today. Waiting so long was pretty rough since I have been so excited, but it was worth the wait! We went in this morning and it was great! She is pretty much the cutest baby ever! I love her little button nose and chubby cheeks!

She loves having her arms up by her face :)

Well we only have 8 weeks left until her due date approaches! I am so excited and hoping it goes by quickly. I can't wait to see her and hold her. Although the pregnancy symptoms are worth it, I won't really mind getting past all of them. It is pretty hard to move these day's and my back really hurts most of the time. I feel bored when I get home and want to do something, but my body is just so worn out after work and all I can really manage to do is sit around. When I do go out, it's only fun for a little while :S Oh well though. It will be great in a few weeks! Last night I forgot to take my wedding ring off and it wasn't going to come off this morning. I am a wimp, so I had to have Steven pull it off for me. It was quite painful! I guess I'll just have to wait until the swelling in my fingers goes down before I where my wedding ring again :( Other than all of that, everything is great!

Only 10 weeks left!!

My belly shot at 30 weeks

On Saturday I hit my 30 week mark! It's so exciting that the due date is coming up so soon! I'm really happy. I have a feeling that I will be even happier when my pregnancy is almost over. I have had heartburn almost everyday for the last few weeks. I think that every type of food is causing it. It's not too bad yet, but it is progressively getting worse. I've also been feeling a little nauseous again. Hopefully that will just go away! I am keeping my fingers crossed anyway. I do love being pregnant though. It's so fun feeling little Ellie moving around all of the time. I enjoy sitting back on my recliner and watching my belly bounce all over the place because of her.

Steven is also getting quite excited! My mom had bought Ellie a couple of teddy bears and my grandma made us a bunch of blankets. This is what I found in the crib last night:



He learned how to swaddle a baby with the teddy bears and he put a diaper on the white one. I think it is so funny.

A couple of months back I was really excited because I had found a stroller/car seat combo at a resale store for a great price. At that time I didn't think about looking the car seat up to see if it had been recalled. We were just excited to buy it. The next morning on the news they were talking about the items that you should never buy used. Then they said that you should always look the item up on the recall list before purchasing the item. I decided to look up this new car seat and of course, it was on the recall list. It is pretty old too. The defect could be fixed by calling the company and getting a new part for it, but it was ruined for me. After seeing that I just new that it would be best to buy a new car seat. We finally went and bought one today. The price was higher, but now I feel a lot better about using it for our little girl. It is really cute too.

The old car seat

The new car seat :)

week 29

I only have about 11 weeks to go! I'm so excited and I really hope it goes by quickly! I had a Dr. appointment today. I was very nervous about it because I had to do the one hour glucose test. I had previously heard that the drink was really bad. I also knew that I would be getting my blood drawn, which isn't fun for me. I think that I have already expanded on that in one of my past posts! Well it turns out that the drink isn't that bad at all. It was just really sweet. The phlebotomist was able to draw blood with no problem too! It was great. Getting blood drawn doesn't hurt when it goes strait into the vein! I loved the fact that she didn't have to dig around in my arm and then poke me again!

The last couple of weeks I have had this sharp stabbing pain near my cervix. There were two instances where the pain lasted for quite a while. I talked to some people about it to see if it was normal and none of those people had experienced it. One girl insisted that I needed to call my doctor to see what was going on. On that day the pain had lasted for about an hour so we thought that it would be best to call. I was at work when this was going on, so when the nurse called me back she heard talking and laughing in the background. She assumed that I was having fun and told me since I was at work everything was obviously okay. She told me to try a liquid form of tums. I still don't know where to find something like that, and I don't see how that could have anything to do with this particular pain. Then she said that I could also try a support belt for my belly, which made a little more sense. I knew that wasn't the cause though. It was just different. I brought the issue up with my doctor and finally got a good answer! It turns out that everything is okay, but it is nice to know what is really going on. My baby is putting pressure on my bladder when this is going on. My doctor said that I did the right thing for calling. He said that he would rather have a patient come in 20 times and have nothing wrong than not coming in at all and actually having a serious problem. I just wanted to know that everything was okay!

I am now at the point of my pregnancy where I have to go to the doctor every 2 weeks. I can't believe that it's almost over. I'm so excited to see and hold my little baby in my arms! I'm sure being a mom will be very tiring (that's all anyone talks about anyway), but I just know that I'm going to love it!

27 weeks

This weekend my mom came to visit me and spoil me and my baby. We went shopping for some maternity jeans because I only had one pair that really fit me. We picked up a couple of shirts and a dress as well. Then we bought a cute crib bedding set from Walmart and some polka dot wall stickers that matched it. We also bought a bunch of cute little baby girl clothes. It was fun to spend some time with my mom and do some shopping, even though my back was killing me at the end of the day :p.

The crib with the bedding!

When we got to Walmart I had a sharp pain near my cervix that was pretty intense. It felt like it stiffened up and like there were a million needles poking me. It was terrible, but it went away after a few minutes. My mom said that she thinks it could be a contraction. I'm not completely sure what it was, so I guess I have a good question to ask my doctor at my next visit in March.


These are some clothes that my mom bought for the baby. (not the ones from this weekends though)

I have this little heart rate monitor that my mom bought me after we had our 8 week visit. We didn't realize it at the time, but it only works later on during the pregnancy(near the 3rd trimester). There was one time a couple of weeks ago that I actually heard my babies heartbeat, but it only lasted about 10 seconds. Today I thought that I'd try it again and much to my surprise I found it right away! It was really strong and she stayed in that position for a long time! Both my husband and my mom got to hear it! It's always fun to share these experiences with other people. It seems like I'm usually alone when that kind of stuff happens.

After shopping my mom had me model my new maternity clothes for her. She wanted to take some pictures of my big belly. It's just crazy how quickly it grows! It has only been a week since I took the last picture and it has grown a lot!

Weird Dreams

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So last night I had a series of weird dreams that had to do with taking care of babies. At first I was in the hospital visiting some lady who just had Twins. She let me hold one and he just started bawling so I had to give him right back to her. Then I was at home and I realized that my baby was here and I had to start using all of the baby stuff I have. It was hard because I had to changer her clothes, but I was having a hard time cleaning all of the clothes off of the changing table. It was covered in them! Then I had to find some pajamas for her, which took me a while. After that dream I started dreaming that I went to buy some new pet fish. I started out with 2, but then realized that there was a little tiny baby fish in the aquarium. I was really freaked out because I didn't want it to get eaten or squished by the other 2 fish so I was trying to keep it safe. Then all of a sudden I had a lot of different types of fish in my aquarium, each type had a little baby one in there. I was just so worried that they would all get eaten! Then I couldn't find the first baby fish. I woke up after that! I have such weird dreams!

26 weeks

So yesterday I decided to take another picture of my belly and realized that it has grown quite a bit! I wouldn't have even noticed it if it wasn't for the picture!



Well so far this week I haven't had too much going on. I can tell you that my little baby sure likes to get up into my ribs! Tonight I have gotten a couple of hard kicks. I will sure take a little pain over no kicks at all. Well this is a pretty boring post, but I thought I'd just put my belly picture on here!

25 week dr. visit.

I had a my Dr. appointment today and everything is still very good. He said that my belly is growing just like it is supposed to. That means my little baby isn't growing too quickly! This makes me happy because Steven's family has big 9 lb babies and I really don't want mine to come out that big! That would be so painful! Her heart rate was 142 bpm which is perfect! I'm so glad everything is going so well!

I finally quit working as a waitress! Yesterday was my last day and boy am I glad. My back, legs and feet hurt so bad after working there and I'm not even into my third trimester yet! My Dr. said that the third trimester is pretty hard on your body so I'm thinking that quitting right now was a great idea!

Other than all of that everything is great! I've been pretty tired because of my schedule, but still doing very well. I guess that is all I have for this post.

week 25!!

I know I am terrible at updating my blog! I've been busy though! Well tomorrow I will be 25 weeks pregnant! I can't believe how quickly this past 4 weeks has gone. I feel like I just had my Dr. appointment yesterday! I have my next one on Wednesday. I don't think that they are going to do much this time. I think I will listen to her heartbeat and ask questions.

I am really enjoying pregnancy right now! I started feeling little movements at about 19 weeks, and now they are much stronger. It's fun feeling her do acrobats in my belly. I'm really starting to show now too! I'm one of those strange people who wanted to start showing early on, so this is really a big deal for me! I'm excited to wear my huge maternity clothes!

I am starting to get a cold again :( It feels just like my last cold. My nose is really stuffed up. Hopefully it won't last too long. I hate long almost sleepless nights! Especially when I'm not feeling well and need the extra rest.

Ultrasound video

This little video was from out 21 week ultrasound. I love watching it!

We are having a girl!!

On Tuesday this week we had our dr. appointment and had the big ultrasound done! Most of the pictures the tech took just looked like a blob to me, but it was neat to see my baby in there moving around. She was really making it hard for the ultrasound tech to get good pictures, but that is okay with me. We got one picture of her cute little alien face and were unable to get a profile picture. We also got one of her little feet and her fist. I don't think she wanted us bugging her like that ;) Steve doesn't want me to put the picture that shows she is a girl on here so I better not do that. Everything looked just right in the ultrasound, and I found out that all of my blood tests were great as well. The nurse that talked to me said that I am Acing my pregnancy! :)