12 days old
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Delaney pics
Johanna Hallenberger came over today to take some sample pics of my pretty little girl and while she was doing that I was able to slip in a couple of my own pics of her.
12 days old
12 days old
The dreaded "Harper"
Sorry that it has been so long since I have blogged, not that people have missed it I'm sure...
It has been a very long week and a half since Delaney was born! Not only have I had to deal with the normal lack of sleep with a newborn but I have also had to deal with Harper being sick and getting everyone else sick. Let me tell you more..
Starting Friday the 17Th in the morning I woke up to get Harper and found him covered in throw up and so was his bed and carpet, it really made my morning! Danny of course was on his way out the door to go to work so I had no help. Luckily my 4 day old Delaney was sleeping so I was able to get Harper up, bathed and his bedroom cleaned up of yuck. The whole day Harper continued to throw up and into Saturday. Sunday he hadn't thrown up, it was just some runny poo so I figured that he was better and decided to accept the invitation to go to my parents house for turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie.
This is when everything conspired, however no one new what was about to happen. Monday night Danny woke up at 1am and started his flu episode, he was the first of many to catch Harper's sickness. Next came my sisters Amanda and Shannon, then me, My parents, my other sister Erin and possibly my niece but they can't be confirmed.
So this whole week everyone has been sick, not very fun at all. As for me I got over it in a day and no I didn't throw up for all of you who know about my throwing up streak. Right now I am trying to deal with baby blues that seem to have hit pretty hard and Harper, he is driving me nuts. He is always crying for me or crying about something. He is acting out because of the baby and it is stressing Danny and I out. I knew it was going to be hard, but I already need a break from one of them and it would be Harper. So if anyone wants to take a kid for a few hours so I can take a nap or a break let me know!
And I know this is off topic but I weighed myself and I have lost 18 lbs so far. I only have 6 more pounds to lose and I will be at my pre pregnancy weight, but I am going for more than that so wish me some luck.
It has been a very long week and a half since Delaney was born! Not only have I had to deal with the normal lack of sleep with a newborn but I have also had to deal with Harper being sick and getting everyone else sick. Let me tell you more..
Starting Friday the 17Th in the morning I woke up to get Harper and found him covered in throw up and so was his bed and carpet, it really made my morning! Danny of course was on his way out the door to go to work so I had no help. Luckily my 4 day old Delaney was sleeping so I was able to get Harper up, bathed and his bedroom cleaned up of yuck. The whole day Harper continued to throw up and into Saturday. Sunday he hadn't thrown up, it was just some runny poo so I figured that he was better and decided to accept the invitation to go to my parents house for turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie.
This is when everything conspired, however no one new what was about to happen. Monday night Danny woke up at 1am and started his flu episode, he was the first of many to catch Harper's sickness. Next came my sisters Amanda and Shannon, then me, My parents, my other sister Erin and possibly my niece but they can't be confirmed.
So this whole week everyone has been sick, not very fun at all. As for me I got over it in a day and no I didn't throw up for all of you who know about my throwing up streak. Right now I am trying to deal with baby blues that seem to have hit pretty hard and Harper, he is driving me nuts. He is always crying for me or crying about something. He is acting out because of the baby and it is stressing Danny and I out. I knew it was going to be hard, but I already need a break from one of them and it would be Harper. So if anyone wants to take a kid for a few hours so I can take a nap or a break let me know!
And I know this is off topic but I weighed myself and I have lost 18 lbs so far. I only have 6 more pounds to lose and I will be at my pre pregnancy weight, but I am going for more than that so wish me some luck.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Delaney's Doc appointment
Delaney and I did eventually get to the doctor appointment, just a little late. The doctor said that she was doing well but that she had a little jaundice and she wanted me to take her to the hospital to have the billy ruben tested because she thought that it was getting kinda high.. For those of you who remember I had the same problem with Harper and he ended up being admitted to the hospital for 24 hrs after they found his billy ruben levels sky high.
I went to the hospital to get her blood work done and I was nervous that she was going to have to be admitted. After we got home the doctor call a little later and informed us that it was just under the level to be admitted so we dodged the bullet for the time.
I gave her an ounce of formula for dinner and before bed to help her get some fluids to clear up the jaundice since all I had was colostrum still. But good news this morning my milk came in, so now she is getting full meals instead of snacks. It's kinda fun having your boobs grow over night, it just sucks that they get full and hurt and leak etc..
I went to the hospital to get her blood work done and I was nervous that she was going to have to be admitted. After we got home the doctor call a little later and informed us that it was just under the level to be admitted so we dodged the bullet for the time.
I gave her an ounce of formula for dinner and before bed to help her get some fluids to clear up the jaundice since all I had was colostrum still. But good news this morning my milk came in, so now she is getting full meals instead of snacks. It's kinda fun having your boobs grow over night, it just sucks that they get full and hurt and leak etc..
Locked out!
Yesterday I had an appointment to bring little Laney to and Connie Wilkes offered to watch Harper so that I wouldn't have to take him, nice right? She is awesome....well we were taking Harper and the car seat out to her car and like a normal person I shut my door after I walked out. When we got Harper in the car I realized that I didn't have his sippy cut so Connie waited while I ran back to the house. I got to the door and I couldn't open it! I thought for a second that the knob was stuck, but it wasn't I couldn't get it open. I started to freak out and Connie came over to see what was up, I told her that the door was locked and I didn't have a key under the mat and the key pad on the garage door was dead... So she thought about the back door which I knew was locked but we went back to check just in case and of course it was. I'm sure that you can imagine at this time I was balling my eyes out because my 2 day old baby is inside in the swing.
Thank goodness Connie hadn't left before I had gone back inside because I would have been screwed! So we called Danny and he finally answered the phone after 3 phone calls, because he isn't supposed to have a cell phone at his desk. He was able to come home but it took him 15 minutes to get back. The whole time I kept thinking how stupid am I? Not only that but I had walked outside with a towel on my head because I had just gotten out of the shower, so I looked like a retard.
When Danny unlocked the door and we walked inside she was still sound asleep in the swing and fine. Danny had to rush back to work and I had to take her to her appointment. What a scary thing to happen though. I thought that it only happened in the movies, apparently not, the movies are just re enacting what the stupid people like me are really doing.
Thank goodness Connie hadn't left before I had gone back inside because I would have been screwed! So we called Danny and he finally answered the phone after 3 phone calls, because he isn't supposed to have a cell phone at his desk. He was able to come home but it took him 15 minutes to get back. The whole time I kept thinking how stupid am I? Not only that but I had walked outside with a towel on my head because I had just gotten out of the shower, so I looked like a retard.
When Danny unlocked the door and we walked inside she was still sound asleep in the swing and fine. Danny had to rush back to work and I had to take her to her appointment. What a scary thing to happen though. I thought that it only happened in the movies, apparently not, the movies are just re enacting what the stupid people like me are really doing.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Welcome Delaney Jessalyn
I'm sure that many of you have been wondering if I have had the baby yet or if you knew that I had her you wanted to see and know more about the whole delivery. Well I went in on Monday morning and got the process started for induction and was blessed later that day with a wonderful 'little' girl. Let me give you some fun details....
Danny and I got up at 5am to be at St. Luke's at 7am.
7:05 the nurse took us to our room
7:15 had an enema (you may think yuck, but I say thank goodness)
7:45 was started on Pitocin
8:00 Nurse Rose did exam and I was 3cm dilated still
8:15 Dr.Klomp came in and broke my water, contractions started in minutes
10:00 wimped out and got an epidural
10:45 Nurse put in catheter so that I didn't pee myself Ya!
11:00 exam put me at 4.5cm dilated and 60% effaced
(yes that is less effaced than Dr.Klomp had put me at on prev appts)
11:15 I was given ephedrine because my blood pressure had dropped
12:45 exam put me at almost 6cm dilated and 90% effaced
At this point Nurse Rose wanted to change my position to help Delaney come down more, so I was put in a sitting position pretty much. Delaney's heart beat was suddenly gone, the nurse calmly tried to find it. After what seemed like minutes and she couldn't find it she panicked and had me move to my side, still nothing so I moved to my other side. She was finally able to find it but it was in the 80's so she grabbed an oxygen mask for me and called for help from another nurse. At the same time this was happening my wrist/arm that had my iv in it that was getting antibiotics for group b strep, it all of a sudden started to hurt really bad. The pain got worse and worse, it was pressure and burning and well it is hard to explain. But i came seconds away from ripping it out of my arm, the nurse said she had turned the drip off but it was going to take a min or so to run through the iv. It was very hectic in the room! Delaney's heart beat finally went up but very slowly and my arm finally felt better but after the iv ran for a few minutes. It was scary! After that the nurse didn't want me to sit up for fear Delaney wouldn't tolerate it again.
1:45 my exam put me at almost a 7 dilated and 100% effaced
2:10 I was fully dilated and had just a little rim so she didn't want me to push yet
2:25 I felt like I needed to push so she checked and I was ready
2:30 started pushing
2:45ish Dr. Klomp came in and took over
3:00 exactly little miss Delaney was born!!! it was wonderful
Danny got to cut the umbilical cord, I didn't have to have an episiotomy and I didn't tear. No vacuum for Delaney either. She did need to have some oxygen because she was a little blue on the tummy. Every thing went so well!
Delaney weighed in at 7lbs 3oz and 19 1/2 inches long
Her hair is strawberry blond and she has blue eyes
She is nursing VERY well
Danny and I got up at 5am to be at St. Luke's at 7am.
7:05 the nurse took us to our room
7:15 had an enema (you may think yuck, but I say thank goodness)
7:45 was started on Pitocin
8:00 Nurse Rose did exam and I was 3cm dilated still
8:15 Dr.Klomp came in and broke my water, contractions started in minutes
10:00 wimped out and got an epidural
10:45 Nurse put in catheter so that I didn't pee myself Ya!
11:00 exam put me at 4.5cm dilated and 60% effaced
(yes that is less effaced than Dr.Klomp had put me at on prev appts)
11:15 I was given ephedrine because my blood pressure had dropped
12:45 exam put me at almost 6cm dilated and 90% effaced
At this point Nurse Rose wanted to change my position to help Delaney come down more, so I was put in a sitting position pretty much. Delaney's heart beat was suddenly gone, the nurse calmly tried to find it. After what seemed like minutes and she couldn't find it she panicked and had me move to my side, still nothing so I moved to my other side. She was finally able to find it but it was in the 80's so she grabbed an oxygen mask for me and called for help from another nurse. At the same time this was happening my wrist/arm that had my iv in it that was getting antibiotics for group b strep, it all of a sudden started to hurt really bad. The pain got worse and worse, it was pressure and burning and well it is hard to explain. But i came seconds away from ripping it out of my arm, the nurse said she had turned the drip off but it was going to take a min or so to run through the iv. It was very hectic in the room! Delaney's heart beat finally went up but very slowly and my arm finally felt better but after the iv ran for a few minutes. It was scary! After that the nurse didn't want me to sit up for fear Delaney wouldn't tolerate it again.
1:45 my exam put me at almost a 7 dilated and 100% effaced
2:10 I was fully dilated and had just a little rim so she didn't want me to push yet
2:25 I felt like I needed to push so she checked and I was ready
2:30 started pushing
2:45ish Dr. Klomp came in and took over
3:00 exactly little miss Delaney was born!!! it was wonderful
Danny got to cut the umbilical cord, I didn't have to have an episiotomy and I didn't tear. No vacuum for Delaney either. She did need to have some oxygen because she was a little blue on the tummy. Every thing went so well!
Delaney weighed in at 7lbs 3oz and 19 1/2 inches long
Her hair is strawberry blond and she has blue eyes
She is nursing VERY well
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Hospital trip ends in aggrivation!
This morning at 3:50am I woke up to turn and thought that I felt some contractions, so naturally I couldn't fall back to sleep because that was all I could think of. I was feeling pain like hell in my lower back and also in my left abdomen, and it was about every 5-10 mins. Sometimes the pain was strong and sometimes just really light so I thought that I was having contractions. I laid in bed and fell back to sleep after about an hour and woke around 5:30am and I had a huge shooting pain in my left abdomen that made me think "okay this is really a contraction" so I got up and took a shower.
After the shower they were really soft again so I laid back down with Danny until about 7:15am and at that time I called my parents house and Amanda came over so that Danny and I could go to the hospital. In the back of my mind I didn't know if I was going to be admitted because the pain was only on the left side but some people only have back labor so we went.
We got there around 8:30am after having to drive through crappy connector traffic and checked into labor and delivery. The nurse hooked me up and checked me, I hadn't changed in dilation or in effacement and the monitor showed no contractions. She was concerned that I was having pain but that they weren't contractions so she checked my urine and said that there was white blood cells and I might have a UTI so she wanted another sample to confirm. Dr. Klomp wasn't ready to admit since I was technically not in labor but if I walked around and had a change he would, at that point Danny and I walked around the hospital for an hour. When we came back to labor and delivery the nurse said my second urine sample came out clean, in other words no UTI. The explanation for my pain is 'ligament stretching' because she is lowing in my pelvis.
I was let out around 11am and Danny and I drove back home so that Danny could go to work. What a fun morning, right?
After the shower they were really soft again so I laid back down with Danny until about 7:15am and at that time I called my parents house and Amanda came over so that Danny and I could go to the hospital. In the back of my mind I didn't know if I was going to be admitted because the pain was only on the left side but some people only have back labor so we went.
We got there around 8:30am after having to drive through crappy connector traffic and checked into labor and delivery. The nurse hooked me up and checked me, I hadn't changed in dilation or in effacement and the monitor showed no contractions. She was concerned that I was having pain but that they weren't contractions so she checked my urine and said that there was white blood cells and I might have a UTI so she wanted another sample to confirm. Dr. Klomp wasn't ready to admit since I was technically not in labor but if I walked around and had a change he would, at that point Danny and I walked around the hospital for an hour. When we came back to labor and delivery the nurse said my second urine sample came out clean, in other words no UTI. The explanation for my pain is 'ligament stretching' because she is lowing in my pelvis.
I was let out around 11am and Danny and I drove back home so that Danny could go to work. What a fun morning, right?
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Prego update
So I had another, well my last doctors appointment today and I was really disappointed. Seems like I have been trying everything to get this baby out and nothing is working but I still thought that it would have helped with the progress and it just feels like it hasn't done squat.
Last week the doc said that I was 2.5cm almost 3cm and logged it in his computer as 2.5 and I was 80% effaced. Well today I went in and informed him that I was having some minor (really minor) contractions yesterday, and he was like well that probably means that you have made some progress, so I was happy. He does the exam and he says well you are now a firm 3cm dilated and still 80% effaced and she still is pretty high! Aaahhhh!! I thought for sure that I would be like 4cm dilated and 100% effaced or close, but I wasn't...
So as for right now I am scheduled for Monday morning that's 10/13 to be induced. I have to be at the hospital checked in at 7am. I have to gripe about this for just a second. I don't ever get up that early unless it is to go to the bathroom, and for some reason my stupid self thought that I wouldn't be required to be in there til like 8-9 am which isn't so horrible. Now I have to ask someone to be at my house at 6:30am so we can leave Harper. Pregnancy is such a complicated thing when you have another kid(s) to add to the equation. I don't know how my parents did it with all the kids that they have. They must be nuts! For right now I am looking at Monday for Delaney but you never know it could always happen sooner, I am keeping my hopes up for Friday now, it would be easier for the weekend days. Think good thoughts for me!
Last week the doc said that I was 2.5cm almost 3cm and logged it in his computer as 2.5 and I was 80% effaced. Well today I went in and informed him that I was having some minor (really minor) contractions yesterday, and he was like well that probably means that you have made some progress, so I was happy. He does the exam and he says well you are now a firm 3cm dilated and still 80% effaced and she still is pretty high! Aaahhhh!! I thought for sure that I would be like 4cm dilated and 100% effaced or close, but I wasn't...
So as for right now I am scheduled for Monday morning that's 10/13 to be induced. I have to be at the hospital checked in at 7am. I have to gripe about this for just a second. I don't ever get up that early unless it is to go to the bathroom, and for some reason my stupid self thought that I wouldn't be required to be in there til like 8-9 am which isn't so horrible. Now I have to ask someone to be at my house at 6:30am so we can leave Harper. Pregnancy is such a complicated thing when you have another kid(s) to add to the equation. I don't know how my parents did it with all the kids that they have. They must be nuts! For right now I am looking at Monday for Delaney but you never know it could always happen sooner, I am keeping my hopes up for Friday now, it would be easier for the weekend days. Think good thoughts for me!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Just waiting now!
So yesterday I worked what seemed to be all day long in prep for the delivery of Delaney. I felt like I had so many things to do, it was overwhelming to me. Lucky for me though Danny helped out with the house cleaning. As for me I got to:
When all was done I was so tired I told Danny that he was in charge of Harper for the rest of the night because I just didn't think that I could get off the couch. It is so nice to have it done. Now all I have to do today is pack a bag and do our laundry and relax of course.
Now it is time to just wait!
- clean out Harper's closet to fit more diapers/clothes etc..
- go through boxes of clothes that have been given to me for Harper and Delaney
- separate all of the girls clothes so I only had the 0-3mo size out for right now
- decide which cute outfit to bring Delaney home in
- washed 1 load of old Harper clothes, 1 load of new, 1 load of blankets,& 1 load of Delaney
- that means that I had the pleasure of folding all the clothing
- got the car seat cover washed and put on
- washed the bassinet cover and put on
- charged my ipod (got to have tunes to help with distracting from pain)
- arranged Harper's dresser so that I could put Delaney's clothing in
When all was done I was so tired I told Danny that he was in charge of Harper for the rest of the night because I just didn't think that I could get off the couch. It is so nice to have it done. Now all I have to do today is pack a bag and do our laundry and relax of course.
Now it is time to just wait!
Friday, October 3, 2008
Prego update!
So for those of you who care and want to know continue to read, if not then I suggest you stop.
Went to the doctor this morning for my weekly check up and everything went very well, I now have hope that this baby is actually going to come out. So from last weeks 1.5 cm dilated & 50% effaced I am now 2.5-3ish cm dilated and 80% effaced. Dr.Klomp was very happy with my progress and seems to think that I'm not going to make it to my induction date of 10/13 that it is going to happen in the next week! I am so happy!
Of course now I am getting close and I really haven't gotten everything together, so now I have to pack a hospital bag, chose an outfit to bring her home in, get the car seat ready, do some laundry for her and put it away, set up the bassinet etc.... so much to do and I have no energy to do it.
wish me luck....
Went to the doctor this morning for my weekly check up and everything went very well, I now have hope that this baby is actually going to come out. So from last weeks 1.5 cm dilated & 50% effaced I am now 2.5-3ish cm dilated and 80% effaced. Dr.Klomp was very happy with my progress and seems to think that I'm not going to make it to my induction date of 10/13 that it is going to happen in the next week! I am so happy!
Of course now I am getting close and I really haven't gotten everything together, so now I have to pack a hospital bag, chose an outfit to bring her home in, get the car seat ready, do some laundry for her and put it away, set up the bassinet etc.... so much to do and I have no energy to do it.
wish me luck....
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