| Remember 8,000 years ago I had a baby shower? |
[Jun. 6th, 2008|01:55 pm] |
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I finally have pictures from it!! I'm not sharing them all, there's well over 100 of them. Sorry. Unfortunately they're ALL of me. lol. I wish I had pictures of other people from my shower. I guess I was lucky to get these finally. I need to get my hair done again. It looked so shiney and not ugly...
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| Well, that was traumatic. |
[Jun. 6th, 2008|11:10 am] |
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Danny got his first set of immunizations today. I have NEVER heard such shrill screams come out of my son before. I cried. |
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| havent posted in here in a while! (most of this is x-posted) |
[Jun. 5th, 2008|07:19 am] |
I went through Danny's clothes and took out all the things that don't fit Danny anymore. I'm goig to sell them on ebay, except for a couple things I can't bear to part with (such as the outfit he wore home from the hospital and his uber cute doggie jammies). Baby clothes seem to sell really well on ebay so we'll give it a shot.
Heather's visit (from Nurturing Families) went well yesterday, we talked about baby's hearing developement. We did an activity where we went through magazines and cut out pictures of things that make noise (a dog, a telephone, a car, etc) and taped them to little pieces of construction paper and made a book out of it. I'm supposed to hold up the pictures in front of Danny and tell him what the picture is, and then make the noise it makes. He gets a KICK out of it, he thinks it's hilarious haha. Especially "car". I hold it up and say "CAR!!! VRRROOOMM VRRROOOMM!!! BEEP BEEP!" and he gets this HUGE smile on his face and kicks his feet. If he could laugh already, he'd be cracking up.
She also confirmed for me that he is teething. I thought it was too early for that, but I should know by now my baby does everything early (except be born). So I asked her to bring me teething information next week. I'm sure I could look up all the info that she brings me online, but she seems to have such better things. And she brought me a 3 ring binder to put it all in.
I'm so glad I decided to do this, it is really helping me out. I don't feel so damned depressed anymore because now I understand my baby better. And seeing how advanced he is tells me I'm not doing anything wrong. |
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[Apr. 16th, 2008|10:47 pm] |
I don't think I'll ever figure out what this baby has against sleeping. He's just lying there in his basinette wide awake. He starts to fall asleep and then starts crying and wakes himself up. I don't know why he needs to fight the sleep, sleep is awesome, I love sleep.
Mommy Lynne took him today so I could sleep. I only slept for a couple hours, and even that is a big deal since I'm never able to take naps unless I'm sick. She said they kept him awake all day so he'd sleep tonight. Apparently Danny has other ideas.
I missed him so much when he was gone. I slept with one of his blankies lol.
Overall he's a great baby, I have no trouble with him. It's just this sleep rebellion thing that's gotta go because I'm friggin tired. Like tired to the point of crying, and I know me crying isn't helping him relax any. |
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[Apr. 15th, 2008|03:34 pm] |
How am I supposed to "sleep when the baby sleeps" if he DOESN'T SLEEP??
Just thought I'd ask. Since, you know, everyone seems to keep giving me that piece of advice. |
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[Apr. 6th, 2008|09:50 am] |
I know you're all waiting for pictures, sorry! I have one! I'm still in the hospital and I haven't REALLY slept since early friday morning except for an hour or so here and there so I'm not feeling too hot, which is why I have been a bad updater!
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[Apr. 5th, 2008|05:07 pm] |
I had to have 2 epidurals because the first one only numbed my right side of my body. The second one ended up numbing my left leg, not my belly. Figures right? lol. Hurt like hell but I delivered him vaginally, I pushed for 45 minutes, which made me happy because the nurse was telling me another woman pushed for 3 hours, and I know it can take longer than that. It was rough, late labor and the delivery process was making me throw up a lot. The doctor said I was an EXCELLENT pusher. I just wanted him out lol. I didn't care that it hurt. When he came out I just kept going "Oh my God my baby!! My baby!! Oh my god!" i was laughing and crying at the same time. He was covered in cheese and all I could say is "He's so cute!!"
He has my eyes, chin, eyebrows, and toes and long fingers. He has craigs cheeks, nose and the rest of his feet.
I now know the true meaning of love at first sight.
I was so proud of Craig, he did so well helping me and he even watched the whole birth while holding my leg. I love him so much.
Daniel Paul (we changed his middle name) is a beautiful healthy baby. He's so good too. He hasn't cried much at all, excpet for when he had a poopy diaper and when he was hungry. It took him a good 10 minutes to figure out the whole breast feeding thing but he's got it down.
TMI AHEAD!!
I had a little issue with excessive bleeding afterwords. I was here, in post partum talking to my dad on the phone,and I just felt a GUSH, and it just wasn't stopping so I hung up with him and called the nurse. Craig was taking a shower, so he had no idea what was going on, but when he came out he was just in time to hear the nurse pick up her radio and say "I need a blue cart in 633 STAT, patient has excessive bleeding". I freaked lol I cried. I had a lot of clotting, they gave me pain meds and some suppositories and just went in and pulled out a whole lot of clots. Looked like a murder scene.
The long process (I really didn't sleep at all last night and was here since 7:30 am) paired with the pain killers through the IV have me SO tired. I've been sleeping on and off, but they keep coming in to poke at me and make sure I'm not bleeding to death.
Well, I think I covered everything... I'm kinda hungry now, but they keep giving me shitty food. They gave me the exact same crap broccoli and... this meat patry thing that I'm not really sure what it was for lunch AND dinner, so Craig's going to run to Friendly's for me and get me some fries. That's all I really want is fries, I'm still kinda woozy from the pain meds.
We'll have more pictures, I promise, it's just really hard to get them to load on this computer.
Thanksfor the comments guys,i love you all!!! |
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| here's the boy!!!! |
[Apr. 5th, 2008|12:59 pm] |
born at 9am. 8lbs -- 21 inches. i'll have more later, but i know some of you are antsy. I want to thank each and every one of you for supporting alison and i through such a wonderful thing. i watched every minute of his birth and it is unexplainable.
both mom and baby are sleeping.
i feel like a differant man nw, than i did yesterday.
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| he's here!!!!! |
[Apr. 5th, 2008|09:31 am] |
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pictures later. everything is fine. he's wonderful. mommy and daddy are doing great!!! |
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[Apr. 5th, 2008|07:23 am] |
8 centimeters.
2nd epidural.
next post should be baby picture!!!!
--craig |
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[Apr. 5th, 2008|05:21 am] |
epidural @ 4:30
cut scar tissue @5:15
water broke and dialated 2 centimeters. everything goes well. he'll be here a little after lunch.
<3
--craig |
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[Apr. 4th, 2008|09:37 pm] |
9:38pm. they checked her cervix. nothing. shes upset, trying to sleep now. i'll be up for awhile. she has scarring on her cervix. i forget the name of the procedure she had done, and i dont want to wake her. thats the main culprit. they tried to stick a balloon thing in it to try and break it open but the cervix isnt open enough.
they will check again between 2-3am.
aim=circusofhorror |
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[Apr. 4th, 2008|12:26 pm] |
it's 12:26. we've been here since 7:30. ALison hasnt dialated yet so they gave her medicine to soften up her cervix and dialate her. then they will induce labor. the medicine they said will take 12 hours to work.
my brother loaned me his laptop so we wont be bored, and the hospital has wireless internet, so i'll be on and off with updates.
circusofhorror@aol.com or i will check comments later.
alison is doing well. shes just bored. |
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[Apr. 1st, 2008|01:17 pm] |
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Stiiilll pregnant.
Craig and I were talking. Here's what we decided is going to happen. I'm going to go in to be induced. They're gonna do what they have to do, and then check my cervix and it's still not going to be dilated at all. I'm sure the baby's too big anyways, he's not going to fit out. They're going to need to do a c-section.
I'll bet we're right. At this point, I don't even CARE how he comes out. I don't care if I need to go out to a field wtih a pair of scissors and a plunger, he's coming OUT.
I'm kind of bummed that my parents aren't coming down for his birth. They said they'd come after I was home, but yanno, I kinda wanted my mother at the hospital... A girl needs her mom at times like these. It wasn't that big a deal at first, because I figured my aunt judy could take her place, she's like a second mommy. But then I find out she's STILL in Tuscon. I hope she comes back soon.
Oh well. |
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[Mar. 28th, 2008|02:06 pm] |
Poll #1162111 Guess the baby's arrival date!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9When do you think the baby will be born? |
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[Mar. 27th, 2008|06:15 pm] |
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Went to my appointment, I'm still not dilated. At all. They're inducing me April 4th at 7 am, which is next Friday. I know I should be excited but I feel like it's too far away. I am willing to bet he'll be too big for me to deliver and they're going to make me get a c-section. At this point I don't even care how he comes out, I just want my baby. |
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[Mar. 27th, 2008|12:46 pm] |
dude i am in so much pain right now. ugh. But I'm not having contractions (at least not *real* ones) so they won't let me go to the hospital. And I know, I know, "it's only going to get worse!". I know, you don't need to tell me. But shit. I'd rather be in pain and know I'm in labor because at least then the baby will be on the way. He just keeps moving around like mad, kicking and it feels like he's smashing his head against my cervix. That's what's hurting me, is his head pressing down so hard. And I feel like there's like electricity shooting through the tendons or whatever in my groin area and it's hard to stand when it happens. I'm glad I have an appointment today. Not that they're going to tell me anything constructive...
And this is PROBABLY tmi, but thats why I have this seperate journal for baby stuff, but I think I lost part of my mucous plug yesterday. Not that that means anything. I looked it up a bunch of places online and they all say that losing your mucous plug can mean you're either about to go into labor, or labor is days or even weeks away. ...yeahhhh that helps lol. They should have just said "it doesn't mean much at all, disreguard it." |
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