Olivia is 1 month old!

Hello all!

Wow, it's hard to believe that our baby girl is already 1 month old - where did the time go? She is getting so big already! Her umbilical cord stump fell off at exactly 4 weeks, so now she's officially "done" lol. She also had a check-up at 4 weeks, and she now weighs 10 lbs 2.5 oz. She had lost more weight at first than the doctors wanted and wasn't gaining like she should, but now they say she's doing great.

We took these pics last night, some of them were before she got to eat so she was understandably a bit fussy. You can see her finished belly button in some of them too. Oh, and in the last one, she is smiling! She has been smiling for over a week or so now, not laughing just yet, and not cooing or vocalizing, but she sure does smile when we play with her! she just loves it!

First Professinal Pictures

So I know this is the third post in the same day, but we had some catching up to do! Today we picked up Olivia's first professional pictures, and they came out so great!

Make a Smilebox postcard

Olivia's First Christmas!

So this is Olivia sleeping while we were visiting with her Paw-Paw, he came up for the holidays. You can see her beautiful hair in this pic!

Then there's her first picture with Santa - she looks so small and far away in it, because the Santa was so big, and we didn't think to get a close-up shot of it all. She was just 6 days old in this pic!

This is our first Christmas together. Definitely the cheapest Christmas Santa is ever going to have!

Welcome Baby Olivia

Well hello everyone! It's been awhile since we posted on here, we have been so very busy since the last post!

We had an original induction date set for Dec 16, but an ultra-sound showed that Olivia was already getting even bigger, so they moved the date up to Dec 9. They tried induction for two days but it did not work, I just would not progress farther than 2 cm dilated. Then they went ahead with a c-section, which we knew was a good possibility. WEll, let's just say it was awful, quite an experience. The anesthesiologist argued with me when I told him I could still feel some pain, and said they had to get started because the spinal would wear off soon. By the time they got to the deeper cuts I could feel everything and was screaming, so they put me under and had to get the baby out fast. It was an awful experience, and I was out of it for the rest of the day/night.

She turned out perfect though! She was 9 lbs, 6.8 oz, 21 inches long! She is just gorgeous, has a head full of beautiful hair that has natural highlights! EVERYONE who sees her says this! When it's wet it's curly like mine, but when dry is straight. Eyes are blue for right now of course, we're waiting to see if they are like mine and Blaine's!

Since this is a bit late, she is already 4 weeks old, will be a month old on Sunday. Can't beleive how the time has flown, but I have slept through half of it, and wished I were sleeping through the other half. It has been crazy to say the least.

Now that things are getting somewhat back to normal, we will be posting more often.

We got an Induction date!

I met with my real doctor for the first time today finally, I've been working with my gestational diabetes nurse for the past 3 months. I discussed with the doctor about having the baby come early because she is getting too big (based on the ultrasound last week) and that we really don't want to have a c-section. She discussed it with the attending on shift and they agreed, so we got a date to be induced! She said if nothing natural has happened by then, they will admit me the night of Dec 16, begin the first round of meds, then go from there and on the 17th start the other meds, and we'll have the baby that day if all goes well!! We are so excited. We know something could happen sooner, but we also know that they are willing to intervene and do an induction because the baby is so big. I have to stay the night that first night for the induction and then I have a mandatory 2-night stay after delivery because I tested positive for the Group B Strep, so minimum 3 night stay for us.

Baby is doing good, everything looks okay still for now. Be sure to post here if you have any questions or comments. You can post as "anonymous" and not have to sign up for an account, and then at the end of your comment just put your name after it so we know who you are. Love y'all!

34 week Update

I had my ultrasound (u/s) yesterday and last regular appt with my nurse practitioner yesterday before I start seeing a real doc next week. I am 34 w 3 days, and the baby is measuring at 39 weeks 1 day!!! Weighing in at 7 lbs 13 oz, which the tech said the u/s can be up to a pound off, so even with that the baby is AT LEAST 6 lbs 13 oz, which is still too big for a 34 weeker. Right now it's not a huge problem, it just means that I will definitely not make it to the full 40 weeks, and I said that if I can get to 36 weeks (first week of December) I'll be happy. OB wants to get me to 37, we'll see. I start meeting with my real doctor next week and then we can find out about an induction and when we can expect this baby to be here, but I'm looking for about 2.5 more weeks!

Some of y'all may not know yet, but last week at my normal weekly appt I was having a bit of a twinge/pain in my side, but didn't think anything of it since I get that pain a lot when I walk too much or stand for too long. She hooked me up for my weekly non-stress test (to monitor baby) and HELLO I was having contractions! In the 20 minutes she monitored me I had over 7 contractions, but they weren't hurting me at all. She wheeled me strait to Labor & Delivery and I wound up being there for about 5 hours, with contractions the whole time. They were coming every 3 to 4 minutes and got much stronger as the night went on. They gave me IV fluids and two rounds of meds to stop the contractions, and they finally did go away about 10 that night. The visit itself was awful because of the way the doctor and the countless nurses treated me and my family, and even my sister said she was appalled at how they treated us (it's a long story that I won't go into now). Since then, I've been fine, just some small cramps and/or contractions here and there, but nothing serious, and I wasn't dialated, so the doctor was happy about that.

I told my NP about the fiasco with how they treated me last week when I was in L&D contracting for the 5 hours and how awful it all was. She went and talked to the physician’s attending who was in the clinic at the moment, while I was on my NST, and came back and said that this particular doctor who treated me that night has had several complaints against him, so it will definitely be addressed. She also said she would address the other issues with the nurse manager and at least let them know my comments and concerns. She was really nice about the whole thing, then gave me her personal card and told me I had better call her when we have the baby cuz she wants to see her and us! It was sad because she’s been treating me for almost 3 months now, and now I’m done with her. *sigh*……

Everything is good, the NST showed the baby is fine and I actually had 1 or 2 contractions while I was there, but I didn’t even feel them and it wasn’t enough for her to get concerned about either. My sugars are doing good too, unless I indulge in too much dessert lol.

32 weeks along, Jenkins' baby shower

Blaine and I drove down to Louisiana for the Jenkins' baby shower this past weekend, held at Blaine's parents house. We got some things we needed for the baby, and we got some money as well so we can buy things we still need.

My friend Kim was able to come at the last minute and be there for my baby shower! I hadn't seen her in a few years, and we've been friends since the 9th grade. It was so great to have one of my friends there!

This is me at the baby shower, 32 weeks along officially. That makes me right at 8 months along, still have at least 6 weeks left, and look how big I am already!