Mom - Week 1

She is her fathers daughter! Wow do they look alike!

Wow what a week! I can't believe she is finally here. In case you didn't know...or had ANY doubt in your mind she is absolutely the most PRECIOUS thing in the whole wide world. She is absolutely perfect!!!

Lets see...delivery wasn't bad- gotta love that epidural! After that started wearing off...well you know!! Koby has been the sweetest husband ever! Once we got in a real hospital room the nurse helped me to the bathroom to take a sits-bath. My sweet husband crawled in the shower with me, washed my hair, soaped and rinsed my body, dried me off, got me dressed...the whole time telling me how much he loved me and saying the most wonderful things!

Have I told you that Reegan is a perfect beautiful little girl?!?!?!

Nursing is going well. We are a good combination, she loves to eat and my body is producing PLENTY for her to eat! So far so good. I'm sore, but nothing like...um....a little further south! I've ordered some nursing bras online because the only places in town that lave them are Target, Walmart, and a new maternity store in town...but they have dumb sizes...what kind of store doesn't carry a 32G!!!! Yeah...ordering online was my only option!

My mom has been a saint cooking, cleaning, doing laundry....who knew how out of control things can get when you add 6 1/2 pounds to the family!

We've gotten out of the house a couple of times. I get tired pretty quick so we've been home quite a bit and taken lots of naps. Koby, Reegan, and I went to Henry's the other night and wound up getting our food to go because the princess was unhappy about the situation. Apparently mexican food isn't her thing! We got home ....she ate and pooped and was fine!

Gotta go be a mom now!

She's Here!!!

9-18-06
9:16am
6lbs 8oz
20"

Mom and baby are doing fine!

Nine Months....

(one of our maternity pictures)

I am officially 9 months pregnant today.

By tomorrow I will be 9 months and 1 DAY pregnant, and by Sunday I will be 9 months and 2 DAYS pregnant....(do you see the pattern!)...grumble-grumble!

Anyway, I'm still here...Mr. Braxton and Mr. Hicks visit often....long enough to give me a lot of false hope.....but not long enough to mean diddly-doo-daa-squat!

The plan right now is to induce on Wednesday the 20th.

I am getting use to the "you're STILL pregnant" comments...though they aren't any less annoying. Now its the people that look at me as if I have something to do with the fact that I am still pregnant...and want an explanation!! Mother Nature, you people! Thats my explanation...she is apparently on vacation, and I hope to be one of the first to know when she gets back!

I had someone ask me yesterday...that I don't know very well at all, I might add...if I minded visitors WHILE I was in labor. WHO ASKS THESE KINDS OF QUESTIONS???

I know I sound grumpy, and really I'm not...I'm just ready, tired, anxious, excited, nervous, apprehensive, eager, restless....all of those things, all of the time, waiting for that one twinge in my stomach that will mean something. I'm ready to get this show on the road!

We're famous...not really...

A few of our pictures are on the Great Expectations Photography website.

http://greatexpectationstx.com

Click on Photography, then on Maternity and Babies. There is a silhouette of mine and Koby's stomachs, one of me in a black top, and one of me in a wrap thingy.

Not Crying over Spilled Lemonade!

I started out the day with one of those "nothing's going my way" mornings. It didn't matter what I did or didn't do it was just going to make me run late! However, during this stress filled morning I did something that I was very proud of myself for....I didn't cuss (REALLY)! Even when I was backing out of the driveway and spilled 64oz of pink lemonade (yep, down to the last oz!) all down the front of my shirt and into my lap....I didn't cuss...I did have to swim out of my car and change EVERY article of clothing I had on....but I didn't cuss....even when I got back into my car and realized that my cell phone and blue tooth were a bit on the drippy side....I didn't cuss....after everything that had happened this morning, this should have been the final straw where I screamed really bad words at the top of my lungs....but I didn't....WHERE IS THIS TONGUE HOLDING ABILITY COMING FROM!

For all of you that are asking YES I AM STILL PREGNANT! I promise that I or SOMEONE will let you know when I am not...so until then Please, PLEASE, PLEASE just assume that I am.

I know that you are anxious and want to call and ask....and I LOVE talking to everybody and am sooooo grateful that I have friends and family that care so much...I REALLY AM....but could you just call and ask "how are you doing" or "what did the Dr. say this week" instead of "You're STILL pregnant?".

I know, I know, I am sounding a little testy about this...but put yourself in my shoes...9 months pregnant...tired of being pregnant...tired of going to the Dr. and there being no change...anxious to meet this baby girl...microanalyzing(if that's a word) every one of Reegan's movements and twinges...looking at my watch every time I have a Braxton-Hicks contraction trying to find some sort of a pattern...even at times thinking gas pains might mean something!!! I promise that I am more tired of ME being pregnant than you are! (clunk, clunk, clunk....(that was me stepping off my soap box! Sorry 'bout that!))

I go back to the Dr. Tuesday (tomorrow) afternoon. I don't suspect that there will be any change at this visit either (but there is always hope!). She hasn't dropped anymore, I do have Braxton-Hicks but they aren't regular or intense, and that 'bottom falling out' pressure that everyone talks about...isn't there yet! I think I'm going to be an oven for a little while longer! The Dr. said that he wouldn't let me go past September 24th. Since that is a Sunday, that means that the last possible date he would induce is the 22nd. He did say though that at either one of my next appointments if I was dilated even to a 2 that he would take me in the next morning and induce. But....I really and truly DON'T feel like it will be this week.

We went and looked at the pictures Koby and I took last weekend. They made me cry! The lady that took them did a great job! They made a video out of them...I'll see if I can upload it. If not she said that they would be on their website by Wednesday...I'll post the address then.

Any bets on what date we'll get to meet the little darling? One of the teachers at school says he lost $25 since I didn't have her this weekend! HA! :)

Reegan's Room

Getting there....

I am finally feeling some since of accomplishment. I was worried that unless I was left completely alone this weekend that nothing would get done and I would be in the same place today that I was Friday....and at this point EVERYday counts! With the help of my mom and Terry shopping, sewing, painting, and decorating and Koby painting, cutting, hanging, screwing(not that kind!), and just keeping me sane we got A LOT done! The nursery gestapo put us on track and we got organized, made decisions and put our rears in gear! (thanks terry!) I'll try to post pics of her room tomorrow.

I'm sleeping less and less. between averaging getting up 5 times a night to pee, Reegan moving around, Braxton-Hicks contractions, and being hot/cold....sleeping just doesn't happen. My Dr. gave me a Z Pack to take last week because I was getting sick....but I think that I am just so run down (not sleeping doesn't help) that my body is not getting completely over it.

10ish days and counting ...ish.....I am such a planner....I want to know when, and how, and what is going to happen all the time....the problem is I don't know the 'WHEN' right now and it is driving me nuts! I wish I just knew that at 1:17 on September 15 I would need to be ready to go to the hospital and by 6: 42 I would have her (i considered being realistic and putting a later time than 6:42.....but then I would have to face the hard truth that I might have to miss a meal during all of this....from what I hear they don't feed you while you're in labor......I'm not to hot on that idea...)

I started packing my bag this weekend and went through Heathers hospital list again that she made me. It's a list of things to take, not to take, to know, to not stress over...yada-yada-yada. It's great, especially since I have no idea where to start with some of this. If anyone else has suggestions I'm all ears!

Reegan(if she comes out a girl! Ha!) is going to wear home from the hospital what I wore home from the hospital. It's pretty cute! Hmmmm, does this all seem like a dream to anyone else?

Far, Far, Away...

I wish I could run away for the weekend! Far FAR away! Or that someone would just lock me up and send me food and water occasionally. I don't even want a phone! I have SOOOO much to do before Reegan gets here! I just REALLY want to be antisocial, get all of my crap done, and then with whatever time is left (HA...time...) do absolutely nothing! But I'm pretty sure this 3 day weekend consists of none of that!

The dogs are doing better. Some how in the ruckus of things Annie's eye got scratched. I took her to the vet and they gave her some antibacterial drops with cortisone in them. They are friends again...but cautious friends. We are doing our best to teach Gus that he can't play rough with her.

We are going to get maternity pictures made this weekend. I'm kinda funny about the whole taking pictures while I'm pregnant thing....especially bare belly....so we'll see how they turn out.

Koby's work was so sweet and gave him a surprise diaper shower yesterday! What a great gift! He even brought some of the cookies and cake home for me! AAAAAAAnnnnnnnddddd when Koby got home he put all the diapers and wipes up where they go!!!! Woo-hooo! (I know it sounds like a little thing...but I am so overwhelmed right now...it's the small things that matter!)