pregnancy & text buddy- aug 2010

[dizzy65]

Scottie didnt have jaundice that bad just a little but enough to scare us for sure.. Am glad to finally be home with our little man.. he is all sleeping right now so im trying to get caught up on everything.. we have a check up on him some time this week not sure when.. OH had jaundice when he was born too.. it really sucks.. hopefully audrey doesnt get it..

 

[QueSeraSera]

so is he a good little sleeper then? how are the night feedings going...completely exhausting or not as bad as they say? and is the breastfeeding going well? ahhh so many questions for you! im so glad that youre doing well and that scottie and the proud daddy are too. it must just be the most amazing feeling ever right now

 

[dizzy65]

His first night home was bad he wouldnt settle he just kept wanting to suckle and wanted me to hold him i dont think he likes the dark too much.. the hospital room was really light they wouldnt keep the lights off there.. It is really exhausting but totally worth it.. he only woke up twice last night for feedings then went right back to sleep so it hasnt been too bad.. Breast feeding at first was really challanging, but we are both learning OH tries to help getting him to latch on me too.. but he is doing really well at it now and feeding regularly as he should lol.. i made OH get up and change his stinky diaper last night lol.

My mom is staying with us tell wednesday and it was really funny the first 10 min she was holding him he farted and made a huge stinky lol..

 

[QueSeraSera]

im sure that moving form the hospital to the house is a big change for a newborn. not only is all the lighting and everything different, but the noises and everything are completely changed too. not to mention a new bed, new bedding, new smells, new people. its really crazy to think about how everything in a baby's world is completely new and being experienced for the first time. it seems like he is settling in a bit though and having better nights. only waking up 2 times in the night is great! and im so happy for you that the breastfeeding is going well and even your OH is helping to make sure that you both get used to the whole routine

hehe...sounds like little scottie is quite the stink machine! such a typical boy eh? i bet your mom is so happy to be there with her grandson and you guys...getting to spend time with you all in the first days. is it proving to be a lot of help to have someone there? or would you prefer some more space? my mom is scheduled to come out the 20th. she may try to change her ticket if audrey comes before that though. she asked if i wanted her there right away or after a few days, once weve gotten settled into a routine, and i honestly dont know which way is better...

 

[dizzy65]

Ive herd such horror stories about people trying to breast feed and not being able to and stuff.. it was really uncomfortable breastfeeding in the hospital because i had every nurse in there like grabbing my boobs and trying to help him latch on and stuff every nurse is like "do you mind" after a while it was just like "yah what ever do what you have to" lol.. i really didnt care as long as little scottie was getting his food.. but now we are home he is feeding like a pro hehe i think maybe he got uncomfortable with every one trying to help him feed and such.. but am glad he has got it now

I think i perfer my mom to be here now so that i can have naps andstuff if i want them just tell we get into routine but she is only here for a few days.. it defantly has its ups and its downs about having some one stay with you right away when you really arent used to the whole having a baby thing.. But it will get better once she is gone than the real hardness begins because there wont be that extra support.. we are still living at OH's dads house so he tries to help.. he always wants to hold scottie.. when he is around here that is lol..

It was funny when i was in labor i had all the staff in there near to the end every one trying to encourage me that i can keep going and i can do it and stuff and once scottie came out it must of been really loud because every one was cheering and congradulating each other and everything it was really funny.. i guess it was a lot of work for every one haha.. You have no idea how many times i wanted to give up i kept asking to go home and said i cant do it any more countless times lol When they say when your in labor and have to start pushing theres no way to stop it, you really have no ideai was trying to fource my self to stop pushing because i didnt want to do it and my body did it on its own.. it was insane

 

[QueSeraSera]

haha! i guess it really does become like one of those "it takes a village to raise a child" sorts of things...with everyone trying to help you figure out the breastfeeding. i imagine that after all you went through though you probably didnt care anymore who was touching what. lol. i bet it is just weird for the babies when theyre first born...theyre trying to figure everything out too and then there are tons of people around. its probably a huge shock for them. no wonder hes doing better now that you guys are home.

yea thats what i keep thinking, that it will be nice to have my mom here so that i can get some rest and she can help out with taking care of the house and the pets too. as much as i love DH, he is just not good at keeping the house clean at all. he just throws his stuff everywhere and expects me to pick up after him. normally i dont mind, but im sure that after the baby comes ill be wanting to go around picking up and my body probably wont be up for it. so that would be helpful to have a mom around. i think ill probably just tell her to come out as soon as she can after audrey is born...it will probably take her a bit anyway because of flight scheduling anyway. so we might have enough time to get home and settled anyway. thats really nice that you have OHs dad to help out too, with whatever he can at lease, even after your mom leaves. how long does your OH have off of work before he has to go back?

hehe! i think i will do the same thing! at some point im sure i will just tell everyone that im done and dont want to do it anymore. lol. i would imagine that you just get so physically exhausted that anything more seems impossible. but thats probably why our bodies have the natural instinct to do it all on their own too...that way when we think we cant do it, our bodies step in and we dont have a choice. lol. im so glad you got through it all and everything though. you must just be on cloud nine. i am getting pretty impatient myself...i just want audrey to come already! so is it true what they all say, do you forget the pain right after its all over?

 

[dizzy65]

haha it does for sure.. it gets annoying every one wanting to poke at you and prod u and stuff but after a while all you care about is getting that food from you to baby.. Scottie was only feeding for 10 mins at a time when he did feed and he was some times making it so i had to express my milk to him but he is way better now that my actual milk is in and such.. he loves feeding during the day he feeds like lots any where from 15 mins to 30 mins he does such a great job at doing it and it is such a rewarding feeling knowing that i can feed him like i do..

it is nice to have the extra help around ithink it is better than just trying to get threw it alone any way.. ill have lots of help in the first little bit.. in like 2 weeks my grandma will be down here to for a little while so she will be able to help out a bit.. my mom she said she wouldnt change poopy diapers or any thing but she just did so thats good any way.. OH keeps saying that any one who holding him while he makes a stinky gets to change him lol.. it looks weird too seeing there poop change colours its starts out like almost black then goes to green than yellow.. hehe.. changing diapers really isnt as hard as i thought it was going to be actaully.. its all come pretty easy to me im so glad im not one of those moms who struggles with all this stuff..

it does get really frusterating after being in labor for that long and pishing and you just want to give up.. i kept begging for pain meds and such but they said that i couldnt because they didnt want me to fall asleep again lol.. they gave me this shot of one thing and right after they took out the needle i was fast asleep lol.. They said i did really well for some one who had very little pain meds.. yep i didnt even get the gas and air like iwanted lol no epidiral for me either.. i didnt even get the choice to have an epidural because i dialated past 5cm when i was asleep lol.. It is really true that once you are holding the baby in your arms you forget about everything it took to get it there.. it is really worth it in the end to finally be holding the LO for sure..

I felt so funny because like right after i pushed him out they put him on my chest for a min then took him away and i just started bawling asking for my baby back asking if he was ok saying i dont want them to take him from me lol.. it was really amazing to hold him for the first time too.. Oh yeah and the bleeding thing too after you give birth really isnt that bad unless you have complications ect, im still bleeding now but all it feels like is just like menstral type bleeding its not that bad.. I didnt have any tears or any thing just some "road rash" as they called it.. so my recovery isnt taking that long it doesnt hardly hurt down there any more

 

[QueSeraSera]

aww that really is so cool that the both of you are catching on so well to the breastfeeding. i bet its hard for the little guy when your milk hasnt fully come in and everything too...i would imagine that it makes it all harder. seems like hes really got it figured out now though!

hehe. sounds like you guys will have quite a bit of help from different members of the family here at the beginning! i bet that is nice, and i bet that your family is happy that they can be there to help you too. i like your OHs rule...seems like a perfect one and makes total sense...whoever is holding or closest to the baby gets diaper duty when he makes a poo it sounds like youre really catching on to the whole motherhood thing! and even changing diapers like a pro! i remember being really nervous about the diapers with my stepson, but they arent really that hard at all. it just sucks when they have a huge nasty and poo out the back of their diapers and such...ick! :-/

i cant believe you did the whole labour thing with such little intervention as far as pain medication and all that. i cant believe you were able to fall asleep through the worst part of labour! i hope that happens to me. id like to fall asleep at the beginning and just wake up when its time to push im glad that the pain really does fade that quickly and you forget all about it. i never knew if everybody was just saying that to make us feel better or if they really meant it. lol

awww...i bet i would cry if they took my LO right away too. did they need to do tests on him or something? i thought they usually gave you like an hour or so of skin to skin before they took the baby away... im glad to hear that the bleeding isnt so bad. i guess the worst of it will be having to get used to wearing pads again. im hoping that i come out of it like you did and dont have any tearing or anything! thats awesome that you came out of it without that sort of thing. i would think that would slow down the recovery quite a bit...

yay...so happy that youre doing well. i go in for an appointment today. im excited to get checked. on saturday night i had contractions for 10 hours regularly and they were first 10 min apart and then 8 and then 5. so finally we went into the L&D to see if it was real because we had tried the walking, changing positions, having a bath and eating a snack...all the things they say should stop them if theyre just BH. but they kept coming and even woke me up from sleeping. so we went in at 330 am. the contractions were real, but they say im in "slow labour" because i was only dilated to 1cm.. then on sunday they slowed quite a bit and now i only have 2-3 per hour. but im wondering if ive dilated any more or made any more progress. im hoping that she will come soon! im getting impatient and uncomfortable lol

 

[dizzy65]

I had a visit from the health nurse today it went really well she weighed little scottie and found out he has gone up from his birth weight which means that we are doing breast feeding really well, she said i was doing a phenominal job with him and that what ever im doing for breast feeding is really working and to keep it up.

yes it is good to have lots of support but in the same time id kinda like to be alone with my son now im tired of having lots of people coming around all the time and stuff. my mom is leaving today so that will be differant.. It is a good rule that who ever is holding him has to change him exept im usually the only one holding him and i hold him like all day so im the one that usaully has to do all the diapers and stuff like that it is so annoying but i dont mind really doing it, good bonding time with my son i guess lol .. I thought diapers would be a lot harder than they were but they arent bad.. they just smell really bad and such lol.. Scottie is a little fart machine thou he always lets out big adult size farts he is such a boy lol.

I was happy that i could go threw my labor so easily i did have those few shots of morphine which really helped i had them when i first went into labor because after they induced me i had some kind of reaction to it and was contracting once a minute and they were really strong contractions it was so hard.. so they shot me up so morphine than my water broke and oh my god was that ever disquesting it broke i was like "uhm either my water just broke or i peed my self" and than i was like freaking out cause it wouldnt stop i soaked the whole bed and than the floor.. and when i stood up it still kept flowing so i had the nurses in there stripping me down and shoving a gown on me and those lovely hospital panties lol

well they put him on your chest but take him away to do his weight and stuff right away then you get him back.. he was only gone for maybe like 5 mins but those 5 mins seemed like a life time for me.. than when i got him back we were skin to skin for like an hour than they shoved me in the shower and helped me wash up and than i got him back to try feeding and i got moved over to recovery.. so it wasnt like they took him away for a long period of time i just wanted my baby back lol.. i know its really sad but i worked for 26.5 hours for him i didnt want to give my little man up lol

ah i hope this is the begining for you and that stuff will kick in soon for you i know how uncomfortable the last few weeks can be i really hope your baby decideds to come out soon.. It sounds really promising with all the contractions and stuff like that so fingers crossed.. How are you holding up so far? has it been pretty bad? thats good that your are at least 1cm dialated hopefully when you go back they will have some more news for you saying your further alone hehe.. than maybe they can admit you and you can have your little girl

 

[QueSeraSera]

hooray! good news to hear that your little man is doing well and keeping up his weight. i heard that little boys are better about feeding usually than girls and are more agressive about getting the food they need from you. sounds like scottie is not having any problems in that department! lol

i think i will probably be the same way and want to be the one holding audrey all the time. i think after carrying them around for 9 months its just second nature to have them as close as possible. your mom must be a little sad that she is leaving you and her grandson, but it will probably be good for you to have some time on your own so that you and OH can get used to being parents on your own. that is too funny about all the farting...he really is all boy!

at least your water broke at the hospital! im still so scared that mine will break in bed or at work or on the bus ride to work. sounds like there was a TON of fluid though huh? hopefully mine breaks in labour when im already at the hospital like you. that is so awesome about only needing morphine though. i have heard that that can make you sleepy...thats probably what did it for you and knocked you out! but at least you got some rest during the worst of the transition stage! i cant believe that the induction gel had such a crazy reaction to you and made you had those contractions...that must have been pretty scary.

i can imagine ill be the same...even 5 minutes will be too long to take a baby away from a mom who has waited 9 months for this day! but at least after that you were able to get your skin to skin and spend some time with him. that funny that they helped you take a shower, but i imagine that you need some help after going through all of that. ill probably be begging for a shower and hot caring how many people need to help me through it! lol. im so glad to hear that the bleeding isnt really that bad though. i was really starting to dread that whole thing...but if its just like a regular period i should be able to deal with that.

i went to the doctor yesterday and im still at 1cm and shes way high up at -3 station. the doctor said it would probably be awhile before she comes. not quite the news that i wanted to hear! i have been trying to walk as much as possible, but being at work all day i really only can do that at night. so since monday ive been walking every night and bouncing on the birthing ball too. hopefully it will get her to move down and start something again...i really dont want to be pregnant for 3 more weeks! lol. im getting pretty uncomfortable and just ready to be done. plus im getting a bit of a cold, which is making it all suck so much more. :-/ "cmon audrey! hurry up!"

 

[dizzy65]

he really is a great feeder and he lets us know when he is hungry he just starts screaming and stuff and he feeds a lot.. he is 7lbs 3oz now so im really proud of his weight gain.. he is such a little cutie well worth the wait!

my mom was upset to be leaving us she didnt want to go and probably wouldnt of but she had to work in the morning and OH and i had to take little scottie in for his first check up which was good i guess lol poor little guy hates being poked and proded with all of them gagets and stuff.. It is good to have some alone time with my OH and the baby.. tonight thou OH has fire practice so i dont get to see him until like 9 or 10 which is ok i guess i get to spend sum time with my son alone lol..

I herd the flow is easier when you stand up and it breaks because when you stand up the babies head blocks most of it but laying down its just like a water fall.. it is brutal lol.. im so glad it broke where it did.. I would of been mortified if it happened while i was out and OH was terrified it was going to break while in his jeep lol so its good it broke where it did.. I wouldnt worry to much about it about like 75% of women have to get there waters broken by the doctors any way.. Yes it is good that the blood situation isnt that bad.. the first day it is hard lots of blood and stuff but after that it dies down and goes to like regular type bleeding im still bleeding now she said it can last for a few weeks longer, ugh lol im getting so tired of it already!

the contractions were terrifying i dont think i ever want to be induce again knowing that i had reactions and such. it is hard when they take the LO away for the first little bit.. I cried so much OH looked terrified at how much i was crying when they took scottie from me lol. the only reason they help you with showering and stuff is because after all of that a lot of people get dizzy and disorented and they dont want you falling and seriously injuring your self.. it was pretty odd to have them like drying me off and stuff like that thou like i was a little kid they dried most of me off esept my hair.. i did that lol.. after the birthing i couldnt even bend over another reason they had to help.

ah that will really suck if you are stuck being pregnant for another 3 weeks that would get so uncomfortable for sure.. i had the same problem with scottie he wouldnt go down any lower than he was so i had to do a bunch of stuff to help lower him which worked enough for them to induce me any way lol. i hope she cooperates and decideds to come soon and stop making you wait lol it must be so frusterating.. hopefully the walking and such will help her move down it usually does help a bit and the birthing ball is a good idea too just to get her to move

ooh congrats on hitting your 39 week mark by the way she will hopefully be here soon you must be so anxious

 

[QueSeraSera]

hehe! i love that he is very vocal about when he is hungry. how adorable! and not very shy about voicing his opinions huh? did he lose weight after birth and then gain it back? ive heard that most babies lose some weight in the days right after birth. its common i think, but i guess it must be scary...thinking maybe they arent getting enough and such.

aww your poor mom! i know that my mom is going to be the same way when she comes out and then has to leave. i think that if she could quit her job and move out here, she totally would. my dad still says hes not going to come right after the birth and is going to wait until shes a couple months old and weve gotten into our routine and all, but i think hell change his mind at the last minute. it sound like youre doing very good and im sure that its nice to even have some time with just you and scottie...some mother-son bonding time

i hope that im one of the people who has their water break in labour at the hospital. then i dont care if im sitting or standing, because someone else is going to clean it up! lol. if it happens at work, home or on the bus though...im going to be mortified, i just know it. im glad the bleeding isnt so bad, but i have heard that it can last anywhere from 4-6 weeks! im sure it will get so annoying by then. but i also think that by the last weeks its not so much blood...just enough to still need to wear some kind of pad or liner.

im hoping i dont have to be induced after hearing how your body reacted! i guess there is really no way to know how your body will handle it, but i dont really want to risk it! im just hoping that the walking and bouncing will provoke her to move down and this whole thing will start on its own. plus im not particularly keen on the idea of waiting two extra weeks to be induced. i can imagine that after having a baby, being awake for 20+ hours, and losing quite a bit of blood that you are very dizzy and disoriented. best that they help you with the shower...it would be really bad if you fainted or something. plus, by then i bet you didnt get who saw or touched what. lol.

thanks! im excited about 39 weeks, but im not very excited about the fact that ill probably go over. i just keep hoping that the doctor is wrong and things will change quickly. ive decided that no matter if she has come or not, im stopping work after next week. i jsut cant do it much anymore. monday is a holiday here and so next week is 4 day week. i should be able to manage that, but beyond that im just going to take time off until she decides to come or the doctors decide to evict her

 

[dizzy65]

he is.. it some times gets frusterating because if like the milk isnt coming fast enough he will stop feeding and just like scream at my boob im like "hun thats not going to work" lol and than he also like to play with his food too which gets really annoying some times when i just want him to feed so i can go back to bed. but im glad i can actaully breast feed as there are lots of women out there that cant do it, and its come pretty easy for scottie and i. He lost a few ounces in there, it is really common for babies too loose weight before your milk comes in but than once your milk comes in there supposed to start going back up. some babies loose up to 10% of there body weight or what ever so they go down like a pound, im glad scottie wasnt like that!

My mom wanted to steal scottie from me lol.. She face book messages me or calls me every day asking how our boy is doing lol she is so happy to be a grandma and such she is so proud of him.. I think she wishes she was a little closer so that she could see scottie every day.. my mom and dad might be back tomorrow or what ever to see him.. so that will be fun they are only coming for the day thou.. It is good to have some mother-son bonding time with my little scottie.. he slept most the time any way so i layed him on the bed and played on my lap top lol.. he loves staring at my lap top because i guess its bright he he.

I couldnt imagin what it would be like if your water broke out in public because its not just like a little bit its a huge flow and it does look like you peed your self when it breaks, ooh that would be so scarey lol.. I was expecting when my water broke that it was going to be cold but no it was like really warm thats why i thought at first i had peed my self but it didnt stop.. it went all over the bed and down onto the floor and all over the one nurse ha ha.. My sisters face went like green when i said my water broke and OH didnt even no what happened until my mom ran out of the room to get one of the nurses haha than they had to leave.

Everyones bodies are differant you probably wont have a reaction like i did well hopefully not i wouldnt wish that on any one.. i think with my next pregnancy that they will try and avoid the use of induction because they know i had a reaction to it this time so hopefully i wont have to use it again.. Hopefully she decides to come early and you wont have to wait any more that really sucks that everyone thinks she is going to be late it must be really frusterating. i know when i was that pregnant the last thing i wanted to here was people telling me i was going to go over and that the baby wouldnt be here for another couple of weeks.

ah thats a good idea to stop work you must be getting so uncomfortable and tired at work i know i dont think i could of handled working like that so late into the pregnancy.. Monday is a holiday here too, we actaully are going to a fall fair this weekend and scottie is going to be in the parade with OH in the fire truck so thats pretty exciting! well hopefully little audry decides to come soon for you instead of being stuborn and staying in there lol you have to bribe her to come out or something maybe that will work haha.

 

[QueSeraSera]

hehe...sounds like little scottie is a little impatient about his food! you really are lucky that youre able to do the breastfeeding, and that both of you are taking to it so easily and fast. ive heard from a bunch of friends that have had babies that it is just so difficult and many of them gave up and switched over to formula. but the breastmilk is so much better for the baby though, so its really good that you two are managing it. and he didnt lose much weight at all in the first few days! thats really good..even though its normal for them to lose some, im sure it would be worrying all the same if he had lost a bunch.

aww...that is just too cool that your mom is so into the whole grandma thing. im sure it was hard for her to leave and not be able to be around all the time, but at least they dont live too far away. i think when my mom leaves it will be so hard on her, shell be 4000 miles away! but they are going to try to come out and stay like once every 3 months or so. and theyll stay for about a week at a time. so that will be nice...its more than we will be able to get to the mainland, thats for sure. i cant wait until we move back to the continent...even if its on the east coast and my parents are in the middle...its closer than being an ocean away.

hehe...babies sure do love lights dont they! and anything that moves really. i remember my stepson used to be so enthralled by the ceiling fan when he was a baby. he would stare at it for hours and just be so entertained by it. its weird to think that everything is so new to them that even a ceiling fan or a laptop screen is interesting to them.

so once your water broke then everyone had to leave the room? i guess i never asked that before...was it just you and your OH in the room when you were actually having scottie, or did you have other family members in there? i think at our hospital we are allowed to have anyone we want, but even if my mom is out here for the actual birth i dont think ill want her in there when im actually pushing. lol. i am starting to get less concerned with my water breaking in public, the more i read the more it seems like most women need to have their water broken or it happens when theyre already in the hospital. i mostly just dont want it to happen at work. lol

i would hope that they dont ever try to induce you again after the reaction your body had! hopefully with your next little one, it wont even be an issue and s/he will come naturally. so even after the labour and everything, youre still wanting to have more someday? my friend asked me if i wanted to have more the other day and all i could say was "let me get through having this one first and then ill let you know if i want to do that again"

oh everyone thinks she will be late. ive just started ignoring people now. and now because im so close to my due date i keep getting the "why are you still here?" from people at work and "havent you had the baby yet?!" i just look at my tummy and then look back, saying..."nope, definitely still pregnant" its getting kind of annoying though. i just want to say "trust me, if it were up to me, she would be here already!" lol

i am back to work today. im going to work through the end of the week and then might stop after that. its just going to depend on how im feeling and how much im really able to get done at work at that point. its getting hard and im so tired throughout the day, not to mention uncomfortable! but this is at least a short week because yesterday was a holiday (i had hoped that since it was "labor day" audrey would decide to come then, but she didnt... :-/) i hope you guys had a great weekend! i bet little scottie looked so awesome being in the parade! hopefully you got lots of pictures!

 

[dizzy65]

He is very impatient i cant help but laugh thou when he stops feeding and like screams at it, im like "bud you arent going to get any thing if you arent sucking" lol he is to funny. Yesterday and the day before OH's uncle and aunty was over and his uncle was holding scottie and he was like "its a good thing you dont look like your dad because he is kind of funny looking" and right after he said that scottie had a huge grin on his face it was so priceless.. i had to laugh OH didnt think it was very funny thou lol.

I never expected her to be so into the whole grandma thing like she is like my aunty was talking to my dad the day scottie was born and she was like "so how do you feel about being a grandpa" and my dad was like "well i really wished they'd waited" than after he seen scottie my aunty asked him again and he was like "omg its a boy and we arent sending him back" lol my dad was so proud as soon as he saw scottie he had an ear to ear grin it was so cute lol all he kept saying was "awe he is so tiny" lol he is defantly a proud grandpa.. That will be great if your parents can come out every couple of months it will give audrey good time to get to know her grandparents and they can be pretty involved in her life and stuff. It will be good once you can move closer to them then hopefully you all can visit more often.

they defantly do like anything like shiney or reflective or anything.. Scottie loves stairing at the lap top and stuff like that or he will just stare at something on the wall for like half an hour with out loosing his focus it is so cute lol.

Yes they had to leave because the nurses came in and started taking off my clothes to get me out of the wet ones and into a hospital gown but after that my parents were aloud to come back but they just went home instead.. In the birthing room i was aloud any one i wanted but i requested that no one but OH be in there with me any way.. i mean the birthing room was already so crowded, there was every staff member in labor and delievery in there with us.. OH's dad and his gf kept coming back and having to be kicked out of our room i kept saying "just get the fuck out" lol they were anxious because i had been pushing for so long.

I would defantly have more kids it is totally worth it to see the beautiful child i created i would do it again for sure.. it is the most amazing feeling when they put the baby in your arms for the first time and you know that this is what you went threw all the pain for and all that long wait was for this little one.. you forget about the past 9 months of pain and stuff you went threw to get that little baby there.. it is very worth it..

ah i know what you mean the last bit of my pregnancy people kept saying "what no baby yet " i was like "um odviously not " lol i hope she comes soon for you, you must be getting so uncomfy

that would of been awesome if she came on labor day lol. she will be here before you know it thou than you will be really happy lol.. it was great having scottie in the parade everyone was like "awe look at the baby" lol but unfortanatly no pictures there was no one standing out with a camera so that really sucked.. but we had lots of fun and scottie slept threw the whole thing

 

[QueSeraSera]

aww...the little guy doesnt quite get it does he? screaming at a boob will not get you milk! hehe. thats pretty adorable though. i love the story about what your OHs uncle said...priceless! what perfect timing for little scottie to let out a smile too. im sure that your OH was a little offended though! hehe.

yea i think their entire perspective changes regarding being grandparents once the LO is born. MIL was saying that when DHs ex was expecting she wasnt very excited to be a grandma or anything, but once dyl was born all that changed completely. i think it will be the same for my dad. my parents already have three grandkids, but this is my first and so its a bit different. my dad still says hes not coming out, but i have a feeling that once she is born he will be wanting to be out here immediately. theres definitely a difference between knowing theres a baby about to be born and actually seeing the LO.

hehe...i love the baby stare! it is amazing how long they can look at one thing. its like they dont even need to blink. i remember i used to stare at my stepson when he was staring at something and he would never blink! it was amazing how long he could keep his eyes open really. babies really are just so interesting. lol

thats nice that your family gave you some space. i mean, in the early parts of labour im sure it would be fine to have people in there, but once it gets crazy intense i would want some space. luckily we dont have to deal with that whole issue because most likely there wont be any family out here when im in labour anyway. unless audrey comes way late, my mom wont be out here until after the actual birth. ive seen so many threads on here about families wanting to be in the birthing room and women not knowing how to tell them no...youd think most people would be like your family and just give you space. i guess they tend to get a little overexcited though...

that is awesome that even though you had some trauma during labour youre still ready to have another one and it all seems worth it. im glad to hear that it doesnt like stick with you and tarnish the memories of the day and everything. hopefully ill feel the same way after i have miss audrey i have told DH not to mention anymore babies for awhile though...he has to let me get through this labour and the first 6 months of full time mommyhood

aww that sucks that you didnt get any pictures of little scottie in the parade. it will be a good memory that you can share with him though. thats so funny that he was just snoozing the whole time. i bet everyone was excited to see him in the parade though..a brand new baby

so i go to the doctor today. she mentioned last week that they might do a sweep today to get things moving, but we will see. hopefully something gets started soon! but its not looking like she will be arriving in time for her due date tomorrow at all.

 

[dizzy65]

haha yeah it is really funny.. He likes to play with it too apparently a lot of babies do it.. Breast feeding is a really great bonding experiance too i love to stare at him while he feeds he looks at me too until he falls asleep it is so cute!

i think you are right.. before the baby is born no one is excited but once they get to see there grandchild they are so happy and everything.. my dad is so happy he finally got a boy because he had girls and now he is excited cause he gets to go and by scottie all these cool boy toys and stuff like that.. but he is going to be a pain cause he wants to by scottie all these like really noisy ones and stuff once he is a little older of course ugh how annoying lol.. Everyone is really proud of the little man thou and im so happy he is finally here

I know i was thinking the same thing when i was staring at scottie the other day he was looking at something for ever with out even blinking i was just thinking "i wonder whats going threw his mind right now" .. all that are on babies minds thou are sleep eat and poop haha.

i was so angry that OH's father and g/f kept trying to come in to see us they are like "can we come in" i was like "omg just fuck off" lol i made them leave after i was about 9 3/4 dialated and i felt like i had to push.. they were upset and didnt understand why i didnt want them in there.. but seriously i didnt want any one to see that.. it was funny they couldnt even tell i was 9 cm dialated i just like woke up every once in a while and grabbed OH's hand and squeezed tell the contraction was over and than that was it i tried to go back to sleep it didnt hurt all to much i mean to me all it felt like was menstral cramping cause i usually get really bad menstral cramps any way so it wasnt too bad for me.. plus i think the effects of the morphine were still there too so it made it not so intense.

haha yeah that is true.. OH and i made a deal to not try for a nother baby until scottie is 2 years old that way we get some time with our little man before we have another one and by that time ill probably want another one any way and scottie will be a good big brother i think! i think you will feel the same after the birth and stuff that it is all totally worth it to be holding your little angel in your arms

everyone was so happy to see the baby it was like a coming out thing for my little one hehe i was so happy

hopefully they did the sweep and you can get things started i remember near to the end i was getting so uncomfy.. hopefully it doesnt go to much further for you it really sucks being your due date and baby not here yet..

happy due date to you by the way!

 

[QueSeraSera]

aww that sounds so cute. i bet breastfeeding is an amazing experience. its so funny that he plays with the boob when hes feeding. he must be a true boy at heart! my little stepson is all fascinated by boobs lately. we will be in a store and he will shout "i like your boobies shannon!" its so embarassing! i think his mom taught him what they are and now its all he talks about! :-/

its like your dad is finally getting a son, huh? thats pretty cool that they have gotten so excited and everything. i remember when i was little i would get all these noisy toys from my grandparents and we would get to play with them for awhile but eventually my parents would get fed up with them and put them on top of the fridge. lol. but now they buy my stepson and my neice and nephew all these super noisy toys...it must be part of being a grandparent! that or not being around all the time...so you dont have to hear the sound all the time

eat sleep and poop...yea that sounds about right! babies have a limited field of interest. lol. as long as you keep them full, rested, and clean...theyre pretty happy. wait until he is a toddler and you have to work hard to keep him entertained...youll be wishing to go back to the days when he was so easily kept happy. hehe

yea i would have been upset if i were you and they kept trying to come into the room. i mean...once, okay...but then get the hint and dont try to come in again! i am hoping that im like you...i get pretty bad periods and have really intense cramps anyway, so im hoping that that will have prepared me a bit for the pain of labour. i know it will be worse, but maybe ill be able to cope with it better. we will see though, if labour ever comes for me! right now its feeling like it will never happen!

DH and i were talking about more babies. i told him that i really wont know if i want more until audrey comes and i get through labour and adjusted to mommyhood. but he was saying we should either try to have another baby pretty close to her...like start trying when she is about 9 mos-1yr. either that or we are going to wait until she is about 4 and nearly in school. we figure we should either do it while shes still small and in diapers and such, or wait until shes starting school to do the whole infant thing again. lol. but like i said, i wont know until after i get through this. i might be wanting to wait a LONG TIME before thinking about another baby! hehe

they tried to do the sweep, but audrey is just too far up and the doctor couldnt reach to do the sweep fully. so she did a partial one. it didnt do much though. i bled quite a bit for about a day and had some horrible cramps, but then it all died down. this weekend we took my stepson to the zoo and walked around for hours, then i spent all my time sitting on the bouncing ball, and still nothing. im at work again today and not too happy about it. everyone keeps saying "oh...so you didnt have the baby over the weekend huh?" and i just cant stand it. "ummm...obviously not!" i am trying to avoid people at all costs to avoid saying anything ill regret or something that will get me fired lol. i was doing so well, even with going overdue...but today im finally just fed up i think. hopefully she comes soon...i dont know how much longer i can continue to work and everything

 

[dizzy65]

it is very amazing but some times i wish i was doing formula just because last night we were out visiting with my grandma scotties great grandma and he started screaming for food and he doesnt feed well at all when theres lots of people around so we had to leave i forgot to pump before we left it wasnt good at all.. awe that is so cute with your step son but it must be really annoying that he is like that lol.. id be trying to get him to not say stuff like that at least in public lol my ex's brother was like that too hed come up to me and be like "shannon can i see yours boobs" it was so frusterating to get him to stop.

yep my dad finally got his boy thats all he can talk about is scottie he is defantly really proud.. yes i think that is a grandparent thing my parents are the same just wanting to buy all the noisy toys and get him all hopped up on sugar and send him home lol they would of never had to deal with him and stuff they can just send him home its lke 'gee thanks your so nice to me" lol..

haha yes that may be true.. scottie is so content right now i dont no what im going to do once he starts running around and such and when he doesnt sleep for most the day i can tell ill be really tired lol and oh baby proofing too ugh thats goin to suck so bad lol

yeah i know and i dont even like OH's dads g/f .... it was getting really frusterating i kept my cool for the most part but it was like they came in got kicked out and 5 min later asked if i was ready for visitors its like no god damnit leave me alone lol.. she was getting so annoying.. oh and when she found out it was a boy she got upset because she wanted a girl.. she actually was mad when she had a baby and it was a boy because she always wanted a girl.. she said she wouldnt change his diapers or anything while in the hospital or even touch him because he had a pee-pee i could of smacked her seriously that really offended me when she said that.. i couldnt even imagin neglecting my child like that.

yes that is true you wont no how you feel until she is here im going to talk to OH tonight probably about what he wants to do i think we might wait tell he is like 2 years before we start trying again my mom keeps asking me when we are going to start trying for another one.. they will be happy once we get pregnant again im sure they love being grandparents lol.. i cant wait to be pregnant again i can say that now im not all big and itchy and sore lol.. you willreally miss it once it is actually gone.

that happened with me the first sweep too scottie was to high up so the sweep did absolutly nothing.. it seems like nothing is working for her i hope she comes soon for you that must be getting so frusterated and being almost a week late now but by next week if she hasnt come yet they will probably induce you so thats something to look forward too and im sure you wont have any reaction too it like i did.. ah you must be getting so uncomfy i no to the end with me i was getting very uncomfortable as well it really was no good.

you dont realise how much you miss doing stuff tell you couldnt do it for a period of time than all of a sudden you can do it like now im always laying on my tummy or my back and i can see my feet its pretty awesome lol im so happy

 

[QueSeraSera]

yea i think its reasons like that that a lot of moms end up doing formula...it really is more convenient. it will cost you a fortune though! we were looking at the formulas just in case something happens and breast feeding doesnt work out...oh my god they are outrageously expensive! so i am really hoping that it works out to breastfeed. plus it is better for the baby, even if its sometimes harder on us. oh the thing with my stepson can be kind of emabarassing..and if you say something to him to get him to stop he usually says it louder! it must be something about boys that they get fascinated with them when theyre young (and older too! lol)

hehe. thats the great part about being a grandparent...you get to spoil the kids rotten and then send them home to the parents. i used to think the same thing about being an aunt...i would take my nephew out and we would go to the park and run around and get all hyper, then go get ice cream, and then go buy a few fun toys...and then i would send him home to his mom all riled up. it was great. now i look back and think...man...i hope that nobody does that to me!

yea i think the newborn stage is actually the easiest. its hard because its all new and getting used to it, but they are the easiest to entertain and take care of then. we are going for the trip in november and DH is nervous about her on the plane...i keep telling him that she will be fine and will probably sleep the whole way...its going to be be my stepson that will be difficult. he needs to be entertained and he always wants to be us running around...7 hours on a plane is going to be rough on him.

man i cant believe your FILs gf. i wouldnt have wanted her anywhere near me, judging by how youre saying she acted. i cant believe that she would actually say she was disappointed scottie was a boy. and then to say she was upset her own son didnt come out a girl...so much so that she wouldnt even touch him! thats out of control. and shes not even in any way related to your family, so its not as if her thoughts and opinions are even welcome! she needs to learn to shut her mouth, i think. if i were you i wouldnt be letting her hold my son since shes so disappointed he wasnt a girl. gosh...some people are just out of control. they should learn to think before they speak. your FIL needs to find a nice, tolerable gf...these last couple have really been something! lol

its funny that your parents said they wished you waited and now theyre ready for you to have another. they must really be enjoying grandparent-hood! i think waiting 2 years is a decent goal...theyre still close together in age, but not too close. i was telling DH yesterday that ive gotten really used to resting my hand on my bump...i dont know what im going to do when its not there anymore! but, at the same time, i think it will be nice to see my toes again

i think i am just frustrated with everyone else at this point. im not a bit upset with her...if she needs the extra time then i understand. im just so tired of everyone asking nonstop about if im feeling anything or when i think she will come. how am i supposed to know that?! lol. but i am pretty uncomfortable at work and ready to be done with work for now. im also really excited to meet my little girl, which makes every day seem like its lasting forever. im hoping that the appointment tomorrow goes well and i can get a date for induction...then at least ill have something to count down to

i am so jealous that you can lay on your tummy! i cant wait to be able to do that. i have a whole list of things. i want to eat sushi. and i want to eat a greek salad with feta cheese...things i havent been able to eat when pregnant. i want to lay on my tummy and i want to go running again. i could go on and on about all the things im looking forward to once Audrey is here in the world and out of my tummy