June 2009 – Page 2

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Posted on June 9, 2009 by Carol — 2 Comments ↓

Well, I figured I should probably update here since the last time I wrote it was Friday! As you can imagine, we’ve been keeping things pretty low-key around here. Saturday we had family over to see Miss Laura. It was a gorgeous day out and we just had sandwiches, chips, pasta salad, and some olives. Drew put everything together and it was all yummy! Sunday we just took it easy. I was actually really sore and kind of grouchy. Laura seemed to be nursing constantly and I was feeling pretty tired. Although all that nursing paid off because when we took her to the pediatrician yesterday, she was almost back up to her birth weight! When we left the hospital on Friday, she weighed 5 lbs. 13 oz. Yesterday she was up to 6 lbs. 1 oz. Not too bad, eh?

She’s pretty laid back so far. She eats and sleeps and doesn’t fuss much. She prefers to be held when she sleeps (then again, who doesn’t? LOL), so we’re working on easing her from our arms to her carrier. Just like her brothers, at this point she hates lying down flat on her back. In fact, in the hosptial, the nurses always had her basinette positioned at an angle. But things are going well and we’re all doing OK in the sleep department. So far the adjustment has gone well for everyone, including the boys.

Today Drew took Noah to run a couple errands and return some movies. When I went into the kitchen for a snack I saw that he’d forgotten the movies, ugh! I figured I would just call him, but then I saw that both of our cellular phones were right there on the island, so there went that idea. Luckily, one of the builders mentioned that he was going to rent a movie and offered to return them for us, so that worked out! Drew is also on CSA duty tonight, but at least Jake’s baseball practice was cancelled due to the cold, rainy, wet weather today. I feel bad because he’s really doing pretty much everything. I cannot wait to feel “normal” again. I know it hasn’t quite been a week, but… I’m getting pretty antsy. In the meantime, at least I am getting to watch a lot of Food Network and funny infomercials. 😉

Introducing Miss Laura Catherine

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Carol — 13 Comments ↓

We’re home! Please meet our sweet little girl, Laura Catherine. Everything went well with the c-section and she was born at 8:36 a.m. on June 3rd. Now I can say that all of my children were born on a Wednesday — how’s that for a strange coincidence? Everyone fully expected another big baby; after all, Jake was 9 lbs. 6 oz. and Noah was 8 lbs. 8 oz. But we all were proven wrong. Little miss is a very petite girl, weighing only 6 lbs. 3 oz. (the same numbers as her birthdate!) and measuring 19 inches long. She is tiny, tiny, tiny and absolutely charmed all of the nurses at the hospital 🙂

There were no problems with either her or me, so we were able to be discharged early, which was wonderful! I have nothing but positive things to say about my stay at the birth center, but it’s so much more relaxing at home. Overall, I feel really good. I do have some “burning” muscle pain on my right side, low in the pelvic area, but according to the nurses that is probably not from the c-section, but from another relatively minor procedure I elected to have. Aside from that, my recovery has gone very smoothly. All of my tummy functions were right back on track and my pain has been manageable so they could see no real reason to keep me there.

It’ll be much easier for me at night now, since Drew has had to be home with Jake the last couple nights. The nurses were wonderful, though, and both last night and the night before took Laura for a few hours after I fed her, which allowed me to get some much-needed rest. Last night she was feeding constantly and I was just exhausted. But the upside is that my milk has come in and she is nursing great! Hopefully that will continue.

Although I was a little disappointed I did not get the awesome birth center mug full of goodies (like coffee and biscotti) like last time, I have to admit that the swaddle wrap that was in the free tote bag is a pretty great giveaway. She loves being all “burrito’ed up” as we call it, so I can’t wait to try it out tonight. And of course, I made sure to take the rest of the bag of disposable diapers home, too. 🙂

And I just have to say how lucky I am to have such an amazing husband. The construction upstairs isn’t quite done (although sheetrock is up and it’s very near complete — and no I did not climb up all those stairs to look; I saw photos on Drew’s camera, LOL), but he really went out of his way to get things as clean as he could for me, as well as waiting on me hand and foot since we got home.

Tomorrow we’ve invited family members to visit, and I know everyone is looking forward to either meeting Laura for the first time, or seeing her again. I’m so excited to show her off!

Tomorrow is the Day!

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Carol — 10 Comments ↓

I cannot believe that this is my last afternoon as a pregnant lady! I am scheduled to arrive at the birth center tomorrow at 6 a.m. and my c-section is scheduled for 8 a.m., bright and early! I’m so glad that I am the first one. The no-drinking-water after midnight is going to be hard for me, so the earlier I have the surgery, that much faster I can have something to drink, LOL 🙂 This morning I went for my pre-surgical testing, which was no big deal. Basically I filled out a bunch of forms, was told not to eat or drink after midnight, had two vials of blood drawn and peed in a cup. I’m so excited, yet nervous at the same time. Although I’ve had two c-sections before, both of those were after several hours of hard labord. It’s going to be so weird walking in there tomorrow, feeling absolutely fine.

I have no idea if laptops are allowed at the birth center, so I might be offline until the weekend (although a girlfriend who recently gave birth at a different hospital was able to have her laptop with her, so maybe I’ll get lucky — but I’m not really going to count on that). In the meantime, I will have Drew update my Facebook status for me, since most of you are on there anyway.

The next time I blog, I will be a mom of three! Wish me luck!