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Life is Good!
on April 9, 2007 6:50 am

Well the title says it all. Life is very good right now. Baby is wonderful and growing like a weed. =-]  A lady at my church just had a baby that weighed EXACTLY the same as Trinity when she was born. 
As I was holding him, I couldn't believe that she weighed that little only 3 months earlier. 
Until now I never really understood when parents say they grow up fast, but now I do. I thought I'd NEVER forget how small she was, but here it is 3 months later and I have "forgotten".  She is such a precious thing.  
I've never really been a fearful person before, but now I find myself thinking of all the horrible things that could happen to my daughter. Last night she threw up. She didn't seem distressed about it at all, but this morning as I was waking up and she wasn't awake yet, I found myself worried that she had died in the night.  I worry about SIDs, especially since she won't sleep through the night without lying on her stomach.  She is so precious to me that I can't imagine anything happening to her.  It was silly, she was just fine this morning, but I still can't help but think how I would be devastated if anything happened.

 

Aw the worries of parenthood. J  Both a good thing and a horrible thing.  Daddy is more protective than me, but in different areas like bad people. I’m sure it never occurred to him that she might be dead in the crib like I worry about.  So I guess between us, we have everything covered to be worried about. 

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Maternity Leave is Over
on February 19, 2007 11:29 am
Post Date: 2/19/07 7:46 am

I'm a little sad today.

Trinity has just started smiling and "talking" in the mornings and now I HAVE to go back to work.  I miss her sounds and holding her in my arms.

I have surrounded myself with pictures of her, but you know it just isn't the same. 

She has been such a wonderful baby. It softens my heart to see daddy holding his baby girl. She has such a wonderful smile. The first time she smiled at me was amazing. I had left her eye sight and when I came back she looked at me and then gave a BIG opened mouth smile.  She recognized me!  It wasn't what I said or did; it was that she knew who I was. 

If I didn’t have an interview today I would leave early just so I could get home and hold her.  Aw the weird pains we have as parents that you never think of. I don’t know had fathers have done it over the generations.
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Lost baby weight and more!!!
on January 21, 2007 9:03 am
So I weighed 212 or 209 (I can't remember) when I got pregnant. I was wearing a size 14, which I haven't worn since high school. I was happy with that and if I didn't lose anymore weight I was fine with that, though I really did want to drop below 200, just because that # sucks!!

I knew I wasn't really gaining any weight while I was pregnant because my top weight was 214. When I left the hospital after delivery I was 205. I was so excited to weigh less than my prepregnacy weight.

Wed at the doc's office I weighed myself again and I now weigh 198!!!!!!



I AM BELOW 200!!! I was happy where I was before, but this is better!
I can't wait to go clothes shopping after my belly tones up some more, after all it has only been 2 weeks since I delivered.

The nice thing is that all the weird changes my pouch went through from being pregnant... well everything is back to normal.
I don't want to eat everything under the sun anymore, I can't eat unlimited sugar anymore and it is certainly back to its pre-pregnancy size since I'm eating less and filling up.

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BABY HAS ARRIVED!!!
on January 10, 2007 4:16 pm
I have to document our story. We went in at 12:30 on 1/7/07 for cervix gel. This was done because they were going to induce me on Monday and they have to get the cervix ready. By 3:30 I was having really obvious contractions so was pretty sure I wouldn't need to be induced. I was starting to think she might not even wait till Monday. 

They want you to return 6 hours later to reapply gel if the first application didn't worked. I went back @ 6:30 and told the nurse that I was having pretty consistent contractions and I was sure that I didn’t need to have a 2nd application. She agreed and on the monitor I was having contractions every 2 mins. They weren’t very strong and I was only dilated to 3 so I decided to go home since we only live like 2 miles from the hospital.

Daryl and I had decided we were going to try and stay home as long as possible so that when we were at the hospital it would go faster... little did we know... My mother was driving in from WI too so I wanted to have her come with us so that she didn’t get lost. At about 9:15pm the pain was getting pretty good, so we called mom to see where she was. She was past St. Paul, so I decided to wait for her since she was close. She got here we left at was parking the van at about 9:45 pm. 

By this time the contractions weren’t any closer (still 2 min apart), but they were getting REALLY strong and I was having really bad labor pain in my thighs. Daryl would rub them really hard for me and that helped A LOT of course on the drive he couldn’t do it so I was well aware of how much pain there was and how they were getting stronger. 

We walked up to the assessment area (with one quick stop at the bathroom). I laid down while they hooked me up and for a couple contractions they got significantly less painful and I thought ok, I'm going to be here for a while. We checked in, the machine wasn’t even on yet to test contractions since it was obvious I wasn’t going to be going home anytime soon and that I was “assessed to stay”. 

The nurse checked my cervix and I was at 6 cm. She went and got the wheel chair, rolled me down the hall to my room. I sat on the edge of the bed when another contraction hit and it hit me HARD and my water broke. Nurse says page her doctor, I don’t think it is going to take very long and get a resident too in case the doctor doesn’t make it. [My water breaking was pretty weird feeling. I felt like a water balloon breaking inside and then thought to myself, I can feel her head.]

The resident was walking by, heard they needed her and walked in. Then the nurse says we need you to lay back so we can check you again. I said I don’t know if I can move. The last contraction was so strong that I was gripping the edge of the bed and couldn’t relax enough to lay down or move at all. Then the next contraction hit, I said “She’s coming...” The nurse believed me, she and the other nurse grabbed my legs for me, lifted them up and twisted me to get on the bed and baby was crowning. And her head came out before anyone knew what was happening and the resident sat down in front of me, the 2 nurses grabbed my legs told me they needed to deliver the shoulders and I gave a tiny push, but it hurt so bad I didn’t really do anything, she just came flying out. 

I went from 6 cm to 10 cm in less than 5 minutes!! I didn’t even know that was possible. She was very red and cried until she got to nurse and she is still nursing like a champ. She was born 1/7 @ 10:12 pm. Weighing in at 7lbs 4ozs and 21 inches long. She is beautiful and there are pictures in my profile. Sorry this was so long but I just had to share the whole story and nothing but the whole story.
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When will Baby Arrive?
on January 1, 2007 7:35 pm

I feel like I should be taking bets.  Baby is due today and of course she doesn't seem to be showing any signs of coming out and greeting the world.  My husband keeps teasing me that I can't do anything simple like "Delivery a baby".  

Well I guess I got my wish since I said I wanted her to wait till after Christmas. My parents are waiting, my in-laws are waiting, and my friends are waiting.  I can't call anyone, because they all ask the same thing... "Did you have the baby?"  Oh well. 

Weight gain has been pretty much nonexistence; I have only gained a total of like 7lbs.  I'm pretty sure I'm going to weigh less walking out than I did at conception, so that is pretty cool. Now we will see if I can keep it off.  I would be at my goal weight and size so that is exciting too. 

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