Baby Tag

1.Where were you when you first found out that you were pregnant?
In my little studio apartment

2.Who was with you?
oh I was all by myself

3.How did you find out that you were pregnant?
took like nine pee-tests,

4.What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? I ran around in circles saying "oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh"

5.Who was the first person you told? Cherie

6.Did you plan to get pregnant? ha ha not really

7.Did you tell everyone else right away? no i didn't want to but it hard for me to keep secrets

10.Did you want to find out the sex? heck yes! I barely made it 20 weeks and i had dreams about it every night.

12.Did anyone throw you a baby shower? yea a little nursery makeover from krista and my mom

13.Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew that you wouldn't put on your baby? only one i think, im pretty picky about clothes.

14.How much weight did you gain? 35 pounds. i was a tank

15.Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? Yeah, and slowly a little more

16.Did you get any stretch marks? HA HA where didn't i get stretch marks! My body refuses to stretch

17.What did you crave the most? Any kind of fast food, mostly jack in the box though

18.Did you crave anything crazy? no i don't think so,every once in a while i would jones for a pickle though

19.Who or what got on your nerves? everyone got on my nerves, especially stinky people that came into the ER

20.Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? not really except that i wouldn't stretch and got 3rd degree tearing.

21.Where and when did you go into labor? I was induced at EIRMC, with cervadil and that put me into active labor

22.Did your water break? yes, right when I was getting my epidural and i had to try to hold still

23.Who drove you to the hospital? my wonderful mother, i was so nervous

24.Who was in the room when you gave birth? Dr. Leavitt, my nurse, my sister, and my mom.

25.Did you go early or late? i was induced a week early

26.How long were in labor for? i went in at 6 monday night and had her 10 the next morning,

27.Did you have any drugs for the pain? Epidural... but it wore off by the time i actually delivered. I could feel everything... i had 3rd degree tears, and i could feel the Doc stitch me up.

28.Did you go natural or have a C-section? I went Natural. Everything went pretty easy, and smooth. i can't complain.

29.What was your first reaction after giving birth? I was shaky really out of it, i couldn't even get up the strength to hold noel, but i was SO excited to see her and make sure she was a girl

30.How big was the baby? 6 pounds 11ounces, and 20 inches long


32.What did you name the baby? Noel Elizabeth

33.Does his name have any significant meaning? I had noel picked since i was 7 and elizabeth is a mix between my grandma Betty and my mother Lisa

34.Did you have any visitors? Yes quite a few and it seems like I was always breast feeding

35.Did the baby have any complications? nope she was perfect

36.How old is your baby today? 4 1/2 months

37.When is the next one coming? heck if i know, i definatly want another though, and with a husband this time

38.If you could, would you do it all over again? i think i would bring noel into the world at a later time and different circumstances, but i just love her so much its hard to think of life without her.

I tag all my mama friends

Valentine boys

Here are the pictures I was trying to get into the last blog but for some reason it wouldn't let me download pictures!! Very frusterating, We made and were decorating sugar cookies, I wish i would've got some pictures of xander after he was done eating his cookie!!

Cheese

We had mason and xander here with us the last few days while cherie and kevin are on a cruise and it has been such a blast. I wanted to take a lot of pictures so cherie could see her boys while she was gone. They were so cute, everytime i got the camera out they would run toward me and xander would say CHEESE with his little crooked smile, i couldn't stop laughing everytime he did it. What a model!

Jump Jump Jumping!!

My mom bought a jumperoo that hangs from a doorframe for noel yesterday. She was convinced that she would love it since she just doesn't like to sit still. Well she was right, I thought she'd like it as much as her other toys but she was just loving it. She was walking around and kicking her legs, and everytime I would look at her she just gave me these huge smiles. Shes growing up so fast its crazy!

My little Babe

Well here they are!! These turned about better than I had hoped! I bought this outfit at a craft fair around christmas and couldn't wait to get her pictures taken in it. She was such a good model I was so proud. The potographer was amazing, she had such great ideas. The photographer at jc pennys was like ok what do you want to do? It was so frusterating! We'll be going to sears from now on!

Amateur Photographer

Well today I decided to try and take some pictures of Noel! It was so much fun, its so not professional its funny, but looking at the end result just shows me what I can do better. Like maybe ironing the backdrop and some other things. My little trusty camera did ok, i've had it since high school and its been with me everywhere. Maybe next christmas I will ask for a nicer one, depends on if my pictures show any promise. Anyway I am so excited for Christmas!! It's like I am a little kid again. This year is just so different.

TOUCHDOWN!!

She's finally here, I never thought this day would come! I checked into the hospital October 27 at 6 p.m. to get cervidil which is supposed to get your body ready for the pitocin the next morning. Well the cervidil actually put me into active labor!! It was crazy, I was at a four when they said I could have the epidural, I was so nervous. As they were getting the epidural ready my water broke, and it kept breaking as he was doing the epidural. The epidural was great it didn't hurt at all to put in, and eased the horrible horrible contractions I was having. The next morning at 8:30 was when I started to push, it was excruciating, I guess I was supposed to sit up after I got my epidural to get the medicine to go down, and I didn't. This was when I literally never thought she was going to come, they said the head was right there for hours, finally he gave me an episiotomy and she graced us with her presence at 10:17. I was exhausted from the labor so I was a little foggy from this point on. She was 6'11", 20 inches long, and beautiful.

My mom and sister were there the whole time and made the wonderful experience even more wonderful.