Our last photo as just a couple:
Just newly born:
Daddy Ben and Baby Elise (the stethoscope was his attempt at making me laugh. He walked into OR decked out in scrubs and my stethoscope and wanted to know if he looked like a doctor!)
Milk drunk and happy at less than 48 hours old:
Biased? Yes, very much. But my God, that’s one pretty baby!!
The happy family at home:
So, Elise is 5 days old now… in fact, she is 5 days old EXACTLY right now. She’s […]
Where to start…
Well, before I could get anything baby related done yesterday my little niece (the one due 2 weeks after Bampton!) was born!! Keegan Allan was born at exactly 1pm yesterday and weighed in at 8 lbs 5 oz! What a big girl!! A couple of hours later Ben and I had our first appointment of the […]
My friend Ross swears that eating a bunch of sauerkraut threw his wife into labor with both of their children. For dinner tonight I had two brautwursts and approximately one metric ton of sauerkraut to go with it… that was 2 hours ago. So far, nothing. I’ll give it a few more hours.
Ok. Today I am 10 days overdue. Frankly, I’m really starting to wonder if maybe I haven’t been wrong about this whole pregnancy thing all along. Maybe I’m like one of those medical marvels on the Discovery Health channel. Maybe I’m “The Lady Who Never Gave Birth” and if not that, then maybe I’m one […]
Update: Castor Oil doesn’t work for everyone. Castor Oil doesn’t work for the uterus and bowels of steel that I must have. Here we are, 9 hours later, and not a dang thing. Ugh… After a brief, tear filled, conversation with my midwife we have decided to wait it out over the weekend and see […]
I am officially 3 days over cooked. They say no one has ever stayed pregnant forever, but I’m beginning to wonder. Had an appointment today and found out that I am… completely unchanged!!! I am a whopping 2cm dilated. Yippie ai, yippie aye! Depressingly, I had to schedule another prenatal appointment for next Monday. My […]
Well, with one hour in the 15th left it doesn’t look like this cub is exiting her cave anytime soon. Stubborn!!! I’ve spent the day vacuuming, walking the mall, and getting a pedicure. And not a twinge! I am reduced to looking to the stars and sky. The next full moon is on Sunday, so […]
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Ok, so I had another appointment on Monday. Not much new to report. They checked me again and I was completely unchanged. 2cm and 70% effaced. With that news […]
I ate a big bowl of kimchi at dinner tonight. Hoping that the ol’ “eat a lot of spicy food” tactic will do the trick. So far… not a thing. Mainly, all I want to do is sleep.
Not a single twinge… guess 8-8-08 wasn’t the date after all. Apparently there were lots of babies born on 8-8-08. Some of them were even born at 8:08. And even a few more weighed 8# 8oz. Dang it!!!
Recently I have begun having the same thoughts that I figure every pregnant woman has at this point. And that thought is “what if she never comes out?” Now, with all my medically themed […]
