She's Here

On Jan. 11, 2014 we welcomed out beautiful baby girl, Samantha Lynn into the word.  It was all a quick process about 8 hours from when my water broke to when she came.  My labor was an interesting story that honestly has some not so great moments, but the happy part is that she is here and she is safe and healthy.

The first couple weeks were a bit of challenge because Sam was still learning how to eat and she ended up going from 6lbs. 14 oz. to less than 6 lbs.  At our last appointment, which was 3 weeks after birth she was up to 6 lbs. 13 oz, so she thankfully is getting this eating thing down!  She still has her bad feedings, but they are becoming more and more rare.

Life is pretty good.  I am completely exhausted, but totally loving it, despite the moments I have where I'm frustrated because I want more sleep.  This last weekend we took our first trip with our daughter up to our old camp.  It was so amazing to watch her with all the people we love up there.  It was such a rush to watch her be held and cuddled by the parents and children I once stole cuddles with!

Once I've gained a little more sleep and worked up my bravery I will be adding her birth story.  I'm trying to decide how much I want to share and how open I want to be.  My pregnancy was a lot more dangerous then I put out on here and my labor was good and safe, but had complications including a nurse and dr. who didn't truly listen to me and my dr. literally had to lunge forward to catch my daughter even after multiple warnings that she was coming and I couldn't stop her.  For now I'm just happy we are all good and just enjoying my time with my little newborn while she is still small and cuddly.

Almost to Viability

We found out that we are having a...precious baby Girl!

I've hit the 23 week mark and have less than a week to hit 24 week, the viability mark.  Meaning if Baby Girl were to come into the world now she has a fighting chance at surviving and making it home.  There would still be numerous medical issues to deal with so we would rather wait a longer time, but knowing that we hit that mark will be a huge relief.

Things are going well for the most part.  I'm still suffering with sickness, but Baby Girl is not phased by it and growing well and that is all that matters.  My pulled muscles are still suffering a bit so I need to be careful.  They may not ever get a chance to fully heal as long as I'm still dealing with this sickness.  We have been working on our new house and just painted it this last weekend.  It has been hard to limit what I do to help out, but for this baby I will keep doing it.  For me the hardest part has been when I find a job I can do without hurting us my FIL will tell me to stop.  It's really sweet so I'm trying not to be angry, but basically I feel like he doesn't trust me not to put my baby in danger.  I know what my restrictions are and I will not do anything to put this pregnancy at risk and I wish they would believe me.  It would be better he works on the things I can't then to just do the silly, unimportant job I'm doing that can wait for us to move in.  We are hoping to finish the bulk of the painting the next weekend. We just have baseboards, window sills, door frames, & closets left to paint.  If we can get that done this weekend (which my husband thinks they will be able to) we will move in the next weekend.  We won't be fully set up, but at least we will be living there and can slowly work on the extra stuff there that needs done, but not necessarily before we move in.  I'll be glad of this because we can stop paying for 2 places!

For now I'm officially counting the day until we hit 24 weeks.  This the mark we have given to people to be allowed to buy things for us and for us to make decisions about nursery.  Once we hit the 24 weeks we can start getting ideas for the baby room!  I have some ideas that have been floating around, but none that I will share yet.

I'm so grateful to be here and I know I wouldn't have made it this far without the support and prayers from my friends, family, and twitter family.  Thank you all!