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.

17 weeks and Bedrest

By some miracle this rainbow baby has been holding on.  Other than being diagnosed with Hyperemesis gravidarum (extreme nausea and vomiting) and a bladder/kidney infection things have been going well.  My activity level was strictly limited to walking or swimming only, but at least I was able to still do a lot of stuff without any complications.

Last week right around the beginning of my 17th week I had a bad evening with my vomiting.  My vomiting becomes very violent (thanks to my CVS).  After I had my episode things felt very off, my back and my stomach muscles hurt, not my normal stretching for endo pain, but not really anything crampy.  I wasn't totally freaked, but I knew something was off. Thanks to my Doppler I knew baby was still doing great, so I waited a few days, but the pain became too bad and so I had to get checked out.

I was so nervous driving to get looked at, yet I somehow felt some peace.  Thankfully once there they quickly confirmed that everything was fine with baby and so then we moved onto the problem.  It turns out that thanks to my violent vomiting episode I pulled a muscle in my back and my abs.  In most women this wouldn't even be a big deal, but because of my endo and the history of my stupid uterus wanting to contract and get rid of everything this could lead to early labor, so for now I'm on a modified bed rest regimen.  I'm not allowed on my feet for more than 30 minutes daily.  It's been frustrating, but for baby I'm willing to do anything, and thankfully my wonderful husband has been more than willing to help out.  This weekend he did laundry, washed, dried, folded, and put away!  He then washed dishes and emptied the trash.  I had to ask him to do these chores, but he did them without complaints and did them well.

Hopefully my muscles will heal quickly and I can go back to my normal limited duty which will at least allow me to do some basic around the house.  This will be very helpful because it is possible escrow is closing on Sept. 11 (oh yeah, surprise we are in escrow!) and we will be moving.  It will be very hard for me to just sit and watch everybody else do all the work in our house also there is no way I want my husband organizing our new house!

I will try to do better at updating.  That's it for now.