Our first Illness :(

Well, our sweet baby girl has an ear infection. This no doubt coincides with the sniffles she most likely picked up at daycare. Luckily, her dada picked up on it quickly and she has been doing great. I would have never known she was sick...she was not that cranky.

Besides the ear infection, daycare has been going really well lately. Aubreigh seems to really be enjoying it. The teachers and staff all adore her. We are also fortunate that she is only there 3 days a week, none of which are very long. This week we actually decided not to send her since it would be for only one day.

I am so excited for Turkey Day this year! Having a little one just makes everyday a little more exciting!!!!

My Halloween Cutie!

I had a hard time figuring out what my little princess would be for halloween. She is so girly, but I decided that there would be plenty of time for fairies and princessess in the future. Basically i wanted something semi-comfortable and something that would not swallow up this petit cutie.

So I found this tootsie roll and i couldn't resist!

We also went to our Halloween parade that they have yearly in our development. It was really nice. I am so happy to finally have a family! I swear I nearly had tears in my eyes walking there. It is sooooo stupid, but I was just so happy that I had a child. I was a mom, and going to a neighborhood mom event for the first time. I may have to buy a box of keenex for the first playdate i go to....lol.

Looking Back.....

Wow! I was just reading some of my previous blogs and it was so neat to relive how I felt throughout this whole time. I will definitely have to do a better job of keeping up with things.

As an update, believe it or not, but I have been much more successful at breastfeeding, nipple phobia and all! I still pump a lot, but she does latch on pretty easily now. It started at about 3 weeks. Also, we did have her tongue clipped, and looking back I am so glad that we did. She is able to stick her tongue out all the time now! It would have been a much more difficult procedure had we waited. It would have involved anesthesia, etc.

SO tomorrow my precious angel will be 2 months. She has grown so much and is very alert now. She still loves the night time...but we are working on that.

This Sunday is her christening. We met with the pastor today to go over some details. Then we are having a small reception at the Dupont Country Club afterwards. Hopefully we will have some more pics to post! Plus we have a sony handi cam now too!

We chose my sister as the Godmother and Darren's friend Mark as the Godfather. Mark is a bachelor who has sworn off women (although we constantly have people ask us to fix them up with him). So it is incredibly cute and heartwarming to see him with Aubreigh. Darren shows him how to hold her, and it is super cute to watch. He even says how he loves her and how proud of her he is. After seeing him with her, Darren and I both agreed that he would make an excellent God Parent.

Well, I will make an effort to update more this weekend. Hopefully we will have some nice pics to add.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Long time no see....

Well, I have been MIA for about a month now! I have been having a great time being a mommy. I have also been very busy. We have been inundated with visitors....which I didn't mind as much as I thought.

However, I think the sleep deprivation has finally hit at 5 weeks. I used to be able to function really well on 3-6 hours a day, now if I am fortunate to get 8 or 9 I feel like I could use about 12.

Aubreigh is such a cutie! I must admit that even though I am sooooo tired at 3 am, every time I see her big blue eyes look at me, I can't help but smile.

I have some photos and slideshows to finally post. So this blog entry will be more visual than verbal! The photos are of Aubreigh 6 days old! I spent way too much on her photos and announcements ($1,100), but oh well, how do you narrow them down! Darren said that I am never allowed to have professional photos taken again! Oh well....we shall see!

She's here!!!!

Our sweet baby girl is here! Aubreigh Grace arrived this past Saturday at 11:12 pm, weighing 5lbs 12 oz and 19.5 inches long. I woke up with a backache, then I got a headache and felt really crampy throughout the day. Darren insisted that I call the OB. I argued with him.....and then he threatened not to order me lunch if I didn't call. I figured this was just par for the course.

So I did. They wanted me to come in. When I got there I was contracting irregularly. I didn't feel a thing. I was dilated to 5 cm and fully effaced. They decided it was too dangerous to let me go home and decided to break my water.

Then we started the pitocin. I finally started to feel the contractions. I got the epidural...but it only worked on one side. I got through it, and then it was time to push. I pushed for an hour. It seemed like forever...but the whole episode was rather surreal. After a bit of pushing, I believe they used the vacuum to suck out the baby, and then she was born rather quickly. I must confess that I saw her being picked up by the OB and knew she was a girl!!! I was right....I definitely had a maternal instinct on that one!

It has been great being a mommy. The first night I just stared and held her all night long. I pretty much did the second night too! I couldn't bear to put her in the nursery. I have also been having a hard time just sleeping.....checking on her ever 5 minutes!

Breastfeeding has been miserable. She doesn't like to latch on. I have started pumping. I am going to try my best, but who knows what will happen. She has what is called an attached frenulum of the tongue. Basically, she can't move her tongue alot. This can be part of the problem. Some oral surgeons will just clip it. I am not going to do anything unless it will interfere with speech (which studies show is debatable). I am pumping some now...unfortunately I don't get alot....but I am trying.

The other weird thing that happened is that they sent my placenta to pathology. The OB said that he did it just because she was a little small and the placenta looked a little aged. Everything is fine with Aubreigh, but he said he just wanted to check it out. I guess I will find out those results at the exam.

I also had a grade 2 tear. That wasn't exactly pleasant, but it is starting to feel much better.

The photographer is coming tomorrow. I will also post some pics when I download them. Oh well, I better go pump a little now......

Waiting on Baby.....

We are still waiting. I am still about the same 90% effaced and 3 cm dilated per my last OB visit on Tuesday. So now I am just waiting around, obsessing and looking into every little twinge, pain, etc.

However, this morning I woke up extremely crampy. I have had cramps a few times before and they were just attributed to an irritable uterus. This feels a little worse, but we shall see. I definitely don't want to get my hopes up!

I also got back the proofs to my maternity pics. The photographer put it to music in this nice little slide show and they were so cute. I am so glad that I had them done now. At first I was skeptical...I was not really in the mood to have them done because I had just gotten back from the hospital and figured I looked a mess. Now I am soooo glad I did it because I know they will be something I will treasure forever.

So today I will be doing a baby dance hoping the little peanut will make his/her appearance soon!