New haircut

Yesterday I was left all alone. My grandma came and picked up the girls for the weekend and Nick had to work. I was bored so what did I do? That's right I cut my hair. I didn't do too bad either. I guess my hormones got the best of me but at least I'm not a ball of tears. I needed something to make me feel better about myself. I don't fit in regular clothes yet and I don't think I will anytime soon so a haircut was what I needed. I will post before and after pics when I find a good before and take an after.

Visited the baby

Today was a fun day. Well the first half I slept through, allergies, but after we picked the girls up from school we drove and hour and a half to visit L and his momma. He is now 9 days old and only 2oz lighter than when he was born. He looks a lot smaller to me than when I had him but maybe that because I pushed a bowling ball out of my whoohaa. He was alseep when we arrived but had to wake up because he was hungry. The girls wanted to love on him but since they had just started school we only let them look, didn't want to get him sick yet. He only stayed awake long enough to get a bottle and poo but I still got to hold and cuddle with him. We ate dinner and talked for a while and then it was time for us to go. But not before I woke him up again, and let him poo too. So we spent about 4 hours with them today and I am glad I was able to. No crying for me either, so in all it was a good day.

My weekend

so I celebrated my 28th birthday yesterday. I am pretty sure I was the only one who didn't make a big deal of it. It was just another day to me, making me one year closer to 30. Nick had to work so me and the girls just roamed the house all morning. My phone rang at least 10 times before I even got out of bed and I got 3 texts because I wasn't answering. We went out to dinner at a mexican restaurant and I had my first alcoholoc beverage (a pina colada) since my birthday last year. My brother thought he should tell me that drinking was a much better habit than having babies. But I'm not so sure, lol.
I didn't let anybody know what I wanted for my birthday, because I really didn't want anything. But Nick wouldn't just let it be, he had to buy something. So he got me a new pair of sunglasses and the girls got me a giftcard to Starbucks. They also love to get the cards that play music. So I got two of those. I would have been happy with the cards but I am glad that I was remembered on my birthday as well.
Today my parents came up for the afternoon. They hadn't been here since we moved so we took them around to see the girls new school. We drove around for a bit and then headed out to lunch. We had a nice lunch and then my mom decided to let our server know that it was my birthday. I'm not one for public humiliation but I guess nobody minded. At least I got a peice of cake out of it.

The birth of Lachlan Alexander

It all started Sunday August 17. I woke up at 8 to use the bathroom, one of the many times I had to pee since I was 41weeks 3days pregnant. I stood up getting out of bed and felt what I thought was my water breaking. I got to the bathroom and went to sit down when I realized that it wasn’t my water but a large gush of blood. I immediately thought the worse and yelled for my husband to wake up. I got in the shower to wash myself off and asked for a glass of orange juice to see id I could get the little guy to move. So Nick called Lisa to let her know what was going on and we headed to the hospital. I had been in Modesto with my family but was going to deliver in Clovis an hour and a half away. So Modesto’s hospital was the best choice for us given the options. When we got there I was hooked up to the monitor and waited. After about 4 hours we were seen by the ER doc on call and she consulted with the OB on call. They decided that since I was not actively bleeding and that I did not want them to perform a c-section they would release me. I was given instructions to go directly to Clovis and to go the hospital and let them know what had happened. So off we went. Nick packed the girls up and all four of us headed to Clovis with Lisa and Gerry following behind.
We arrived at 3:30 and were put on the monitors yet again. The doctors would be changing shifts at 5 so as soon as the new doctor came on she came to visit us. We had good readings on the baby by this time and no more bleeding except for during cervical exams. I was told that she wasn’t going to release me though because of the bleeding. We were going to have a baby either VBAC or by c-section. But I wasn’t in labor. So the doctor gave me the option to wait it out or break my water as I really wanted to VBAC. I made the decision to break my water and see if that would bring on labor. So I called my doula, Katie, and she came down to the hospital. Nick brought the girls in so they could see me before they had to head back to Modesto for the first day of school the next morning. And at 7:15 or so Dr. K broke my water.
I sat on the ball for about an hour before contractions started. Then I went to the bathroom and a pretty big gush of my water came out. That’s when things started to pick up. I was able to talk through most of the contractions and then the pain started. It was all on my cervix, I knew he would be OP as both of my girls had been OP so it was just intuition. At about 10:30 or so I started shivering, but I wasn’t cold, which I thought must be transition. Well my body was playing a trick on me because I was only at a 2, 50% effaced and -2 station. So I tried to not let that bother me and let my doulas help me get this baby out. We changed positions, sitting, hanging, hands and knees. And the contractions kept coming, faster, longer, harder. Then about 2 hours later I was able to get into the shower, and relax just enough to make my brain decide how to go about the rest of my labor. I was checked again and had made a bit of progress but not what I needed to make me think this baby was coming any time soon. I was only at a 4, 80% and 0 station. So I asked for some IV meds and they didn’t help at all. My body did not want to relax, I was tired, and really wanted all of this to be over. That’s when I decide the best way for me to have this baby was to get an epidural. My main goal was to VBAC but if I was able to do it with no meds it would have been an extra. So at 1:30 on Monday morning the anesthesiologist came in to give me the epidural. He was a jerk but without him I don’t believe I would have delivered vaginally. He proceeded to tell me that he had been waiting for 3 hours for me to call him in. He had been listening to me yell and was just waiting. If I had been able to get out of the bed at that time I would have punched him in the nose.
From then on my labor was pretty uneventful. I relaxed and was able to get some sleep between getting my blood pressure taken every half hour. My IP’s, doula and I talked off and on about the Olympics and just waited. I started making progress again and by 7am I was fully dilated and ready to push. But my body decided it was time for a rest and my contractions slowed to about every 7-8 minutes. So with each contraction that I could feel I would push to get him down. Once his head was in view I had one contraction with three pushes and he popped out face up. Katie said his cheeks were so cute as he was looking up. I didn’t get to see but I believe her.
Lisa was the first to hold her son. We waited for his cord to stop pulsing and then she was able to share her beautiful son with everybody. The whole time I was so happy that we had finally brought this little guy into the world. Lisa & Gerry both had glossy eyes and at that moment I knew how they felt seeing their baby for the first time.
So here are the stats: 8lbs 14oz and 19in long, he came into the world at 7:49 am on August 18th, 2008 almost 24 hours after it all began.