11 years ago
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
AaaaaaaaaaDorable
Today Devan and I took the babies over to Katie's house for a little photo shoot. We went over last week and got some super cute pics of them individually (not together because they weren't cooperating.) Here are just a few I took myself. We are incredibly grateful for Katie and her willingness to do these for us. Enjoy :o)
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Lily & Ethan
April 4th, 2013 @ 5:45 in the morning....just 2 hours before these precious little angels came in to this world. I made it 38 weeks and 1 day.
Technology is amazing! First of all...without it, these 2 little babies wouldn't be here with us today. Then I stop to think about how at 7:35 on April 4th I was walked back to the O.R. and only 20 minutes later I had 2 kids. My c-section went great. It is a little odd being behind a curtain while so much is going on, but Devan did a great job giving me a "play-by-play" of what was happening. Lily was born at 7:52 am and her brother came 2 minutes later at 7:54. Lily weighed 6 pounds and they measured her at 17 inches (although we're pretty sure they measured wrong since 5 days later she measured 19 inches.) Ethan was 6 pounds 10 ounces and measured 18 1/2 inches long. They both initially scored an 8 on their apgar test, but we soon realized we had a few little hurdles to get over. Ethan was having trouble breathing so they had to put a c-pac machine on him in the nursery. He was almost admitted to the NICU but then pulled through and was able to join us in our hospital room a few hours later. Sister on the other hand was a different story. They discovered in the nursery that was having trouble keeping her glucose levels up. They ended up having to give her an IV and then admitting her to the NICU. It was really difficult to not be near her all the time, but luckily she was able to get everything under control and she joined me, Devan and brother on Saturday afternoon. Plus, having her in the nicu was good incentive for me to get up and walk down to see her. We all came home together from the hospital on Sunday the 7th.
My mom was able to fly down the Saturday after the babies were born and my dad joined us on Thursday. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do when they leave on Saturday. Well...Devan will then be with me for a week...but after that....let's just say that I'm nervous. I might not ever have time to blog again :o) We are incredibly grateful for all the love, support, meals, etc that we have received from so many friends and family. We are even more greatful that Garald & Nyla were able to stick around long enough to be a part of this miracle in our lives!!!
So far, I can say that being a mom is everything I had hoped for. The babies are almost 2 weeks old and somehow we are all still alive and doing fine. There have been a few things that have ended up being a lot more difficult than I had expected. The first is breastfeeding. How does everyone make it look so easy? I think we are getting it down, but who knows. The 2nd thing that has totally caught me off guard are the hormones. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm not a big crier. There have been several times that I have just broken down, and not necessarily for any particular reason. I also have found that I have hard time getting my anxiety under control when there are a bunch of people around. It's like me head is saying that everything will be fine. The babies will be fine, don't worry about anything....but my hormones are screaming to evacuate. I'm hoping that I will be able to reign in this crazy soon :o)
Thank you again to everyone for all your support through our trials with infertility. We are incredibly blessed!!!!!!!! Here are some pics of our little lovelies. Enjoy!
Technology is amazing! First of all...without it, these 2 little babies wouldn't be here with us today. Then I stop to think about how at 7:35 on April 4th I was walked back to the O.R. and only 20 minutes later I had 2 kids. My c-section went great. It is a little odd being behind a curtain while so much is going on, but Devan did a great job giving me a "play-by-play" of what was happening. Lily was born at 7:52 am and her brother came 2 minutes later at 7:54. Lily weighed 6 pounds and they measured her at 17 inches (although we're pretty sure they measured wrong since 5 days later she measured 19 inches.) Ethan was 6 pounds 10 ounces and measured 18 1/2 inches long. They both initially scored an 8 on their apgar test, but we soon realized we had a few little hurdles to get over. Ethan was having trouble breathing so they had to put a c-pac machine on him in the nursery. He was almost admitted to the NICU but then pulled through and was able to join us in our hospital room a few hours later. Sister on the other hand was a different story. They discovered in the nursery that was having trouble keeping her glucose levels up. They ended up having to give her an IV and then admitting her to the NICU. It was really difficult to not be near her all the time, but luckily she was able to get everything under control and she joined me, Devan and brother on Saturday afternoon. Plus, having her in the nicu was good incentive for me to get up and walk down to see her. We all came home together from the hospital on Sunday the 7th.
My mom was able to fly down the Saturday after the babies were born and my dad joined us on Thursday. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do when they leave on Saturday. Well...Devan will then be with me for a week...but after that....let's just say that I'm nervous. I might not ever have time to blog again :o) We are incredibly grateful for all the love, support, meals, etc that we have received from so many friends and family. We are even more greatful that Garald & Nyla were able to stick around long enough to be a part of this miracle in our lives!!!
So far, I can say that being a mom is everything I had hoped for. The babies are almost 2 weeks old and somehow we are all still alive and doing fine. There have been a few things that have ended up being a lot more difficult than I had expected. The first is breastfeeding. How does everyone make it look so easy? I think we are getting it down, but who knows. The 2nd thing that has totally caught me off guard are the hormones. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm not a big crier. There have been several times that I have just broken down, and not necessarily for any particular reason. I also have found that I have hard time getting my anxiety under control when there are a bunch of people around. It's like me head is saying that everything will be fine. The babies will be fine, don't worry about anything....but my hormones are screaming to evacuate. I'm hoping that I will be able to reign in this crazy soon :o)
Thank you again to everyone for all your support through our trials with infertility. We are incredibly blessed!!!!!!!! Here are some pics of our little lovelies. Enjoy!
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
37 Weeks
Today we hit the 37 week mark. I am so excited that these little babies have stayed in for so long. I only have 8 more days at the most of being pregnant. Can you believe that!?! We have officially scheduled our c-section for Thursday, April 4th. That will put me at a magical 38 weeks and 1 day. We pretty much have everything ready to go. The hospital bag is packed...the baby clothes are washed...now we just wait.
Here I am at 37 weeks.
In other news, we are having some issues with our bunnies staying in our yard. This morning I snapped these shots of our pets in the neighbor's yard. Looks like we have some fence hole covering to do. I sent Devan a text saying "**SING*** I looked out the window and what did I see? Peter Rabbit by the trampoline."
Here I am at 37 weeks.
In other news, we are having some issues with our bunnies staying in our yard. This morning I snapped these shots of our pets in the neighbor's yard. Looks like we have some fence hole covering to do. I sent Devan a text saying "**SING*** I looked out the window and what did I see? Peter Rabbit by the trampoline."
Monday, March 18, 2013
1st Day of Maternity Leave
Today is officially the first day of my maternity leave. It felt so weird to not go to work this morning. We decided to start my leave 2 weeks early so that the babies can hopefully bake a little bit longer before we meet them.
We took this pic last Wednesday when I hit 35 weeks.
When I went to the dr last Thursday he informed me that baby girl weighed 4 pounds 11 ounces and that baby boy weighed 4 pounds 15 ounces. We really want them to be in the 5 pound range. I hope they can get there. The dr also told me that I was dilated to a 2 and 80% effaced. So far I'm progressing nicely and the babies look great. Today after my NST I am going to go pre-register at the hospital and then talk to them about dates we can schedule our c-section. Yes, I am going to have a c-section. Baby Girl is still baby "a" and she is breech. The longest we have left is just a couple days over 2 weeks. I'm so excited and yet pretty scared at the same time. How did my time being pregnant go by so darn fast!?!
We took this pic last Wednesday when I hit 35 weeks.
When I went to the dr last Thursday he informed me that baby girl weighed 4 pounds 11 ounces and that baby boy weighed 4 pounds 15 ounces. We really want them to be in the 5 pound range. I hope they can get there. The dr also told me that I was dilated to a 2 and 80% effaced. So far I'm progressing nicely and the babies look great. Today after my NST I am going to go pre-register at the hospital and then talk to them about dates we can schedule our c-section. Yes, I am going to have a c-section. Baby Girl is still baby "a" and she is breech. The longest we have left is just a couple days over 2 weeks. I'm so excited and yet pretty scared at the same time. How did my time being pregnant go by so darn fast!?!
Saturday, March 2, 2013
32, 33 & 2 Showers
Once I hit 32 weeks I started my weekly Dr appointments and bi-weekly non-stress test (which from this point forward I will refer to NST. At my appointment on Thursday the doctor said that both me and the babies are doing great. Boy weighs 4 lbs 8 ounces and girl weighs 4 lbs. All my stats are still looking good and the doctor reassured me by letting me know that I haven't start dilating at all. I was kind of worried about this since I have quite a few contractions every day.
Below is a picture of me during my 2nd nst. My first nst was kind of a nightmare...but I'll get to that in a bit. In the pic you can kind of see that I have 3 straps around my belly. First of all, the nst isn't to test my stress level it is to test the hearts of the babies. Each baby gets their own monitor and then one extra is place on me to detect contractions. Notice how my hand is on the bottom monitor?...that's because baby girl is positioned so low, deep and behind her brother she is really hard to get a read on. During my first test one of the nurses had to sit next to me the whole time pushing the monitor in to my stomach to try to get her heartrate to show up on the machine. On top of that, as soon as she would find her on the monitor baby girl would move...she'd find her again, girl would move again...she would find again, girl would kick the monitor than move. All the while boy is getting agitated at all the pushing (which at this point I'm pretty sure is bruising my stomach) so he starts kicking like crazy. He kicks his monitor off and we have to start all over again with him. It was not a good experience. I'm happy to say the 2nd one went much easier...even if I do have to push girls monitor in the whole time...30 minutes.
A couple of weeks ago The Gregory girls held a baby shower for me. It was a lot of fun, the food was great and we got some seriously sweet loot :o) One of the games that Danna Lee prepared was this toilet paper diaper games. Everyone broke up in to 4 teams and this was their final creations.
Towards the end of the day I was pretty pooped, so was little Sammy. Apparently I make a wonderful pillow.
Last weekend my wonderful friends and neighbors threw a shower for me too. It was also super cute and fun. They made me super cute onesies. Devan really likes the BYU and football ones.
Check out the food spread. I love the bread used in the sandwiches. Gotta love Lehi Bakery.
The amount of love and support we have received over this whole process has almost been overwhelming. We are very blessed! I hope these little babies will one day be able to appreciate all the wonderful people in their lives.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
