One week later

Well after some sleepless nights and sore boobies later, we are getting on to a good track.

I needed the use of a nipple shield so the little princess would not strip my nipples. And we still are supplementing with formula when she is really hungry and I have nothing left to give. That tends to be at night when she is really hungry. There was a 4 day stretch in which she would feed from 12 till almost 4 in the morning non-stop getting so much. But she never puked it up and her pee and poop is right on track so we must just have a healthy eater. We will find out tomorrow at the docs.

But last night we had an excellent night! We slept from 10:30 - 1:15, 2:45 - 5:00 and 6:30 - 9 with her feeding in between for an hour and sleeping on me for a half hour. I hope this keeps up.

I am in paperwork hell trying to figure out my EI benefits, my top up from work and her ss number, health card and birth certificate. What a nightmare.

But she is so worth it. I still look at her and I pinch myself. This girl is a true gift from God.

Nevaeh Lacey

Baby is here!

On Sunday night I had trouble sleeping, only got about 2 hours. I got up at 4 am and did my exercise tape then shovelled massive amounts of snow off the driveway. The rest of the day I just layed around and watched TV. Matt went to watch Thanksgiving Day football with friends. I told him to have fun and drink some beer, there was nothing happening here. He texted me at 6:45 that night to double check. I replied that nothing would happen and pressed send. I still had the phone in my hand when I was setting it down, and my water broke. All over the carpet. I waddled to the bathroom with a towel between my legs and called him back.

We had his brother drive us since Matt had had a couple beers. Got to the hospital after leaking all over the house trying to do last minute things. I was 75% and 2cm dialated. They were really busy so observed me for an hour, if no change I was going home or getting inducing drugs. I was 4 cm on next change so they got me into my birthing room. Around 11 I was 4-5 and still feeling good. Yes I felt the contractions but I was still laughing. I decided to do the epidural then so if needed pitocin ( which I did) I wasn't in pain. The epidural was hard to get in, took 6 locals and 4 sticks before she found a spot. Apparently I have a very boney spine. It hurt but was worth it. I went from 5-8 in no time after the pitocin with no pain but then something went wrong with my epidural and every time I did the booster my back spasmed in pain. So I chose not to booster anymore because I needed my back for pushing. I went from 8 to 10 by 7 a.m. I laboured till 8 then they came in and had me on my side. When I felt the pressure of contractions I was pushing on my side, on my own to move her down because she was at -1 station. That worked so at 8:30 I started pushing with help (one leg up on my side). We had some progress so at 9 a.m. we moved to my back with me holding my legs up with help. I had many students in there watching (one passed out). At 9:15 the doc entered. It was nice, they did not tell me when to push, I told them when I felt the contraction and the urge. So if I wanted to skip a contraction to rest I could. They only kept encouraging when I was pushing to make the best of it.

Nevaeh Lacey was born at 9:29 a.m. on October 14th at (get this) 8 pounds 11 ounces. She is a wonderful baby! Barely fusses and loves her mommy and daddy. We are breast feeding but due to some latching problems, I have to supplement due to really sore nipples. She was sucking and my milk came in but she sucks so hard she actually sucked some skin off. I am giving my nipples a break (and partaking in a vodka) while dh gives her some formula.

We are so in love. To quote my fav show, "First we had each other, then we had you. Now we have everything." Sex and the City

39 weeks, 3 days and counting

(im)patiently waiting

Yes I am still here and yes I am still pregnant. I had hoped she would be out by now but she is taking her time. My whole family (including me) is very prompt and often early - I thought she would follow.

As of right now, I am feeling contractions here and there but nothing to severe and definitely nothing to rush to the hospital for. My doc seems to think I will go soon but he doesn't check for dialation at my weekly visits. I am not sure if I like that or not but I guess there is no false hope that way.

My back is killing me but at least I am getting some sleep and I am living in my sweats. It is so nice not having to dress up for work.

I had my shower last weekend - everything went great. I have a super friend who made sure everything was perfect. I made out like a bandit.

Hopefully we will see some action soon but for now I am just chilling at home, waiting out the last couple days as a family of 2.