Hopefully that video uploads.
its her playing on my lap with her links.
So much fun today, so many changes. Her first happy belly time, and she rolled over today as well, TWICE!!

Meeting Dad!!

:)

So tired. but my house is a disaster.

I finally got the dishwasher finished loaded and a wash in. woot, and I have another load of diapers in the washing machine. did I mention my fear that I may have broken the dryer? yeah... I had too mch crap on the top of the dryer and when I went to pull out the lint two maxi pads slipped inside. so I am scared to run the dryer for long in fear I  will set the house on fire. I pulled the dryer away from the wall and I *think* one of them is on the floor there behind, and I *think* the noise I hear is cause the tube thingy is disconected cause the other maxi pad shot into it... yeah I need to climb over and back there and check it out instead of just running the dryer on its regular cycle for only twenty min then running it on air dry for twenty then repeat until the stuff inside is dry....

And now that Amelia is asleep from my bouncing her in the bouncer I  am going to hope she stays asleep when I stop the motion so I can get some more cleaning done before I go to sleep. Reminds me I need to change my sheets cause I spilled my lifewater all over the bed when I fell asleep while nursing her and I had the drink in my hand.... at least I woke up and pulled her up and out of the puddle before she got wet.. it was just my pj's and the bed that got wet.

So grateful and feeling little guilty.

I caht with these ladies online, we have all talked to eachother throughout our pregnancy and now about our babies, and I look at my beuatilful perfect daugher and am so happy while I read about these ladies and the things that are wrong with their baby, the fussy spitting up of acid reflux, hating the bouncer, or worse, failing the hearing test, having been born premature and just now going to get to leave NICU if they get the oxygen home on time, and how they have to use a colostomy bag... and here is this little angle sleeping in her bouncer at my feet. And there are times when she is 'fussy' cause she has a bad gas bubble or a wet diaper or needs to poop and when I cant help the pooping or the burping and she cries cause its uncomfy i get a bit frustrated and then I have to remind myself how lucky I am and how even and sweet tempered she really is. And then she usually burps or poops and plops off to sleep.

only when we are at sada's and I am trying to eat with chopsticks and they have no restroom there  you have to go out to the arcade is she really upset :P

Pics of amelia

I know its been forever... doing well, geting some sleep, she is a sweet baby. I even got some houde cleaning done wow! anyway, hope the pics show!

Amelia has arrived!!!!!

Welcome Amelia Evelyn Elizabeth! Due May 19ths, she ended up not coming on her own so Monday May 24th My mom my sister and I went up to the hospital to give her her eviction notice. They started me out with Cytotec, a vaginal tablet that would get my cervix soft and begin (hopefully) to dilate. I got that at 10 P.M. dilated at still 1.5 (fully effaced) one long and not very restful night later (that bed was pretty darn hard and the room was not dark, plus having a nurse come in to read the tape every half hour/hour... and needing to pee.. yea...lol) I got to have a nice breakfast at 7:30 and then at 10 AM I was only at a 2 so was started on Pitocin to get the contractions which were nice and frequent to be more intense and hopefully get me dilated. Well, the pitocin sure worked, and by 12:30 I was ready to not be feeling them anymore, so I asked for the epidural. They checked my cervix before and I was dilated to a 4 woo hoo! got the Epidural and was happily numb by 2pm, which was good cause those last contractions as the epi was placed were pretty painful and I was beginning to shake a bit. They checked my cervix again once I was fully numb and I was fully dilated, so they called my Dr so he could get ready and then I started pushing. At 3:11 PM I had one last push and out she came! The nurses placed her on my belly as the Dr finished delivery the placenta and started taking care of my tear (2nd Degree OUCH!) She was all covered in white sticky goo, not slippery like I had thought. Much larger on the outside then I imagined she would be, 7lbs 1 oz and 19 inches long. We tried nursing with no success and then she headed off to get cleaned up and get some testing/weighed/measuring done.I got her back all clean and marvelous and she nursed for an hour!

I have photos of the journey in my photo bucket, I will email any of you that want to look that I know the guest password :) http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee145/xcedra_photos/baby/

update

I know I know I have not posted in fooooreeeever. m'bad.

Here are some pics to make up






Those were taken on the third of May :)

Satuday I went to the farmers market, it was sunny and pretty but the wind was super cold. It was good to go, but ended unhappily as I mistepped off the curb and went splat. hurt my knee, hand and cut my chin, and of course, had to go to the hospital to get checked out and make sure that Amelia was fine. We went to the local one first, but the only OB here was one that is abusive and the other one was out of town soooo.. we left AMA and went to the valley. Spent the weekend being watched and having minor contractions. some less minor then others. What it boiled down to is that I was discharged at 100% effaced, and a soft 1CM dilated and still having minor contractions. Tomorrow i go up for regular appointment/follow-up and we will see if I have had any further progression, but what a spendy way to spend my weekend. and a spendy fall. It looks like I may be in pre-labor so I might not make it to my due date. I lost my Mucus plug at 7:50 Sunday the 10th...

My back hurts in waves... but not always with a hard belly, and sometimes I have back pain with pelvic pressure and no hard belly, and every so often once or twice a day maybe, I have all three, pelvic pressure, hard belly, back pain... so maybe I am having some movement towards having Amelia arrive.

39 Weeks today!!!

The truth revealed!!

So I was chatting with an friend, and we were talking about what the thing inside my belly really is... and it was so revealed to me that she is not a frog army, or an alien, or an octopus, she is a cabbit!!

for you unfortunate souls that do not know what that is, here is a youtube clip. now go rent Tenchi!!



it shoudl say kitty rabbit instead of hamster...

Belly bump

Here you go, the latest belly pics. hey I am even smiling in them wow!






For me, thats a huge freakin bump. when I lay down at night it expands up into my chest cavity so that its like, I don't know,a mini hill just bellow my breasts. of course thats only when laying on my sides, it all kind of slumps in when I lay on my back, I mean the bump is still a bump but it seems to flatten out a bit. Can't stay long on the back of course or I get really uncomfy. and now my right side.. its my preferred sleep side and its soooo sooooorrrrrreee. I tried to not sleep on it and suffered. last night was a bad night for sleep and it left me tired all day. hopefully I will sleep better tonight though its a full moon so who knows really!

and the alien/horde of frogs/octopus/fetus/creature of the deep keeps moving around and complaining that there is a lack of space. yeah I hear you honey child but trust me, I feel squashed enough with out you trying to dislocate my Ribs or drill a hole out the cervix.

I am sooo ready to not be pregnant anymore. And I am SOO not ready to have a baby.

at least I have a crib.

I need, no NEED no NEED to get the house clean. and get the cat door out of my window and get a door for the slider. and some liners for the diapers. I wouldn't be upset to have somemore clothes and sheets.... crib sheets and baby clothes that is.

I am in big trouble.

maybe when I wake up the cleaning fairy will have come and my house will be all shiny and maybe even (gasp) child proofed... and the stuff on the back porch will be GONE.

yeah I know, and I didn't even have any drugs to have that wild fancy trip on either. just a lack of a good nights sleep. I wonder if I will remember what one of those is before I turn 48...

yes, I am crazy.

holy cow.. er well, you'll see!

I mean wow!!! and I hope that works. (the HTML I mean)

cleaned up the house some and practiced folding cloth diapers using a teddy bear. cats tried to 'help' and got yelled at.... oh and be shocked, I put away almost all of my clean laundry!!! wow, I mean do you have any idea how hard it is to fold and stuff with a belly in the way? I bet some of you do... it took me a while cause I had to take breaks or I was going to puke from the squashing my tummy was taking.

I have also discovered that eating chocolate covered cherries is an excellent way to get Amelia to move and make my tummy sore. more sore. sorer? hmm sorest? what an odd word...

I ordered some chinese prefold diapers I thought I was ordering dozens, but I think its actually individual ones.. meh... anyway I bought 20 bucks worth (incuding shipping) I figure I can add covers and more prefolds if I need to as I go but with the gerbers (I have 1 doz of them) which I have to fold in half to fit into the newborn covers, plus the ones I just ordered plus the few fitted I have plus whatever other clothie stuff I may end up with from the shower... I should be covered.... I may just need to buy some rolls of liners though.

ok I am now hungry and being abused by my unborn child. must. eat. something.