Mallory Rae

She’s Here!!!  She’s really here!!!

Our little Mallory Rae decided to finally come meet us Sunday morning, June 7th @ 8:52 am.

I’ll give you a quick labor story…

A proud Daddy and his baby just minutes after she is born. 

Saturday night about 6:30 I started noticing some contractions that I could actually time.

 Family of two became family of three!!

We got to the hospital about 9:30.  I asked (and received) my epidural about 1am.  This is the best thing in the entire world!! 

Before the epidural I was tired and just not myself.  The epidural  kicked in and I was wide awake and chatty!  But they told me to sleep because the hard part was coming up.  I slept maybe 20 minutes!  My blood pressure thing kept going off and it was kind of broken so an alarm would go off.  The nurse kept coming in and checking on all my machines and she would tell me… you just had a very strong 2 minute contraction!  Your contractions are just like they say they are in the text books!  And I don’t feel a thing!!!  Heaven!!

Mallory got her middle name from her Auntie Shannon Rae.

About 6:30am they come in and tell me that I am ready to go.  My midwife leaves the room to go find her nurse and I look at Jesse and I start crying!  This is the part I am afraid of!!  I told him we needed to pray.  So we prayed and I put myself back together.

The midwife comes back and she sits on a little stool next to me and we start chatting.  She tells me what I am going to do.  The nurse comes in and is super energetic and starts saying “we’re going to have a baby!!” 

All four of us start chatting and giggling.  We talked about everything under the sun in between pushing.  It was so helpful for me!  I loved every minute of it!  The 3 of them are drinking coffee and just relaxed and being so positive and encouraging to me!

Jesse totally surprised me.  He was way into this delivery then I had expected!  It was so fun to hear him get all excited during his counting and it just made me work all the harder!  2 hours later she is here!!

Born @ 8:52 am on Sunday, June 7th.  She weighed in at a shocking 8 pounds!!  She is 21 inches long.  (I totally called a long baby before she was born.  I kept telling Jesse they tell me her head is down so low but I am still getting kicked in the ribs!)

I’ll update later with more pictures… right now I think I have a hungry baby!! 

40 Weeks and Counting

We are still pregnant over here!!  This little girl is already teaching us that we are not in control!  We don’t get to pick the day she arrives.  She gets to pick!  It is kind of hard for us control-freak-people!

For the most part I am feeling good.  Just the usual aches and pains that comes with carrying around 25 extra pounds for 9 months.  Jesse is doing good too.  I think he is getting really excited to meet his baby girl! 

I have another Dr. appointment this afternoon.  My sister is coming with me and I have a feeling she may not let us leave the hospital until there is a baby in her arms!  She is running out of patience and is ready to snuggle Blueberry all day long!

I better go get ready for work.  I’m secretly hoping that this might be my last day of work… for 6 weeks!  Little Blueberry I think this weekend would be a great time for you to come meet everyone!!  We are all ready!!  We have lots of love and snuggles to give you!!!

Magic 8 Ball & Snowmobiles

I have been driving myself crazy – every night when I go to bed I think to myself… will it happen tonight?  Then when I wake up in the morning and think… will it happen today?  What is this labor all about?  What will it feel like?  Will I know?  Maybe we should put the car seat in the truck? 

So last night we used my belly as a magic 8 ball.  I rubbed my belly and asked her to give me one kick if she was coming on Monday?  I seriously got a kick!  But then I tried - give me one kick it if will be in the morning?  Nothing.  Give me one kick if it will be in the afternoon?  Nothing.  Give me one kick if it will be at night?  Nothing.  I’m guessing she is not coming on Monday.  ; )

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Every Sunday after church we go out for breakfast with Jesse’s family.  This Sunday as we are eating breakfast with Jesse’s parents we got on the subject of Father’s Day.  Jesse’s ears perk up and he wants to know when Father’s Day is.  Jesse gets this huge smile on his face and just sits across from me smiling at me!  It doesn’t take me long to catch on!!!  I waved my hands in the air and said “Oh!!!  You think since you’ll be a dad that you are going to get some big present?!!”  He starts laughing and says, yup… I was thinking like maybe a snowmobile!!!  Oh my goodness!  This guy cracks me up!!  Just for that, I think he needs to get a #1 Dad tie and he has to wear it to work!!  Won’t the prisoners get a kick out of that one!?!

Since we are down to the wire and Blueberry could make her appearance at any moment.  I wanted to let you know you can stay tuned to my Mom’s blog… she’ll be the first with pictures and will let y’all know when little baby girl is here!  Lets pray that it is sooner then later… and that I will be a super-woman during labor and delivery!