Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Sorry!!!! I've been busy being a mom!!!! Tax day was good for us this year!
Okay guys! I don't know if anyone really subscribes to my blog...but if you do it has been a really long time. In fact so long that I have already had Alex & he is almost 3 months old. I will take you on a quick update then I will let you know how things are...
April 14th- I finally had another ultrasound to see how big my boy was going to be...well it turns out they predicted he would be REALLY big!!!! The prediction was 9lbs 14ozs, which at the time really freaked me out (if I could only predict the future). I can remember Chris and I breathless as we waited for the doctor to come in. I was alittle gitty, probably becasue I knew it wouldn't be long. Dr. Singleton though he would be out of town the rest of the week, decided I needed to get the baby out sooner than later. And it was pretty much established I would have a c-section (though he had to verbally give me the option to have him the other way, he practically did it while shaking his head no). Since my reg. doc would be out he left to see if Dr. Simmons could do the surgery. When the Doc came back he said "Alright you will have a c-section tomorrow at 11:30, be at the hospital at 9:30...don't eat after midnight...Dr. Simmons will deliver Alex." Okay well I can't say anything because I didn't go into labor or deliver naturally or anything, but know I was going to have Alex at a specific time, like an appointment, it was hard. It was like hurry up and wait. I couldn't eat much that night and I was supposed to get a goods nights rest (On the doc's ok I took a benedryl, so I could at least sleep 4 hours). I guess that takes me to delivery day!
April 15-
I get up and go to the hospital...boppy in hand. I walked myself to labor and delivery (Chris offered to push me, but I was okay...well I don't know, maybe he did push me???). Got into a gown, hooked up to the monitors and waited. Our families arrived soon after, as did our Priest, Peggy. She annointed my head with oil, I knew I was okay.
At 11:20 they wheeled me in to the very cold, white, sterile, tiled operating room. Chris had to wait in the hall, until right before the delivery.
It was much more hospital like than what I imagined. The epidural was the scariest thing, but once it started working it was really strange. It is like I could feel the pressure of everything, but couldn't move. At first it took a little time for one of my legs to go completely numb ( I get nervous about that, b/c my mom said her epidural didn't work and they immediately put her to sleep). Anyways...w/out going into too much detail, Chris came in and he sat really close to me. I was actually nervous for him, he doesn't do blood, etc. He was so strong. The delivery was actually alot harder than I imagined. I could really feel alot of pressure. At one point they were pushing so hard, I started to have a hard time beathing, they gave me oxygen. It is hard to describe the moment I saw Alex...He Was HUGE!!!
No really he was Big, really really BIG. So big that Dr. Simmons, the nurses, the scrub techs, and the anethitist were making bets on how big he was. I was really shocked when the Doc said he would be bigger than 10lbs.
Sure enough Alex was 10lbs 6oz. Yup...I was valid in my constant complaints of discomfort. In my observations that I was bigger than everyone else...correct!
But Alex was the most adorable child ever to loved! And he still is. I will figure out how to post pics and do so!!!! More blog to come. I will try to update often.
Cynthia
April 14th- I finally had another ultrasound to see how big my boy was going to be...well it turns out they predicted he would be REALLY big!!!! The prediction was 9lbs 14ozs, which at the time really freaked me out (if I could only predict the future). I can remember Chris and I breathless as we waited for the doctor to come in. I was alittle gitty, probably becasue I knew it wouldn't be long. Dr. Singleton though he would be out of town the rest of the week, decided I needed to get the baby out sooner than later. And it was pretty much established I would have a c-section (though he had to verbally give me the option to have him the other way, he practically did it while shaking his head no). Since my reg. doc would be out he left to see if Dr. Simmons could do the surgery. When the Doc came back he said "Alright you will have a c-section tomorrow at 11:30, be at the hospital at 9:30...don't eat after midnight...Dr. Simmons will deliver Alex." Okay well I can't say anything because I didn't go into labor or deliver naturally or anything, but know I was going to have Alex at a specific time, like an appointment, it was hard. It was like hurry up and wait. I couldn't eat much that night and I was supposed to get a goods nights rest (On the doc's ok I took a benedryl, so I could at least sleep 4 hours). I guess that takes me to delivery day!
April 15-
I get up and go to the hospital...boppy in hand. I walked myself to labor and delivery (Chris offered to push me, but I was okay...well I don't know, maybe he did push me???). Got into a gown, hooked up to the monitors and waited. Our families arrived soon after, as did our Priest, Peggy. She annointed my head with oil, I knew I was okay.
At 11:20 they wheeled me in to the very cold, white, sterile, tiled operating room. Chris had to wait in the hall, until right before the delivery.
It was much more hospital like than what I imagined. The epidural was the scariest thing, but once it started working it was really strange. It is like I could feel the pressure of everything, but couldn't move. At first it took a little time for one of my legs to go completely numb ( I get nervous about that, b/c my mom said her epidural didn't work and they immediately put her to sleep). Anyways...w/out going into too much detail, Chris came in and he sat really close to me. I was actually nervous for him, he doesn't do blood, etc. He was so strong. The delivery was actually alot harder than I imagined. I could really feel alot of pressure. At one point they were pushing so hard, I started to have a hard time beathing, they gave me oxygen. It is hard to describe the moment I saw Alex...He Was HUGE!!!
No really he was Big, really really BIG. So big that Dr. Simmons, the nurses, the scrub techs, and the anethitist were making bets on how big he was. I was really shocked when the Doc said he would be bigger than 10lbs.
Sure enough Alex was 10lbs 6oz. Yup...I was valid in my constant complaints of discomfort. In my observations that I was bigger than everyone else...correct!
But Alex was the most adorable child ever to loved! And he still is. I will figure out how to post pics and do so!!!! More blog to come. I will try to update often.
Cynthia
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Still Pregnant
Well I had a lot of doubters! But it is April and I am still pregnant. I had many people convinced that I was going to have the little guy in March. But he will probably go to his due date and this little dude will be a great big dude!
I think that it is very interesting how big I have gotten....I am huge...I mean very, very big.
Good news is that I hopefully won't go past my due date, My doctor has more or less promised me that (we aren't talking about the 14th, but my original 18th of April).
Monday, April 14th I am having an ultrasound to see how big this kid is going to be. Not if he is going to beg, but how big! If he is too big I will have a c-section. If he is just right I will be induce. I am still hoping i will go into labor on my own, this week. There are storms coming in this week so I am thinking I will probably have my water break during the sirens and storms predicted fro tomorrow.
That is fine. I have taken all the harassment I could possibly take by on lookers of my large bump.
I have been asked when my twin are due. I am called "fatty" I suppose endearingly by a man at my church. I have been stared at, probably in amazement, or in some form of birth control, at Target and I have been played like a drum, by someone trying to get my kid to wake up and kick. That was the strangest. I don't know how I felt about that.
Well I am ready And I will let everyone know when I have little (or Big) Alex!
Cynthia
I think that it is very interesting how big I have gotten....I am huge...I mean very, very big.
Good news is that I hopefully won't go past my due date, My doctor has more or less promised me that (we aren't talking about the 14th, but my original 18th of April).
Monday, April 14th I am having an ultrasound to see how big this kid is going to be. Not if he is going to beg, but how big! If he is too big I will have a c-section. If he is just right I will be induce. I am still hoping i will go into labor on my own, this week. There are storms coming in this week so I am thinking I will probably have my water break during the sirens and storms predicted fro tomorrow.
That is fine. I have taken all the harassment I could possibly take by on lookers of my large bump.
I have been asked when my twin are due. I am called "fatty" I suppose endearingly by a man at my church. I have been stared at, probably in amazement, or in some form of birth control, at Target and I have been played like a drum, by someone trying to get my kid to wake up and kick. That was the strangest. I don't know how I felt about that.
Well I am ready And I will let everyone know when I have little (or Big) Alex!
Cynthia
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
2 freakin' weeks left!!!!
Okay I hate to complain, but I am so over this right now! All you people who thought I would actually have the baby in March...I wish you were right. I actually think that I am going to be on time not early. I have made no progress. The doctor said he is probably trying to descend, since i have terrible aching pain and pressure in my pelvic area. (They don't usually talk about this part, they say pressure, but not pain!). I still can't sleep and am not the cheeriest person in the world. People are replacing excitement with comment of sorrow towards me and even slight disappointment. My shape and size has drastically changed int he last 2 weeks. I don't even feel like i look like myself. I am huge. I am actually kinda hoping he is a 9lbs baby so that my size will be somewhat validated. Well I will try to update more and more until the day and then I will post pics of little Alex as soon as he arrives.
Cynthia
Cynthia
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
One MOnth Left...thank goodness!
I have one month left. I have been going between anxious and patient the last few weeks. I am often reminding myself that Alex would be better off staying in my womb for a few more weeks. But I have truly made it to the misery stage of pregnancy.
I haven't felt the same since my short stay in the hospital a few weeks ago. I have had borderline high blood pressure and am supposed to lay on my left side for an hour several times a day. Easier said then done, especially since I am a restless person altogether.
Friday I had another visit to Labor and Delivery. My blood pressure was awfully high after some nail biting basketball and some housework. It prompted valid concern, and Chris and I prepared for the hospital like it would be our last drive their. I was only 35 weeks last Friday, so I was kinda hoping nothing would happen yet. Chris was patient and rightfully a Little nervous I suspected, since he missed the parking deck entrance 3 times. I didn't call when I got to the sky deck to pass into the hospital, so I had to navigate on foot to the Labor and delivery ward.
When I got their they got me in a room, got my specimen, made me change into a backless gown, and immediately had me lay down on the bed and hook up to all the monitors. By the time they checked my blood pressure it was already rapidly decreasing.
I am glad and all that it didn't stay really high, that could be detrimental to mine and Alex's health, but i was disappointed that the nurse was unable to see me feeling as awful as I felt an hour b/f my visit. I think I was home by 2am.
I pray for patience every hour of the day.
I sleep very little b/c of discomfort or acid reflux. I am huge, and today, probably b/c of the way I slept and high blood pressure, my legs were swollen to my knees. I could hardly walk. Oh well! I will make, most women do!
I haven't felt the same since my short stay in the hospital a few weeks ago. I have had borderline high blood pressure and am supposed to lay on my left side for an hour several times a day. Easier said then done, especially since I am a restless person altogether.
Friday I had another visit to Labor and Delivery. My blood pressure was awfully high after some nail biting basketball and some housework. It prompted valid concern, and Chris and I prepared for the hospital like it would be our last drive their. I was only 35 weeks last Friday, so I was kinda hoping nothing would happen yet. Chris was patient and rightfully a Little nervous I suspected, since he missed the parking deck entrance 3 times. I didn't call when I got to the sky deck to pass into the hospital, so I had to navigate on foot to the Labor and delivery ward.
When I got their they got me in a room, got my specimen, made me change into a backless gown, and immediately had me lay down on the bed and hook up to all the monitors. By the time they checked my blood pressure it was already rapidly decreasing.
I am glad and all that it didn't stay really high, that could be detrimental to mine and Alex's health, but i was disappointed that the nurse was unable to see me feeling as awful as I felt an hour b/f my visit. I think I was home by 2am.
I pray for patience every hour of the day.
I sleep very little b/c of discomfort or acid reflux. I am huge, and today, probably b/c of the way I slept and high blood pressure, my legs were swollen to my knees. I could hardly walk. Oh well! I will make, most women do!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Tough couple weeks
Okay well I guess I am thankful Alex and I are okay, but I don't think it is going to be much better from now on...so I decided to start this on a positive note.
I have had 2 great showers and have a couple more to go. It is so cool to see all the people who care about me and my family and about Alex, a little boy they haven't even met yet. He got so many cute outfits! I can't wait to dress him up. I will be honest that part of me was a little disappointed that I wasn't having a girl for only like a second only b/c you don't think that you can play dress up with a boy. Though I can't put a smocked seersucker dress on him I can dress him very well and you can get little smocked clothes for boys too! I am actually enjoying all the little man outfits he is getting. I can't wait to have this boy!
Half the little things he received have his little name on it....Chris says that he will know what is his before he can spell anything else!
I may not write on this for a while b/c I have to write like 100 thank yous as of today and I haven't even had all my showers.
Okay I know having 2 showers doesn't sound so bad...that was the highlight of my last couple weeks.
Last Thursday I got to work after getting up really early to catch breakfast at the river market. I wasn't feeling good from the beginning and when Richard, my trusty helper, got there, I mentioned that I had a stomach ache and that i get nervous about them b/c I had not Idea what contractions feel like. Well by 10:30am or so I clearly had the stomach flu so I drove myself home. Soon after, I began to really have contractions that have been set off by dehydration. I called the doctor and my parents, husband (who is in Toronto Canada on business) and my brother. Soon after, I would say like at 11:45 the nurse calls me back and in pain, she can clearly tell, I explain what is happening. She says to me " Can you find a ride? If not, i know where you live, I can pick you up to take you to the clinic? " I told her I can call my dad, and she said she would call me back with some other instructions. I called my dad who dropped everything at work and started heading my way. When the nurse calls back I told her my dad was on his way,a bout 15-20 away, I asked about who I would see when I got to the clinic and the Nurse said to me: "Oh no honey, you are going straight to labor and delivery, pack a bag and have a bowl and towel ready to when your dad gets there!" I was freaked out. But I knew that what I was feeling was more than just stomach cramps!
I think my contractions were frequent but they weren't very high on the scale, but they hurt enough to put me on my knees!
the nurses in the hospital where awesome! they really took great care of me. We got the contractions controlled that night and my illness under control by Friday morning.
All night I had to watch pool Alex's little heart race b/c of the fever I was trying to fight off.
The best birth control in the entire world could be to have someone spend the night in labor and delivery on a busy night. I could her pushes and baby cries...that was great, but at like 1 or 2 am for at least half an hour to 45 minutes, this woman in labor (natural labor I am taking it!) SCREAMED at the top of her lungs!!! I mean primal scream. The kind in movies that the victim screams when the monster is after her. Continuously!!!! for a long time! I am getting an epidural as soon as I arrive the next time!!!!!
I haven't been 100% since then. I went to the doctor Tuesday with I would say are mixed results.
I gained like 5 lbs in 2 weeks...despite the stomach flu...but I blame the 13 gallons of fluids they pumped me full of last week, and the tremendous swelling I have endured from over the weekend, my feet look like Fred Flintstones!
My blood pressure was up! Don't get me wrong, it isn't as bad as it could be, but for me it is high. the highest I have ever had is 120/ 72 and today it was like 140/80.
When the doc arrived, he finally acknowledged a soon due date of April 14 not april 18 (yea!!!), but after he checked Alex's strong heartbeat he measured me. I am measuring 2 weeks ahead!!!! 36 weeks not 34! That freaked me out! I could have a full term baby like really soon like any time now! He also said that i had to begin one week appointments now! He may do a fetal weight estimate in the next couple weeks to see Alex's weight!
I freaked out today and have started to really take this seriously. After today Chris and I have to assume he is coming at anytime now! No more waiting...Alex could be here sooner than we thought!
Cynthia
I have had 2 great showers and have a couple more to go. It is so cool to see all the people who care about me and my family and about Alex, a little boy they haven't even met yet. He got so many cute outfits! I can't wait to dress him up. I will be honest that part of me was a little disappointed that I wasn't having a girl for only like a second only b/c you don't think that you can play dress up with a boy. Though I can't put a smocked seersucker dress on him I can dress him very well and you can get little smocked clothes for boys too! I am actually enjoying all the little man outfits he is getting. I can't wait to have this boy!
Half the little things he received have his little name on it....Chris says that he will know what is his before he can spell anything else!
I may not write on this for a while b/c I have to write like 100 thank yous as of today and I haven't even had all my showers.
Okay I know having 2 showers doesn't sound so bad...that was the highlight of my last couple weeks.
Last Thursday I got to work after getting up really early to catch breakfast at the river market. I wasn't feeling good from the beginning and when Richard, my trusty helper, got there, I mentioned that I had a stomach ache and that i get nervous about them b/c I had not Idea what contractions feel like. Well by 10:30am or so I clearly had the stomach flu so I drove myself home. Soon after, I began to really have contractions that have been set off by dehydration. I called the doctor and my parents, husband (who is in Toronto Canada on business) and my brother. Soon after, I would say like at 11:45 the nurse calls me back and in pain, she can clearly tell, I explain what is happening. She says to me " Can you find a ride? If not, i know where you live, I can pick you up to take you to the clinic? " I told her I can call my dad, and she said she would call me back with some other instructions. I called my dad who dropped everything at work and started heading my way. When the nurse calls back I told her my dad was on his way,a bout 15-20 away, I asked about who I would see when I got to the clinic and the Nurse said to me: "Oh no honey, you are going straight to labor and delivery, pack a bag and have a bowl and towel ready to when your dad gets there!" I was freaked out. But I knew that what I was feeling was more than just stomach cramps!
I think my contractions were frequent but they weren't very high on the scale, but they hurt enough to put me on my knees!
the nurses in the hospital where awesome! they really took great care of me. We got the contractions controlled that night and my illness under control by Friday morning.
All night I had to watch pool Alex's little heart race b/c of the fever I was trying to fight off.
The best birth control in the entire world could be to have someone spend the night in labor and delivery on a busy night. I could her pushes and baby cries...that was great, but at like 1 or 2 am for at least half an hour to 45 minutes, this woman in labor (natural labor I am taking it!) SCREAMED at the top of her lungs!!! I mean primal scream. The kind in movies that the victim screams when the monster is after her. Continuously!!!! for a long time! I am getting an epidural as soon as I arrive the next time!!!!!
I haven't been 100% since then. I went to the doctor Tuesday with I would say are mixed results.
I gained like 5 lbs in 2 weeks...despite the stomach flu...but I blame the 13 gallons of fluids they pumped me full of last week, and the tremendous swelling I have endured from over the weekend, my feet look like Fred Flintstones!
My blood pressure was up! Don't get me wrong, it isn't as bad as it could be, but for me it is high. the highest I have ever had is 120/ 72 and today it was like 140/80.
When the doc arrived, he finally acknowledged a soon due date of April 14 not april 18 (yea!!!), but after he checked Alex's strong heartbeat he measured me. I am measuring 2 weeks ahead!!!! 36 weeks not 34! That freaked me out! I could have a full term baby like really soon like any time now! He also said that i had to begin one week appointments now! He may do a fetal weight estimate in the next couple weeks to see Alex's weight!
I freaked out today and have started to really take this seriously. After today Chris and I have to assume he is coming at anytime now! No more waiting...Alex could be here sooner than we thought!
Cynthia
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