A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week.
A simple, special, extraordinary moment.
A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Mom, Mama, Drew and Jack
the adventures of 2 boys and their moms
Friday, November 12, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
What We've Learned...
four days as moms, we've already learned so much
1. Your world changes instantly when your child is born.
2. Your house is quickly taken over with everything baby - we've lost a counter in the kitchen already as it is filled with pumping parts.
3. You now live in 3 hour cycles.
4. There is instantly more laundry to do.
5. Breastfeeding is harder than it looks.
6. Forget EVERYTHING you read in the books and trust your gut - do what your mom instincts tell you are right for your child.
7. You had better make your morning cup of coffee in a travel mug so that it stays warm because it might be hours until you get to actually drink it.
8. You learn quickly how to do everything one handed.
9. There is nothing better in the whole wide world than staring at this face!
1. Your world changes instantly when your child is born.
2. Your house is quickly taken over with everything baby - we've lost a counter in the kitchen already as it is filled with pumping parts.
3. You now live in 3 hour cycles.
4. There is instantly more laundry to do.
5. Breastfeeding is harder than it looks.
6. Forget EVERYTHING you read in the books and trust your gut - do what your mom instincts tell you are right for your child.
7. You had better make your morning cup of coffee in a travel mug so that it stays warm because it might be hours until you get to actually drink it.
8. You learn quickly how to do everything one handed.
9. There is nothing better in the whole wide world than staring at this face!
Some of you have asked about his hair and yes, it is an awesome strawberry blonde!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Perfect!!!!
Not that we are biased or anything, but Drew is absolutely perfect in every single way! He got a clean bill of health from the Peds this AM and is doing a great job learning to breastfeed. We are over the moon in love!!
Friday, November 5, 2010
Welcome to the World!
Welcome DREW RICHARD our beautiful son born at 1:01 PM TODAY. He is 6 lb 12 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. He is absolutely perfect and we are madly in love. We'll post the birth story and pics once we get home. We are at the hospital until Sunday. Thanks for all of the well wishes.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Hospital
Well, we are at the hospital. Got here about 8:30 and they monitored me for a half hour. Baby looked great. I am 1 1/2 cm dialated and 60% effaced. They gave me the first round of meds and now we wait and wait and wait. We'll update when we can.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Plan
It is hard to believe we are getting to the point of it being just hours instead of days until we meet Cupid! The plan is that we will call the Birth Center at 6:30 in the morning just to make sure there wasn't an influx of women in labor that arrived overnight. As long as all is well, we will head to the hospital and the fun will begin!
MJ was approved today to take the rest of this week and all of next week off, so she is working this afternoon to get her sub plans done. It's times like this that being a teacher is a pain- you can't just take the day off - you have to leave plans which are a huge amount of work. The nice thing is that once she leaves today, she will be home for the next 11 days. That will be so nice!!! Technically, according to our teachers' contract, she is only "allowed" 3 family sick days, and next Wed and Fri are days we are not allowed to take off because they are before and after a holiday (Veteran's Day) but we have an awesome Superintendant who is great about granting leave above and beyond.
I believe that I have started some early labor today. I have had terrible lower back pain that just keeps getting worse and I have also started to lose my mucous plug. I am excited that my body is starting to do things on its own so maybe the induction tomorrow won't take too long.
That's the plan from here!
MJ was approved today to take the rest of this week and all of next week off, so she is working this afternoon to get her sub plans done. It's times like this that being a teacher is a pain- you can't just take the day off - you have to leave plans which are a huge amount of work. The nice thing is that once she leaves today, she will be home for the next 11 days. That will be so nice!!! Technically, according to our teachers' contract, she is only "allowed" 3 family sick days, and next Wed and Fri are days we are not allowed to take off because they are before and after a holiday (Veteran's Day) but we have an awesome Superintendant who is great about granting leave above and beyond.
I believe that I have started some early labor today. I have had terrible lower back pain that just keeps getting worse and I have also started to lose my mucous plug. I am excited that my body is starting to do things on its own so maybe the induction tomorrow won't take too long.
That's the plan from here!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
We Can't Wait
As I think about meeting our baby this week, I think about the things we can't wait for!
We can't wait to find out if Cupid is a boy or a girl.
We can't wait to finally hold our baby in our arms.
We can't wait to find out if Cupid will be as active on the outside from 8 - 10 at night as s/he has been in my belly.
We can't wait to bring our baby home.
We can't wait to sniff that newborn smell.
But most of all, we just can't wait to be mommies!!!
We can't wait to find out if Cupid is a boy or a girl.
We can't wait to finally hold our baby in our arms.
We can't wait to find out if Cupid will be as active on the outside from 8 - 10 at night as s/he has been in my belly.
We can't wait to bring our baby home.
We can't wait to sniff that newborn smell.
But most of all, we just can't wait to be mommies!!!
Monday, November 1, 2010
Thirty Nine and One
Today we are thirty nine weeks and one day. I went to the OB this morning and baby is still fine. However, before problems arise we are going to induce on Thursday if Cupid is not here before then. So, by weeks end, we will get to meet our baby!!! We are so very excited and can't wait. We'll keep you posted on the details as they unfold.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)