John's arrival!

John was born on 8/8/11 at 3:37am. What an amazing day it was! The labor went really fast this time once I actually started labor. I went to L&D at 6:30pm on Sunday. The plan was to give me a cytotec pill and then start pitocen in the next morning. Well it turns out that I was already in labor when I arrived even if it was early labor. I had progressed from 1cm to 2.5-3cm. I was having semi-regular contractions. John was doing great. The nurse told me that I could either go ahead with the cytotec or wait for the pitocen in the morning. She was afraid that if I got the cytotec that labor would commence pretty strong since I was well on my way anyway. I told her I was there to labor and to have a baby so I saw no reason to wait. Normally they have to give the cytotec every 4 hours to help ripen the cervix. When she first checked me I was already 75% thinned so I only needed the one dose. They never even had to give pitocen at all. John was ready and so was I! I started getting very uncomfortable at around 12:45am and she rechecked me. I was around 4cm then and 80% thinned. I requested the epidural. That was finished by 1:30am. She rechecked me again right after getting that and I was at 6cm. This was exactly where I was after getting the epidural with Audrey. Only 45minutes later, I told the nurse that I was back in pain and wondered if I was complete. Sure enough, I was at 10cm and ready to push! My waters still had not broken. The nurse could see the bag and was amazed. Once the doctor was woken up, they broke the waters and then I started pushing. I had some trouble pushing his head under the pelvic bone so the doctor helped with the vacuum. It left a spot on John's head, poor thing! I pushed for 35minutes and he was here. He was perfect and started crying right away. He also peed on the doctor as he was wiping him off. He peed again once they got him to the warmer. All of this before they could even way him. He weighed in at 8lbs 2ounces and 20inches long. Big boy for sure! He was nearly a pound heavier than his sister! A. just loves her little brother. She is such a great big sister. I couldn't be prouder of both of them. We both were released from the hospital on Wednesday. John lost down to 7lbs 12 ounces. We went to his first pediatrician appt that Friday and he had gained up to 7lbs 13 ounces. We are breast feeding so it was good to see that he was gaining weight! He is doing just great and is such a good baby. He hardly cries at all. He is only a week old, though. He does love his sleep which is nice. I hope he keeps this up!
Will add some pics as soon as I get them added to the computer!

Still waiting

We are waiting on John's pending arrival. I am so excited to see him! I had an unexpected sono last week and got to see his face after many months. He has grown and is so stinkin' cute! His approximate weight was 7lb 6oz which is already bigger than A. at birth. My bp was up a bit but nothing too alarming. I have another check up tomorrow so we will see how things are going. I'll be 39 weeks on Saturday. Time sure has flown by! I am actually really looking forward to labor so I can get to the end result which is sweet John in my arms.


Here is my latest belly pic:

new job

Tomorrow will be my last day as an auto company employee. It is a very strange feeling. All I know now, will change. My coworkers, my boss, my job, my desk. I will stay in the same building so that is good. I will be in a training unit for many weeks. I bet I am still in it when John arrives. That will likely derail my training timeline from everyone else, but that is ok by me. I hope to take 3 months off with him and I can't wait!

Speaking of John, I did buy several things for him today including bottles, a new mattress and boy bibs!

A. is doing great and is so sweet. She is talking so much and has such attitude sometimes. She is funny and charming. We went to a friend's birthday party this past weekend and she was the life of the party! She was the only kid there. It was pretty funny to see her entertain everyone with her cute self. She can brush her teeth by herself, pick out her own clothes, and get dressed shoes and all! She is very independent and self-confident. She really is a cool kid. Today she was singing a song that she had made up herself, and I asked her if she was going to be a musician to which she said 'no, I'm going to be a doctor'. It will be interesting to see what she decides to do as she gets older.

A. and I are off to Pensacola on Saturday. D. is staying here to work on J's room! It needs to be emptied, painted and then baby stuff put back in! So excited to get it started. I need to nest, dadgumit!

A few baby pics

Sono pic taken at 15weeks gestation. My sweet brother did this for me. This was the day we found out that he was a boy! We will name him John Burton.




This is the first belly pic of pregnancy #2. It was taken on 1/15/11.


Here is another belly pic. This was taken on 3/18/11.

Gym time!

This was taken on 1/9/11 at Flip Factor. It was Sophia's birthday party. She looks like a natural! She has been taking gymnastics classes for a little over a year at school.

Video test

This was a day at the park on 11/7/10.

Random

A. turned 4 a week ago. We had a huge party here at the house. There were 18-20 kids there. Coach Victoria with Playball came and did the entertainment. Thank goodness for her! Everyone seemed to have a great time. We had pizza, fruit, cake and ice cream. A. picked out Hello Kitty as the theme. It made for cute decorations and I even found her an outfit that she wore. Her invitation was done by one of my friends, Carissa. It was just adorable.



Next, I am going to try to post some videos just for safekeeping. Some are old but I want them here.

Oh, and the new baby is well on his way. Less than 76 days until the due date. Yay! We have not started on his room yet but we hope to very soon! I will post pics once it is ready!