Skylar is Here

I've been trying for days to do this post but the computer kept messing up so I'm doing it on my phone now. Miss Skylar has arrived and she is an amazing baby!! The first night at the hospital was rough because the nurse advised us to only give so much formula so she kept waking up. Now she sleeps and we wake her every 4 hours to eat and during the day she lets us know every 4 hours. She hardly ever cries, even during diaper changes. She only seems to cry when she's cold or has gas. Her cry is so precious. She sounds like a squeak toy :)

The delivery went pretty good. We arrived at 7 for the induction. I had already been having contractions every 5-6 minutes on the way to the hospital. The pitocin was started around 7:45. It was then stopped about an hour later because I was contracting so often I was about to pull the bedrail off and the doctor had not arrived. Not to mention I didn't have my epidural yet. I received my epidural around 9 and was in heaven. I couldn't feel a thing, not even the pressure of a contraction. I began pushing around 10 and she arrived at 10:22. The cord was wrapped around her neck twice and when the Dr tried to unwrap it, the cord snapped and covered her in blood.It's a little unsettling to see your Dr get covered in blood while delivering your child. I knew something was going on when they were having me turn and gave me oxygen (and the Dr. suggested using the vacuum). But in the end we had a healthy baby girl. She was 8lbs 8oz and 21in. long with a 35cm head. Her measurments almost matched Joey's except for the weight (He was 7lbs 11oz, 21in and 36cm head).

We've been home since Wednesday and things have been going well. Joey loves helping out with "Baby Skylar" as he calls her. She gets more kisses and I love yous than everyone else in the family combined. I'm really glad he has taken to her so well. We gave him a truck at the hospital to be from Skylar and he loves it. He lets you know that Baby Skylar gave it to him.

Below are some photos from the delivery and coming home. Enjoy!

Birthday... With a lil Blues

Yes... today is my birthday... I'm 29. I've decided I won't acknowledge anymore birthdays from this day forward because I don't want to put "3" in front of my age.

Had a Dr. appointment today and not a whole lot has changed since last week. I'm currently 2.5-3cm and still 60% effaced. I was really hoping to be further along than that. I didn't realize how "fortunate" I was to not work my first or third trimester with Joey. I'm so miserable at this point that the thought of going back to work in the morning is depressing. If I had the PTO time I would definitely be taking off this last week prior to my scheduled induction on the 18th.

A few weeks ago we had Cameron's 12th birthday party. He wanted a pool party so that's what we did. It didn't seem to phase him or his friends that the pool was radioactive green. Yuck. I just couldn't force myself to get in there but the kids had a good time so I guess that's all that matters.

Joey is currently a lil monsta!! Nothing makes the child happy. One minute he will be this sweet loving child and the next he is screaming at the top of his lungs. He'll ask for his bottle and then when you give it to him he says he doesn't want it. That phrase occurs with just about anything he asks for, anything you hand him, or anything you try to feed him gets the "I don't like it". It's very frustrating. Hopefully this phase will pass quickly!

Not much else is happening right now. We're just sitting back, waiting for this little girl to finally arrive. Below are my monthly belly pics. Enjoy!

~*~3 months~*~

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~*~8 months~*~

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~*~9 months~*~
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