3 Months!!!

Today Claire is 3 months old! Wow... time flies!!! I have been horrible about taking time to journal or blog about the last 3 months so I'm going to do one big long post! Yay, you get to read it! :-)

• Claire is such a good little baby. I don't have to hold her when she sleeps anymore, well not all of the time anyway... I'll admit, I love to just sit and hold her when she sleeps, but it makes it hard for me to get things done. She is still sleeping in a bassinet. She's getting too big for it, but we like her to sleep in it because things in our lives are a little hectic right now. We're staying at my parents house and Joe's parents' house, so with the bassinet we can take it with us and she can at least have that consistency. She sleeps through the night occasionally, but will sometimes wake up once or twice a night. Depends on what time she finally gets to bed.
  
• She spits like crazy. She's always drooling, spitting, and blowing bubbles.
  
• She is starting to be more interactive. She is grabbing my hair, and tries to grab the logos on Joe's shirts.
  
• She has giggled a few times but is always smiling.
• She is talking more and more every day.
• Claire has the cutest pouty face. Her bottom lip sticks out so far and you just have to laugh.
• Claire has seven extremely long hairs on her head that blow in the wind.
• She loves to sit up and has been holding her head up very well for quite a while now. She's extremely strong and great at pulling herself up.
• Claire is starting to like baths more.
• She wears 1-2 diapers.
• She's rolled over twice. ( She was just super hungry and arching her back so much she just happened to roll over.)
• She loves to sleep on her tummy, which is a little nerve racking for mom.
• Claire loves when Joe squeezes her cheeks and says in a deep voice, "These are my chubby cheeks," 3x.
• She loves her soothie binky. We have tried to switch to a cuter binky and she just isn't having it.
• She fights like crazy when she's exhausted but doesn't want to go to sleep.
• She loves to suck on her hand, all the time! Hopefully it doesn't turn into thumb sucking.
• She has one cry that is just a whine. It's pretty cute.
• Her right kidney isn't functioning but the left is doing the work it needs to. He left kidney has a little bit of reflux which should clear itself eventually. She is on an antibiotic to prevent UTIs. She absolutely hates it so we have to mix it with a little bit of milk to get her to keep it down. This is how she has learned to spit. Between her antibiotic and medicine for acid reflux, she can spit out her medicine as soon as you put it in her mouth.
• She loves to rub blankets or burp cloths.

Watching T.V. with Daddy, in Cedar.
6/15/10 - one month



June 15, 2010 - In Cedar
one month

Watching the 4th of July Parade
Almost 2 months

Playing with Daddy!


Hangin with Mama!


Cute Smiles! - 3 months

The Delivery

So I can finally take some time to sit down and write about the whole labor experience. It happened like this... Saturday May 8th we went to the hospital to get an ultrasound to check the fluid level and for a NST. While doing the NST the nurse pointed out that I was contracting but they weren't bad enough to keep me there. I was scheduled to go in on Monday May 10th at 1:00 A.M. to be induced and she told us to just stick with that. Well Joe went to work and I was contracting all day. They were pretty painful but not bad enough or close enough together. I just dealt with it all day. When Joe got home my contractions were getting worse but not close enough together so I just tried to tough it out. Then finally at 1:00 May 9th, I couldn't take it anymore and we went to the hospital. I wasn't sure if my water had broken, and I guess my contractions still weren't close enough, and I was only dilated to a 3 and 70% effaced which I had been for about 2 weeks. So the nurse wanted to send me home, but my doctor told me to stay. The nurse did a couple of test and come to find out... my water had broken and I didn't even know. I was expecting a big gush but that just didn't happen.

I was dilating pretty quickly but the nurse made me wait til I was a five to get an epidural. She gave me a sedative that was super weird. I could still feel the pain but my body was so relaxed that I just didn't care. The weirdest feeling in the world! Finally at 4:30 A.M. I got an epidural. It was like a little piece of heaven.

The nurse told me to get a little rest, but that is pretty hard to do when they are checking your cervix so often and your blood pressure every 15 mins. The nurses had shift change and we got the best nurse ever. Her name was Megan. She also told us to relax and rest.

At 7:30 A.M. she said I was fully dilated and needed to start pushing. Joe and I freaked out! Weren't we supposed to rest first? We were so excited to meet our little one! On the first push she could see Claire's head and said I need to call the doctor. She called the doctor and I pushed a few more times while we were waiting. She finally told me not to push anymore because the doctor wasn't there yet and Claire was ready to come. He finally got there at 8:15 A.M. and with one push Claire was out. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. She looked exactly like Joe. Holding her was the most amazing feeling. It was super weird to know I was the one to comfort her. I usually give crying babies back to their mom, but this time I was the mom.

The labor was suprisingly easy. The pregnancy was hard so it was only fair I had an easy labor. :-)

Claire is such an amazing baby. We love her so much!