2015 so far has been quiet and easy going...Here is hoping the rest of the year follows suit! We have been cooking at home a ton, doing tons of laundry (hello, new baby!), and just continuing to settle into the groove with a new baby.
Harper has gotten to love her MamaRoo (thank goodness!) and will nap in it now. She has also started to really like her WubbaNub pink elephant paci. She has gotten where she is trying her best to hold her head up most of the time and doesn't like to be held like a "baby" anymore unless she's really sleepy. She loves to fall asleep in our big bed and then we move her to her crib. She does the cutest big gummy grins now and is a really sweet good natured baby. That being said, sweet girl knows exactly what she wants when she wants it - I hope this trait stays with her as she grows older.
Philip is having surgery on his wrist tomorrow to remove a cyst on his right wrist. We are gearing up for no lifting and/or use of that hand for the next 3-5 days....This is going to be quite the challenge seeing as he's right handed.
We have not made any resolutions for this year...We are just taking things as they come. However - We did order an elliptical machine for the house to hopefully help this post-baby body get back in shape sooner!
Here's to a great 2015!
Tarin
Monday, January 5, 2015
Thursday, January 1, 2015
2014 Year in Review
I have always loved reading other peoples blogs and seeing a slice of their life and being able to often relate to what they are going through...That being said, I'm not always the best at updating this blog! I hope to be better about that as a way to better chronicle what is happening in our family's day to day life.
We have had such a blessed year. It started off rough with another tubal pregnancy and another surgery. Cue to eight weeks post surgery and I was pregnant again - this being our fifth pregnancy. We were shocked, overjoyed, and very very nervous. Our OB was even hesitant and nervous to be too excited. Then we heard the most magical and awe inspiring sound in the world - our baby's heartbeat. We had yet to experience this in any of our previous pregnancies. Cue to a few months later (and much nausea!) and we found out we were having a baby girl. I was SO blessed with a pretty easy pregnancy. However, at our 37 week ultrasound they told us that my fluid levels were low...Like really, really low and that we had to go ahead and take the baby the next morning (They called and told us this after our two doctors conferred...We had been to lunch with my mother in law and to pick up last minute stuff at babies r us-Thank goodness!).
Our birth story is very clinical. They checked us in, got me started on a fetal monitor, drew lots of blood (we banked Harper's cord blood), and then we had to wait because my OB had another patient that was ready to push and mine was a C-Section so I could wait. Once we were ready they wheeled me into the OR where it was just me and my nurse, Sandy, and the anesthesiologist. He did my spinal block (which was not awful but not pleasant either!), and then they put me on the operating table and got things started. They started cutting me open (which smells like burning - they use a laser for a scalpel now evidently!), and Philip was allowed in the room. It was about 60 seconds later and we heard our sweet girls first cries! It was a sweet sweet sound to our ears because with her being early it was always a fear that we might have issues or be in the NICU for a while.
Philip took Harper to a room to bond while they sewed me up and then when I joined them I got to start breastfeeding Harper. Breastfeeding is a special bonding experience but whoa...It was hard for us. I had mastitis twice and then two abscesses formed in that same breast. Cue to a biopsy to rule out cancer and two drainage sessions later and we are just not on the road to breast recovery. We had to also switch Harper to soy formula which agrees with her tummy much better! We had a quick delivery process and were out of the hospital two days later. It all seems like such a blur and the first few weeks flew by due to all of the medical stuff I had going on with my breasts and then with Harper and getting her formula figured out.
We are so blessed and so grateful to have had such an easy pregnancy and delivery and such a healthy and thriving beautiful, sweet little girl! She was six pounds three ounces and 19.5 inches long at delivery and ten pounds seven ounces and 24 inches long at her two month check up. She loves car rides and going places, her rock and play (she slept there for her first six weeks), getting to love her wubbanub, and getting where she likes to be read to. My goal is to update this blog regularly so that when Harper is older I can show her everything as a type of journal.
We have had such a blessed year. It started off rough with another tubal pregnancy and another surgery. Cue to eight weeks post surgery and I was pregnant again - this being our fifth pregnancy. We were shocked, overjoyed, and very very nervous. Our OB was even hesitant and nervous to be too excited. Then we heard the most magical and awe inspiring sound in the world - our baby's heartbeat. We had yet to experience this in any of our previous pregnancies. Cue to a few months later (and much nausea!) and we found out we were having a baby girl. I was SO blessed with a pretty easy pregnancy. However, at our 37 week ultrasound they told us that my fluid levels were low...Like really, really low and that we had to go ahead and take the baby the next morning (They called and told us this after our two doctors conferred...We had been to lunch with my mother in law and to pick up last minute stuff at babies r us-Thank goodness!).
Our birth story is very clinical. They checked us in, got me started on a fetal monitor, drew lots of blood (we banked Harper's cord blood), and then we had to wait because my OB had another patient that was ready to push and mine was a C-Section so I could wait. Once we were ready they wheeled me into the OR where it was just me and my nurse, Sandy, and the anesthesiologist. He did my spinal block (which was not awful but not pleasant either!), and then they put me on the operating table and got things started. They started cutting me open (which smells like burning - they use a laser for a scalpel now evidently!), and Philip was allowed in the room. It was about 60 seconds later and we heard our sweet girls first cries! It was a sweet sweet sound to our ears because with her being early it was always a fear that we might have issues or be in the NICU for a while.
Philip took Harper to a room to bond while they sewed me up and then when I joined them I got to start breastfeeding Harper. Breastfeeding is a special bonding experience but whoa...It was hard for us. I had mastitis twice and then two abscesses formed in that same breast. Cue to a biopsy to rule out cancer and two drainage sessions later and we are just not on the road to breast recovery. We had to also switch Harper to soy formula which agrees with her tummy much better! We had a quick delivery process and were out of the hospital two days later. It all seems like such a blur and the first few weeks flew by due to all of the medical stuff I had going on with my breasts and then with Harper and getting her formula figured out.
We are so blessed and so grateful to have had such an easy pregnancy and delivery and such a healthy and thriving beautiful, sweet little girl! She was six pounds three ounces and 19.5 inches long at delivery and ten pounds seven ounces and 24 inches long at her two month check up. She loves car rides and going places, her rock and play (she slept there for her first six weeks), getting to love her wubbanub, and getting where she likes to be read to. My goal is to update this blog regularly so that when Harper is older I can show her everything as a type of journal.
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| Me waiting to go to delivery. |
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| First family photo of me, Philip, and Harper. |
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| Our families (missing my dad) when we found out it was a girl! |
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| Me with my brother and parents. |
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