Saturday, April 17, 2010
Baby Jif's here!
Baby Jif arrived @ 12:30 pm on April 10, a beautiful spring day! It is quite an interesting story so I thought I'd share, as much for me to have a record as anything. But I do always enjoy hearing about others' birth stories. Here is ours in a timeline....(as close as I can recall)
Friday evening, April 9 - some Braxton-Hicks & other things told me it might not be too long until we meet Jif. However, later that night, everything stopped.
6:40 Saturday morning April 10 - woke up to some mild contractions every now & then but could sleep, so I did.
8:00 am - contractions about the same but I decide to get up & start the day & get some last things done b/c by now I'm pretty sure it will be the day.
10:30 am - my parents come to pick up the boys, they were going to anyway; the contractions are a little stronger but still not very long or very close together.
11:15 am - I decide to get in the bath to see if it will help me relax. While in the bath, contractions start harder & closer. I decide I better get out & get ready to go but can only move in slow motion it seems!
11:40 am - tell Farmer (who was sticking close by) to come in & get ready. He was ready in record time.
11:53 am - get in the van to go to the hospital. Text a few people but then need to concentrate on those contractions! It seemed to me to be a short ride (usually 25 minutes) to the hospital b/c I couldn't pay attention to the road. Farmer was disgusted with traffic however! =) One thing I do remember is hearing one of my favorite songs playing on the CD; the song?...Deliver Me. No joke!
12:15 pm - by now I know the baby is coming soon! I can actually walk in; we skip the registration desk (I neglected to pre-register, oops!) & head straight for the OB unit. The nurse starts asking questions to get us in the computer; Farmer doesn't know all the answers & I fill in when possible. I'm sitting & waiting for the contractions to ease up but they keep coming. Another nurse comes to take us to our room & asks if I'd like a wheelchair; thankfully the contractions stop for a minute & I say "Nope! Let's go!" While walking to the room, she asks if I'd like an epidural. In my head I think "There won't be time for that." Out loud I say, "Nope." I get dressed in one of those lovely gowns & the nurse starts asking more unimportant questions, to me at least. =)
12:19 pm - I feel a small urge to push & tell the nurse so she finally decides to check me. I'm 8. What! Only 8? I can't take much more of this! She calls other nurses & my doctor. By now my body has taken over, I have no control & the baby is coming out! My doctor still hasn't come so they call a doctor who just happened to still be there (& I've never met) filling out some paperwork. She comes in & I remember her saying, "Nice to meet you."
12:30 pm - With great relief, Jif makes her appearance & so does my doctor! We were told later that he came strolling onto the unit & asked what room we were in & the nurse told him, "She delivered in room 16." He took off almost running! =)
By 1:00 pm everything & everyone is back together & where they should be; Jif in my arms included!
What makes this story so interesting is that I had no idea that my water had broken sometime in those 4 1/2 hours. How do you not know something like that? I thought once maybe that it had but never saw or felt anything to tell me for sure. And by the time I decided it was time to go & that it was probably obvious that it had broken, I could have cared less!
We are all doing well, the boys LOVE Jif & Farmer is pretty taken with her too! =)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
When It Rains, It Pours
To end any confusion off the bat, Jif did not make her appearance yet! Two posts in one week is quite a shock, I know, but I have a lot on my mind & wanted to share.
Let's start at the beginning....
Earlier this year, we received a letter from Peter Pan's school telling us that he failed the routine hearing tests. We knew he hadn't been hearing well but weren't sure what to do about it but with the letter as a referral to the doctor, we made some appointments. It came to light that Peter Pan's adenoids were very infected & he had temporary hearing loss of 40-45%! The doc tried antibiotics but to no avail, Peter Pan was going to have to have surgery. Goodbye tonsils, goodbye adenoids & hello ear tubes! And it had to be done before Jif came. The only problem came when we found out the surgery center wasn't in our insurance network; they worked with us & are charging what our insurance would, but none of it will go to our deductible. Since we're having a baby soon it would have been nice to knock part of it out but, well, Peter Pan needed to be fixed, so we just did it. (And he came through surgery & 2-3 weeks of recovery with flying colors!)
Now that Jif still hasn't made an appearance I fear that I will once again be induced. I've not known any different since both boys were basically induced. (that's a whole other post!) And I'm thinking having the baby "on your own" is probably a little cheaper than being induced & blah, blah, blah. Well, I'm coming to terms that it will probably happen again & there isn't much else I can do about it, so we'll just have to go with it.
Last fall, we had some water damage in our family room from a downspout that didn't work properly & was going to be one of Farmer's winter projects. Well, there was a little bit too much snow for Farmer to plow & it never got done & honestly, to us, it didn't seem to be getting worse. Until this warm weather at least. Then it started to smell & Farmer paniced knowing that baby Jif is coming soon & he didn't want to take any chances! So we had someone come look at it & after digging in, discovered a whole other set of problems that probably existed before we even moved here! It went from being a "1 piece of drywall & carpet cleaning-Farmer can do it" project to a "knock out drywall, replace rotting wood, replace window(s) & siding, & dig out all flower beds, we need a pro's help" renovation. And to top it off, the guy is here working right now, fixing the wood at ground level (you can see the outside ground THROUGH the wall) & it's raining. More water anyone?
ACK!
But you know, quite honestly, God has granted me peace through the whole evolution of realizing what all this means this week. He's even shown me some silver linings through it all...
-We went through Dave Ramsay's Financial Peace University about a year ago & have been working at getting more out of debt & saving, etc. If we hadn't been this far along in our financial journey....oh I don't even want to think about it! This WILL NOT be smooth sailing for us, AT ALL, but we know what to do & it could have been so much worse!
-As much as I ranted in my last post about going late with baby Jif & how depressed I was about it, knowing what I know now, Jif is better off where she is for a bit longer. Can you imagine having a newborn around all the destruction & dust & whatever else goes on in renovations?
I guess I wrote this post to vent a little, even though I have peace about it all. But I think more than that, I wanted to share with you all that God really does know what he's doing. He cares, He really does. And I'm learning (Again!) that focusing on yourself & having pity parties, doesn't open your eyes to what He wants to show you. It has to be about HIM. Only Him.
Let's start at the beginning....
Earlier this year, we received a letter from Peter Pan's school telling us that he failed the routine hearing tests. We knew he hadn't been hearing well but weren't sure what to do about it but with the letter as a referral to the doctor, we made some appointments. It came to light that Peter Pan's adenoids were very infected & he had temporary hearing loss of 40-45%! The doc tried antibiotics but to no avail, Peter Pan was going to have to have surgery. Goodbye tonsils, goodbye adenoids & hello ear tubes! And it had to be done before Jif came. The only problem came when we found out the surgery center wasn't in our insurance network; they worked with us & are charging what our insurance would, but none of it will go to our deductible. Since we're having a baby soon it would have been nice to knock part of it out but, well, Peter Pan needed to be fixed, so we just did it. (And he came through surgery & 2-3 weeks of recovery with flying colors!)
Now that Jif still hasn't made an appearance I fear that I will once again be induced. I've not known any different since both boys were basically induced. (that's a whole other post!) And I'm thinking having the baby "on your own" is probably a little cheaper than being induced & blah, blah, blah. Well, I'm coming to terms that it will probably happen again & there isn't much else I can do about it, so we'll just have to go with it.
Last fall, we had some water damage in our family room from a downspout that didn't work properly & was going to be one of Farmer's winter projects. Well, there was a little bit too much snow for Farmer to plow & it never got done & honestly, to us, it didn't seem to be getting worse. Until this warm weather at least. Then it started to smell & Farmer paniced knowing that baby Jif is coming soon & he didn't want to take any chances! So we had someone come look at it & after digging in, discovered a whole other set of problems that probably existed before we even moved here! It went from being a "1 piece of drywall & carpet cleaning-Farmer can do it" project to a "knock out drywall, replace rotting wood, replace window(s) & siding, & dig out all flower beds, we need a pro's help" renovation. And to top it off, the guy is here working right now, fixing the wood at ground level (you can see the outside ground THROUGH the wall) & it's raining. More water anyone?
ACK!
But you know, quite honestly, God has granted me peace through the whole evolution of realizing what all this means this week. He's even shown me some silver linings through it all...
-We went through Dave Ramsay's Financial Peace University about a year ago & have been working at getting more out of debt & saving, etc. If we hadn't been this far along in our financial journey....oh I don't even want to think about it! This WILL NOT be smooth sailing for us, AT ALL, but we know what to do & it could have been so much worse!
-As much as I ranted in my last post about going late with baby Jif & how depressed I was about it, knowing what I know now, Jif is better off where she is for a bit longer. Can you imagine having a newborn around all the destruction & dust & whatever else goes on in renovations?
I guess I wrote this post to vent a little, even though I have peace about it all. But I think more than that, I wanted to share with you all that God really does know what he's doing. He cares, He really does. And I'm learning (Again!) that focusing on yourself & having pity parties, doesn't open your eyes to what He wants to show you. It has to be about HIM. Only Him.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Just so you know I'm still alive...
It's been over a month again, sheesh, I just can't get it together! For most of March I was getting all the little things ready for baby Jif & a few other projects around the house. I've been painting, sewing, & cleaning baby things mostly. I have pictures to share of what I've been up to but have not the patience to upload them.
The last couple of weeks have been hard, physically & emotionally. Some days I can barely walk because of some pain or another, some days I can't take the waiting any longer & some days are both...today is definitely one of those! Tomorrow is my due date...once again I will see it come and go. Peter Pan & Skippy were late so I shouldn't be surprised but this time around, I was pregnant with a host of other ladies & ALL of them had their babies at least 1 week early. So I suppose I was hoping it would happen to me too but no such luck. I'm having a hard time not drowning myself in my own little pity party, but when you can barely function well enough to get daily tasks done, well...
I don't suppose you'll hear from me until baby Jif is here. Maybe by then I will feel up to sharing all the pictures of my projects & the ones I will be taking of Jif. Until then, I hope you enjoy the spring weather we've been blessed with!
The last couple of weeks have been hard, physically & emotionally. Some days I can barely walk because of some pain or another, some days I can't take the waiting any longer & some days are both...today is definitely one of those! Tomorrow is my due date...once again I will see it come and go. Peter Pan & Skippy were late so I shouldn't be surprised but this time around, I was pregnant with a host of other ladies & ALL of them had their babies at least 1 week early. So I suppose I was hoping it would happen to me too but no such luck. I'm having a hard time not drowning myself in my own little pity party, but when you can barely function well enough to get daily tasks done, well...
I don't suppose you'll hear from me until baby Jif is here. Maybe by then I will feel up to sharing all the pictures of my projects & the ones I will be taking of Jif. Until then, I hope you enjoy the spring weather we've been blessed with!
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