Perhaps baby number 2 updates will make me a more reliable blogger....time will tell. Anyway, at the moment I have very sleepy baby in her swing so figured I would draft a couple of posts.
Being that all of our family is 7+ hours away the whole idea of going into labor at 2 am on a Tuesday started to freak me out on a daily basis around 6 months pregnant. One of Rece's preschool teachers lives in State College and agreed to be our backup person whom we could call and would take care of Rece until family could get here from Michigan. I also worked with my doctor with planned induction date at or around 39 weeks if I was already progressing enough on my own. There are 9 doctors in my OB practice so not only did the induction allow us to plan for family to be here with Rece it also allowed me to have my own doctor that I know deliver Ava just like she did Rece.
So at my 38 week visit my doctor checked my progress and I was 2-3 cm and 50-70% effaced. At that point she scheduled me for the following Thursday to be induced. So we checked in to the hospital at 7:30am on Thursday June 7th. After about 90 minutes of check in, admin, paperwork stuff they gave me Cytotec to start contractions - we walked and waited - I really wasn't feeling much in terms of contractions even though I was having them. About 4 hours later they checked me again and I was 4cm and 80% effaced. At that point they decided to break my water around 1:30pm. Now when they broke my water with Rece he was born less than 2 hours later - of course with him I had already been in labor 21 hours at that point. After they broke my water the contractions started coming every 2-3 minutes and became instantly intense. At 2:30 I decided it was time for my epidural. I am a big fan of epidurals. Huge fan. This time the epidural man did a much better job and both sides were pretty numb. At about 5:10 pm the doctor checked my progress, I was feeling good, feeling some of the contractions but overall not feeling much.... she had already told me if I wasn't progressing more on my own they would put my on pitocin. (booooooo) But I was at an 8 and completely effaced so I escaped the pitocin. (yay!). On the very next contraction after she checked me I thought the baby might shoot out....Holy lord. One minute after that on the next contraction I was asking Jeremy to "push the button!!" so he thought I meant for the epidural, but I meant the nurse button because I was sure I was dying. The nurse came back in and called for the doctor. Long story short. I pushed through two contractions for about 3 minutes total and Ava was born at 5:23 pm. Did I mention I am a big fan of epidurals? Yeah. She was 7lbs 3oz and 20 inches long. And she looks just like Rece did when he was born...
Then came the interesting part....All was well, Ava was all cute and nursing right away and I was having a granola bar because I was starving after not eating all day. And the nurses were doing there thing where they press on your belly to make sure your Uterus is cooperating and hardening up or whatever it is supposed to be doing. Problem was everytime they pressed on me I was losing a ton of blood. This went on and on to the point where I was sure my stomach was not going to survive any more "pressing". I knew I was in trouble when the nurse told me she had called the doctor back in and told me that I couldn't eat anything else because I might need to go to the OR. Grrrreat...... I will spare some of the less than pleasant details but basically they stopped doing CPR on my uterus and the Doctor came back, did an inspection which was completely awful, and decided it was something internal that was causing me to continue bleeding. At that point I had lost 1200 cc's of blood so they weren't messing around. So I got prepped for surgery. Thankfully, the anestigioligist decided to do a spinal rather than the general anestesia. The prepping for the procdure was no joke, everyone was flying around like I was dying, eventually they wheeled me down to the OB OR and I got my spinal, still half numb from my epidural and they did a D&C. If you don't know what a D&C is - google it. They found a rouge piece of tissue that was causing my body to panic and my uterus not to contract properly, removing it fixed the problem. By this point I was basically as white as a ghost and weaker than weak.
While I was in the hospital they measured my blood levels several times to make sure I could go home safely. Thankfully my blood levels were high when I came in - 12.1 because after the whole ordeal I left the hospital at 7.4 - which was low, but not as bad as it could have been. So glad I spent my pregnancy eating iron rich foods! I have to take iron supplements now for a few weeks to try to get back to normal.
I am feeling pretty good overall. Tired. But I would be tired anyway. I have a newborn. I am also feeling so much better mentally than I did with Rece. It helps so much that Jeremy and I are both home this time around. I hope to give lots of Ava updates via the blog. Here's to more sleepy afternoons in the swing....
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
My baby is 3...
Wow. Rece is 3!
I can't believe my little man is 3 years old. He is the light of my life. He is such a smart little guy - what I love most about him is how great he communicates - we can have complete conversations and we really have been able to for a while. And yet there are still a few words that he says in a cutesy baby way like: "grill" for girl, "coughcloth" for washcloth, and "aminal" for animal. I don't correct him because secretly I don't want him to say these last few words right just yet. He talks like a the born and raised Pennsylvanian that he is - he pronounces his "O"s like "A"s - cracks us up.
He is such lover. Hugs and kisses and "I love you's" that he closes his eyes for when he hugs you - showing real little people emotion and not just saying words. He likes "family hugs".
He is getting to the "don't help me, I can do it myself" phase. I have to remind myself that this phase means things are going to take longer and I am learning patience.
He loves trucks, trains and dinosaurs.
He is getting closer to being potty trained - please let him be potty trained by May....
He already loves his baby sister to be - Ava. He kisses my belly and talks about her says "My baby is going to be so cute!" I can't wait until he becomes a big brother, he is going to be great at it.
He loves his new preschool room and is doing fantastic. Although he often informs me that "Writing R's is hard"
I have to admit I am trying not to think about what it will be like to add a baby into the mix. I feel like we have just gotten to the point with Rece where we things have calmed down, we are in the grove with this parenting thing....an then there were two....
I can't believe my little man is 3 years old. He is the light of my life. He is such a smart little guy - what I love most about him is how great he communicates - we can have complete conversations and we really have been able to for a while. And yet there are still a few words that he says in a cutesy baby way like: "grill" for girl, "coughcloth" for washcloth, and "aminal" for animal. I don't correct him because secretly I don't want him to say these last few words right just yet. He talks like a the born and raised Pennsylvanian that he is - he pronounces his "O"s like "A"s - cracks us up.
He is such lover. Hugs and kisses and "I love you's" that he closes his eyes for when he hugs you - showing real little people emotion and not just saying words. He likes "family hugs".
He is getting to the "don't help me, I can do it myself" phase. I have to remind myself that this phase means things are going to take longer and I am learning patience.
He loves trucks, trains and dinosaurs.
He is getting closer to being potty trained - please let him be potty trained by May....
He already loves his baby sister to be - Ava. He kisses my belly and talks about her says "My baby is going to be so cute!" I can't wait until he becomes a big brother, he is going to be great at it.
He loves his new preschool room and is doing fantastic. Although he often informs me that "Writing R's is hard"
I have to admit I am trying not to think about what it will be like to add a baby into the mix. I feel like we have just gotten to the point with Rece where we things have calmed down, we are in the grove with this parenting thing....an then there were two....
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Deep Thoughts - 3 - first baby one liners
So we told Rece he was going to be a Big Brother in FL about 2 minutes before we told our parents. He talks constantly so we knew he would spill the beans if he knew sooner. So we had him color some pictures for the Grandma's and inside of the envelopes was a picture of my 9 week ultrasound.
We told him about the baby and he basically said "No that's not a good idea" - Great start... lol.
But once we gave him some work to do - ie telling all the Grandparents he was going to be a Big Brother, he got into it and played the role well. And then over the Thanksgiving weekend came the first of the one liners from him about the baby:
"Mom, how'd that baby get in your belly - you eat it?"
"When that baby pops out!" While he flings his hands in the air.
"When the baby comes I can't wear diapers anymore" - I love this idea and he was not prompted...
We told him about the baby and he basically said "No that's not a good idea" - Great start... lol.
But once we gave him some work to do - ie telling all the Grandparents he was going to be a Big Brother, he got into it and played the role well. And then over the Thanksgiving weekend came the first of the one liners from him about the baby:
"Mom, how'd that baby get in your belly - you eat it?"
"When that baby pops out!" While he flings his hands in the air.
"When the baby comes I can't wear diapers anymore" - I love this idea and he was not prompted...
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Pregnancy - Ver. 2
If you are reading this post it is after Thanksgiving when we have told our families that we are expecting little Relli #2!
I have been wanting to keep kind of a running log of my second pregnancy to post after we announce it, but I have been so icky feeling and at the same time been so busy with travel from work that I have had no ambition. So anyway, it is November 13th and I am finally starting to feel at least a little better and so I will now try to recall what has happened the last couple of months.
We planned on trying for a summer baby this time as the first time around Rece was born at the beginning of baseball season and it made for a struggle throughout my maternity leave. I would really like to have a different experience this time around, with Jeremy being off all summer, I am hoping we get just that. My due date is June 15th, which is Jeremy's b-day! Although I don't put too much weight on that considering Rece came 3 weeks ahead of his due date.
So here I am - going on 10 weeks pregnant, here is what it has been like thus far:
Not the best.
That's right, I said it - I haven't enjoyed the first part of this pregnancy. I know that I will, and I feel bad saying it even, I loved my 2nd and 3rd trimesters with Rece, however this first trimester has been challenging for me.
I took my home pregnancy test on Wed October 5th, about 4 days ahead of when I should have been taking it. Although I knew I was pregnant the day before I took it, as I drank a frappe at lunch and about hurled it all over my desk. I also knew...this means trouble.... to be nauseous so early.
So as expected my test came back positive. Since I was taking it a few days earlier than planned (apparently they do work "5 days sooner") when I showed it to Jeremy before work that Wed morning he just said "Huh". Later I discovered that he didn't really believe me...or more clearly, he believed me but thought it might not be true because it was so early. So I took a couple more tests closer to the weekend - and I think it sunk in for both of us.
From the very beginning I was nauseous. It started where I was just nauseated during the day usually the worst between 10am - 3pm. Then week 5 came and I was nauseous 24/7. I woke up in the night nauseous. Riding in the car to work in the morning was absolutely miserable. I wasn't physically getting sick, I just felt like I was going to all day every day. This went on pretty constantly from weeks 5-9. I feel like it has gotten a little more manageable, I still have plenty of times where I feel like butt, but I also have times where I feel "okay" I wouldn't say I feel normal by any means. For one thing, I have to eat - all the time- or else I feel so sick I want to lie on the floor in the fetal position. It's like as soon as I get hungry the nausea intensifies so much that I can't possibly think about eating...which makes the sickness worse. So I have spent the weeks trying to stay ahead of this, and also not gain 20 pounds. I am so sick of eating. It's like I have to force myself to eat so I am not so sick. And of course, do all of the healthy foods I should be eating sound good??.... NO of course they don't. I also have a ton of food aversions this time around. I can't even fathom eating certain things right now. But again, I feel like that is starting to ease up just a bit.
Weird things I have experienced this pregnancy:
I have to eat an apple cinnamon nutri grain bar before getting out of bed.
I want to hurl if I try to drink anything other than water. Which is annoying since the best Starbucks holiday drinks are out.
I love bananas
I love bread and all things with bread on them
I want to hurl if I chew gum
I am forgetting everything, like my wallet on my desk after I have ordered food at the drive thru.
Laying on my sides at night makes me way more sick than laying on my back
Where am I now? Well my pants are getting tight already. Big shock since all I do is eat. We had our dating ultrasound on Friday the 11th and I measured only a couple of days ahead of my LMP due date. Interestingly this ultrasound was almost 2 weeks later than Rece's dating ultrasound and we could see little nub arms and legs this time around which was cute.
I am looking forward to feeling better and of course to having another baby in our family!
I have been wanting to keep kind of a running log of my second pregnancy to post after we announce it, but I have been so icky feeling and at the same time been so busy with travel from work that I have had no ambition. So anyway, it is November 13th and I am finally starting to feel at least a little better and so I will now try to recall what has happened the last couple of months.
We planned on trying for a summer baby this time as the first time around Rece was born at the beginning of baseball season and it made for a struggle throughout my maternity leave. I would really like to have a different experience this time around, with Jeremy being off all summer, I am hoping we get just that. My due date is June 15th, which is Jeremy's b-day! Although I don't put too much weight on that considering Rece came 3 weeks ahead of his due date.
So here I am - going on 10 weeks pregnant, here is what it has been like thus far:
Not the best.
That's right, I said it - I haven't enjoyed the first part of this pregnancy. I know that I will, and I feel bad saying it even, I loved my 2nd and 3rd trimesters with Rece, however this first trimester has been challenging for me.
I took my home pregnancy test on Wed October 5th, about 4 days ahead of when I should have been taking it. Although I knew I was pregnant the day before I took it, as I drank a frappe at lunch and about hurled it all over my desk. I also knew...this means trouble.... to be nauseous so early.
So as expected my test came back positive. Since I was taking it a few days earlier than planned (apparently they do work "5 days sooner") when I showed it to Jeremy before work that Wed morning he just said "Huh". Later I discovered that he didn't really believe me...or more clearly, he believed me but thought it might not be true because it was so early. So I took a couple more tests closer to the weekend - and I think it sunk in for both of us.
From the very beginning I was nauseous. It started where I was just nauseated during the day usually the worst between 10am - 3pm. Then week 5 came and I was nauseous 24/7. I woke up in the night nauseous. Riding in the car to work in the morning was absolutely miserable. I wasn't physically getting sick, I just felt like I was going to all day every day. This went on pretty constantly from weeks 5-9. I feel like it has gotten a little more manageable, I still have plenty of times where I feel like butt, but I also have times where I feel "okay" I wouldn't say I feel normal by any means. For one thing, I have to eat - all the time- or else I feel so sick I want to lie on the floor in the fetal position. It's like as soon as I get hungry the nausea intensifies so much that I can't possibly think about eating...which makes the sickness worse. So I have spent the weeks trying to stay ahead of this, and also not gain 20 pounds. I am so sick of eating. It's like I have to force myself to eat so I am not so sick. And of course, do all of the healthy foods I should be eating sound good??.... NO of course they don't. I also have a ton of food aversions this time around. I can't even fathom eating certain things right now. But again, I feel like that is starting to ease up just a bit.
Weird things I have experienced this pregnancy:
I have to eat an apple cinnamon nutri grain bar before getting out of bed.
I want to hurl if I try to drink anything other than water. Which is annoying since the best Starbucks holiday drinks are out.
I love bananas
I love bread and all things with bread on them
I want to hurl if I chew gum
I am forgetting everything, like my wallet on my desk after I have ordered food at the drive thru.
Laying on my sides at night makes me way more sick than laying on my back
Where am I now? Well my pants are getting tight already. Big shock since all I do is eat. We had our dating ultrasound on Friday the 11th and I measured only a couple of days ahead of my LMP due date. Interestingly this ultrasound was almost 2 weeks later than Rece's dating ultrasound and we could see little nub arms and legs this time around which was cute.
I am looking forward to feeling better and of course to having another baby in our family!
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Rece - 30 months and then some
Can't believe that we will have a 3 year old in about 4 months....
Rece had a great summer, he turned two and a half and we celebrated with a big cup of fro-yo for his "half birthday" - he kept saying "but it's not my real birthday". True enough, mommy wanted fro-yo.
Things he loves right now:
- Baseball
- Football
-Michigan Marching Band - he plays a pretend tuba and marches around the living room to the tune of the Michigan fight song playing on the fridge magnet we have.
-Reading books, loves the Llama Llama books
-School - riding the tricycle, playing football with his pal Nick and being the boss of the toddler room since he is now the oldest one left. He will move to the pre-school room at 3.
-Shrek & Nemo
-Tractors
-Hot Wheels and all things with wheels
He is still a constant chatterbox and I love that we can have a conversation on the way home from school. He is getting into pretend a lot more now and has quite the imagination.
We are blessed that Rece is pretty even tempered. He does of course have his times of whining and has a mini-fit every once and a while but thus far we have avoided a lot of drama. He is very well behaved when we go out to eat or shopping, I think this is because since he was born I hauled him in and out of stores every weekend while we killed time while daddy was studying at home. So he is used to, and likes going to Target and Wegmans and the mall. Score.
Rece had a great summer, he turned two and a half and we celebrated with a big cup of fro-yo for his "half birthday" - he kept saying "but it's not my real birthday". True enough, mommy wanted fro-yo.
Things he loves right now:
- Baseball
- Football
-Michigan Marching Band - he plays a pretend tuba and marches around the living room to the tune of the Michigan fight song playing on the fridge magnet we have.
-Reading books, loves the Llama Llama books
-School - riding the tricycle, playing football with his pal Nick and being the boss of the toddler room since he is now the oldest one left. He will move to the pre-school room at 3.
-Shrek & Nemo
-Tractors
-Hot Wheels and all things with wheels
He is still a constant chatterbox and I love that we can have a conversation on the way home from school. He is getting into pretend a lot more now and has quite the imagination.
We are blessed that Rece is pretty even tempered. He does of course have his times of whining and has a mini-fit every once and a while but thus far we have avoided a lot of drama. He is very well behaved when we go out to eat or shopping, I think this is because since he was born I hauled him in and out of stores every weekend while we killed time while daddy was studying at home. So he is used to, and likes going to Target and Wegmans and the mall. Score.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Deep Thoughts - 2
Rece from the back seat of the car talking to us in the front : "Daddy do you remember when we saw that crash and the sirens"
I reply "Yes, I remember that"
Rece - giving me the 'You have to be kidding me mom" look - "I was asking Daddy"
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While watching a DVD on the computer so daddy can watch the Tigers on TV:
Jeremy - "Rece get back from the TV, Rece - get back..."
Rece - "Daddy, this is the laptop." He walks around the corner and points "THAT is the TV"
Gotta love the toddler who thinks he is smarter than his parents at 2 and a half.
I reply "Yes, I remember that"
Rece - giving me the 'You have to be kidding me mom" look - "I was asking Daddy"
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While watching a DVD on the computer so daddy can watch the Tigers on TV:
Jeremy - "Rece get back from the TV, Rece - get back..."
Rece - "Daddy, this is the laptop." He walks around the corner and points "THAT is the TV"
Gotta love the toddler who thinks he is smarter than his parents at 2 and a half.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
I'm Blig-Blogity Back!
I cannot believe how much of a giant slacker I have been on the blog. I need and want to get back into the grove....starting....now.
Well lets see, the last time I posted was in the spring, so I missed an entire season of the year in blogging. I think if I try and commit to actually writing posts on all of the things that we did this summer - it won't really happen and I will be defeated before I start - so instead here are some of the biggest things that come to mind - bullet style. Perhaps I will even write a post or two on a couple of them at some point.
Summer 2011 - In no particular order...
-Jeremy took two Masters classes during his summer break, both were demanding and drained a lot of our fun time this summer :-(
-BUT we did manage to take a vacation to Michigan around the end of June and 4th of July, where we got to see a few of our fave Michigan Buds that we miss so much!
-We went to HAWAII. Maui to be exact. My little brother got married to this totally awesome chick named Taylor ;-) It was the most beautiful wedding I have ever been to. Even with this really weird emotional lady who did a reading at the ceremony and barely held it together.
-Rece spend the week we were in Maui with Gma and Gpa Rellinger. He had the time of his life! He fished, swam, boated, played in the yard, skipped rocks etc etc.
-Rece turned 2 1/2! (promise separate post on this)
-I got a new camera
-We booked tickets to Disney World for Thanksgiving of this year!
-We painted our bedroom and a accent wall in our living room.
-Jeremy turned 34
-We got a water softener and a new dishwasher and it is amazing to see what clean dishes can really look like.
- Rece completely fell off the potty training wagon...boys will be boys
-We had new windows installed and they make the house look so different.
-We went to Michigan again a couple of weeks ago to celebrate Clint and Taylor again at their "back home" reception - Rece got the stomach flu while we were there, but Thanks to Gma and Gpa R we were still able to go and have a great time.
Well lets see, the last time I posted was in the spring, so I missed an entire season of the year in blogging. I think if I try and commit to actually writing posts on all of the things that we did this summer - it won't really happen and I will be defeated before I start - so instead here are some of the biggest things that come to mind - bullet style. Perhaps I will even write a post or two on a couple of them at some point.
Summer 2011 - In no particular order...
-Jeremy took two Masters classes during his summer break, both were demanding and drained a lot of our fun time this summer :-(
-BUT we did manage to take a vacation to Michigan around the end of June and 4th of July, where we got to see a few of our fave Michigan Buds that we miss so much!
-We went to HAWAII. Maui to be exact. My little brother got married to this totally awesome chick named Taylor ;-) It was the most beautiful wedding I have ever been to. Even with this really weird emotional lady who did a reading at the ceremony and barely held it together.
-Rece spend the week we were in Maui with Gma and Gpa Rellinger. He had the time of his life! He fished, swam, boated, played in the yard, skipped rocks etc etc.
-Rece turned 2 1/2! (promise separate post on this)
-I got a new camera
-We booked tickets to Disney World for Thanksgiving of this year!
-We painted our bedroom and a accent wall in our living room.
-Jeremy turned 34
-We got a water softener and a new dishwasher and it is amazing to see what clean dishes can really look like.
- Rece completely fell off the potty training wagon...boys will be boys
-We had new windows installed and they make the house look so different.
-We went to Michigan again a couple of weeks ago to celebrate Clint and Taylor again at their "back home" reception - Rece got the stomach flu while we were there, but Thanks to Gma and Gpa R we were still able to go and have a great time.
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