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Monday, 24 November 2008
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Baby is here...
So now I am mostly on facebook but I thought I would let anyone who might stumble by this site know that my little Annabel Rose was born on her Due date! She was 8lbs 4oz and 22in long. It was a 5 1/2 hour labor with about 4 1/2 hours of us not really sure that it was "it". But when my water broke we were sure that it was the real thing, then with contractions being right on top of each other we knew that it was time to scoot to the hospital. Sure enough when we got there she was born 8 minutes after we got into the hospital room. We totally freaked all the nurses out because there was no Doctor in the room to deliver the baby. Oh well, she is healthy and safe and I have been doing great except for the fact that all of my joints still hurt! She is a beautiful baby and we are SOOO blessed to have her!
Thursday, 23 October 2008
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Fustrations and beyond
So I did end up getting checked last dr appt. I was almost 2cm dilated. Good news for me cause I know that my body is doing all these BH contractions for something!
So on to my frustrations... I am super upset with my Dr. We have done the natural method of childbirth for both our children and when I first started going to her for my pregnancy I was very clear that I wanted a compleatly natural childbirth and she seemed to be fine with that. Now that we are getting closer I have been just asking her questions to clairify where she stands on certain issues to make sure we are on the same page (something I should have done a WHILE ago!) and I find out that she routiunly gives a drug called pitocin to each of her patients after the birth. No matter what. I am beyond upset about this expecially since I am 37 weeks today and I am not sure that I am going to be able to find another dr. here anytime soon that would be willing to take me at this point. I don't have a problem if I was bleeding excessivly or was having problems but I am not willing to be just another patient that gets drugs because the dr is too busy or lazy to take the extra time to see if I am going to be fine all on my own. (Which I was with both of my other deliverys and I have no reason to believe that I wouldn't be with this one as well.)
Thursday, 16 October 2008
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36 Weeks and counting down....
So now we are 36 weeks. I am SOOO waiting to be done with this pregnancy. I know that it will probably be our last so I am *trying* to "enjoy" it, but there is only so much you can ask of a nine month pregnant woman
I get my 36 week check up tomorrow and I am still up in the air about them checking me... Part of me is thinking that something has better have happened so far because I have been having wicked braxton hicks contractions, but the other part of me is afraid that nothing has happened yet and I am going to be very depressed about it!
On other news my Grandfather passed away last monday, it has been a bit hard because we weren't able to go to the funeral because I am so far along. (They live 13 hours away) He was 90 and has been bouncing back from major illnesses for almost 20 years now, but this time it was just too much for him and he was ready to go home. My grandma is going to be lost without him. They had been married for 67 years...
Joshua is working on potty training... it has been interesting. and that is about all I am going to say on that
I'm finally going to get maternity pictures taken this time around. It's funny because I have probably gained the most weight with this one (I haven't kept track though, I really don't want to know so I haven't looked at a scale for about 3 months now!) but it has been really important to Will that I get these done so we have some sort of idea what I looked like when I was pregnant. (We don't have good shots from Ben and Joshua)
Anyway we should get back to doing school so we aren't working on it all day!
more updates later hopefully!
~CarrieAnn
Thursday, 02 October 2008
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Once again this has been WAYYY too long since I have updated this thing... Things are going well, I am 34 weeks pregnant today. So only 6 more weeks to go! We cheated this time and found out what we are having. I am super glad that we did though because we found out that it is going to be a girl! I am in such shock over it sometimes still. Honestly I cried most of the day when we found out and it has been super fun ever since. We have painted her room really cute and now it is pretty much set up. I have a few more things to do in there but it is going to look really nice. I have also had a chance to actually buy some cool baby girl clothes so that has been nice as well. (Mostly from garage sales!) Lets see, what else is going on..? I am homeschooling Ben for Kindergarten. That has been good so far, it will be a little more work when baby is born but we have both really been having a fun time with it so that has been good.
Well I really need to run out the door. We have a dentist appt today and are going to try and hit up some garage sales on the way over too! (Our season is running short for them and I want to get in what I can
I'll try and remember to post baby pics when she gets here!
~CarrieAnn
Monday, 12 May 2008
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Musings...
I am FINALLY feeling pretty good! It's amazing really... I was so sick with both the boys it feels weird to be feeling ok before I hit 20 weeks. Don't get me wrong though, I am SOOOO Grateful! I am still on Zofran, 1/2 a pill 2x's a day but in a while I'll probably try going off of it. I still have to be careful though, the evenings are the hardest, sometimes I still go to bed feeling pretty sick.
In other news, I had my first two doctors appointments, they went really well. The first one they did an ultrasound to check on the due date. It was what we thought it was. The second appt was pretty normal except that they were listening for baby's hearbeat and couldn't find it, so I got ANOTHER ultrasound. Nomrally I'm pretty reserved about getting ultrasounds but I figure this is my last pregnancy and I don't mind seeing the baby as much as possible while he/she is still in me
My appetite is slowing returning although there are still things I can NOT stand to even think about eating! Some of the things I've been eating lately are Crispy Chicken Snackers from McDonalds... (Go figure) Hash browns from IHOP, baked potatoes with LOTS of sour cream, and frozen fruit. Weird I know. Oh well. (which reminds me that I should probably throw some potatoes in the oven for dinner...)
Other than that we are doing good, just gearing up for a busy month ahead of us. Mother's Day was nice, I got a CD, some flowers and two great Cards! Our 7th wedding anniversary comes up next on May 26th, then my birthday on the 31st, then Joshua's birthday on June 5th, Than Will's B-Day on June 7th... No wonder we start freaking out when May/June comes around! Of course the weekend after Will's birthday is Father's Day and we are driving to Detroit. (for reference sake it's about 13 hours from where we live!) My Grandpa is turning 90 and my Gram is throwing him a HUGE family dinner thing and wants EVERYONE in the family to be there. Thankfully I won't be too pregnant then and that will make traveling a little easier but not by much. It's a long exhausting trip without being pregnant!
Hope everyone has a great week this week!
~CarrieAnn
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- Name: CarrieAnn
- Birthday: 5/31/1981
- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 12/2/2003
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Where all we have in the End is hope, it exists. Mother of two wonderful little blond haired boys. For those days when things just can't seem to get any harder.... I can't rely on myself.
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