Well, life with our sweet Amelia is awesome. She is such as good baby! For those who are interested, she only wakes up once or twice a night and pretty much only cries if she is really hungry.
At the beginning of the month, my grandparents drove down from Washington to bless Eva (my sweet niece) and Amelia. My dear friend Debbie made Amelias dress and it is gorgeous. I'll post pictures when I get them. Grandpa and grandma stayed at our house and we had a great time.
For the 4th of July, we went to the Annual Farnsworth Pasture of Fire and had a great time with Joel's family. Good food, good company and great entertainment. I think everyone will agree, the most entertaining was Joel's cousin running around in an American Flag speedo with a water gun. Amelia slept through the fireworks and everyone got their baby fix.
Joel started remodeling the bathroom last weekend and it has become more of project than we had originally hoped. The sub floor was rotted out, the plumbing and electrical were both a mess and it has become quite a stressor. Hopefully, we can get everything done soon. I'm excited to get all of my bathroom stuff out of the girls room when it is all done. I am grateful I haven't had to go without a toilet at all and I was only without a shower for two days.......He'll get it done.
This weekend, my mother in law came to visit from Cali. She stayed with us last night and said having our bathroom the way it is ," is like camping!" I happen to agree. She took us to dinner last night and watched the opening ceremonies with us. Because Joel had drill today, she hung out and got her share of grand baby time. We went to visit Grammie in the nursing home and had a Swenson family get together that was absolutely delightful.
Over the next few days, Joel hopes to finish the bathroom, get the set done for Fiddler on the Roof and has another Military exercise to attend. He's a little stressed but he's awesome. I know he'll make it.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The story of Miss Amelia May Farnsworth
Ok. So, I'm not so good at the blogging thing. With that being said, I'll write a super long post and feel like I'm pretty good at it.
As my due date (June 14th) approached, I continued to get more and more uncomfortable as everyone said I would. I started having contractions on the 13th. I ended up in Labor and Delivery on the monitors, alas, while I was having contractions, they weren't strong enough to keep me. Talk about disappointment! My due date came and went. I continued to have contractions fairly continuously but nothing that I couldn't deal with. Saturday, they intensified and after many hours of timing contractions and being in pain, Joel and I headed to Labor and Delivery. Again, they sent me home. Man, I was not happy!
I woke up on Wednesday, June 20th at 0400 in the morning with much stronger contractions. Finally! I spent the entire day timing them and waiting until they were 3-4 minutes apart before heading to the hospital. We called my best friend Kelsey to come with with JJ and Ana and off we went! This was about 3:30 in the afternoon. I told Joel as we were pulling out of the drive way to not let them send me home this time. (We had our induction scheduled for the next day anyway) Upon arrival at the hospital, my friend Moana was on as a nurse. She gave me a huge hug and got me all set up and checked out. My bag of water had ruptured but not "broken" so they admitted me at about 4:00 pm. Contractions continued to get more painful, the Doc came in and broke my water and started me on Pitocin. Talk about intense! I was dilated to a 4 at this point.
My contractions continued to intensify and they struggled to maintain a good monitoring of her heart beat. The doctor came in an told me that they could do internal monitoring or give me an epidural to help calm her (and me!) down. I opted for the epidural. The lady came in to insert the epidural and struggled to find the space. It took her over 35 minutes to get it placed. I was sitting crosslegged, leaning forward in to Joels chest, getting a needle shoved in my back and having intense contractions. NOT a good combo! She finally got the epidural placed right before I told her to forget it.
They checked me again at this point to see how I was doing. I had dilated to a 7. With the epidural working and what we figured was a long night ahead, Joel and I put a movie on. Within an hour or so I had completely dilated and was ready to push. The problem was, we were waiting for Joels sister to come as she was going to take pictures of the birth for us. The doc said just let him know when she was here and we would start pushing then.
Katie arrived and got everything ready. We got set up and did about ten sets of pushes with the nurse. She got the doctor and on the second set of pushes with him, Miss Amelia May Farnsworth was born. She arrived June 21st at 0031 in the morning. She weighed 7 lbs 2 oz and was 19" long.
As my due date (June 14th) approached, I continued to get more and more uncomfortable as everyone said I would. I started having contractions on the 13th. I ended up in Labor and Delivery on the monitors, alas, while I was having contractions, they weren't strong enough to keep me. Talk about disappointment! My due date came and went. I continued to have contractions fairly continuously but nothing that I couldn't deal with. Saturday, they intensified and after many hours of timing contractions and being in pain, Joel and I headed to Labor and Delivery. Again, they sent me home. Man, I was not happy!
I woke up on Wednesday, June 20th at 0400 in the morning with much stronger contractions. Finally! I spent the entire day timing them and waiting until they were 3-4 minutes apart before heading to the hospital. We called my best friend Kelsey to come with with JJ and Ana and off we went! This was about 3:30 in the afternoon. I told Joel as we were pulling out of the drive way to not let them send me home this time. (We had our induction scheduled for the next day anyway) Upon arrival at the hospital, my friend Moana was on as a nurse. She gave me a huge hug and got me all set up and checked out. My bag of water had ruptured but not "broken" so they admitted me at about 4:00 pm. Contractions continued to get more painful, the Doc came in and broke my water and started me on Pitocin. Talk about intense! I was dilated to a 4 at this point.
My contractions continued to intensify and they struggled to maintain a good monitoring of her heart beat. The doctor came in an told me that they could do internal monitoring or give me an epidural to help calm her (and me!) down. I opted for the epidural. The lady came in to insert the epidural and struggled to find the space. It took her over 35 minutes to get it placed. I was sitting crosslegged, leaning forward in to Joels chest, getting a needle shoved in my back and having intense contractions. NOT a good combo! She finally got the epidural placed right before I told her to forget it.
They checked me again at this point to see how I was doing. I had dilated to a 7. With the epidural working and what we figured was a long night ahead, Joel and I put a movie on. Within an hour or so I had completely dilated and was ready to push. The problem was, we were waiting for Joels sister to come as she was going to take pictures of the birth for us. The doc said just let him know when she was here and we would start pushing then.
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