Two Months (a month late)

Audrey is 2 months now and she's really getting a personality!  We're not on any sort of schedule yet but we're working on it, hopefully in the next few weeks.  She's starting to smile on purpose so we can't wait for that!  Our chubby monkey was in the 80% for weight and 90% for height at her 10 week appointment, so she's doing really well!  No wonder she's eating 5oz at a time...

We're so excited about her first Halloween, she was a pea in a pod and we were farmers!  It was fun to take her out and collect some candy for ourselves!  She's loving the activity mat and starting to really focus on and hit the toys, it's so fun to watch her grow!

First Family Vacation!

We decided to head up to Newport RI for a few days since she is being such a good baby!  The weather was great while we were there, chilly and perfect for eating lots of clam chowder!  I consumed mass amounts of dairy while there LOL.  We toured 2 of the mansions, one was the Vanderbilts and it was AMAZING!  Crazy crazy house and property.  I don't think you could build a house like that anywhere today much less right on the water.  Then we did the cliff walk which was fun until about 10 mins before we were back at the car, Audrey decided she was over the ergo and screamed all the way back.  We walked veryyyy fast!  We definitely couldn't have done this trip without the ergo, I'm so glad we got it as a gift, its so comfortable and easy to use. 

Audrey also got her first pool swim!  She's such a serious baby you can't tell if she likes it or not but she didn't hate it!  She did however pee on me right before we got in lol.  It was lots of fun and I want to go back when she's older so she can enjoy it too.  She basically slept through Newport lol.

Apple Picking!

Going to pick apples or pumpkins with our baby is something I've been dying to do for about 3 years now and I finally got to do it!  We went to my in laws last weekend for our annual Crab Fest and stayed over to go to a farm near them on Sunday.  It would have been sooo much fun had it not been 80 freaking degrees while trying to drink cider and pick apples!  I wore Audrey in my Ergo which was great although I think we were both sweating by the time we were done lol.  I bought the cutest pumpkin hat last week for her to wear on our "fall" trip.  She only wore it for pictures because it was so hot.  She looked adorable though!

She's not as slouched as she looks I promise!

And today was our 6w pediatrician appointment and he said she's doing great!  10lbs 4 oz, 22 1/4 inches and her head is 15 inches.  So she's 90% for height, 80% for weight and 60% for head. I can't believe she weighs so much!!

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One Month!

Hard to believe but it's been one month since Audrey was born.  I know they say time flies but it really does.  It's funny because when we go places people always say how small and new she is, but to me she's so much bigger!  She's still a really content happy baby, only cries when she's hungry - and she screams then!!  She is definitely an eater!  She's up to 5oz at a time now, every 4 to 5 hours.  We haven't been back to the pedi for a weigh in but I think she has to be at least 9 lbs if not 10 by now.  She's becoming more active and alert too especially in the morning.  Not so much in the afternoon, she loves to sleep then especially when we're out.

This months likes: activity mat, either on her back or during tummy time, eating, being held, bath time (that's a recent development)   - all typical newborn stuff!!

This months dislikes: not being fed immediately upon waking up!

We're doing cloth diapers all day except for at night we go through 2 disposables.  Sleep is more important right now and she'll stay asleep for about 4 hours as long as she doesn't feel wet.  So far so good, I'm still loving it and Chris likes it.  Except prefolds - those he doesn't like.  I actually find them really easy now but we'll switch to the AIOs once she fits into them.  I think she's close to fitting in the BG smalls.  Ok, here's a picture overload!

"Sleep when the baby sleeps"

I keep hearing this but the problem is if I sleep when she does, who's washing the bottles and cleaning up and prepping formula???

This phrase is going to the same list as "Relax, then you'll get pregnant" LOL

She's here!

Overall I had a great delivery even during a hurricane!  So last weekend on Aug 25th, the news was going bananas about Hurricane Irene that was supposed to be a category 2 storm hitting directly in Cape May County (our county) and heading up the East Coast.  The Governor declared a state of emergency starting Friday and the town where our store is located decided the boardwalk was essentially closing and no one would be allowed to open Fri, Sat or Sun!  This was so crazy and absolutely unheard of, that Chris was freaking out.

Not only did he have to prep the stores for a storm and hope the power didn't go out so we didn't lose all our food, we were losing an entire weekend of business out of only the 10 good weekends we do have in a season.  Plus I'm overdue and 3cm dilated.

He wanted to evacuate to PA where his parents live since our entire county was under mandatory evacuation but I realllly didn't want to do that.  Our compromise was that we would stay at our house until Sat noon time then head to our friends who weren't being evacuated and live near the hospital and then go to the hospital and LIE about being in labor so we could be at the hospital during the height of the storm.  I wasn't super into this plan but I wasn't leaving the state so that was our deal.

So around 6pm Sat we go to hospital and say I'm having contractions, which I am, they just weren't regular yet.  Some were about 8mins apart though but not painful yet.  It happened to be my doctor who was on duty which worked out really well.  So they set me up for monitoring, check to see about my water (which hadn't broken yet) which all took a little while.  At this point, the storm is crazy outside, lots of wind and rain but no flooding yet which was now the major concern.  So the doctor says that normally he would send me home but due to the storm I could twist his arm to get induced then instead of Tues which I was scheduled for.  We ended up saying yes because there was no way Chris was leaving at this point! lol

So they admitted me, got my hooked up to an iv and started pitocin!  This was around 9pm I think.  Somewhere between 8 and 9.  I was doing really well pain wise for a while, until about 11pm or 12 then I called to get the epi since I knew it could take up to an hour for the anesthesiologist to get there.  By the time they got the epi in I was up to about a 9 pain level but they checked me and I was also at 7cm!  As soon as I got the epi though my heart rate and Audrey's went really low so I had to wear an oxygen mask and switch positions until they went back up.  Which didn't happen right away so I got something in my iv to raise them back up and they turned the pit down at the same time.  At this point both Chris and my mom were still outside the room, since getting the epi is a sterile procedure they had to step out.  But they thought it was only going to be about 15 mins not 45, I'm sure they were freaking out!  But our heartrates eventually stabilized and the pit was turned back up but I was stuck with oxygen :(


I rested for a little while then they came back to check me again around 2:15am and I was at 10cm and ready to push!  I was super surprised to hear that since it had only been about an hour since the epi was in and I was stabilized.  Of course as soon as he said I could push there was a 7 min spacing between contractions!  She was at 0 station so they wanted my to try and push her to -1 station and see how good of a pusher I was.  On the first push they could see the top of her head!  Apparently I was an excellent pusher!  At least that's what they told me.  7 pushes later at 2:57am she was born!!!  It was seriously amazing even though super blurry in my head.

My doctor and the nurses were amazing and I only tore a little and had no stitches.  Overall I couldn't have asked for a better labor and delivery even though it started as a lie to get admitted :)