Adelaide Rose is Here!

She is finally here! I will be writing about her birth story soon when I have more time. She currently wants to feed every hour so needless to say I am staying busy and tierd.

I ended up going into labor on my own on Monday the 20th around 4pm. I ended up having her Tue the 21st at 1:29pm. She lost a lot of weight while in the hospital because we couldnt get her to eat until she was close to 48 hours old. She was down 1lb and had a touch of jaundice when we took her to see the Dr on Fri.

But when we went to weigh her at the Dr this morning she was up 10oz and jaundice was gone. Thank you Lord! So the non stop feedings and No sleep weekend paid off.

This picture of her was done when she was 1 day old by the hospital photographer. We were very happy with it. So here she is Adelaide Rose 7lbs 11oz 20 1/4th inches.

She is such a joy to be around.

Over due and impatient

Well I'm still pregnant and waiting for little Addie to decide to show up. It's been a very long week. The more time I have on my hands the less I want to do. So I'm not good at keeping myself busy.

She has to be running out of room in there because last week I woke up to a sharp pain in my chest. I went to the chiropractor thinking maybe I pulled something but he discovered that she had dislocated one of my ribs. Lovely!

He worked on me for about 20min and then asked me to take a deep breath in. It was worse. So he tried something else. Thank the Lord it worked and the pain was gone.

My Dr was shocked to see me this week for my 40 week appt. She was sure I would go into labor last week. Oh well she was wrong. I told her about my rib and she just laughed. I asked her how much she thought Adelaide weighed. She felt around my stomach and said "Oh about 8lbs". Ok I know babies gain a half a pound a week in the last month so of course I was thinking about if I make it to my induction date that's another half a pound. Oh goodness. At least I know she is going to have some healthy meat on her bones.

I tried almost all the natural methods for inducing labor in the past week. Obviously none of which have worked.

I ate Eggplant Parm like 4 days in a row. I have walked for 45 min at a time most days this week, ate spicy food and a few other things I'll spare you the details of.

I really hope to go into labor on my own but if not I will be induced next Wed the 22nd. So I know at the most I have only 5 more days to go. I will try and keep this blog up to date as the next few days roll on. Keep us in your prayers.

Busy Holiday Weekend

It's been a very busy weekend. On Friday my mom came over to help finish up cleaning and decorating the house. I don't know what I would have done without my mom these past few weeks. While Bryce has been busy doing the remodeling she has been cleaning up the construction mess and decorating along the way.

She picked out and bought everything for the new bathroom and put it all up for us. It looks great of course. She hung up all the picture frames I had in my closets up on the wall so that I would finally put pictures in them, (I'm working on that) Shampooed my carpets and cleaned all the floors. Oh and painted the new bathroom and the salon in the basement. My house has never been this clean.

So the house is all put back together but better than ever. Here are a few pics : ( Bryce built the vanity and did the mosaic tile top all by himself. I just picked out the sink)

Friday night my Brother in law, Huston had his Birthday party here at our house. It was great having friends together on a Friday night. I promised Huston I wouldn't go into labor and have Adelaide on his birthday and take away from his day. I obviously was able to keep that promise.

Saturday the 4th we actually had no plans but Mom and Dad invited us to the house for some steaks. I can't pass up a home cooked meal at my parents. So we went there for a early dinner and then headed down town to a friends house to join some friends and family for the evening. It was raining off and on but we still got in the pool. Yes even I got in my maternity bathing suite and so enjoyed feeling weightless in the pool. I actually jogged around in the water thinking maybe that would help start labor. But well it didn't.


Today we had a great service at church. It was nice to have my family in town and off the road on a Sunday. Mom and Dad were with us this morning in church. Everyone at church is anxious for Addie to get here too. It's fun hearing every one's predictions on when she will arrive. Of course the members of the church softball team tell me I have to wait until tournaments are over on Friday because they need Bryce to play. So we will see. I'm ready for her to be here. At least I think I am.