Monday, February 15, 2010
Let it SNOW!!
Well it happened we finally got snow in Macon!! I got the day off from work becasue of the snow which I was excited about because that ment I didn't have to deal with crazy kids who were excited about snow and valentines day all at the same time. It started snowing here arounf 1:30 and finally started sticking around 2:30ish. I couldn't believe how much snow we got in one day! I impaitently waited for Andrew to get home before I took Everett out into the snow. He got home a little early which was ok by me and then I fed Everett and bundled him up as much as possible for people who live in Georgia and never get snow and are totoally unprepared for it. We took him out long ebough to get some pictures and let the dogs look around. I don't know whether he liked it or not but the snow kept falling on his nose and making it cold and he did not like that. But he was pretty chill the whole time just looking around and checking everything out. Here are some pictures!
Good Intentions
Ok so I had all of these good intentions for this blog to keep everyone updated on what is going on in our lives and then I go back to work and it all goes down hill from there. So let me give all of you some updates on what has been going on with the Ivy family.
As previously mentioned I went back to work about three weeks ago. I was magically given one more day with Everett when a truck drove into his babysitters house and she had to close for one day because she had no water (luckily that was all that happened and she just had to do a few repairs to the outside of the house). So I returned to work the next day which was really hard for me. I never realized how hard it would be to go back to work until I actually experienced it for myself. There were a lot of tears and I called my mom after dropping him off to get some moral support but I made it through. It made it easier when I saw all of the kids when they came in. They were all so excited to see me. But, let me tell you when that bell rang for us to leave I was OUT the door and driving through the parking lot on two wheels to go and get him. I went straight in without talking to anyone picked him up and gave him a great big hug! Now that I have been doing it for three weeks now it has gotten easier and I think it makes me a better mommy because the time that I do get to spend with him I treasure and I can tell when I pick him up at the end of the day he has missed me. Here are a few pictures from that first day.
Dressed and ready to go!
When I think back over the past month I cannot believe how much Everett has grown and changed. He is swatting a stuff (which he did for the first time at the babysitters and it really made me upset!!) and when his hand comes across something such as a toy he will grab onto it. He isn't reaching out and grabbing yet but I am sure that will come next. He is moving a lot more now and really likes kicking his legs and arms around. We also FINALLY got the holding the head up thing down. I thought he was never going to hold his head up but I guess because he is so small it just took him a little longer. He is now wearing sixe 1 diapers which made me very excited! I didn't think we would ever get out of newborn diapers. He is still wearing newborn clothes but he is definately growing out of them. He is getting too long not too round for them. He can wear some of his 0-3 month clothes without them swallowing him whole but the rest are no where close to fitting. Here are some pictures that I have taken over the last month. He is such a cutie!
I have some videos too but I have to figure out how to upload them. Andrew's birthday was yesterday. So all of the friends got together and went to dinner at El Azteca and then a few of them came back to our house for some yummy caramel cake and ice cream that Becca made (Thanks Becca!!). Then last night we went to dinner at Sticky Fingers and then came back home and watched a movie. Of course, Everett had to get dressed up for the occassion!
Well that is all for now! Hopefully I wont be so bad about updating in the future!
As previously mentioned I went back to work about three weeks ago. I was magically given one more day with Everett when a truck drove into his babysitters house and she had to close for one day because she had no water (luckily that was all that happened and she just had to do a few repairs to the outside of the house). So I returned to work the next day which was really hard for me. I never realized how hard it would be to go back to work until I actually experienced it for myself. There were a lot of tears and I called my mom after dropping him off to get some moral support but I made it through. It made it easier when I saw all of the kids when they came in. They were all so excited to see me. But, let me tell you when that bell rang for us to leave I was OUT the door and driving through the parking lot on two wheels to go and get him. I went straight in without talking to anyone picked him up and gave him a great big hug! Now that I have been doing it for three weeks now it has gotten easier and I think it makes me a better mommy because the time that I do get to spend with him I treasure and I can tell when I pick him up at the end of the day he has missed me. Here are a few pictures from that first day.
Dressed and ready to go!When I think back over the past month I cannot believe how much Everett has grown and changed. He is swatting a stuff (which he did for the first time at the babysitters and it really made me upset!!) and when his hand comes across something such as a toy he will grab onto it. He isn't reaching out and grabbing yet but I am sure that will come next. He is moving a lot more now and really likes kicking his legs and arms around. We also FINALLY got the holding the head up thing down. I thought he was never going to hold his head up but I guess because he is so small it just took him a little longer. He is now wearing sixe 1 diapers which made me very excited! I didn't think we would ever get out of newborn diapers. He is still wearing newborn clothes but he is definately growing out of them. He is getting too long not too round for them. He can wear some of his 0-3 month clothes without them swallowing him whole but the rest are no where close to fitting. Here are some pictures that I have taken over the last month. He is such a cutie!
I have some videos too but I have to figure out how to upload them. Andrew's birthday was yesterday. So all of the friends got together and went to dinner at El Azteca and then a few of them came back to our house for some yummy caramel cake and ice cream that Becca made (Thanks Becca!!). Then last night we went to dinner at Sticky Fingers and then came back home and watched a movie. Of course, Everett had to get dressed up for the occassion!
Well that is all for now! Hopefully I wont be so bad about updating in the future!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Sometimes being a mommy is hard!
So this past week it really hit me that I was going to have to go back to work soon. We took Everett to meet his babysitter. She was really excited about having him and thought he was super cute. But who wouldn't think so? :) It was nice to see her with him and see how exicted she was about having him. She was really good with him and he is going to be her only baby so she and him can snuggle all day. I asked her if she had ever had a baby as small as him and she told me no that he would be her first. Hehe I love my little man.
Speaking of little! We are officially into newborn clothes! I have been putting him in them for a couple weeks now but he is starting to fill them out and they are not quite as humongous on him as they were at first we are also in newborn diapers!
Anyway, I got a little off track. It also hit home for me when I took him up to the school on Thursday to meet my students. They were all very excited to see the both of us. I couldn't believe how big some of them looked. It was weird coming back into my room knowing that someone else had been teaching them. I began talking to the sub about report cards (which are going out the week I come back) and commentaries (which are a huge pain). I have to get all of them done including the commentaries before I go back and I am not sure how that is going to happen since I now have a little man that consumes a good deal of my time :)
Anyway, with all of this stuff hitting me I started to realize that in two weeks I will have to take Everett to a babysitter and I had better start getting to work on adjusting his schedule and doing something that I have not wanted to do which is teach him how to sooth himself to sleep. This is not the same thing as putting him in bed when he is halfway asleep and he drifts off from there. This is putting him in bed when it is time for his nap and not getting him up until nap time is over. Needless to say it has been HORRIBLE! Until today I would put him down and he would cry for 15 minutes. I would go in and hold him for a few minutes and then put him back down and then he would cry for 15 minutes. This would continue for the whole nap time! He would never give in and just keep crying. I felt so bad for him cause it is my fault that he has gotten this use to things being done this way. My mom keeps telling me that this is just one of the hard things about being a mother (having to listen to your baby cry) but I NEVER thought it would be this hard. I watch the clock the entire time and have to restrain myself from running in there to go get him. Today he finally went to sleep in his bed. But I had to stand over him and run his face with his blanket. That isn't quite what we wanted but it is a start. He is going to get it I just have to keep telling myself that. That is all for now!
Speaking of little! We are officially into newborn clothes! I have been putting him in them for a couple weeks now but he is starting to fill them out and they are not quite as humongous on him as they were at first we are also in newborn diapers!
Anyway, I got a little off track. It also hit home for me when I took him up to the school on Thursday to meet my students. They were all very excited to see the both of us. I couldn't believe how big some of them looked. It was weird coming back into my room knowing that someone else had been teaching them. I began talking to the sub about report cards (which are going out the week I come back) and commentaries (which are a huge pain). I have to get all of them done including the commentaries before I go back and I am not sure how that is going to happen since I now have a little man that consumes a good deal of my time :)
Anyway, with all of this stuff hitting me I started to realize that in two weeks I will have to take Everett to a babysitter and I had better start getting to work on adjusting his schedule and doing something that I have not wanted to do which is teach him how to sooth himself to sleep. This is not the same thing as putting him in bed when he is halfway asleep and he drifts off from there. This is putting him in bed when it is time for his nap and not getting him up until nap time is over. Needless to say it has been HORRIBLE! Until today I would put him down and he would cry for 15 minutes. I would go in and hold him for a few minutes and then put him back down and then he would cry for 15 minutes. This would continue for the whole nap time! He would never give in and just keep crying. I felt so bad for him cause it is my fault that he has gotten this use to things being done this way. My mom keeps telling me that this is just one of the hard things about being a mother (having to listen to your baby cry) but I NEVER thought it would be this hard. I watch the clock the entire time and have to restrain myself from running in there to go get him. Today he finally went to sleep in his bed. But I had to stand over him and run his face with his blanket. That isn't quite what we wanted but it is a start. He is going to get it I just have to keep telling myself that. That is all for now!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Poor baby
So after Christmas Everett started getting a little cold :(. I took him to the doctor and they said that they could not give him any medicene because he was too young. They just told me to suction out his nose, use salene drops, elevate him while he sleeps and get a humidifier. I cannot tell you how horrible it is to watch your baby be sick and not be able to do anything about it. So I have had to watch him sneeze and cough and throw up because he coughs so hard he gags and not be able to do anything. For those of you who have not done it let me tell you sictioning their nose out with the bulb thing is not a lot of fun. The first time I did it he just looked at me like what was that?!? Now he knows what is going to happen so when he sees it he starts swatting at me and crying before I even start. He absolutely hates it. Of course if someone put and object inside your nose and was sucking your brains out I guess you woldn't like it either. He has finally gotten to the point a week later to where he looks like he is starting to get a little better and his little personality is starting to come back. He has smiled at me more today than he has in a week. I truly missed that smile.
On the agenda for this week is going to meet his babysitter. She is such a sweet lady and when I talked to her on the phone she was so excited to finally meet him. Of course this meeting means that I am getting closer to having to go back to work. :( It is a weird feeling. On one hand I am kind of ready to go back to work and have interactions with people and get out of the house. On the other hand I am going to miss my days with him. I do not want to miss out on anything but unless Andrew and I come into a lot of money sometime soon I am going to have to leave him. I am also hoping to go visit my students sometime this week. I miss them.
We go to the doctor next week for his shots. I am not looking forward to it. I am hoping that Andrew will be able to take off to come with me. They say that the first time your baby gets shots it is pretty traumatic for the both of you. That is it for now!
On the agenda for this week is going to meet his babysitter. She is such a sweet lady and when I talked to her on the phone she was so excited to finally meet him. Of course this meeting means that I am getting closer to having to go back to work. :( It is a weird feeling. On one hand I am kind of ready to go back to work and have interactions with people and get out of the house. On the other hand I am going to miss my days with him. I do not want to miss out on anything but unless Andrew and I come into a lot of money sometime soon I am going to have to leave him. I am also hoping to go visit my students sometime this week. I miss them.
We go to the doctor next week for his shots. I am not looking forward to it. I am hoping that Andrew will be able to take off to come with me. They say that the first time your baby gets shots it is pretty traumatic for the both of you. That is it for now!
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Let me ctach you up to speed....
After the long anticipated birth of our little boy he finally arrived on November 18, 2009 and we couldn't have been happier. My pregnancy was a relatively normal one up until about a month and a half before I was due. Like many expectant mothers I went to a 3D/4D imaging place because I was curious about what our baby would look like. It was then that we found out our little boy was about two weeks smaller than he was supposed to be. The tech told us not to worry about it (which of course I did) and to just mention it to our doctor the next time I went in. So I went to the doctor a couple weeks later and told them about it. The doctor suggested at my next appointment we do another ultrasound just to see what was going on. Another long two weeks passed and I went to the doctor again where they did the ultrasound. Turns out he was still about two weeks smaller than he was supposed to be and his femur was considerably smaller which worried the doctors. However they could not figure out why because my amniotic fluid was good and my placenta appeared fine. After the conversation with the doctor I of course freaked out. He talked about how our little boy could be in growth failure due to a problem with the umbilical cord and immediately sent me to a specialist the next day and he me start doing non-stress tests twice a week to check on him. After seeing the specialist that confirmed that I had what is known as IUGR (inter uterine growth restriction) and again they said they had no idea why because everything appeared to be normal. So for then our fears were subsided and we made plans to have a smaller than average baby. The weeks went by and I continued to do the non-stress tests. The doctors said everything looked great. At 37 and a half weeks we went in for another ultrasound to see how our baby was growing. After looking at that ultrasound the doctors confirmed that he was now three weeks smaller than he was suppose to be (at approximately 4lbs 11oz) and we needed to go ahead and induce me. The doctor said that he would grow more outside the whomb than he would in it. So they set up the induction for two days later November 17th.
My husband and I of course went into a panic because he was so small and we were worried about his safety. Not to mention the fact that his room was not finished and we were not at all prepared to have a baby that weighed 4lbs! So we spent the rest of the day getting the last of the things we needed for his arrival and cleaning the house. The stress of his arrival and whether he was going to be ok or not weighed on my every thought. We were worried, our family and friends were worried. I remember telling my husband that it was not suppose to be like this. That his arrival was suppose to be a joyous time not a time of worry. I have never prayed so much as I did those two days!
We went in at 11pm where thet checked us into a room and hooked me up to an IV and began givign me something to thin out my cervix. When the morning came the midwife came in and checked me I was still not dialated but my cervix had thined out so she went ahead and broke my water and started the pitocin. I had planned to have a natural birth but believe me by the time it was over it was far from what I had immagined. After breaking my water the nurse noticed that at the end of every contraction Everetts heartbeat would drop (yet another cause for worry). I wanted to get up and move around but they would not let me. I had to lay on my side to help with his heartbeat which on top of the pitocin was very painful. So at around 4 cm I asked for an epidural. They had to administer it 3 times!! It was aweful. After that things really sped up. The midwife came and checked me again and I was a 6cm. Thirty minutes later she checked me and I was 8cm. Then all of a sudden things went from bad to worse. Everett's heartbeat dropped way down and everyone started rushing around and putting socks on me. My mother and I asked what was going on and they said they were taking me back for a c-section. they gave me a shot to stop my contractions and turned off the pitocin. My doctor was delivering another baby and as many of you know midwifes cannot perform c-sections so we had to wait until my doctor was done. the midwife decided to check me again just to see where I was at. She chaecked me and I was at 10cm! She decided to let me go ahead and start pushing just to see how I would do. Luckily the epidural had worn off some so I was able to really push. And thirty minutes later due to to shot to stop my contractions and the pitocin being turned off at 3:18 pm we had our little boy! Turns out the cord was wrapped around his neck causing his heartrate to drop. After all of the worrying he was finally here and weighed in at 5lbs and 19inches long. A tiny baby but healthy nonetheless. HE was absolutely perfect!
We got to go home two days later and our friends and family were finally able to see him. The hospital had enforced serious rules about who was allowed into the room (grandparents only) due to the H1N1 scares. So for the next two weeks we faught really bad jaundice. We even had to put him under lights that were brought to our house to help decrease the jaundice. It was AWEFUL! Imagine having a new baby and not being able to hold them. The only time he could come out was to eat and change his diaper. His weight had also dropped down to 4lbs 5oz. We visited the doctors office every day for almost 2 weeks. But we eventually got the jaundice to go away and began supplementing with an ounce of formula after I feed him to help him gain weight. We went into the doctor a week later and he was already up to 5lbs 2oz!! We were so excited. Everett is a month and half now and he weighs 6lbs 12oz. We are almost entirely out of preeme clothes and looking forward to just being with him. Hopefully, as drama free as possible!!
That is all of now! Hopefully you are caught up to speed and I will post more on what is going on in our lives soon!
My husband and I of course went into a panic because he was so small and we were worried about his safety. Not to mention the fact that his room was not finished and we were not at all prepared to have a baby that weighed 4lbs! So we spent the rest of the day getting the last of the things we needed for his arrival and cleaning the house. The stress of his arrival and whether he was going to be ok or not weighed on my every thought. We were worried, our family and friends were worried. I remember telling my husband that it was not suppose to be like this. That his arrival was suppose to be a joyous time not a time of worry. I have never prayed so much as I did those two days!
We went in at 11pm where thet checked us into a room and hooked me up to an IV and began givign me something to thin out my cervix. When the morning came the midwife came in and checked me I was still not dialated but my cervix had thined out so she went ahead and broke my water and started the pitocin. I had planned to have a natural birth but believe me by the time it was over it was far from what I had immagined. After breaking my water the nurse noticed that at the end of every contraction Everetts heartbeat would drop (yet another cause for worry). I wanted to get up and move around but they would not let me. I had to lay on my side to help with his heartbeat which on top of the pitocin was very painful. So at around 4 cm I asked for an epidural. They had to administer it 3 times!! It was aweful. After that things really sped up. The midwife came and checked me again and I was a 6cm. Thirty minutes later she checked me and I was 8cm. Then all of a sudden things went from bad to worse. Everett's heartbeat dropped way down and everyone started rushing around and putting socks on me. My mother and I asked what was going on and they said they were taking me back for a c-section. they gave me a shot to stop my contractions and turned off the pitocin. My doctor was delivering another baby and as many of you know midwifes cannot perform c-sections so we had to wait until my doctor was done. the midwife decided to check me again just to see where I was at. She chaecked me and I was at 10cm! She decided to let me go ahead and start pushing just to see how I would do. Luckily the epidural had worn off some so I was able to really push. And thirty minutes later due to to shot to stop my contractions and the pitocin being turned off at 3:18 pm we had our little boy! Turns out the cord was wrapped around his neck causing his heartrate to drop. After all of the worrying he was finally here and weighed in at 5lbs and 19inches long. A tiny baby but healthy nonetheless. HE was absolutely perfect!
We got to go home two days later and our friends and family were finally able to see him. The hospital had enforced serious rules about who was allowed into the room (grandparents only) due to the H1N1 scares. So for the next two weeks we faught really bad jaundice. We even had to put him under lights that were brought to our house to help decrease the jaundice. It was AWEFUL! Imagine having a new baby and not being able to hold them. The only time he could come out was to eat and change his diaper. His weight had also dropped down to 4lbs 5oz. We visited the doctors office every day for almost 2 weeks. But we eventually got the jaundice to go away and began supplementing with an ounce of formula after I feed him to help him gain weight. We went into the doctor a week later and he was already up to 5lbs 2oz!! We were so excited. Everett is a month and half now and he weighs 6lbs 12oz. We are almost entirely out of preeme clothes and looking forward to just being with him. Hopefully, as drama free as possible!!
That is all of now! Hopefully you are caught up to speed and I will post more on what is going on in our lives soon!
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