Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts

Sunday, February 21, 2010

A Busy Month (in photos)

Update: changed the photos to a slideshow. Click any photo to open the album. This has been a very busy month in terms of visitors. It's been great to see so many family and friends. Rosalie is now 7 weeks old! This is the last week before Mary returns to work (part-time) so we're going to try and spend as much of it together as a family. Mary might be a little cranky when she returns to work; we've given up fried foods for lent :)

Click on any pic in the slideshow to open the photo album (and to save it for yourself).

Monday, January 11, 2010

Rosalie's First Graduation

Rosalie had her second Dr's appointment today. The first thing they did was weigh her - 7 lbs 5 oz! That's up 17 ounces from last Monday! Mary and I thought there would be some weight gain after seeing her face and chins (plural) fill out, but didn't think she'd be such a champ.
Because she's gaining so much weight and has been pooping and peeing regularly, she's graduated from Breastfeeding 101. At this rate, we expect her to graduate from Newborn size clothes/diapers to 0-3 month clothes in about a week.

Friday, January 1, 2010

"This Feels So Weird..."

Mary's had her epidural and now she's finally comfortable. But, her feet and legs tingle a little and she can't get over the feeling. "This feels so weird..."

On New Years Eve morning, Mary's labor began. Her contractions began at 3am. By 3pm, the contractions were consistant, but not close enough. Jamie and Dave and Janice and Tim came over to play some cards and celebrate the New Year. By 3am on January 1st, the contractions became painful. At 4, they were 6 minutes apart and lasted for a minute on average - close enough to go to the hospital!

At the hospital, we were told Mary was only 1.5 centimeters. Three to four hours of painful contractions later, they sent us home at 1.5cm with a pain pill to either stop labor or give Mary enough relief to sleep.

Every 7 minutes, we both woke up, Mary wailing in pain. It was as though the baby was about to just pop out! By 3pm, Mary had enough and we called our midwife - time to return to the hospital!

By 4pm, Mary was 4cm. A little discouraging - all that pain for such little progress. They hooked up an IV, gave her an epidural, and they sent for our midwife.

Our midwife just popped in and checked - Mary is 10cm! She went from 4 to 10cm in a matter of two/three hours! The midwife manually broke Mary's waters and is getting ready for Mary to push....