Summer is winding down, so I have a little bit of time to update; unless Aspen decides to not cooperate. We were able to sell our car in June, so that was a blessing. Our house is still up for sale. We have had a few people interested, but no one serious yet. We are keeping our fingers crossed. Our basement is almost finished, so hopefully that will help. It will be nice when we have our home built and we don't have to worry about moving.
I am trying to think of all the things we did this summer. We stayed busy even though we didn't really do anything big. We went to a lot of events around the valley. The last few months of pregnancy weren't comfortable, as was expected, so that limited what I wanted to do.
I was so nervous about having the baby. I really wanted to do a VBAC, but didn't want to go through hours and hours of labor, only to have a c-section and months of healing. On August 1st, I went to my doctor's appointment. He had been running non-stress tests on Aspen to make sure she was doing ok, since at my ultra sound she had been measuring 3 weeks behind. He wanted to make sure she could handle the stress of labor. She did great, no problems or concerns. Well at my doctor appointment, I was dilated to a 3, so he decided to strip my membranes to hopefully speed up the process. Since I pretty much have the worst luck ever, I wasn't expecting anything to happen. On Thursday morning I mowed our weeds, hoping to put myself into labor, since that's what had happened when I went into labor with Reese. Later that night on Thursday, I went out to dinner with my good friend Jenn. I had started having contractions that were pretty intense, but they were never consistent or regular, and of course when I started timing them they either stopped, or quit coming as consistently. I joked that McDonald's would be my last meal before I went to the hospital, and it just so happened to be that way. The next morning I woke up and had some contractions and bleeding and decided to go to the hospital. I called Jake and told him I was on my way to the hospital, but told him not to get too excited since I would probably be sent home. The doctor came and checked me and I was dilated to a 5. So at about 11 am they broke my water. Jake's mom was the first to show up, and then my mom. My contractions still weren't coming as strong as they wanted them too, so when Jake got to the hospital we walked the halls, and I still hadn't progressed, so they gave me pitocin, which did the trick. I wasn't too uncomfortable even though they weren't a picnic. I was checked and had only dilated to a 6, so they turned up the pitocin. A few hours later, at around 3:30pm I decided that I wasn't tough enough and asked for some kind of medicine. They gave me Fentanyll, which worked for like 30 minutes, but then it didn't do anything for me after that, and my contractions were seriously not letting up, and my back labor was horrible! After trying to tough it out, the nurse came in and turned down the pitocin, but that didn't help. I guess the baby decided it was time to come. I lasted as long as I could without an epidural, but caved when I felt the baby coming. I was seriously so happy when it kicked in. After that our Aspen Brielle was born at 4:34pm. So it went really fast. I was dilated to a 10 by 4pm, so pretty glad it went the way I wanted it to without complications.
Aspen has been such a good baby. After I brought her home, I had to wake her up to feed her, which was totally opposite of Reese. Reese would wake up every 2 hours! It's been a nice change to have a baby who sleeps at night-well kind of. Last night she didn't wake up once, however, she hates going to sleep. I can start trying to put her to bed at 9, but she usually fights it until about 12. She isn't fussy during the day at all, it's just from about 9 until she falls asleep. I don't know what to do, and she sleeps good other than that, so I can't really complain, but if you all have any suggestions or ideas let me know. I have tried putting her on a schedule, and that doesn't work. So let me know.
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| Aspen Brielle, August 3, 2012 6lbs 4oz, 19 inches long |
