Sunday, July 31, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
twinkle toes
jse says that maggie has legs like benjamin button. pretty cute how she's trying to point her toes.
it ain't easy being green
i would like to post pictures, but esther margaret doesn't actually do anything. these were taken for the five minutes (likely the only five minutes in the last 48 hours) she was awake today.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
these days, they are a burning
esther margaret is 11 days old. it's been 14 days since i've had a good night's sleep. 16 days since i swore that she was going to be a thanksgiving baby. 29 days since jse and i got married. but life now seems like it's always been just like this.
some notes.
she still looks like a chinese chuckie doll when she opens her eyes. here she is with yd.
i celebrated my 33rd birthday this past week, my whole family came to celebrate...
i live life on a three hour schedule. time used to have a relative quality to it, these days it is very absolute. lucky for me, em is a great sleeper. but it's so hard to wake her up to eat. we press cold soda cans on her legs or strip her down and rub her with cold baby lotion to torture her and can usually get a few minutes of eating. at this point, she'd never make it in the wild. i guess she'll have to come to survival school with me someday. here she is after i asked her to fold laundry, of course she fell asleep on the job.
jse: "she's like a baby monkey but more beautiful"
some notes.
she still looks like a chinese chuckie doll when she opens her eyes. here she is with yd.
i celebrated my 33rd birthday this past week, my whole family came to celebrate...
i live life on a three hour schedule. time used to have a relative quality to it, these days it is very absolute. lucky for me, em is a great sleeper. but it's so hard to wake her up to eat. we press cold soda cans on her legs or strip her down and rub her with cold baby lotion to torture her and can usually get a few minutes of eating. at this point, she'd never make it in the wild. i guess she'll have to come to survival school with me someday. here she is after i asked her to fold laundry, of course she fell asleep on the job.
jse: "she's like a baby monkey but more beautiful"
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
debutant
here's the story.
i felt real contractions at 3:15 tuesday (jul12) morning, and while getting ready to go to the hospital, my water broke at 9:30. by the time we arrived at the hospital, i was dilated to a 5cm, 75% effaced (percentage that the cervix has thinned) and esther margaret was at a 0 station (head in line with my pelvis). painful but bearable, a good place to be.
as i was being checked in, the lady in the bed next to me sounded like what jse described as "a bear fighting a tiger". made me nervous but felt undeterred in having an unmedicated labor. within two hours, i was dilated to a 7cm, a +1 station and almost 100% effaced. it was terrifically painful, but with the goal so close, i could bear it.
however.
an hour later, i was in the same place and she hadn't moved.
another hour later, i was still stalled.
and another (if you are counting, 15 hours have elapsed).
(skip feeling of complete defeat, expletives, cursing womankind, my unborn child, hearing the aforementioned bear/tiger woman screaming in the next room...)
enter epidural, oxytocin...magic! i almost leapt out of the stirrups to kiss the anesthesiologist on the lips.
two hours and 5 pushes later...
esther margaret was born at 8:22p, weighing 7lb 13oz, 22in long, perfect.
this is after the epidural was administered. any pictures before this point would involve me grimacing or showcasing my middle finger.
first cry
weighed in
first family photo (don't mind the inappropriate shot of my leg still in the stirrup, gross, sick, but too tired to photoshop, sorry)
sweet swollen face
napping with daddy
we had many many visitors, including:
margaret and jerry with grandchild #2
jojo and ella
fischer and kristi
paul, kristine and cousin evan
getting ready to go home (i internalized a meltdown at this point, when i realized there was no return policy)
first nap at home
*a very special thanks to the midwives and nurse mimi, who made the long, difficult but wonderful labor and delivery the best possible experience...
i felt real contractions at 3:15 tuesday (jul12) morning, and while getting ready to go to the hospital, my water broke at 9:30. by the time we arrived at the hospital, i was dilated to a 5cm, 75% effaced (percentage that the cervix has thinned) and esther margaret was at a 0 station (head in line with my pelvis). painful but bearable, a good place to be.
as i was being checked in, the lady in the bed next to me sounded like what jse described as "a bear fighting a tiger". made me nervous but felt undeterred in having an unmedicated labor. within two hours, i was dilated to a 7cm, a +1 station and almost 100% effaced. it was terrifically painful, but with the goal so close, i could bear it.
however.
an hour later, i was in the same place and she hadn't moved.
another hour later, i was still stalled.
and another (if you are counting, 15 hours have elapsed).
(skip feeling of complete defeat, expletives, cursing womankind, my unborn child, hearing the aforementioned bear/tiger woman screaming in the next room...)
enter epidural, oxytocin...magic! i almost leapt out of the stirrups to kiss the anesthesiologist on the lips.
two hours and 5 pushes later...
esther margaret was born at 8:22p, weighing 7lb 13oz, 22in long, perfect.
this is after the epidural was administered. any pictures before this point would involve me grimacing or showcasing my middle finger.
first cry
weighed in
first family photo (don't mind the inappropriate shot of my leg still in the stirrup, gross, sick, but too tired to photoshop, sorry)
sweet swollen face
napping with daddy
we had many many visitors, including:
margaret and jerry with grandchild #2
jojo and ella
fischer and kristi
paul, kristine and cousin evan
getting ready to go home (i internalized a meltdown at this point, when i realized there was no return policy)
first nap at home
*a very special thanks to the midwives and nurse mimi, who made the long, difficult but wonderful labor and delivery the best possible experience...
Thursday, July 07, 2011
i will follow you into the dark
muffin sr. driving his tractor across waco drive during rush hour (correction: "rush hour"). pretty sure he made a rolling stop, but who's counting...
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