tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71351071852898103172024-03-14T10:51:51.188-07:00Waiting for BabyLife as a sleep deprived, overly tidy, brand new stay at home mom.Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477752852887357329noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7135107185289810317.post-54499150861384570122011-03-02T15:46:00.000-08:002011-03-02T15:46:20.244-08:00Like Mother Like DaughterMe<br />
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Jayden<br />
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Honestly as far as tips go, the best advice I have are things I hear all the time. Use a smaller plate!!! I used to hear that all the time and thought it was stupid, but it works. Also use a knife and fork whenever you can. It helps you eat slower and feel full sooner. It has also been a lot easier than I thought to try to cut down on the snacking. I used to eat a whole bowl of goldfish. A good snack for me now is one wedge of the garlic and herb laughing cow cheese with whole wheat ritz crackers. Also pay attention to the portion/serving size on the nutritional information. It doesn't matter if baked doritos only have 200 (total guess) calories a serving if you eat 4 servings. If the serving size is 15 chips, count 15 chips. It's plenty I promise.<br />
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Now down to the good stuff. Weight and measurements. <br />
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Start weight 184<br />
Second week 180<br />
Third week 177<br />
Fourth week 173<br />
I have lost 11 pounds in 3 1/2 weeks (I did week 4 early)<br />
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As far as measurements go I am really thrilled with the results<br />
Second week in inches<br />
Bust -1.5<br />
Waiste -1<br />
Belly -.5<br />
Hips -3<br />
Thigh -2<br />
Bicep -.5<br />
Total= -8.5<br />
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Third week in inches<br />
Bust -1.5<br />
Waist -1.5<br />
Belly -2.5<br />
Hips -0<br />
Thigh -0<br />
Bicep -0<br />
Total= -5.5<br />
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In 3 weeks I lost a total of 14 inches!!<br />
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SO I started at 184<br />
Last week down to 180<br />
This week I am between 177-178<br />
Down 2-3 pounds this week. The reason I am not sure is because I have a very cheap scale and it keeps going back and forth.<br />
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There is a blog I read called <a href="http://mylittlesecretkt.blogspot.com/">Don't Stop Beleivin</a> I am getting a lot of inspiration from Katie, and she has some great Weigh Watcher tips. <br />
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I know I was crazy to start right before the holiday of eating, but I felt like I needed to start right away, I couldn't hold off because I am so unhappy with myself. I am actually considering pictures, and if I decide yes, I will just edit this post and add them. I haven't been happy with my weight since I had Jayden, I am not comfortable in my clothes, and sure as hell am not comfortable out of my clothes. The first couple days on this diet were not that bad, I did really well Mon-Wed. I knew I was going to let Thursday be a free day, and I did. The part that is hard for me is going to restaurants. Husband and I like to go out to eat. We went to Mexican food and I got Chicken Fajitas, those are a pretty good choice but..... they were so good I ate way too much. <br />
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Over all I have mixed feelings about my first week. I think I did good considering the holiday weekend, but I didn't need that chocolate cake at the base party, and I didn't need to eat so many chips at Guadalajara. But I did resist candy for our movie Saturday night, and I also lost even though it was a holiday weekend centered around eating.<br />
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So here it goes...........<br />
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Starting weight on Nov. 22nd: 184<br />
Weigh in on November 29th: 180<br />
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Down four pounds my first week! Oh and by the way my short term goal is 15 pounds, long term is 30.<br />
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I love this picture because I just see her personality radiating here. She is so silly and happy. She loves to dance and even tries to sing. She is so independent and loves to read. Books are probably her favorite thing, well besides Violet. She is so social, not shy at all. I am just so thankful for every second I get to be with her.<br />
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I am also Thankful for the rest of my family. A great husband who is able to provide so I can stay home with my daughter. 2 sets of wonderful grandparents for my little girl. Wonderful friends who keep in touch and new friends to keep me sane. Thanksgiving with friends, and Christmas with family.<br />
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And most of all I am Thankful for my health and the health of my friends and family. I can only hope to have another year with as many blessings.<br />
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I plan on doing weight watchers and working out at least 3 times a week. I would like to lose 15 pounds and would love to lose 30. We shall see.<br />
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We will be getting family pictures done this weekend, hopefully we will get at least one good picture of the three of us. And there are a ton of Jayden that I love already. These photo cards are a great way for us to keep our family updated on how big Jayden is getting since we live so far away.<br />
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Now I just have to decide which one I want...<br />
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This is the outside (obviously) which looks about the same besides some lighting fixtures.<br />
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This is a before picture of our kitchen<br />
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After<br />
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This is a before picture of the basement, man was it a doosie =)<br />
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And last is our upstairs living room<br />
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After (before we put anything on the walls)<br />
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Right now we are working on getting rid of the fireplace. I just pretty much hate it. I think it's so ugly and takes up a bunch of space and it's dangerous for Jayden. So here are the pictures.<br />
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And here is where it is now, Hubs did all that in one day, I'm hoping we can finish it this weekend!<br />
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Now we are back home and all of a sudden motherhood doesn't seem as hard. Sometimes when you are in your daily routine you forget how hard it is to take care of a baby. Jayden is finally sleeping better! Thank god! She sleeps through the night here and there, and if not she wakes up once for a bottle. That, I can live with. I am not complaining about that one bottle because atleast it isn't 4 or 5. Jayden turned 10 months on the 3rd and started officially walking on the 5th. I think it's great! She was already getting into everything as it was, walking doesn't make a difference. Now climbing on the other hand. i am not looking forward to that. Well that's about it. I swear when we get this laptop fixed I will write more. <br />
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Jayden LOVES baths! She has 3 rubber duckies, and she spends the whole time trying to figure out how to hold all three at the same time. A couple of times she has achieved this by putting one in each hand and one in her mouth.<a href="http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c377/kellyswofford/?action=view&current=siggy.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c377/kellyswofford/siggy.png" /></a>Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477752852887357329noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7135107185289810317.post-29955532748591696842010-07-03T18:39:00.000-07:002010-07-03T18:39:41.437-07:00oy veyI try not to complain about sleep too much because anything has to be better than before, right? When Jayden was a newborn till about 5 1/2 months, sleep for us was awful! Anyone I told could not believe she slept that bad. Lets not explain it all to you again, but lets just say, I don't think I could have handled much more.<br />
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When I was still living in Tucson and working as a nanny for the most adorable kids ever (besides my own of course) I used to take the 18 month old to story time at the library every Tuesday. There was a mom of a 9 month old that I would chit chat with. One day she came in and looked pretty tired. I said to her "are you ok" and she looked at my and shrugged her shoulders and said "I'm just so tired, he wont sleep through the night still and I just need a good nights sleep" I offered her my apologies and I remember thinking to myself. that will never be me, I'll just let them cry and they will fall asleep. Oh how naive I was! If I could go back and meet myself back then, I would have slapped myself in the face. I just had no clue, none.<br />
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Fast forward to now, Jayden is 9 months. Since we did a version of Ferber at 5 1/2 months, she has slept through the night a handful of times, and has slept through except for one wake-up fairly often. But for the past couple of weeks it has been hell. She has started to cry before bed again. She wakes up literally EVERY SINGLE 3 HOURS. So, 10 pm, 1am, 4 am, and then up for the day at 7. Now this is not exact, I would like to say give or take a wake-up. But that would not be accurate to say "take." Only "give." <br />
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I guess I assume that it is teething, she has her top and bottom 2 teeth, so 4 total. And she is currently getting 2 more on the top atleast. But what am I supposed to do? I give her teething tablets and oragel. But I am terrified of giving her Motrin too often. How much is normal. I feel like it's crazy to give it to her every day, but she is in pain. Help me ladies!<br />
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And also to my amazing husband. Thank you for being such a great father to our little girl. I so look forward to watching your relationship grow. I know she's already a daddy's girl.<br />
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Today we walked to a nearby park for a mom's group thing, it was a beautiful day, and great company, and Jayden had a blast. Here are a few pics.<br />
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Finally around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday I felt the urge to push. They are not joking when they say that you will know when it’s time to push. You pretty much can’t stop yourself. I pushed for a little over an hour. Her heart rate dropped a little bit so they put the oxygen mask on me, which I hated. Dr. Dillon tried to use the vacuum to help her out but she had too much hair it wouldn’t stick. Finally, at 8:01 a.m. on October 3rd she came out and they placed her on my chest. I wanted to enjoy the moment, I really wanted to. I had seen those moments on TV, I had imagined it a thousand times. But she wasn’t crying and I couldn’t enjoy the moment. I wanted them to take her from me. I wanted them to take her, make sure she was ok and then give her back. Finally I said “is she ok?” and they took her to check her out. I kept asking, I’m not sure if they weren’t answering me, or if I just didn’t hear them. After a few minutes of what seemed like an eternity they gave her back to me, and she was ok.<br />
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The rest of my stay in the hospital was kind of a blur. I was very happy with the hospital and the accommodations. I LOVED my doctor. She is the best Doctor I have ever had. And the nurses who took care of Jayden and me were amazing. But it has taken me 7 months to write this because when I think back on that time with Jayden, I feel cheated. Maybe it was the fact that I hadn’t slept in over 40 hours, maybe it was that I was feeling like a stranger watching this day happen, maybe it was that I looked at Jayden, and knew she was mine, but she didn’t fee like mine. I knew that I wasn’t feeling the way I was supposed to feel. I looked at my daughters face and I knew she was the most beautiful baby I had ever seen, but I still didn’t feel like she was really <i>my</i> baby. I nursed her and cried, I never imagined how much it would hurt. I felt like a failure. This did not feel right, it did not feel like a bonding experience with her. It felt like pain, just pain. They said it would get better, which by the way it never did. <br />
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Until I left on Monday, it was a blur of drifting in and out of sleep. Trying to nurse my baby, watching HGTV on the hospital TV, and lots of pain from my delivery. When the nurse came in to give me my discharge instructions, she explained what I needed to do to care for myself. But she couldn’t give me a book of instructions on how to care for this little baby that depended on me. I was so scared. And it hit me, I have no idea what I’m doing, I’ve never even held a newborn before. Then she said it, “when you get home you might start feeling sad, like you are doing things wrong, and even like you are a bad mom. It’s ok, it’s normal, it’s called “Baby Blues.” When I get home? What if I already feel like that? What if I already feel sad and I haven’t been a mom for longer than a day and a half. I clung to the part of the sentence that said it was normal. And we took our daughter home.<br />
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As we got settled in there was no doubt that I was experiencing “Baby Blues.” It was devastating. I cried every single day, and usually around the time it started to get dark. I cried every time I nursed Jayden, and every time she woke up in the middle of the night. I knew she was waking up to eat and I knew it was going to hurt. A few weeks passed and those feelings started to subside. But I was feeling another kind of sad now. I was still crying every day. And I was feeling very overwhelmed and sad. I knew I loved my baby, but I just didn’t feel like myself. When Jayden was around 3 months old, I was on the phone with Jeremy, crying again. He said to me with a desperate tone, “Baby, what’s wrong?” I knew he didn’t mean what’s wrong right now, he meant what is always wrong. He knew something wasn’t right, and for the first time I realized too that something wasn’t right. I went on the internet and looked up Postpartum Depression. I saw a list of symptoms, I read them, and I burst into tears. I have this, this is me. Instead of being relieved that I now know what’s wrong, I was just sad. I was disappointed in myself, I felt worse than ever.<br />
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I made an appointment with my awesome doctor, she was compassionate and understanding. She assured me that is was a hormonal imbalance, and it was NOT my fault. I felt relief. I needed to hear that. After a few weeks of my medication I started to feel like myself again. It was amazing. And now I feel wonderful. I am off the medication, and I am feeling like a new person. I am happier than I have ever been because I have this amazing daughter whom I love with literally ALL of my heart. When I look at her now, sometimes I cry, but they are tears of happiness. I feel like the luckiest woman in the world. I just love her so much. And now every night when I lay down to go to sleep, I can’t stop smiling, because my daughter is in her crib, happy and healthy, and <i>I</i> made her. Through it all when I look at her, I know I am a good mom. And my daughter is amazing.<br />
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The plan was to go into the hospital 5 days later, on Friday the 2nd for round two. I was to go into my doctors’ office in the morning to check my dilation and blood pressure, and she would send me over to the hospital after that. After another sleepless night, I woke up feeling pretty awful. I showered and started to get ready. All of a sudden I was feeling sharp pains in my abdomen. I knew it wasn’t the pain that comes with contractions, and I started to feel sick. I tried my best to get packed up and ready through the pain, and we were on our way. We showed up at Dr. Dillon’s office around 9, and she informed me that they had a very busy night at the hospital and they might not have room for me. I was so disappointed. They still had me pee in a cup, and go on with the check-up. When I peed in the cup in was very red. There was a lot of blood in my urine, and I was still having the sharp pains. They checked my blood pressure and it was high. They thought I either had kidney stones or preeclampsia. Because of the concerns I was sent over to the hospital.<br />
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I was put into a room with other patients, they were so full, and they were waiting for a room to open up. After an abdominal ultrasound they found out it was kidney stones, but they didn’t seem too concerned. They finally put me n a room and Dr. Dillon came in to check me. I was convinced that after the 3 doses of Cervidil and 4 days of walking around as much as possible I would go in dilated at least 2 cm. I am still convinced that the “checking dilation” hurt worse than anything else that day. She took off her gloves and looked at me and said “just a fingertip.” I came back with “WHAT?!?!” How can that even be possible? It was very clear at that moment that Jayden was not going to give in. She was comfortable in there and did not want to come out.<br />
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The rest of the day and night are kind of a blur. I know it took over 12 hours to dilate more than 5 cm. It was a long day. A lot of checking dilation, a lot of waiting, a lot of nothing. When Dr. Dillon broke my water she noticed that the amniotic fluid had a brownish tint. It was meconium. Jayden had pooped. Dr. Dillon said it wasn’t a huge deal. They would just be prepared when I delivered. More waiting, and being starving, and anxious. Finally the contractions started to actually hurt. I told the nurse and she suggested I get my epidural. I was terrified. But the guy came in and joked around about being drunk and it was over before I knew it. He asked me how much my pain had gone away and I told him it was completely gone. I was excited, maybe this would be the extent of my pain, maybe the epidural really would take it all away. Ha! No way. My legs actually started to feel pretty numb. It really bothered me and I wasn’t expecting it, so I told the nurse. She offered to turn down my epidural a little bit, and since I wasn’t feeling any pain I thought why not. After another couple of hours I started to feel those contractions again. These made the ones I was feeling before feel like a foot massage. I had the really painful contractions for the next 12 hours or so. I didn’t scream at Jeremy that I hated him for doing this to me, and it was all his fault. Although when my contractions were really bad I did tell him not to look at me. <br />
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Finally around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday I felt the urge to push. ....to be continued<br />
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