Ice cream

On Wednesday for her one week birthday, Dave, Nana, River, and I went out for ice cream! Happy one week to Emery!

This is amazing. Being with her. It's so funny to me that people keep saying "oh just wait" and "everything changes". I really hate that. So many people have so many opinions it's crazy. I don't know about either statement, but i do know I am completely in love. I thought this that a crying baby in the middle of the night would piss me off. It doesn't. I look at her and I think, what can i do for you? I'll do anything you want. She has the cutest face I have ever seen and she makes the funniest faces.

Dave is amazing too. He takes her after her 4/5AM feeding and hangs out with her until she gets hungry again around 7/8. Then the poor guy goes to work for a full day and comes home and cleans the house and makes up dinner. How amazing is that! I offered a few times for him to sleep in the guest room and get a full night's sleep. He said he might take me up on it at some point. She was crying the other day and he picked her up and said "don't worry we're right here, we'll always be right here...I'm gona follow you to college" hahaha I loved it.

Last night Kayla came over to do our infant shoot. OMG the photos are amazing. Here are a few she posted on her blog: http://kaylajonesphotography.blogspot.com/






I was blown away by the comments on facebook after Emery's arrival. Everyone was so nice and happy for us. It really meant a lot. It's sad though that some of the strange/non-happy comments stick with me some times. People feel the need to tell Dave and I "oh just wait" when they hear how happy we are. It's very strange. Dave and I have promised ourselves that we will NEVER be those people that but down parenting. We are beyond happy with our little Emery and the whole world just washes away when you're with her. It's the most amazing feeling.

6 days old

On Sunday Emery had her first outing. My parents had a block party in their hood. So we put her in the carrier (so people won't touch her) and strapped her to my chest and went. They had name tags for everyone so my mom made Emery one and it said "i am 4 days old" on it. Too cute. Everyone was shocked we were out with her. She did great slept the whole time.




Monday we went to the doctor for both of us. I saw m doc in the morning about a bug bite that has taken over my arm. We went out to lunch with nat, liv, and mom. Then Dave and I went straight to Dr. Davis for Em's one week visit. She weighs 6lbs 15oz and the doc said that just doesn't happen and how great she's doing. So we asked a bunch of questions and headed home. Dave went to publix and Em and I went home to take a nap.

she is doing so good!

Baby Emery

So Monday night I went to bed worried that our baby would be born on the next day, April 20th...420. destine to be a pot head. So Tuesday around 9:00PM we knew we were in the clear and as we sat down to watch TV before bed, Dave and I both talked to my stomach and told her it was time to come out. (something we haven't done before)

I had a really good day Tuesday and felt pretty good. We went to bed around 11:00, at 1:50AM I woke up and sprinted to the bathroom. I didn't make it. I soaked my shorts and left a trail. I thought ok, this isn't right something is up. I woke up Dave and told him I thought my water just broke and then I jumped in the shower to rinse off. I called my midwife and she called right back. I told her what happened and she said to take our time, but to go to the hospital. Dave showered and we double checked out bags and headed to the NEW hospital. It was now 3:00AM as we walked in through the ER. About 10 feet before the front door I soaked myself again. I walked in and they just pointed me to the restroom. There was a very nice nurse that brought me a robe and a bag for my clothes. Dave filled out our paperwork and we were sent upstairs. I managed to soak my robe on the way up. When we go to the 3rd floor they had our room ready, room 311. They joked with me that there was no question, yes my water broke. They checked me and i was one and half cm dilated. We had a long way to go, but I wasn't having contractions and was feeling pretty good. I text messaged mom, dad, nat and liv on our ride over. The morning went pretty quick and the next thing we knew it was 7AM. Dave called work to give them a heads up and we got word that Natalie was on her way to the airport.


Almost 9AM


At 8/9AM Nurse Stone (my midwife) came over to check me. I was 2 cm dilated. Not to much change. They said they were going to let my body do it's thing and see what it was like after lunch. I was having contractions at this point but nothing big. They told me I should walk around a little so i started doing laps around the nurses station. The first time it was just me and Dave, then my parents came to visit and walked with us.



Around lunch time Stone came back and said it was time to get this party started. They told me they were going to start pitocin. (which i have come to realize is a fantastic drug) They wanted to start the pit then get me my epidural. So around 2ish we started the pit. About 30 minutes later the contractions started to get going. (meanwhile my parents have been hanging with us and got Dave some food, Liv came at 11 and Natalie was in the air, arriving Charleston around 3:30)


me and Stone

We ran into one snag, the anesthesiologist got pulled into surgery and my epidural got delayed. There was about 2-3 hours that I was NOT a happy camper. There is a photo of me flicking off the camera but i'll keep that one out of the blog. Dad said in all the years he has been taking photos of me he can never remember me not smiling for the camera. The fam left to go pick up Natalie from the aripot. A good thing b/c i was miserable.


My epidural was in by about 4:30 and I started feeling great! Natalie was here and we all just hung out. about this time nurse stone came by to check me. I was 4cm! They said at that point it was about a cm an hour. So we all just chilled.

much happier! me and Dave

At 7:00ish I was checked again and i was 10cm!! The baby was still a little far up at -1 and Stone wanted to give her a chance to move down on her own, so we waited. at 7:30 she had moved to +2/3 and it was time to start pushing. The family went to the waiting room and it was just me, Dave, Stone and our nurse Kathy. at 7:50 Baby Emery joined our family!



Dave said I did an amazing job. (i just did what they told me to do) As soon as the baby came out they put her on my chest and did the suction and whipped her down while she was on my chest. Dave and I just stared at her. We both were pretty emotional at this point. I fed her for a bit and we just hung out the 3 of us before my family came back in. Emery was in the room with us the whole time, they gave her a little sponge bath a few hours later right in the room. She is beautiful!


dad is totally in love


meeting Nana

About 11:00PM after my family left they moved us to our new room on the other side of the floor. The beds are very comfortable. I fed her and they took her to the nursery for a few hours. After they brought her back she stayed with us the rest of the night. All three of us were pretty tired and slept great.

All day Thursday we just hung out here at the hospital. I was soooo hungry Thursday morning, they didn't let me eat all day Wednesday just in case we landed in the OR. I called Prisha and she went to IHOP for us! It was sooooooo good. My family came and hung out and brought us lunch. they were here most of the day.



Emery did great all day and fed like a champ! (go Emery!) My leg started to hurt a lot that night and prevented me from sleeping. I took a little walk to see if i could walk it off and then took some pain meds and finally got to sleep.

Dr. Davis, Emery's doctor came by this morning and said she looks great and she's free to go home today. However, Stone is keeping me here b/c of my leg pain. They are sending someone up to look at in and see what's going on. So Dave and I are just chilling with Emery in the room today.

Feeling GREAT!

So right now I feel great. Showers are KEY! For some reason I always feel better after my showers. This morning Kit and I had a meeting for KMK and it went really well. We were both really pumped about it. I'm putting together the quote tonight. I'm trying to get as much in tonight as possible. Every night we go to bed thinking, is this the night? I would LOVE for her to come tomorrow b/c it's the 21st. (my birthday is 9/21, nat is 2/21 and liv is 3/21) so that would be too cool. But Dave is positive i'm going into labor on Friday afternoon. I think he has the time picked out and everything. As for the Family pool, I think my dad is the only one left in the running. Everyone had me going early.

We have our final official appointment tomorrow. Dave has revoked my driving privileges starting tomorrow, so he'll be taking me to the doc. We'll learn a lot more about induction tomorrow and what the next steps will be. I think we do an ultrasound too! I love ultrasounds!! I haven't seen her since 20 weeks. They said they do one if I'm late but i don't know how late. So we might go back in the office on Friday and do it then. We'll see.

Dave can't focus at work, he's so cute. He's sure every time I call it's go time. I try not to call too much these days b/c i know his heart races when he sees it's me.

We went to this new place for dinner the other night. It's like a Quadoba, food was good but they charge extra for sour cream!! Come on. Guac is already an extra now sour cream! Totally not going there again. It's near Wild Wings, so if I'm that close to Wings I'm going there.

speaking of wings...We had our last baby class last night. We watched 3 women give birth and learned how to push. We took another tour of the hospital and went over the baby vacuum. After class got out Dave and I went to Wild Wings, I have been obsessed with the place for a few weeks now. I get the ginger wings...OMG they are so good. Poor Dave is so limited when we pick a restaurant now, I get hooked on one place and force him to go there. Thank God he's a good sport about it. I laid off the sushi place but ummmm sushi. now i want sushi. maybe we can go tonight...

39 weeks

One week from today is my due date. Now I'm not saying I'll go on my due date, but OMG I'm due in a week!!! This is truly the home stretch. I'm feeling pretty good today. I had a hard time sleeping last night due to some pains in my ligaments and some contractions. Overall I feel good today. I think I'm going up to babies r us today at some point to exchange two things. I also might go over to habitat for humanity to see if they have a night stand for Baby's room. Right now that's the only thing that doesn't fit. I have everything else for that room though! it's perfect.

I put up more of the photos from my shoot with Kayla: http://picasaweb.google.com/melyssaferber/ShootWithKayla#.

I made my baby text list today for the hospital. I don't think i'm going to bring my computer but we'll see.

WHAT?

My friend just asked me, so how long do you have now? my answer was oh a week from tomorrow....wait what?? I can't believe she'll be here that soon. If i don't go into labor by April 23, they will be inducing me the following week, most likely that Wednesday April 28th. They don't let GD girls go past 41 weeks at this practice. I really didn't want to get induced but so be it. I'm ready to meet her!

I woke up last night around 1:30 and was up until about 4:00. Little baby decided she was going to have a small dance party and I was having some contractions. (yes, all at the same time) I went back to sleep and slept until 11:00AM....nice. I didn't feel good at all when i got up, baby was in a weird position and I was in a lot of pain. Thank God for showers. They always make me feel better. She moved back to a normal position and I felt much better after.

The plummer is coming today to fix the toilet in our bathroom and our kitchen sink, so i had to tidy up a little. I started to feel much better after moving around a little bit, even got some laundry done. Dave's boss gave us tickets for tonight's family circle cup so that should be fun. Dave might come, but most likely it will be me and mom.

Special Delivery Class

Tonight was our second class for "Special Delivery". They go over what to expect at the hospital and breathing techniques. We have one more class next Tuesday and that's it. I'm feeling really good today! I had an appointment for KMK this morning and it went really well. A good sales calls makes for a GREAT day! I'm still getting contractions daily, well hourly. They usually only hurt if i'm sitting to long. Walking is the best. My tail bone hurts a lot if i sit to long. It was killing me in class. It was really killing me at the Riverdogs game over the weekend. I was in a lot of pain.

I'm gona lay low for the next week or so and just get some sleep as much as possible. Dave is on my case to take it easy. He's got a good point, as always. I went to the doc today and I'm 1 cm and that's it. But she did poke around a bunch and i have been feeling stronger contractions tonight then before so maybe she got things moving. In our class tonight we watching a C-section. OMG it looks horrible. Scares me to death!

off to bed...

Done!

I met Liv and mom for lunch last week and I was having a somewhat uncomfortable day. I got out of the car and liv looked at me I just said "done". She laughed and said well you didn't complain for the first 38 weeks. I'm not miserable, I'm actually still very happy and content but I am ready. I'm having contractions all throughout the day now (in fact I'm having one right now) but they aren't bad. Last week there was two nights they drove me to tears but they passed. Dave was sure it was go time one of the nights. We have our bags packed and the car-seat in the car. The camera is charged up and now we're just waiting. Her room is the best! Both Dave and I are so proud of it. All we need is a night table and it's 100% complete.

Almost

Last night around midnight i woke up in pain. The tightness had started up again and I was not a happy camper. (mind you Dave is sick right now and the poor guy can't breath) So here I am wondering if i'm in labor or not, not wanting to wake up Dave if it's not really real. He did wake up and was super cute about it, just rubbed my back for a while until the pain/contractions went away. It took about an hour or so but they went away and now i'm just dealing with the tightness again.

I think I might have mentioned before that I am a member of this baby site called babycenter.com. I have been avoiding it lately b/c there are a lot of very bitchy people on the site. But i do like reading the birth announcements so I logged on this morning. First post I see is this girl writing a "letter" to her friends and family all about how she i past her due date and everyone is on her case. I realized how good i have it. There is no one up my butt about when the baby will be here and no one tells my I'm fat. This girl must have had a hard few months b/c she was pissed and anger. It was interesting to say the least.

Last week I had my maternity shoot with Kayla! http://www.kaylajonesphotography.com/ It was a blast! I put a few of the photos up in my baby album. Kayla knew exactly how she wanted me to stand and where the best backdrops would be! I can't wait to have her do our newborn photos.

I'm in the home stretch at this point, 17 days to go! They will induce me before the end of the month if I miss my due date. With a normal pregnancy they don't let you go past 42 weeks, with me it will be 41. (due to the GD I think)