We Moved!

So, 10 days after Shelbs is born, someone knocks on our door. We had the house for sale off and on for about 4 years. All the sudden, when its off the market, someone wants to buy it. Great, let's do this and go find a new house. This took up the majority of my leave - finding a new house, doing the financing, packing, moving stuff into a storage shed because we moved out a week before we closed on our new house, then finally moving in and unpacking and getting settled.

We LOVE our new place. It is big and open and room for all of us. We have a great big backyard and a brand new swing set. We can play and have fun and live together but not on top of each other. Shelbs and Belle each have their own rooms. It's great.


Now I am back at work :( after too quick a leave and wishing I was still home whit my babies. The amount I am paying in daycare is insane and I am working on talking Hubs into letting me stay home, but who knows.

I can't complain though. Shelbs is sleeping through the night most nights and is a great baby. She has taken to cloth diapers well and only poops about once a week. Live is very good. I just miss my girls when I'm at work.

RSV

But also during my leave, when Shelby was 7 weeks old, she was diagnosed with RSV. This was apparently a really bad year for it and I have learned so much about it. Basically, in us it is really bad cold. In a baby or newborn, its a cold that can get them hospitalized. That's what happened with us. When I took her in to see our provider her oxygen levels were ok and we started nebulizer treatments. We had to go back in every few days to check her oxygen levels and see how things were going. Well, one morning she was coughing and coughing and coughing and NOTHING helped. I took Belle to daycare and ran over to see our provider. We were admitted to the hospital that afternoon because her oxygen levels were too low and she needed support.

We were there for two and a half days before being able to go home. It was scary, but we got through it and she is MUCH better now. Word to the wise, don't ignore your instincts. I almost didn't take her in since I thought it was just a runny nose. So glad that I did.

Birth Story

Ok. I know. I have been away too long. But I have good reasons. I had a baby. We sold our house. We had find a new house and all that goes along with that. We were in the hospital with a 7 week old baby girl with RSV. We moved into our new house. And now I am back to work.

So let's start at the beginning. January 23 I woke up at midnight in labor. Since Belle took 30 hours I figured I had plenty of time. But I was in a lot of pain. And the contractions were 2-3 minutes apart, so about 12:20 I called my midwife at the hospital and she told me to come in. We called MIL to come over and watch Belle, and we were off. It was colder than crud out and Hubs didn't want to drive to fast because his truck had to warm up. Then he started to time my contractions and when he realized how close they were, he sped things up.

We got there about 1:45am and I asked for IV drugs. I wanted a natural birth, but MAN this was intense. They did a cervical check and I was already in transition so we decided I didn't really need them anyway. About 2am my water broke and I was already pushing. At 2:36am my BEAUTIFUL baby girl, Shelby, was born.

It was amazing. It was all natural. And it was WAY too fast for my comfort. I mean, we were there for 45 minutes before she was born and that was it.

She was perfect - 21.5 inches long, 8lbs, 15oz. She latched on almost immediately after birth and stopped me from bleeding too much. She breast feeds like a champ which I couldn't be happier about.