hahaha

Current mood: amused

Natalia laughed yesterday! It was sooo cute. It was an actual "hahaha" laugh! now if i can only get her to do it again....

Sniffles

Current mood: sneezy

Natalia has a cold now. She got it from her cousin Danny and she has snot running all over the place, is cranky and sleepy and developed a fever today. It was only 101.1 degrees, so we are giving her Tylenol. Guess that means another day that she doesn't get to go have lunch with her Daddy. And does anything break your heart more than having to hold your baby down as she's screaming and flailing to suction out her nose? It's so sad!
Oh, I also have a cold.

She's growing

natalia weighs 11 pounds (4.99kg) now! She gained 1.5lbs in one month, she is so heavy now. it is hard to carry her in her carseat. i dont know how lisa carries danny, its just insane. and she is so cute! shes smiling all the time now. and she chats with us, and yesterday she was purposely pulling on the toys on her bouncer. i thought she would never get control over her arms. there are still a lot of involuntary spasms, but she has deliberate movements now. yay!

baby mullet

Current mood: confused

my baby has a mullet!!! all that hair that she was born with is already getting longer. unfortunately, like most babies she is losing a lot of that pretty hair. REALLY unfortunate is the fact that she is losing that hair on the sides of her head creating a mullet. she still has hair on the top. and i just cant bring myself to cut her hair. how do i make it grow back in the bald spots?

Natalia update

Current mood: exhausted For a few weeks now she has been able to track me with her eyes and yesterday she started trying to "use" her bouncer. She was bouncing herself and hitting the rattles to turn the lights on. She seems so big now, absolutely huge. If the scale in my parents' bathroom was correct, she is now over 9lbs. Crazy! Well, that's pretty much all she does besides eat, cry and poop (notice I didn't say sleep?).

Not being pregnant is nice

The benefits of not being pregnant anymore:
No more heartburn as soon as I'm done eating
No more heartburn because it's been too long since I've eaten
No more heartburn just because I'm breathing...
I am able to sleep in my bed again
Getting in and out of the car is getting easier
Pants are staying up better
My feet aren't swollen
Much less back pain
I don't have to sleep in a semi-sitting position to avoid vomiting in my sleep
I can wear my wedding ring again
My fingers don't hurt anymore when I flex them
Most of my joints have stopped popping
Even though I'm still not sleeping, I have much more energy
I'm losing weight instead of gaining it!
I can go 4 hours without peeing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do miss the little internal heater though, it's kind of cold now.

But I do have an adorable little baby I get to play with, well, more like AT. There isn't a lot of interaction at this point, but she's so cute to watch!

Most of you know already

that I finally had the baby. Yes, Tara, I "pushed that kid out" finally! I thought the day would never come, then when it did, I wished it hadn't. I had been having contractions since Wednesday morning, but they were very small. Friday they got stronger, but they were still ok and I thought "ok, I'm going to be able to do this" since everything was building gradually. I was uncomfortable, sometimes in some pain, but I would count to 60 and it would be over. Friday night they got a little stronger where I needed Bruno to rub my back when they came, but it was still ok, I was able to keep doing whatever I wanted in between them and they were 8-20 minutes apart. Then, at 8:50 PM on 10/19, my water broke. We arrived at the hospital at about 10:30 and I was admitted at about midnight.
Since my water had broken, but my contractions were still too irregular to be considered "active labor" they started giving my pitocin. Not only did this make the contractions much stronger, but they were also much sharper and right on top of each other. By about 4:30, I couldn't cope with them anymore, I was becoming exhausted so I asked them to give me something for the pain. Because I was only dilated to 2.5 cm, they wouldn't give me an epidural, so they gave me phenti-something, a narcotic. I thought, "this will be ok, I know that it will still hurt, but I will be stoned and won't care, right?" WRONG!!!! All it did was make me even more tired, but the contractions were so strong, I couldn't sleep, so I was very worn out.
I finally got the epidural at 6AM (administered by the worst anesthesiologist ever, he stabbed me at least 6 times while trying to find the right spot, but every time he did, he would wiggle the needle around to try and get it in the right spot, hitting every nerve possible in my spinal column; it felt like someone was dragging a knife up and down my hip bone) and at 8:20 AM informed the nurse that I needed to push.
She agreed with my since she could feel the head only about 2 inches in when she checked me, and after only 30 mins of pushing (ha, beat that Lisa!), out came my little baby girl.
She was pretty icky and purple, but I decided to keep her anyway. She was 7lbs 15.2 oz and over 19 in long.
We named her Natalia (no middle name) Montes Borges.
We are very happy to have her home, but also very tired.