Edwards Haps and Mishaps

Since Janelle is currently feeding our little Ada, I will go ahead and tell the story. If Janelle disagrees with my version of the story, its probably because she hasn’t slept more than 5 hours in the last 3 days.

I woke up Tuesday morning (June 8th) at about 4am. Janelle was already up, which never happens, and so I knew something was going on. She told me that she had started contractions and so we should be prepared to have a a baby (I’m not really sure what I would have prepared though, I do very little when it comes to the actuall labor and delivery). Anyway, contractions all day, but no baby. Lame.

Janelle got some sleep Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, but probably not enough. The contractions woke her up again around 4am. Contractions all day, like clockwork, 7 minutes apart. Painful, but not close enough for us to go to the hospital. Lame.

Janelle got NO sleep Wednesday night/Thursday Morning. None. I got a little bit of sleep, but you don’t care because this story isn’t about me, and I didn’t deliver any babies this week. By early Thursday morning, Janelle was getting pretty frustrated with her 7-minute apart contractions.  By 5am she was walking outside. The contractions got closer while she was walking, but went back to 7 minutes apart when she stopped. Lame.

Finally, we decided we were going to cheat the system by driving to the hospital and walking all around the parking lot before when went up to tell them Janelle was in labor (we had been told not to bother coming in until contractions were less than 5 minutes apart). However, on the drive to the hospital, the contractions moved under the 5 minute mark, so we decided to just go in.

We arrived at the hospital just after 11am. At the first check, Janelle was dilated to a 3. We were just happy she wasn’t a 1 anymore. We were told that if she hadn’t changed in 2 hours they would send us home. Janelle had painful contractions the entire two hours ranging from 2 minutes to 7 minutes apart. 2 hours later, she was still a 3. Lame. However, we had a sweet nurse who could tell that we did not want to leave, and since they were having a slow day, they decided to keep us for another two hours to watch the baby’s heart rate. Awesome.

Around 2pm our nurse informed us that she was going to lunch, but since nothing was happening we shouldn’t need anything. Janelle asked about getting an epidural since she had now been in early labor for over 48 hours, and had only slept for about 5 hours. She was told that her doctor said it was still too early because she was only dilated to a 3. Not cool. Janelle’s mom showed up to help. Awesome.

Within an hour Janelle’s contractions had moved so close together and so intense, she decided she must be more than a 3 and she wanted to be checked. We called the covering nurse down and asked her to please check Janelle. She told us we should just wait 5-10 minutes until our nurse was back. Then she looked at Janelle’s contraction printout thingy and decided she would check her. Good idea.

She checked Janelle and said, “No epidural for you honey, she is on her way out. I’ll go call the doctor.” WHAT? It took 2 1/2 full days to go from a 1 to a 3, and 45 minutes to go from a 3 to a 10! I’m not sure how any of it all works anyway, but I was amazed. Janelle was angry. OK, maybe angry isn’t the best term. She was ready to deliver the baby and frustrated that she was having to wait for the doctor to arrive. The next 15 minutes were probably the longest 15 minutes of Janelle’s life as she waited for the doctor and tried not to push. I have no idea what that urge feels like, but man, did she just want to push.

Our doctor walked in around 3:15pm. She geared up, got Janelle in position, said “push” and Janelle pushed. The next thing I know my little Ada is crying. Yeah, she pushed once, and Ada came right out. 10 fingers, 10 toes… healthy and CRANKY. Well, she was only cranky for the first hour. After that, she pretty much just wanted to sleep. And that is what she is doing right now. Love it. Oh yeah, stats: 7 lbs 5 oz and 20 inches long. Officially born at 3:26pm on June 10th, 2010.

Janelle was a trooper. I am so proud of her. She is an awesome mom. The best. Ada is beautiful. Very Sweet. We are glad she is finally here, and we are excited to get to know her as she grows and develops her personality.

What was I doing through all of this? Oh, well I was a trooper too. I sat right there on my stool and didn’t pass out once. That’s right. I even cut the cord without getting too sick. Janelle sure is proud of me… or too nice to tell me how much of a sissy I am.

OK. I know most of you skipped my narrative anyway, but for those who actually read it… Bonus. I’m not sure what your bonus is, but you sure get one. Pictures:

So, I’m pretty sure I was supposed to have a baby last week…right? Okay, okay…so due dates aren’t necessarily when the kid is “due.” They are just an estimation…but still. I’m ready, or as ready as I think I am going to be! I think it’ll be soon. I hope!

So, here I am at 40 weeks 2 days.

I am next to her crib…you can kind of see her cute tulip bedding…though she doesn’t really have a room. The crib is in our upstairs “loft” area…hence all the Preston pictures. We wouldn’t really fill her room with Preston…though I should probably think about adding her to the mix once she’s here huh? I will.

And here is Preston playing in all sister’s pinkness.

Well, let us hope she decides to come soon!

AND I decided that getting a new blog template was long overdue too…so here’s what I’ve got for now…it may change…who knows! I was getting sick of looking through all the options!

Baby is almost here…or at least she better be on her way soon! I am due on Saturday, so I am really hoping she isn’t a stubborn little one. The days are basically spent waiting…not wanting to do anything really. Moving around is hard. Standing up is a hassle. bending down to pick something up…no way. I’m ready. as ready as I am going to be!

Preston and I have spent a lot of time in our driveway lately. (we don’t have a yard…) So I sit in my camping chair while he drives his cars around, throws rocks, kicks balls, etc. Preston has been especially interested in baseball lately after watching Shaun play stake softball. So here are some of him…none of me yet…maybe if you are lucky I’ll post one of my growing belly…later.

Sometimes we play with a bat, but mostly a racket…okay, and a HUGE ball…that way he actually hits it :)

Here in the Edwards home I feel like we have had a pretty eventful couple of weeks. Last week Preston came up to our room in the middle of the night, which isn’t out of the ordinary, but the gagging WAS out of the ordinary. Shaun rushed him to the sink. Throw up #1. Stomach flu. Gross. He’s never had it…so I spent the rest of the wee hours of the morning and a good part of the day chasing him with a bowl, which he has grown to despise at this point.

I washed my hands raw and attempted disinfecting everything and washing everything.

Next day the runs. mmmmmm.

Feeling better the day after so we decided to go watch Tim and Jami as they ran their first half marathon! Yay! They did awesome and looked great as they passed us at mile 9.

Realized that night that Preston had poison oak from playing next to the bike trail by the river. Poor kid! One thing after another.

Then he threw up again all over our bed…more laundry. More paranoid, worried mother.

Monday, right in the middle of Shaun’s first law school final…hit with the stomach flu. Awesome. Perfect timing. He had to run out 6 or 7 times.

At this point I was still washing my hands, as they were beginning to crack.

To no avail, I came down with the flu, 8 months pregnant…super fun!

We are all well now, luckily, and Shaun is working on finishing a few more finals…with no more sickness hopefully!

We hope that you are all well and had a GRRRRREAT Mothers Day and here are a few photos just for fun.

Waiting for Tim and Jami.

Helping mom make cookies…it’s the first time he actually got to lick the beater…I’m kind of a paranoid…salmonella. (Though I’ve NEVER had it in all my cookie dough-eating years.)  I’m no fun, but since he reached in and downed a handful I decided licking the beater couldn’t do any more harm.

My first tomato flower!!

It has been awhile since I updated…so here are a few tidbits of info about our lives lately.

I am ALMOST 34 weeks pregnant at this point.

Currently I weight as much as my dad and have surpassed my husband. Weird…but pregnancy better be the ONLY time in my life I can say that.

Shaun now has an internship for the summer! YAY! (I’d tell you more info, but I’m not completely sure how to explain…I’ll have to have him write something.)

My Parents celebrated 30 years of Marriage on Monday!

Here’s my dad the day he proposed in San Francisco…

And she actually said yes…haha, kidding dad. I’m SURE you were totally stylin’ back in 1980.

Preston has mastered to use of the mouse and is currently obsessing over Boowa and Kwala.

Books of choice before nap are “The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins” and “Johnny Crow’s Garden”

The last classes of Shaun’s first year of law school end in a week! (He still needs to endure finals…)

Thanks to the advice of Shaun’s mom we purchased a sound machine and we go to sleep at the beach or in the jungle fairly often these days. (And it has actually helped us sleep better!)

I know there are more random facts but can’t think of them! So here are a few random photos. Hopefully i will be back to write soon!

I meant to post these AWHILE ago…I think they are from February? But here are a few things we like to do when bored.

#1- make lots of bubbles and play in the sink. I can get dinner done and Preston is right there next to me, not picking his nose until it bleeds, eating his scabs, making new scabs, or pulling down his poop-filled pull-ups. (Yes, he has done all of those recently.)

Starts out like this:

Usually (Okay, always) ends up like this:

#2-Playing in the rain, though we haven’t had much lately…which is pretty nice!

Other than that, pregnancy is going well…I am almost 30 weeks!! What? really? That’s crazy. I feel good…except for the aches and pains of having a small child lodged in your rib cage…otherwise, great! This little girl will be here before we know it!

Shaun is on spring break and that is just wonderful! Though he can’t escape the homework all week we have at least been able to get out and take walks, go to the park, bike rides (which I’m a real sight on the bike at this point…) I hope you are all having a great week!

Shaun hometeaching…

Thank you Brother Mahoney.

Recently my awesome mother-in-law got me a sewing machine…and though I am still trying to become a master seamstress (actually very far from it…) I have come out with a couple decent looking projects. My most recent, a baby blanket for new baby sister! Not that I am trying to show off my work…but sort of I am because it actually looks like a blanket! I surprised myself. I know, I know, sewing two squares of fabric together shouldn’t be that hard…and it wasn’t, only after the fact that I sewed the edge on wrong and had to get out the seam ripper and really had no idea what I was doing, just guessing as I went until eventually my mom came in and saved my from myself and told me how to do it…which was WAAAAY easier than what I was trying to do. Sewing two squares together can be harder than I thought. So here is the finished product:

And then some photos of our recent trip to the Folsom Zoo. It’s pretty small, but perfect for a short trip and Preston had fun!

Definitely a lot of peacocks…and they aren’t too afraid of people.

Preston and a wolf.

THE END.

We attempted a photo shoot with Kelsey’s new little baby, Miller.  He is so precious!! Holding a teensy one makes me excited to have my own…though, I have to remember that it isn’t all cute clothes and snuggles…I have to keep reminding myself of that! I have to break my “equipment” into nursing again, and feed every couple hours…even through the night, change a zillion mustard poops (many of which will be up to her neck perhaps…) BUT, it is oh so worth it when I hear, “Mommy, you snuggle me?” or “Mommy, you nice girl. You priddy an you get flowers.” Kids are totally worth it.

And of course, I had to prop Preston up on the table…though I never get much from him…I still think he’s cute :)

Here is the first outfit bought after my ultrasound on Friday…

Though I do realize it also has gray, orange, and blue…I am adjusting from buying boy clothes to GIRL clothes! As far as we could tell there is a girl growing inside me! Kind of crazy…I kept calling it a him…but now we know it’s not a him! Shaun was in shock…but once we got to Target he started throwing all kinds of girlie things into the basket…I think he is going to like having a daddy’s girl :)