Bili-bed leaves some time later today. The Dr's office called and said the bili levels have finally gone down enough that he'll take Alex off the bed. I'm going to snuggle with my baby for the rest of the weekend! Hopefully now he'll be able to start packing on some weight...the lights work sorta like a sauna and he's been sweating out a lot of ( Read more... )

This post is nothing but pictures and small descriptions of the pictures. Enjoy!

( Baby Alex pictures )

On April 24th at 2.58am, I delivered Alexander Owen. He was 6 pounds 15 oz and 21 inches at birth. His discharge weight was 6 pounds 11 oz. I had my dr induce me with pitocin. Yhat started around 3pm. I had no pain meds, this time by choice. Last time I was too fast for them, so I figured I'd be ok this time too. Impressively there was less ( Read more... )

So today at 2pm I'm going to be induced. I wasn't planning on it, but I can't take the waiting anymore. It's starting to stress me out ( Read more... )

Place your bets! I had my 36 week check up and got thoroughly checked out. 2 cm dilated and 60% effaced. What does this mean? Well, you have to be 10cm and 100% effaced before you start pushing out the baby. So despite my best efforts to sit on my ass and prevent my body from prepping for the end of the month, it's coming whether I like it or ( Read more... )

Four very long years ago, I was recovering in the hospital with an adorable 12 hour old Emma. Today Emma turns 4 years old and I can no longer call her my baby. She's a big girl, potty trained, playing mariokart, making her own pbj sandwiches and other big girl stuff. She's even signed up for pre-k to start in the fall ( Read more... )

People in or near Athens. Where exactly did the tornadoes touch down today? We got two UGA alerts about the tornado warnings. After the first alert, I called a friend who was working delivery and asked if he had any more info than "A tornado has touched down in ACC, please take cover". He said the first was near North ave, but weather.com put ( Read more... )

To remember those odd events like free pancake day at IHOP and free scoop day at Ben and Jerry's. I made the IHOP event, despite needing to work. I was ten minutes late and where I work, no one cared. Next time though, I think Chris will run in and grab us a table instead of staying out with me and helping Emma out of the car. It was a bit ( Read more... )

Oh My God. I do not want to ever deal with the stupidity that is GA's required immunizations. I love vaccines. They're usually pretty spiffy. They keep us from getting nasty shit like polio, measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis. Those are the "big ones" in my book. Then there are the WTF vaccines like the flu shot and ( Read more... )

Ugh. This week we're signing Emma up for pre-k. We're going to try for the actual school system one since it's free and it can also help get her into the school we want her to go to for kindergarten on up. Unlike most school systems that I'm used to, Clarke county lets you pick the school you want your child to go to. If you want to drive your ( Read more... )