Birth Plan

Well, I finally sat down and worked on my birth plan. Very excited. I think I may go through and make some changes over time. I'm really excited to share this with my doctor and get his advice on it. Well, here it is..

Birth Plan

People:

·         I would like my partner to stay with me at all times

·         I would like to allow other family members or children to visit me in the hospital

Monitoring:

·         I prefer intermittent rather than continuous fetal monitoring, if possible. During contractions this causes a lot of extra pain for me

Anaesthesia/Pain Relief:

·         Please do not offer pain medication, instead offer advice on different labouring positions and breathing techniques

·         All medical intervention must be approved by myself and my husband before doing

Tearing & Episiotomy

·         I would like to avoid an episiotomy as much as possible, please let me tear naturally

Labour:

·         I want to be free to move or walk around

·         I would like to drink clear fluids instead of being hydrated through an IV. I wish to eat and drink freely throughout labour

·         I would like to labour in my own clothes

Induction:

·         I would like to try natural methods of movement/position before using pitocin

·         I would like the amniotic membrane broken before trying other methods to augment labour

C-Section:

·         I would like to avoid a c-section, unless ABSOLUTELY necessary

·         I would like a second opinion from another physician if time permits

·         If a c-section takes place my partner is to stay with the baby at all times

 Delivery:

·         I would like to use a mirror so I can see the delivery

·         I would like to touch the baby’s head during crowning

·         I would like to push when I feel like it rather than being coached

Immediately after the birth and newborn care:

·         Please place our baby skin to skin immediately after delivery – I would like to breastfeed

·         I would like my partner to cut the umbilical cord

·         I would like to continue holding my baby through delivery of the placenta and newborn procedures.

·         I would like to spend as much time as possible with my baby to breastfeed before being measured and weighed

·         If our baby must go to the nursery, my husband will accompany our baby at all times

·         I do not want to be separated from my baby during newborn procedures (when possible)

Postpartum:

·         I would like to have my baby in the room with me

·         Assuming I feel up to it and our baby is healthy, I would like to be released as soon as possible

Dr. Appointment

Well, I had another doctors apt today. Blood pressure was actually good again instead of really low! Yay me. Baby's heart rate was 144 bpm. Sounds like horses galloping. I had a different doctor as mine is on holidays. First thing he asked me was if this was my first. I said no, my second. Then he asked me if cam fell out or if I had to push lol funny guy! So I gave him a quick over view. He asked if I had an epidural, I said no just a shot of Demerol. He seemed to be impressed that I didn't give into the epi. He also fully believes I can give birth naturally like I plan on doing! Yay for having a doctor confirm that yes I can do this. I weighed in at 120 so I've gained another 5 lbs since my last appointment 4 weeks ago. Not too shabby. I'm not concerned about weight as I know I can afford to gain some and keep it on. But I figure I keep gaining at the same rate I am now I'll be about 145 ish by the time I give birth if not more. Not gona lie that scares me a bit. Considering I usually weigh between 105 and 109. I'm thinking I might be pretty uncomfortable with an xtra 40 lbs on. Let's hope I plateau for a few weeks :$ but that's all I have for today folks..

Happy Valentines Day!
TTFN

Excited at 8 in the morning??

Good Morning Peeps :)
I am having a FANTASTIC morning! Hope your's is the same. Camron is at my parents right now having a sleepover at the cabin. I am a little jealous.. Then Shawn is gone to work. So I'm sitting here, just my dog, cat, and myself and I am having a great morning. Want to know why? Well regardless, I don't care if you want to know, I'm going to tell you why because I want to! hahaha

So it all started a couple days ago when I was cruising on one of the many baby forums I'm enrolled in. Someone mentioned freezer meals for after baby is born. I thought to myself "hey, that's a fantastic idea. I'll have to check it out". Well this morning I actually had time to check it out and let me tell you, I am amazed.
I have no idea how this new baby is going to be, or how much energy/time I'm going to have afterwards. And feeding my family and myself good wholesome meals is really important to me. Not to mention I will be breastfeeding and want our newest addition to be getting great nutrition from mom for her to grow and thrive. In the back of my mind I was panicking to tell you the truth. I lived with my parents after having Cam and I didn't have to cook for myself. It was never a worry. Now all of the sudden I'm going to have a 6 year old (at the time baby comes) just fresh out of school whom I imagine will get bored very easily after having such busy days and being accustomed to a school routine. Not to mention a newborn. I have no idea if she will be colic, or need to feed every hour, or if she will be a really easy baby like Cam was. I don't imagine I will get lucky enough to have another easy baby. Regardless, I wont have any idea till she is here. I have no clue whether or not I will have the energy to be preparing home cooked meals, keeping the house clean or even be able to shower. I will get lucky tho, when baby is born Shawn gets 4 days off which will accumulate to 12 days at home being able to help me out and help me get into the groove of having having two kids.

I'll get to the point now. How awesome would it be to have a month worth the meals sitting in the freezer? It would free up my time. All I'd have to do is put it in the oven and viola I have a balanced meal for my fam.. Sounds like a pretty great idea hey? Well to tell you the truth I'm not a horrible cook, but I most definitely am not a chef. But on the bright side I've found some websites with freezer recipes. Who doesn't like to try something new? So not only do I plan on having a month worth the meals in the freezer but we get to try out new recipes at the same time.

The first website I've found is http://onceamonthmom.com/ . Let me tell you, this site is amazing. There are all sorts of different menus to choose from. Traditional menus, gluten/dairy free menus, diet menus, whole foods menu, vegetarian menus, as well as home made baby food menus. How fantastic. I do plan on making baby food this time around. I do not like the idea of all the preservatives in jarred food. If I make it, I know what's in it. I plan on taking recipes from the whole foods, traditional, diet, and vegetarian menus. Just to have a little spice in life. As well as try new things.

The second website I found was http://budgetbytes.blogspot.com/2012/01/smoothie-packs-my-favorite-smoothie.html. What a great way to have a snack ready to be prepared. Camron and I love smoothies. I hate the time it takes to chop up the fruits and get them ready. This way I could do it all at once, freeze, then toss in the blender with some milk and again viola. A quick healthy snack when we need a pick me up.

I wish you could all see how super excited I am about this. I am actually giddy right now! :)

Is this a one time thing or will I continue it to make life a little easier? This I'm not too sure of. I'm hoping Linda and my mom won't mind helping me out with this. We will try it out once. If we like it we will keep it up. But I can't always rely on help from others. So if we decide that this is a great fit into our family life I will keep doing it. But I will most likely do a week or two at a time. Which will make it a little easier for one person to handle.

Well, that's all for now folks.
TTFN have a great day

Results Are In

Well.. We had our gender scan and the results are in! We will be expecting a baby girl in June. Did I ever mention that I love my OBGYN? He is one incredible man! We got into his office and he asked "Is there any particular reason why you are here today?" well I must have looked at him with hopeful eyes because I didn't have to say anything and he knew within seconds. So he sends me into the room with the ultrasound machine and Shawn and him follow. He asked what I thought it was. I said girl. So he starts looking around in there and baby is currently breach (which would explain why it feels like someone is scratching my cervix, because she is). Breach position makes it really difficult to tell the sex, not to mention the umbilical cord was between babies legs. So I'm laying there kind of freaking out to myself thinking he's not going to be able to tell us and we might have to come back another time. He looked from every angle he could possibly look from. He is such good energy to be around he was making sure to show us parts of the baby and you could just see that he was excited to show us. He gave us a 90% Girl! Said the highest he could give anyone was 97%. That's pretty impressive. He's got a flawless rep as well. I've never heard of him being wrong. If memory serves me correctly he only gave us a 90% that Cam was a boy.
Before Shawn was home for 30 seconds he had it broadcasted on facebook. I think that's one proud daddy :) I'm excited he's going to get his "daddy's little girl". It's been a busy stressful couple of days here so that's why I didn't post an update on blogger till now.
I've also realized through this experience how lucky I am to have Shawns family in my life. Linda cried with excitement. Paul doesn't want to know, but we all know he wanted a Girl. My parents reaction is a rant for another post that I don't really feel like getting into. Don't get me wrong, they are excited for us. It's what is actually going on in the back of their minds that makes me upset. Although they don't know how to hold their tongue and make their "wishes" quite clear. But like I said, a story for another time.
Anyhow
Hope you have a fantastic day!
TTFN

Little Alien

Get to see my little space invader today! Pretty excited! Not excited about drinking a litre and a half of water but what can you do. Hoping for 10 fingers, 10 toes and a perfectly developing baby. Shawn has me paranoid about birth defects and mental disorders. Thanks babe, next time keep your concerns to yourself, PUNK! Who does that to a pregnant woman? At least he's being honest tho. Wednesday we get to find out the sex of our little alien.. Who's excited? Because I know that I am! For a mom who likes nothing more than to be prepared finding out the gender sure makes life a heck of a lot easier. Considering its nearly impossible to buy gender neutral clothing.
Also, I've had my eye on this bassinet from Sears. Guess what? They no longer stock it. Thanks a lot sears! You Suck! But.... On the bright side I found the same one in GP that has hardly been used, still in immaculate condition for about $125 less than I would have paid buying it brand new. This wonderful woman is going to hold it for me until I go over to Grande Prairie in March. Yippee. I love saving money :)
That's all I have for today, need to wake up Mr. Camron and get him ready for school and get on that litre and a half of water.
Hope everyone has a Fantastic Monday :)
TTFN

Slacker!!

Holy Smokes! I can not believe how much I've been avoiding posting in the blog. What a disgrace, on the bright side it's only been two weeks. Not too much has been going on around here to tell you the truth. Seems were just counting down the days. I'm currently 19weeks 6days with approx 142 days to go, 2 more days until we hit the half way mark. We have a fairly busy week ahead of us. I have my ultrasound at the hospital tomorrow, Monday Feb 6th. This will check and make sure everything is developing properly and re-confirm my due date. Then after that I go and get the second part of my blood test to check for genetic abnormalities. Then back to work Tuesday. Then Wednesday after work another ultrasound to determine the gender.

Remember about a month ago when I was posting about babies movement?? I was horribly mistaken. Stupid Gas!! I can not believe how differently I'm carrying this baby. He/She is way back there and I am very lucky if I happen to feel anything. And if I do feel anything I know that no one else would be able to pick it out as movement. The only reason I am able to feel anything is because I can feel from the inside and just barely on the outside.

I was talking to my mom about it and she said she carried the boys up front and I hid in the back. Who knows, maybe we will get our little girl? Either way I'm happy. All my pregnancy all I ever wanted was one or the other. Never satisfied with what I didn't want at the time. Now I'm happy to say I have no preference. Which is good! Because I don't have a choice in the matter :)

Lately I've been going on and on about how much I dislike my job and thinking about cutting back my hours. At the same time its almost the middle of February then in the middle of March I'm booking a week off. Which I'm hoping will make it a little more bearable to stay there. Then I only plan on working till the end of May. It's not that far from now in all honesty. And if all else fails I'll cut back my availability and not work Mondays which only looses me 2 days a month which is only 10 hours. Then I wont have to work 6 days in a row anymore and will get 3 days off twice a month. I think doing that will make a world of difference. There is a lot of stuff I want to get done before baby gets here and just taking off my last month of pregnancy will sure help. Then if I change my availability in May it will sure help me feel like June is coming.