Charlotte's first movie

Photo booth

Just thought it would be fun to capture a few of the faces of my baby...

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Baby Charlotte Has Arrived

So, a week late but worth the wait! At 41 weeks, I was admitted to the hospital for inducement because Charlotte just wasn't ready to come out. My mom, Greg and I checked in at 8am and found out that I was having contractions 5 minutes apart and was already dialted to 3cm (which was news to me, because I wasn't feeling ANY of the contractions). At 11am they came in to start the inducement by giving me Pitocin and a couple of hours later when I reached 6cm I really started to get uncomfortable with the contractions so opted to go with the Epidural to ease the pain. I gotta say, thank god for anti-naseau drugs!!! Ended up getting 2 shots in the IV of that stuff and thank god cause who wants to vomit while trying to push a baby out! :) By 6pm the Dr. said I was fully dialated and ready to start pushing. It took a good hour and 1/2 of pushing and wasn't too bad in the beginning but by the last 3 tries of pushing I was spent and about to ask for a break when Charlotte decided to give her mama a break and popped out! Daddy got to cut the cord. Charlotte was born 9/2/09 7:38pm and weighed 6 lbs 4.2 oz and 19 in. She was so alert and stayed awake for a couple of hours. After my shakes from all the hormones went away I finally got to nurse her and she took right to it and hasn't stopped since. Charlotte is quite the little lady and has such a sweet disposition. Greg and I are so IN LOVE with her and can't wait for all the "firsts" to come our way.

Its a GIRL!!

All I gotta say in this blog is.... YAY! I am over the moon! Here are the new pictures of baby Charlotte...

So we asked for another US today and we got one... The midwife said she thinks its a girl, but she also mentioned that it looked like the umbilical cord was in the way so she said just to look at the US they have us scheduled for in two weeks just to be sure. Greg finally got to see the baby moving around and was surprised that it has a lot of leg room. It was really moving around again and I have started to feel the baby's movements! You can see the baby's little hand in the US.

Baby Bump Alert!

So the baby bump has finally arrived now that I'm a week away from the half way mark. People said my tummy would literally pop out overnight and that it did. Just in time for Grandma's visit this weekend! Thanks to mom (grammy) the baby's room was painted this weekend and as soon as we find out what we're having the decorating will begin! I'm hoping that they will throw in a surprise ultrasound this coming Friday at the next Dr. appt but if not we'll have 2 more weeks to wait to find out.

Baby's heartbeat

So I had my Dr. visit last Friday and got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the 1st time.  It was pretty cool.  The heartbeat was 140 beats per minute and sounded nice and strong.   I have to go in for more blood tests to check for Downs and Spinabifida.  I set up the ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby and it is scheduled for April 17th (which is 2 weeks later than I had hoped for ).  My mom purchased the baby furniture as our baby shower gift and it was received over the weekend so that all got set up in the baby's room.  We will be painting in 3 weeks, so I will have to post pics when its complete.