William (Liam) Jeffrey Cox
September 28 2011
6 lbs 9oz
18.5 inches
Friday, September 30, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Perfect
Last weekend was a wonderful weekend! My baby shower was Saturday morning, which was fun. Since I spent all day cleaning last Friday to get ready for my baby shower Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon found us sitting around without much to do! The weather was actually nice. It almost felt like fall out there - my most favorite time of the year.
Bill decided to work outside and fix up some yard stuff. Men....you have no idea what it does for your wives when you get off your butt and go do some work for the heck of it. No idea. Anyhoo - Miriam decided to go outside and help. Well, some of the time.
It was a very contented sort of feeling. Awesome day!
Bill decided to work outside and fix up some yard stuff. Men....you have no idea what it does for your wives when you get off your butt and go do some work for the heck of it. No idea. Anyhoo - Miriam decided to go outside and help. Well, some of the time.
Friday, September 23, 2011
The Waiting Game
Had some contractions Monday. Nothing much was going on Tuesday, but Wednesday evening I was really wondering if we were going to have a baby! Nope, I'm still here, he's still in there. But still. It was a little crazy.
My Dr. appointment on Wednesday was my first one gettingmanhandled my cervix checked. I am about 2 cm dilated and not really effaced at all (aka thick cervix). Weird. But apparently normal for subsequent pregnancies. Lots of contractions that night (until I took a warm shower) so maybe that's a little different now. My blood pressure is climbing little bit which makes me really unhappy. It was 136/90. That's the highest my blood pressure has ever been in my life. EVER. But I did eat Top Ramen for lunch the entire week before my appointment. And made fried rice for dinner Tuesday night. And was busy that day and semi-nervous for getting "checked" so I am hoping with lots of water and fruit (and some veggies, I'll try anyway) I can bring that number down.
My Dr asked if I would want to be induced or wait for things to happen naturally. Which was weird in that there isn't a reason yet to be induced. Whatever for? Do I want to be strapped to an IV before labor is even really going? Not so much. But once I'm ready for an epidural baby... (And of course if the blood pressure doesn't come down this will turn into a different conversation)
Friend of mine's daddy tells us this storm that just came through Atlanta might have been contributing to all the extra contractions. And strangely enough, the last couple days have been better. Go figure. Anyway.
Since working on my Blurb book I'm realizing how much I am going to forget in 4 years. Right now I want to remember what it felt like to play the waiting game.
It's so strange, how I've done "this" before, but it's still entirely different this time! No pre-term labor, no bed rest. I don't know what to expect from this kid. And I kinda HATE it. I am in fact trying to prepare now, and just live my life the rest of the time. But everything feels very unknown. Gotta stop thinking about it....
My Dr. appointment on Wednesday was my first one getting
My Dr asked if I would want to be induced or wait for things to happen naturally. Which was weird in that there isn't a reason yet to be induced. Whatever for? Do I want to be strapped to an IV before labor is even really going? Not so much. But once I'm ready for an epidural baby... (And of course if the blood pressure doesn't come down this will turn into a different conversation)
Friend of mine's daddy tells us this storm that just came through Atlanta might have been contributing to all the extra contractions. And strangely enough, the last couple days have been better. Go figure. Anyway.
Since working on my Blurb book I'm realizing how much I am going to forget in 4 years. Right now I want to remember what it felt like to play the waiting game.
It's so strange, how I've done "this" before, but it's still entirely different this time! No pre-term labor, no bed rest. I don't know what to expect from this kid. And I kinda HATE it. I am in fact trying to prepare now, and just live my life the rest of the time. But everything feels very unknown. Gotta stop thinking about it....
Monday, September 19, 2011
Silly body: Contractions are for labor
I am sitting here madly trying to finish a Blurb book I bought a Groupon for a couple months ago with the intent of making my blog into a book since it journals some extra stuff for me. Especially the first year of my daughters life. And when I say "madly trying to finish" I mean, I've been thinking about it for days, but it takes FOREVER, which has been deterring me. I've only set up 10 pages and the original download was - I kid you not - 150 pages. I am doing things like putting more than one post on each page etc. I was trying to decide what posts to include, but really, I'll just put them all in. Much simpler. Anyway, I only have until October 4th to do my order. So this is where you find me most evenings.
It is fun to see some information that I haven't thought about in...forever! I was just reading a post from the 19th of October 2007 and I read that my baby's head wasn't engaged yet and we might have to figure out why soon, or if she was breech. Like...really?? I didn't even remember that was remotely an issue!
But maybe I'll try to record a few more pregnancy things for my second Blurb book go around. For example, I had completely forgotten that I developed pregnancy arthritis (I don't know that that is what it is exactly. Only my finger joints get really sore, especially in the morning.) in my hands when I was pregnant with Miriam. Until I started waking up with it in THIS pregnancy. This time, my joints stay generally sore all day long. But night time/ morning time is a lot worse. At least this goes away. And maybe I'll completely forget about it again.
I have not had pre-term labor this time! As a matter of fact, as of tomorrow, I am 37 weeks. No one will try to stop my labor if it starts. I have been much more aware of contractions this pregnancy. It is very interesting because I don't know that I ever noticed them before my pre-term labor with my first pregnancy. Although I guess this is pretty standard, to notice them much more subsequent pregnancies. Sometimes I have quite a few. Never enough for me to call the Dr about, but enough for me to lay down for a few hours sucking down water. Today was a "ton of contractions" sort of day. The difference was if they had kept up for more than an hour or so like they were, I WOULD have called the Dr today. They've slowed down now. But I've had a lot today. And frankly, it's creeping me out. Like, I could have this baby anytime. And no one would try and stop me.
So, I may have finally started packing a hospital bag, and a bag for Miriam. And I should really write a birth plan. We joke that we know that this baby is a boy, because I am not nearly as prepared as I would normally be. It's a lot of eh, I should do that huh?
In any case, I'm going to put away the computer now, because believe it or not, sitting propped up like this makes my contractions come back. And I'd like to go to sleep now. I still have to write a birth plan tomorrow.
It is fun to see some information that I haven't thought about in...forever! I was just reading a post from the 19th of October 2007 and I read that my baby's head wasn't engaged yet and we might have to figure out why soon, or if she was breech. Like...really?? I didn't even remember that was remotely an issue!
But maybe I'll try to record a few more pregnancy things for my second Blurb book go around. For example, I had completely forgotten that I developed pregnancy arthritis (I don't know that that is what it is exactly. Only my finger joints get really sore, especially in the morning.) in my hands when I was pregnant with Miriam. Until I started waking up with it in THIS pregnancy. This time, my joints stay generally sore all day long. But night time/ morning time is a lot worse. At least this goes away. And maybe I'll completely forget about it again.
I have not had pre-term labor this time! As a matter of fact, as of tomorrow, I am 37 weeks. No one will try to stop my labor if it starts. I have been much more aware of contractions this pregnancy. It is very interesting because I don't know that I ever noticed them before my pre-term labor with my first pregnancy. Although I guess this is pretty standard, to notice them much more subsequent pregnancies. Sometimes I have quite a few. Never enough for me to call the Dr about, but enough for me to lay down for a few hours sucking down water. Today was a "ton of contractions" sort of day. The difference was if they had kept up for more than an hour or so like they were, I WOULD have called the Dr today. They've slowed down now. But I've had a lot today. And frankly, it's creeping me out. Like, I could have this baby anytime. And no one would try and stop me.
So, I may have finally started packing a hospital bag, and a bag for Miriam. And I should really write a birth plan. We joke that we know that this baby is a boy, because I am not nearly as prepared as I would normally be. It's a lot of eh, I should do that huh?
In any case, I'm going to put away the computer now, because believe it or not, sitting propped up like this makes my contractions come back. And I'd like to go to sleep now. I still have to write a birth plan tomorrow.
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