When I answer and you hear a newborn screaming along with my huge dog barking and I tell you I'm sorry but it's not a good time you should listen. However you didn't listen and continued to talk while my dog barked. When he ran at the door and my toddler peed herself right in front of you (while the baby was still screaming) and I again said now is not a good time, I am not interested you should really get the hint. Again you didn't and that is why I had to shut the door in your face.
Sincerely,
Annoyed Mother
Sorry that's my rant for the day. I had just gotten Leah relaxed and asleep when they decided to show up. Im usually pretty considerate when people come to my door but don't try and mess with Mama Bear when she is trying to take care of her kiddos. It has already taken me over an hour to try and put away one basket of laundry. You think I have time to chat about joining your religion? Newsflash-I don't. Nothing against the Jehovah's or anything I just need to get back to cleaning up pee, poop and find the time to change out of my PJ sweatpants into my daytime sweats. Don't be jealous of my wardrobe right now.
On to the actual post im trying to write.
LABOR WITH LEAH
Well I was hoping to have some awesome labor story to share with you but sadly I don't have one. It's pretty much like I sneezed and she was born. Ok so not really, it just felt that way compared to Kaelyn. On Friday evening (June 1st) I was having contractions. Nothing new. The dog was starting to act really strange. Kept coming up and resting his head on my belly. A few hours later the contractions were getting worse. I called the midwife and she said I could probably stay at home a bit longer since I had such a long labor with Kaelyn. Not long after I talked with her I felt it was time to go. FYI a Jeep + bumpy hill + contractions = nothing I ever want to do again. I think I even said no more kids as we kept hitting all the pot holes! Get checked into the hospital and they inform me I am already dilated to an 8 should just get ready to have her. UMMMMMM HELL NO- I NEED AN EPIDURAL. They weren't sure if I would have time for one but ended up getting it right before I couldn't. PHEW! This pregnancy and labor was totally opposite of Kaelyn's.
Weight gain-
K- over 50 lbs. Yes, your eyes aren't mistaken that says 50! I had the worst cankles. ever.
L- not even 20lbs. Cankle free baby!
Sickness-
K-Almost daily
L- Hardly ever
Labor-
K-1 day late.18 hours. Pushing for a solid 3 hours dripping sweat, my entire body was sore before I even pushed her out.
L- 2 weeks early.Not really sure it was so fast. Just a few hours and only pushed a couple of times. Never broke a sweat.
Baby stats-
K- 11:37am 7.9lbs 21.5inches
L- 12:52am 6.8lbs 19.5inches
Recovery-
K-Awful. So many stitches I had to sleep on the couch for a week and felt like a semi truck and crashed into my lady parts.
L- So much easier! No crashing semi truck this time. More like a razor scooter which is much more manageable!
The two things both labors had in common? The Mariners game was on and Aaron was watching it and my midwife had "stretched" me earlier in the day. Pretty darn painful but it has sent me into labor the same day twice now so I am a believer that it works!
I had a lot of family and my BFF in and out with Kaelyn and with Leah it was just Aaron and I. As much as I loved sharing that experience with family and friends I must admit it was really nice just having it be the two of us there this time around. The only issues I had this time was the smell of my deodorant driving me nuts! I wore a different kind and the smell was annoying me so bad I almost wanted to shower before I had the baby. Also my IV was placed in a bad spot and I couldn't bend my wrist which got pretty bothersome really fast!
Since Leah was born at 1am we got the rest of the night and until 11am the next day to just have it be us with no visitors. It was nice. I wish I would have slept! The nurses said we had the quietest baby on the floor that night. If only it would have lasted! We had a few visits from family and some nice woman came in and blessed Leah for us. Nobody did this with Kaelyn. I wonder if it was because Aaron and I weren't married when she was born. *tisk-tisk-tisk*
The biggest fiasco was Prince the dog freaking out that we had abandoned him and getting uncontrollable diarrhea all over the living room carpet while we were gone. Not even 48 hours after Aaron had finished shampooing them! I guess the rhea continued for him the next day all over the garage. Aaron had to leave the hospital, come home and re shampoo it all before I would even consider coming back home!
We are so blessed to have another perfectly healthy baby girl. Kaelyn loves to give her kisses and has turned out to be quite the helper. We were kind of concerned at first because when she came to visit us in the hospital she took one look at her sister and went into the corner and started spitting on her shoes! I thought we were doomed for sure but am happy to report she had a change of heart!
If you think you are saved from reading about my trials and tribulations of attempting to breastfeed you guessed wrong! That is such a long story I think it deserves it's own post. Mucho props to the other titty slaves out there trying to breastfeed their babies. It takes a whole new level of dedication. Well it does for me since apparently my boobs hate me.
A proud big sissy. FINALLY!
<3
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