Baby George

So this is the very short summed-up version of my birth story.  I'll hopefully find time to add details later.  :)



Made a plan to be induced for May 3rd (not with the doctor, I just decided that would happen), water broke at 1:45am (4/26), laid in bed until 2:30, went in around 3:30, got to hospital around 4:30am.  Gush in parking lot.  Embarrassing at counter.  Nothing.  Pill at 9:30am.  Nothing.  NO FOOD!!   Pill at 1:30pm, another at 1:45.  STARVING!!!  (stole 4 bites of Patrick's sandwich...shh!)  Nothing.  Contractions at 4:45pm.  Pitocin at 5:30, upped the dose at 6:30, sucky, sucky, sucky, checked at 7pm was at a 4.  Epidural by 7:20.  Funny nurse.  Pressure/pain...checked at 9pm'ish, I thought I"d be a 6, she thought I'd be a 10.  Was an 8 that turned to 10 as she checked.  Everyone came in.  Pushed twice "ooh look hair!  Do you want to see?"  Push twice more and bam, baby.  9:17pm 8 lbs 1.5oz, 19 1/2 inches long, 14" head circumference.  Smallest baby ever...but not really as it turns out Isabelle was 8 lbs 1.3oz, so really she was 0.2oz smaller.  Put baby on my stomach right after 'cuz we wanted to wait to cut the cord, the nurse held him in place while we waited, which I thought was weird as I was all prepared to do it.  Nursed baby, nurse brought me a chicken wrap.  Patrick went and got Taco Bueno (it's more bueno!).  Patrick stayed night, went to friend's thing Saturday, came back brought me subway then went home.  Friends came, left.  Thought we'd have to stay until Monday because my water broke so early they thought the baby needed observation.  Changed their minds, went home Sunday around 5:30 after Patrick got there from church.  Totally forgot to take any pics while I was in labor or of me holding the baby right after...or of Patrick holding the baby right after...bah.

Good baby, tend to block out how sucky the first two weeks of no sleep are.  Seems to be getting better now.  Nursing problems first week, all cleared up.  Baby had to get circumcised this week, that was much sadder than when it's done at the hospital.  Has hair (weird) will probably fall out next week like James's did and then get covered in baby acne and be ugly for a month or so....just in time for Grandma to visit! ;)

To cut or not to cut...

Yes I know we already visited this topic in the last post, but it's a month later and I'm still torn.  This is why I think I should NOT cut bangs:

• If I change my mind, it takes a really long time to grow them out again.
• It's nice to not have to deal with my bangs as a separate entity from the rest of my hair after getting out  of the shower.
• Some celebrities, whose looks I admire, do not have bangs.
• My forehead isn't that big, so I can do okay without bangs.
• Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, your bangs look really stupid.  This comes from having naturally curly hair.  Sometimes they just won't straighten or hang in the direction you'd like.

 And here are reasons why I think I should cut bangs:

• You can leave your hair down and still look like you have a hair-do going on (you know since I have to straighten my bangs as soon as I get out of the shower they at least show that some effort has been put into my hair)
• To further expand on the above reason: when I don't have bangs I tend to think my face looks elongated and weird when framed solely by my hanging locks.  Consequently before going anywhere I feel like I need to clip the sides back in some way to prevent this horse-face thing from happening.  This can get annoying, whereas if there are bangs I think it generally looks okay to just leave the rest of my hair hanging.
• uh...I guess that's it.

 So, here are some pics to help you, the reader, decide...and also a new belly pic thrown in for the heck of it. ;)  First, No Bangs:

32 wks

I don't know why the pics are loading so screwy....and now WITH bangs;

 
 


 

Okay, so in many of these I'm either pregnant or just had a baby so don't judge my hair by my chunky, "I just had a baby" face...  I also tried to include a representative sample of "sometimes bangs look good and sometimes they don't"...what do you think?  

Baby Belly #5

 Yes I know it's been nearly a year...I just haven't been motivated to write.  So we're expecting our fifth baby this coming April and it's another boy.  We're thinking about either the name George or Alexander.  The problem with Alexander being I hate all of the shortened versions (Alex, Al, Lex, Xander) and Alexander is a mouthful.  The middle name will be Reiner going along with our generational trend.  Here are some belly shots if you were curious:   Also I'm experimenting with growing out my bangs...what do you think? Bangs or no?

12 wks

20 wks

16 Wks

24 wks

28 wks