Welcome Camryn Reece

Our beautiful baby girl is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally getting around to posting pictures of the past 9 days.

Camryn was born Aug 19th, 8lbs 4oz, 20 in long. She was just 1 oz less than Bailey's birth weight. She was jaundice causing several doc appointments checking her bili levels, but other than that minor set back, she is as beautiful and as health as can be! It was such a blessing to be able to hold her after her birth, and have her with us the entire time, NO NICU and bring her home with us after our 3 day stay! SUCH A BLESSING!

One of my best friends delivered her son the day before Camryn's arrival so we were just down the hall from one another. My other best friend was my night shift nurse for my entire stay. Melissa you are awesome-and I can't thank you enough for taking such good care of me and my baby girl! THANK YOU!!

I received my first massage ever on Wed. A friend from high school bought me a 1 hour post natal massage, and the therapist came to my house! OMG! It was awesome. She even did edema massage due to all of my edema from the IV's....the next day I was fine and have been ever since. I highly recommend the massage services on the 3rd floor of TWH. Fantastic!

Thank you also, for all of the cards, gifts for the girls, texts, emails & visiting in the hospital. We all appreciate it very much!

Bailey loves her new baby sister and is super gentle and sweet with her. She's only held her the one time. We are not pushing things on her. If she wants to help with her fine, if not, fine....at her pace. :) Enough of my rambling......enjoy the pics!

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Just wanted to post a slideshow of what we've been up to this month. Not a whole lot due to the heat, but we try to get out when Keenan get's home since it's been so hot during the day. This big ole mama can't take that heat! We got Bailey her 1st big girl bike a few weeks ago. Needless to say, she LOVES it! Took her a bit to get use to pedaling it vs. her tryke, but she's got it figured out now. Only one crash...she got going a little too fast then made a hard turn and tipped over. No injuries. :)

Just been trying to take in all of the special time the 3 of us have...taking lots of pics and cherishing every bit of it. My back has been hurting quite a bit, so I mostly sit in the good ole camping chair with an ice pack while Keenan and Bailey play, but at least I still get to interact even though i'm not right in the middle. :) I've been sweating a lot out there with them, it causes decreased appetite for me too. I didn't even gain any weight at my last doc appt. Seems like all I do is drink water or juice. Oh well, it's tasty. :)

Bailey is getting really excited about little sister's arrival. Talks about her ALL of the time. ALways addresses her when she speaks to K or I...this am we heard her in her monitor tell her "bunny & blankey" about getting to meet little sister in 2 days! So precious. However, I keep asking her what is the first thing she's going to do when she meets her..."give her a hug and kiss"?..Bailey: "No, I'm going to feed her milk!" Oh dear, not sure how we are going to cover that if I am nursing her. Supposed to wait a few weeks before the bottle and the poor kid, that's all she wants to do for her. She perseverates so bad on things, she won't let it go. TRUST ME! Hopefully, she'll just be happy with hugs and kisses. :-D

Camryn update: She will now be arriving Thursday Aug 19th at 3:30pm. We will be accepting visitors anytime on Fri or Sat, just not Thurs the day of surgery due to be so late in the day. :) Just got the call yesterday that they had to change the day on us. Major bummer! Now Bailey is going to be stuck at the hospital with the grandparents during my surgery. Makes for a long day for a kiddo. I just really hope I don't have my usual nasuea/vomiting after my epidural. (TMI-sorry). I just don't want Bailey to see me like that. :( Really starting to get nervous. We've gotten so use to our schedule the past almost 3 years, it's going to be hard being awake every 2-3 hours. Yikes! I'm going to try hard to "nurse" Miss Camryn. Bailey was unable due to being a wee bit premature. Hopefully, Camryn will fare much better in that department....give her better nutrition while we are saving money. This will be an overall different experience for us, especially, if I can nurse + we are going to be doing cloth diapering.

That's all for now!! Next post will be pics of our baby girl, Camryn! :-D

Camryn's Scheduled Arrival Date.....

After much thought on the "delivery" situation, Keenan and I chose to talk to my doctor at the appointment today regarding the already scheduled amnio. It was scheduled via the specialist at 37 wks 3 days on Aug 16 to check baby C's lung maturity. I have already had 2 rounds of steroid shots to "speed" up the process in case she were to come earlier than planned. The more we thought about it, the more we didn't understand why we just couldn't wait 4 days until i turn 38 weeks and schedule the section then. So, we brought this up to my doc, and he 100% agreed with us!!! Long story short, Camryn will arrive Friday, Aug 20 around 1 pm or so. I have to get to the hosp at 11a that day...(I'm going to be one hungry mama not being able to eat from midnight on!) It's bad enough when you have an early surgery appt. Yikes! :-D

Anyways, we are super excited to finally have something in stone...now we can better plan how Bailey will be cared for while the grandma's are at the hospital for the delivery. They weren't able to be there for B's birth due to it being unexpectecd at 3:35am. Now just really hoping that little sister doesn't follow in big sister's foot steps and decided to come before 38 weeks. I am doing all that I can to try and prevent this child from having to be in the NICU. I would love more than anything to actually be able to hold my daughter after she is born, to have her in recovery with me, and to have her in our room! That would be so awesome. We'll just have to wait and see.

I finally got an opportunity to do something for myself.....I went on Monday and got a cute haircut and highlights..MUCH needed. Then on Tuesday for our monthly mama's night out...Melissa and Jessalyn and I went to Eva's to get a pedicure (1st one since my wedding!!!). I even got an adorable flower on my toes, which Bailey is loving! After that, we went to zuki for sushi of course! Jessalyn and I are VERY close in our pregnancies and will more than likely be in the hospital at the same time having our babies! So exciting!!!!!

Another doc appt. Thursday....I can't beleive it, here I thought today was the last one! LOL. I've never made it this far to know any different. :) How exciting this is.

I REALLY wish they performed the pre-pregnancy TAC's at TWH or St. Mary's for that matter. I would LOVE to be a spokesperson for them! I have a pretty big fan base at TWH though, i've been told that pretty much everyone there knows my name. I think I'm already considered a success story considering my history, and I still have 2 weeks to go. IF ANYONE, knows of anyone who has incompetent cervix like me, and has had a loss early in the pregnancy...please give them my info so I can get them in contact with my doc in Chicago! I would hate for awesome moms, to choose not to have any more kiddos for fear of the dreaded micro preemie delivery etc......

Well, I need to go lay down and attempt rest while B is "supposed" to be resting up for her swim lessons tonight. I have a feeling he and I will be up late putting together Bailey's "early" birthday present. A new bike! :-D She is all about bikes these days and riding her tryke...didn't want to wait till the end of October to give it to her because winter will soon be here. Give it to her now, and let her enjoy it. She won't know the difference come time for her birthday. ;-D