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Molly's First Bath

Molly had her first bath last night, and just like Mason, she HATED it!! She is so cute though!!

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Molly Mae Has Arrived!!

Well little Molly has finally arrived. She was born on Monday, June 1st at 8:49am. She was 8lbs 8oz and 20 inches long! Big girl!! We were supposed to be induced today, June 4th, but apparently she had other plans. We had all went to bed on Sunday night around 11pm and I was dozing in and out while Kevin was watching softball and touching my belly. Well he woke me up around midnight telling me I was having contractions! I couldn't believe I wasn't feeling anything. Well we decided to call the doctor around 12:48am and she told us to monitor it for an hour and call back if they were stronger. I had lost my plug earlier in the day so we knew something could happen at any time. Well during that hour, the contractions were pretty strong and about 7-10 minutes apart. We called back and she said to come on in, especially b/c we now live 40 minutes from the hospital so no one wanted to take any chances. At this point, she was so low, that I was literally going to the bathroom every 5 minutes. We ended up leaving our house at about 215am and of course we barely made it to Kirklin 5 minutes away when we had to stop at Kevin's parents so I could use the bathroom. At this point I was determined to hold it the rest of way. Well Kevin decides he's going to drive 90 the rest of the way and we made it to the hospital by 245am.

We get checked in and taken to triage where they start monitoring my contractions and it was determined I was 4 cm and 50% effaced, so I was staying. Plus my contractions were 3 minutes apart at this point. We get in our new room in Labor and Delivery and I get my epidural and shortly after my doctor breaks my water. Well after about an hour and a half I was only dilated to 5 so they decided to start some pitocin. Again after an hour or so I was 6cm. Slowly I was getting there. Well I began to have horrible lower back pain. I was starting to feel the contractions in my lower abdomen and around my left side into the back. It was AWFUL. So they called back the epidural man and he gave me a second dose. Well apparently he went to fast or gave me too much at once and my blood pressure bottomed out and Molly's heart rate fell to 40. All at once everyone was scrambling around, they called an emergency code, I was flipped to my left side and had oxygen. I had no clue what was happening.

Molly's heart rate came right back up but I had to stay on my left side until I started pushing. They ended up stopping the pitocin, but I was still feeling the contractions. They again gave me another does of the epidural and it STILL did not work and finally he gave me a dose of fentanyl. And finally there was relief! I was so numb I couldn't even tell them that I had pressure and needed to push. We started pushing at 820am and by 849am she was here!

She is so beautiful and we are all excited she is finally here. Mason has done really well with her so far. We are just glad to be home and hopefully can get a routine started.

The Day Before Molly was Born....

This was taken on Sunday, May 31st. I was 38 weeks and 4 days. Kevin kept insisting we take one more picture of my belly before Molly was born. Who would've known she would literally come the very next day!!

Bed Rest It is..............

So by the time noon rolled around on Wednesday, it was the longest I have ever been pregnant. I'm really starting to get nervous as is Kevin b/c from now on it's new territory. None of us know what to really expect from here on out. We went to the doctor yesterday and I was 37 weeks and 2 days. I didn't feel real well so I knew something was probably going to happen. Well of course when we get to the doctor's office, my doctor is running behind which rarely ever happens. I go back get weighed, and actually lost 3 lbs from the week before which is probably even more unlikely and then they take the infamous blood pressure. My blood pressure has always been an issue. It's what caused me to be induced at 37 weeks with Mason and it has been an issue this time around as well but early on rather than later. Well yesterday it was 172/88. Which is not good. But the good news was that I didn't have any protein in my urine and I had lost weight. So Dr. Gates was kind of baffled why my bp was high. So he immediately said, "Bed Rest". He said I probably wasn't pre-eclamptic, but he was sending me to the hospital lab to have blood work done and if anything came back abnormal I was to be admitted. He thinks that my bp was automatically shooting up whenever I got up and moved around, so bed rest it is. Thank god, my blood work came back normal and everything is ok. I was only dialated 1 cm so from now on I'm only supposed to get up to go to the bathroom, get something to eat or take a shower.

Let me just to tell you that it SUCKS! I hate just sitting around especially when I don't FEEL that bad and I think I should be doing something. So now instead of going to the doctor once a week, I now have to go twice a week. So my next appointment is Tuesday. Hopefully we can keep Molly happy a little while longer! I've been saying for a week or two now that I'm just ready to be done. But after yesterday and knowing it could really be anytime, I'm NOT ready. LOL. I guess it's really out of my hands at this point.

I'll keep everyone posted as things progress. It's crazy to think we are finally getting to the end!

Molly's Room

Molly's room is finally complete! It took a lot of work, but we are now officially ready for her arrival! Her closet is even complete with all the millions of clothes!

Mason's New Chairs

Mason got some new chairs for his birthday that he loves. He has one more that I didn't get a picture of but is a grasshopper lawn chair. They are all really cute!!

Happy Birthday Mason!!

Mason's 2nd birthday was Saturday. We had a big party with all our family and friends. Mason got a lot of great stuff and we think he had a great time.

Cuteness

Molly's Room

Well let's hope poor little Molly doesn't decide to make an appearance anytime soon b/c as you can see, her room is not even close to being finished. I haven't washed any clothes or bedding and crap is just thrown all over the place. It's the only room in the house that isn't finished, but we will get there. I just now got through going through some of Mason's baby clothes and my cousin's little girl's baby clothes and now they need to be washed. Let's just say that this little girl will ALWAYS have something to wear. I thought Mason had a lot of clothes as a baby but I think Molly has already put him to shame! But, what do you expect? She is a girl!!!

Finally!!

Well it's Mother's Day and we have officially been in our new house for 8 days. We are finally getting settled and it's starting to look like a home. We really love it here. Mason is finally starting to sleep most of the night. We had issues the last few weeks at the apartment. He decided he was going to start crawling out of his crib so we bought him a toddler bed. Well he didn't want to sleep it in and when he did, it was never for more than 2 hours at a time. He spent a lot of time in our bed which I never wanted to do, but when you need sleep you will do anything. Well needless to say we are selling the toddler bed b/c he still refused to sleep in it in the new house and he started sleeping in the spare bed. So now the spare bed is his new bed and we have to get a new bed for the spare. Whatever works!!! I didn't think it would be this hard transitioning and of course everytime I ask people if they had trouble, they were always like, oh no it was an easy move. Of course it was!!! Anyways, we are getting there and right now Mason only wakes up usually once a night sometimes twice. But the new issue that is occurring is now that he's in his own bed, once it's daylight, he's awake. Which lately is 645 am! How fun for us! Oh well.

We are also getting ready for Mason's 2nd birthday which is Saturday, May 16th. It is crazy how fast another year has went.

The post below was from packing at the apartment. Mason thought it would be easier if we just put him in the box. He is quite the funny man!!

Well I hope all mothers have a great Mother's Day!

Pack Him Up and Ship Him Out