Introducing......

So I'm going to torture you (well those who don't know already..) and first post the birth story. Don't worry, it's not very long. Things went very quickly once we got to the hospital!

I woke up early Sunday morning around 2:30 am to contractions every 7-9 minutes. They were like that all morning and early afternoon.

At 2pm they were getting closer about 4-5 minutes apart. They were getting more intense so I called OB at 4pm. They told me to come to the hospital and we'd see what was going on. Chris called his mom and we finished packing.

I got admitted around 6pm at 3cm. Went into the tub for a bit and then got out to start IV so I could get the epidural.

At 8pm I got the epidural and my doula and birth photographer arrived. From here things went pretty quick. At 9pm I was feeling pain/pressure. I pressed the epidural booster thing and next thing you know I hear a pop and my water broke. I got checked and was already 9cm!! The contractions were one on top of the other and got a booster for the epidural but it just wasn't happening. I felt like I needed to push, was checked and baby was at +2. Pushed through 3 contractions and less than 10 min later we met our baby GIRL!

Piper Ann was born at 9:48pm. 7lbs 12oz, 20 in. She is just perfect!

I'll be getting the birth photos later this week and can't wait to share them. I got the gallery last night and am in love with them!



The boys are in love with their baby sister. They love to hold her and give her kisses. Ryder calls her, "my baby." He doesn't want to share :)

Still here

No baby yet.

Here I am at 40 weeks



I also have some fun comparison photos.

Here's all 3 pregnancies at 36 weeks



And a progression of this pregnancy. Taken approx every 5 weeks - starting at 15 weeks.



Hopefully my next post will be of a squishy newborn!

39 weeks

Yesterday marked 39 weeks. There are now 6 days until my due date. Oh my!

36 weeks!

Oh my, technically 3.0 could be here in 1 week. I'm hoping for a little longer than that, but either way it will be SOON! I haven't taken any belly photos recently so took a couple during our snow storm yesterday. They predicted only an inch or two with nothing sticking, but instead parts of our town got 4-8 inches! Crazy that it's only the beginning of November.

25 weeks

It's time to catch up! I'm actually almost 28 weeks (ummm hello third trimester!) We went to North Carolina right before labor day so those pictures will be coming soon. In the meantime say hi to baby 3.0 :)

belly comparisons

Just for fun here's the belly comparison for all 3 of my babies.

Here comes trouble

Soon there will be two big brothers!

I haven't mentioned anything here yet, but since just about everyone IRL knows figured I do a little post. Today marks 20 weeks with 3.0, Due Dec 5. I'm feeling pretty good and honestly don't have time to be tired!

Last night we had our 20 week ultrasound. I hadn't been feeling much movement like I did with the boys so I was a little nervous but the flickering heartbeat popped right up and we got to see our bouncing baby. Found out that I have an anterior placenta so that could be why I haven't been feeling the little flutters. Hopefully in a few more weeks I'll start feeling kicks. I have my OB appointment on Friday so they'll go over the details of the ultrasound then. Everything looked great to us though. 10 little fingers and 10 little toes. Perfect! Once again we're not finding out the sex of the baby. We enjoyed finding out with the boys in the delivery room and couldn't imagine it any other way. The tech was amazing. I think we've had her before because she looked familiar. She has two kids who are a similar age gap as ours (just a little bit younger) and we found out at the end she's also expecting her third, a week after our due date.

So here you go, our little one. Can you see the baby sucking his/her thumb in the first one?



I've been taking some occasional belly pictures. I'll have to dig up some comparison photos from the boys.

I did these just for fun around 14 weeks.



First belly picture at 15 weeks. Showing much sooner with 3.0! Next to it is 17 week belly picture.



And here are some 20 week ones from last night.