2 Months

Wow! Time flies- I can't believe my baby girl is 2 Months old! (Well, 2 Months on Oct. 2) It has been the best couple of months of my life. It is going by way too fast. It's a little bittersweet because I don't want her to get big and change, but at the same time I'm excited for her to get big and change. Here are some things that she has been doing lately:

~ She has been smiling a lot
~ She has been making a lot of cooing noises
~ She has found her hand to suck on
~ She loves doing tummy time as long as it is not on the ground. She likes to be on your belly or the boppy pillow, and she can hold her head up pretty good now. Not all the way, but she is getting there
~ She has slept 8 or 9 hours a night for the past 2 weeks straight!
~ She loves to cuddle her Mommy and Daddy, and we love to just cuddle all day
~ She loves sitting in her bouncer and watching us do the dishes
~ She overall is such a happy baby, and we are so lucky to have her!

Rydelle has been such a blessing in our lives, and we love her more than anything. It's so crazy to think what life was like before she was here, and what we would do all the time. I'm just so happy she is here and I'm able to spend all day, everyday with her!

We went in the other day for her two month check-up, and these are Rye Rye's stats:

Weight~ 12 pounds 4 ounces (90th percentile)
Height~ 23.8 inches (95th percentile)

I am so excited for all the holidays coming up. It is going to be so much more fun this year with her! :)

Birth Story

July 26th (my due date) sadly came and passed and still no baby. Every day felt like a lifetime, because I was so ready for Rydelle to get here. I went to my last Dr. appointment on July 27th, and she went ahead and scheduled me to go to the hospital on Monday, August 1st for cervical ripening, which would prepare me to be induced the next morning with Pitocin. We headed to the hospital at 8:00 pm and got checked in and they began the cervical ripening. They told me we would begin the Pitocin around 7:00 am the next morning and to get some sleep. A couple of hours later, I began to feel some sharp pains in my stomach. They started to get worse, and realized that they were contractions. They started to get really bad and painful, and I decided to get the epidural. After that, I didn't feel a thing! After a little while my contractions were getting bigger, and at one point the baby's heart beat dropped significantly and about 4 nurses came running in, one with a shot to stop my contractions. We were so scared and I started to cry because I wasn't sure what was happening. After a few seconds the heart beat went back up to normal and everything was fine. The contraction I had was so big, that they think it stressed the baby which caused the heart beat to drop. Luckily everything was fine, and we tried to get some sleep. Well, Isaac fell asleep while I put in a movie to watch. I was way too anxious to get any sleep. About 5 minutes after we put the movie in, I felt something and called the nurse in to check. She wasn't going to check to see if I was dilated at first, but then decided she should. She told me that were not going to believe this, but I was dilated to a 10 and she could see the baby's head. I was shocked, because we thought we would have to wait until morning to be induced and then thought it would be hours from then! We were so excited that it was finally happening! We went ahead and started pushing. Unfortunately my Dr. was planning on being in the next day to deliver my baby, but since everything happened so fast, another Dr. was there to deliver. He was friendly and I felt just as comfortable having him deliver our baby, so it turned out okay. I started pushing and had her in 8 minutes. Rydelle Brooke Jones was born August 2, 2011 at 4:13 am- 7 lbs. 9 oz- 21" long.

It took her a little while to finally cry and I got to hold her. It was the most amazing thing. They took her to clean her up and weigh her, and noticed that her lips were looking a little blue. They decided to take her to the nursery to make sure she was alright. She ended up having really low oxygen levels and they had to hook her up to oxygen. She had to stay in the nursery for the first day and a half we were in the hospital. It was such a scary thing to not know exactly what was going on and if she would be alright. It was horrible to not be able to have our baby with us that first day. In the end, everything turned out fine, and they think she just swallowed some fluid while she was being delivered. We were so thankful and couldn't wait for her to stay in our room with us the next day. Giving birth was such an amazing thing and we love being parents and love our little girl! It is so much fun seeing her change day by day. :)

Almost There.......

It has been so hard to keep writing on my blog these last couple of months. I've been so busy with getting ready for the baby to arrive that I haven't wanted to take the time to write. But I thought I should since we are only 1 more week until my Due Date! I am so excited and so anxious to be done with being pregnant, and I can't wait to meet our little girl! We are finally all ready for her to get here. We have everything we need and the house projects are pretty much done. (Well, atleast the important ones that I wanted to be done) The house is all clean, and now we are just waiting.... and waiting.....

Here is a little bit of what has been happening the last couple of months:

On May 21, I had my baby shower that my Mom, Sister, and Sister-in-Law threw for me. It turned out awesome, and I am so thankful that they did this for me. We got lots of great stuff for the baby!




Over Memorial Day Weekend, Isaac and I went up to Park City and stayed the weekend in a hotel off of Jordanelle Lake. We wanted one last little getaway before the baby arrived. It ended up being really cold and it even snowed, so we didn't really get to do much outside. But we still had a lot of fun just relaxing, shopping, and lots of eating! :)


For the 4th of July, we had friends over. We BBQ'd and lit off some fireworks. It was a lot of fun.


We finally have finished the baby room! It has been a lot of work. I have the best mom, she has helped me with so much. Pretty much everything we have made and done ourselves. I definitely could not have done it without her. We recovered the rocking chair and ottaman, made the curtain, made all the bedding on the crib, Isaac painted the stencil on the wall, we painted a little dresser that is in the closet, and did lots of other little things. Its taken a lot of time, but is well worth it!







Here is my belly growing month by month:

10 Weeks (I thought I had a little belly.... lol)

6 Months

7 Months

8 Months

9 Months

Third Trimester

Today officially marks my third trimester, and I am due exactly 3 months from today. This month has flown by! I can't believe it's almost May, hopefully the weather will finally start to get warmer. It has been nothing but rain and gloomy days this whole month. I've been working at my old job with Handstands and my days are just flying by. It's been nice to get out of the house for a couple hours a day and have some extra money. My sleeping hasn't gotten much better- I still toss and turn and wake up 50 times a night, and I hear it's only going to get worse. I am not looking forward to that! But we are just getting so anxious for this little one to get here. Her baby room is coming along and we just ordered the crib. I feel like we still have a million things to do before she gets here. I've made this whole list of things to do around the house, and I'm not sure why I'm stressing so much that we have to get it done before July. Ever since we moved into our townhouse we have been remodeling, and we are almost finished with the majority of it. So I have it set in my mind that it all has to be done. I think I just want it all done, because I know once she is here, the odds are it won't get done. So fingers crossed we don't stress ourselves out too much, and are able to get our list cut down! :) On Sunday it was Easter, and we went to Isaac's parents house for dinner. Here are a couple of pictures~

Sleepiness......

The last couple of months have been great! I finally got over the nausea and have been able to eat normally now. We have been able to feel the baby kick for the last couple of weeks. She has started to kick pretty hard to where it has been waking me up in the middle of the night. Not that I get much sleep anyway- I toss and turn all night long and get so uncomfortable. I'm not sure what to do..... I've tried using a body pillow but that is not helping much either. Poor Isaac- I wake him up a million times a night. I've also started to work part-time at my old job until I get closer to having the baby. It has been so nice to work a few hours a day, but when I get home I am ready for a nap since I can't sleep good throughout the night. I definitely give props to women out there that are pregnant and work full time and have other kids and stuff going on. I don't know how they do it- I'm always exhausted all the time! I'm hoping it will pass, but until then, I am fine with taking my daily nap! :) We have started to work on the baby room, and it is a work in progress. We've been trying to be healthy and go to the gym when Isaac gets off of work. So between work, the gym, and dinner, it is so hard to stay motivated and get things done. All we want to do is lay down and watch t.v. or a movie. The weather doesn't help either. Is it just me, or does everyone else feel like they have no motivation and not want to do anything when the weather is gloomy and cold? When it's sunny and warm outside, I always want to get going and get things done. Summer..... please come soon!!

It's a.......

GIRL!!

We are so excited to be having a Girl! We went to Fetal Studios in the Southtowne Mall on Thursday February, 3 2011. I am so glad we decided to go there. I was thinking to just wait until our Doctor appointment to find out, but we would have had to wait until I am 20 weeks. That would be another month! I couldn't wait that long to find out. I've been so anxious to know so we can start decorating and buying cute stuff for whatever we were having. Now that we know it is a girl, I have a million ideas in my head with what I want to do for the nursery. Watching the ultrasound was such an awesome experience. She was so cute- in the beginning she had the hiccups and kept bouncing around for a couple of minutes. Once she stopped hiccuping, she was moving around a lot. She kept turning and we could see her back and then she would turn and we could see the whole front of her face. Towards the end, she would take a bunch of big gulps and swallow. It was so cute seeing Isaac when we found out it was a girl. I thought for sure it was going to be a boy, and Isaac has been saying girl the whole time. He is going to be such a cute and great dad! Were so excited to start feeling her kick in the next couple of weeks.

Waving

Stretching

Swallowing

Time Flies

I can't believe it has already been over a year since I last posted! I'm going to start writing on my blog again because.....

We're Pregnant! (Pretty much everyone already knows)

But I wanted to start up again so we can have all the memories of our new adventure. First things first- how we found out I was pregnant. We started trying in August, 2010, and I was so excited that the first month I thought for sure I was. But when I took the test and it was negative, I was really sad and disappointed. So from that moment on, every month I didn't get my hopes up at all and just assumed I wasn't. A couple months passed, and it was November. Isaac and I went up to Bear Lake with my parents for our own little Thanksgiving. I went up a couple days earlier with my mom to get the cabin all ready to go. We woke up Wednesday morning, and I had a crazy dream that all my teeth rotted and fell out. I have heard that when you have that dream it can mean you are pregnant. My mom had a feeling that whole week that I was, but I still just had in my mind that I wasn't, and said that the dream could also mean a lot of other things. So over the next couple of days, when I would wake up I would feel sick to my stomach. My mom kept saying that I was pregnant, and I kept telling her that I wasn't and I was just feeling sick from all the food we had eaten up there. Isaac and I left on Friday afternoon, and on the car ride we were talking about that I might just be. So when we got home, I decided to take the test. I really wasn't too excited because for some reason I still thought I wasn't and it was just going to get our hopes up again and we would be disappointed. So I finally looked and it was positive! We were so excited, but I wanted to take another one just in case..... I know that's crazy because if it's positive, it's positive. But I wanted the reassurance. And that one came back as positive too! I wanted to wait to tell anyone for a little while, but as soon as I talked to my mom on the phone a couple of days later, she asked if I was. And I couldn't lie, so I told her and my dad, then we told Isaac's parents. and then I just couldn't hold it in and started telling more family and friends!

I called our Doctor to set up our first appointment in the beginning of December. We couldn't go in until January 11, 2011. I couldn't believe how long we would have to wait- I was so anxious! But this was the only time she could see us for an afternoon appointment. So luckily the holidays were coming up, and we kept busy with lots of family stuff. Our appointment finally arrived yesterday, and we were so excited. We got to hear the heart beat, and it was amazing! It really hit me that there is a baby in there-this whole time I haven't really felt that I was actually pregnant (besides all the nausea). It was such a cool feeling. We are so excited and now anxious to find out if it will be a boy or girl so we can start decorating the room. :)