Still a banana!

Well,  we had our one week check up and Alex is doing great.  Aside from being the color of a ripe banana she is fine.  Growing well and eating well and sleeping well.  I'm a very very very very very very very very lucky momma.  My children have all slept really well from the time they are born.  Sometime I wonder if it's the universes way of being nice to me after the horrible pregnancy.  I go through 9 months of hell to have a beautiful, healthy, well behaved newborn. 

Here's a theory, pray for a difficult pregnancy because then you will have easy children.  Have an easy pregnancy and you will have difficult children?  I like it.  It makes me feel better for all the women who have great and easy pregnancies.  I hate all those women by the way.  They are the bane of my existence when the worse thing the experience is trouble getting comfortable.  Well, guess what, you have a BABY in your uterus and so you are supposed to be uncomfortable.  It isn't easy being pregnant and so you should have a little discomfort.  Ok, well maybe not for everyone but really you are creating life.  Why is it easy for some women and so hard for others? 

I'm very thankful and feel extremely blessed that I can even have children.  There are plenty of women out there that cannot have children and I thank my lucky stars every day that I'm not one of them.

I've realized that getting my tubes tied will make it impossible for me to get pregnant and that makes me a little sad because man oh man do I love having a newborn.  They are my favorite stage of life so far.  They are just so cuddly and warm and perfect.  So getting my tubes tied in a few months makes me very sad but I can't go through another pregnancy.  We don't want anymore children and this will make sure that it doesn't happen.  Sad but required and I have a few months to come to terms with that so I'll deal.  Don't worry.

I feel cheated though that I get to sit home on my ass, sicker than a dog for months while pregnant and then when the baby comes out I get a measly 6 weeks to recover and enjoy what it took so much to make before having to return to work.  While I look forward to getting back to regular life I also wish that I had more time to stay at home and enjoy my baby.  I've been out of work on modified bed rest since August 5th, 2010 and then when she is born on Feb. 9th, 2011 and I will be back to work around March 23rd, 2011.  It just seems so unfair!  I guess I will get over it, like everything else in life but it still sucks!

Well, Alex is sleeping and the girls are at daycare so I should probably go make some lunch and take a nap.

Talk to you soon!

Chunky Monkey turning into a Banana?

So we've been home for a few days now and everything is starting to relax a bit.  The girls are getting used to Alex and Alex is getting used to everything.  Thank goodness Jason is home from work until at least Wednesday and maybe through next week.  It will depend on how I'm doing and if I want him home or not.  I love the fact that he will take a few extra days off from work if I want him home with us.  I love this man!  He has to put up with everything that I put him through and now on top of it all he is surrounded by 3 little girls. 

When we left the hospital on Friday Alex was a little bit jaundice.  Well Saturday was ok, Sunday morning however she was so yellow the whites of her eyes were the color of urine.  So we took her into Urgent Care and they checked her bilirubin levels and she was ok so far.  The doc told me to have it checked again on Monday to make sure that the levels weren't going up and she would need light treatment.  So I took her back in today and we are waiting on the results of this blood test.  Dr. Rohr thinks she will be fine but we are waiting on the blood test to be sure.  I've been teasing her that she is trying to go from our Chunky Monkey to our Banana.  Oh well.  We'll see what happens today but hopefully she will be fine.

Sleeping has gotten better.  I can at least put her into her crib and she will sleep there!  I actually got a few hours of sleep last night.  Still tired today but so far so good.  I just have to try to go to bed earlier and sleep when she sleeps. 

We took her on her first outing yesterday to the Farm.  My mom made us dinner and so we went and visited and was again reminded how awesome my mom is.  She got the girls Valentine's Day presents, which they loved, and made us dinner and everything!  On Saturday she took Abby for a few hours and brought us Tator Tot Hotdish for dinner too.  So since I've been home I  haven't had to worry about dinner yet!  Again she is amazing!

Well, having 3 children is amazing.  Abby and Kate want to help out and they are totally obsessed with breastfeeding.  They think that it is super funny that Alex eats from my boob.  Well, if they didn't have to tell everyone about it it wouldn't be so bad but I'm pretty sure that Grandpa doesn't want to hear about me and my boobs.  Slightly uncomfortable. 

Well, Alex is sleeping right now so I should be trying to take a nap but here I am putzing on the Internet.  I guess social networking has ruined yet another opportunity for sleep.

Until another day...