Here is our little alligator!
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Ollie gator + 3 month pics
We dressed up oliver to pass out candy last night and then my sister and I did a little photo shoot at my parents house before their fall party. Also I got his 3 month pics back too and love them!
Here is our little alligator!
Here is our little alligator!
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Rolled
Today was one of the best days ever.
Right after I took this photo, Oliver rolled over!!!!!!!! Belly to back.
I am so proud and so so happy that he did it right in front of my face! I tried to see if he'd do it again so I could video tape, but I think it tuckered him out and he's napping instead. Loooove this little man so much!
Right after I took this photo, Oliver rolled over!!!!!!!! Belly to back.
I am so proud and so so happy that he did it right in front of my face! I tried to see if he'd do it again so I could video tape, but I think it tuckered him out and he's napping instead. Loooove this little man so much!
Sunday, September 8, 2013
2 months!
Yikes! I need to get better about blogging. I really want to be able to remember everything and time is just going so fast.
Little Oliver is not so little anymore. He turned 2 months old yesterday and is 12lb 12oz 23.5 inches! He is wearing 0-3 in almost everything, except 6 months in footed jammies because he's long. He wears one size cloth diapers during the day on the smallest setting and we just moved him to size 2 disposables at night because we were gifted a ton of them and I didn't want to buy another pack of 1s. He sleeps 6-7 hour stretches consistently at night and then another 2 hour stretch and then he snuggles in bed with me until we decide to get up for the day.
He smiles and laughs all the time. He started smiling around 4 weeks and laughing around 5 and now he is always cracking up. He loves looking in mirrors and his bugs that hang from his car seat. He doesn't really like napping anywhere other than on someone's chest. He is still exclusively breast fed and eats about every 2 hours. Pretty much he's amazing.
Little Oliver is not so little anymore. He turned 2 months old yesterday and is 12lb 12oz 23.5 inches! He is wearing 0-3 in almost everything, except 6 months in footed jammies because he's long. He wears one size cloth diapers during the day on the smallest setting and we just moved him to size 2 disposables at night because we were gifted a ton of them and I didn't want to buy another pack of 1s. He sleeps 6-7 hour stretches consistently at night and then another 2 hour stretch and then he snuggles in bed with me until we decide to get up for the day.
He smiles and laughs all the time. He started smiling around 4 weeks and laughing around 5 and now he is always cracking up. He loves looking in mirrors and his bugs that hang from his car seat. He doesn't really like napping anywhere other than on someone's chest. He is still exclusively breast fed and eats about every 2 hours. Pretty much he's amazing.
Monday, August 26, 2013
Photo Book
I finished Oliver's first photo book, which is my pregnancy. I can't wait to start on his next one.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Slim Down Saturday
I forgot to post this yesterday so it's really slim down Sunday, but o well.
I lost 2.4 this week so I now have 11 more pounds until my prepregnancy weight. I went on a walk Monday and Wednesday and yesterday. My goal for this week is 45 min walk 5 days. It's supposed to be super cool out this week so that should be do able.
Oliver was three weeks old yesterday!!
I lost 2.4 this week so I now have 11 more pounds until my prepregnancy weight. I went on a walk Monday and Wednesday and yesterday. My goal for this week is 45 min walk 5 days. It's supposed to be super cool out this week so that should be do able.
Oliver was three weeks old yesterday!!
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| He loves going on walks |
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Slim Down Saturday
I had my two week check up today to look at my incision. She said it looks good and that I can start doing some light walking. I've decided to do a weekly weight loss/exercise check in since I am now able to get out of the house more.
I gained 48! pounds while I was pregnant. Yikes! In two weeks I've lost 34.6 lbs. I have 13.4 more to go until I'm at my prepregnancy weight. Once I get there I will then decide if I want to lose more. I feel like I'm going to need to lose more than that to fit into my old clothes. My body shape has definitely changed.
I'm hoping posting every week will help keep me accountable.
Here are my starting pictures. And a picture of oliver because he's better looking than me.
I gained 48! pounds while I was pregnant. Yikes! In two weeks I've lost 34.6 lbs. I have 13.4 more to go until I'm at my prepregnancy weight. Once I get there I will then decide if I want to lose more. I feel like I'm going to need to lose more than that to fit into my old clothes. My body shape has definitely changed.
I'm hoping posting every week will help keep me accountable.
Here are my starting pictures. And a picture of oliver because he's better looking than me.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
11 days old
Oliver is 11 days old and we are so in love.
He had his first Dr appt Friday and he's doing wonderfully. He weighed 7lb 6oz when he was born and left the hospital at 6lb 12 oz on Tuesday. Friday at his appt he was 7lb 2oz. In 4 days he gained 6oz! I wasn't too surprised though because he eats constantly.
Breastfeeding is going well. It's pretty stressful at night bc he isn't a very efficient eater. A nursing session usually takes an hour and then he'll sleep an hour and then he'll want to eat again. The past couple days he has been sleeping a little longer at night. We've had a couple two hour stretches and I'm confident that it'll keep getting better as time goes on.
We had his newborn pictures taken yesterday. I think they went OK. He was awake for most of the four hour session so it was hard for her to pose him. He is such an alert baby and really doesn't sleep as much as other newborns. He doesn't cry hardly ever though so I don't mind that he's always awake. I love seeing his big eyes. They are pretty much brown now, which we figured they would be since chris has dark brown eyes.
He also lost his cord sometime Sunday night! He has the cutest little belly button! Now we are just waiting for his plastibell from his circ to fall off and then we can start giving real baths instead of sponge baths. He hates the sponge baths so I'm hoping he'll like being in the water better.
I have a Dr appt on Saturday to look at my incision. It seems to be healing well. I feel pretty good. There is one spot that hurts pretty bad, but looks fine, so I'm wondering if something happened to an internal stitch. I'm just trying to do a little less until it feels better. It's hard for me to just sit though. I really want to go on walks. I took oliver on a walk around the block Thursday and that's when the pain really started so I've decided to just chill for a little bit.
Overall though, everything is going really well and we feel so blessed to have such an amazing little man.
Oooo and we've been using cloth diapers for about a week and are loving them! Chris and I both like them a lot more than disposable. They are so easy and really keep the poop contained and off his butt. The poop just like sticks to the diaper. I wash a load of cloth diapers every other day. No big deal. Easy peasy.
He had his first Dr appt Friday and he's doing wonderfully. He weighed 7lb 6oz when he was born and left the hospital at 6lb 12 oz on Tuesday. Friday at his appt he was 7lb 2oz. In 4 days he gained 6oz! I wasn't too surprised though because he eats constantly.
Breastfeeding is going well. It's pretty stressful at night bc he isn't a very efficient eater. A nursing session usually takes an hour and then he'll sleep an hour and then he'll want to eat again. The past couple days he has been sleeping a little longer at night. We've had a couple two hour stretches and I'm confident that it'll keep getting better as time goes on.
We had his newborn pictures taken yesterday. I think they went OK. He was awake for most of the four hour session so it was hard for her to pose him. He is such an alert baby and really doesn't sleep as much as other newborns. He doesn't cry hardly ever though so I don't mind that he's always awake. I love seeing his big eyes. They are pretty much brown now, which we figured they would be since chris has dark brown eyes.
He also lost his cord sometime Sunday night! He has the cutest little belly button! Now we are just waiting for his plastibell from his circ to fall off and then we can start giving real baths instead of sponge baths. He hates the sponge baths so I'm hoping he'll like being in the water better.
I have a Dr appt on Saturday to look at my incision. It seems to be healing well. I feel pretty good. There is one spot that hurts pretty bad, but looks fine, so I'm wondering if something happened to an internal stitch. I'm just trying to do a little less until it feels better. It's hard for me to just sit though. I really want to go on walks. I took oliver on a walk around the block Thursday and that's when the pain really started so I've decided to just chill for a little bit.
Overall though, everything is going really well and we feel so blessed to have such an amazing little man.
Oooo and we've been using cloth diapers for about a week and are loving them! Chris and I both like them a lot more than disposable. They are so easy and really keep the poop contained and off his butt. The poop just like sticks to the diaper. I wash a load of cloth diapers every other day. No big deal. Easy peasy.
July 9
Going home from the hospital!!
First day home
July 11
July 12
July 13
July 14
July 15
Friday, July 12, 2013
Induction Day 2
I know this is way late, but honestly it's really hard for me to even type this out. After I got to 10cm my labor/birth experience was hell. It was not anything like how I had ever envisioned my experience being.
I last said that at 10:30pm I was 7-8cm and feeling wonderful. I had an epidural and was just waiting for 10cm. I text my parents and sister and told them it should be soon, but to just wait until chris or I text to come to the hospital.
At 11 I started shaking really bad so they decided to check me. I was fully dilated! This was it. Chris and I were so excited. Our baby boy would be born soon, or so we thought.
The nurses started setting up the room for delivery. Another girl was in labor the same time as me and actually got her epi right after I did and was now ready to push too. We both had the same Dr so she was going to go first bc she had the urge to push and I did not.
At about 12 the nurse decided I was going to start doing practice pushes. The Dr got there at that point to deliver the other girls baby. I was starting to feel a lot of pain. They had warned me that since I was having back labor as he moved down the epi might not work anymore, and it definitely wasn't.
At about 1:10am the other lady was done pushing. That was the longest hour ever. I remember asking like every 5 min if she was done yet. I was in so much pain and was so ready to be done.
1:15am my Dr comes in and I start pushing. The epidural is doing nothing so they just shut it off. They also upped my pitocin two more times. The pain was so bad, but pushing seemed to help and I was just so ready to see him that I was trying not to focus on the pain. I ended up pushing for two hours. I would push and then when I would stop he would go right back up. My pelvis is too small. Pretty sure I could have pushed for 50 hours and he never would have made it under the bone. I was crying from the pain and was so tired from being awake almost 24 hours. I just couldn't do anymore.
We then decided I was going to have a c section.
At 3:15am we started getting around for the c section. My pitocin finally got shut off. I was still having contractions but was no longer pushing so I pretty much wanted to die. Around 3:45 the anesthesiologist came to give me two bolus of the epidural. I signed my consents and chris put on his surgery outfit. At this point I was pretty much delusional. I was so tired plus the narcotics in the epi made it worse.
They wheeled me down to the OR and set me up. At this point my blood sugar was 286 so I got a shot of insulin. They checked it again a little later and it was 254 so more insulin. I got positioned on the table and chris came in. They did poked me with the knife to see if I could feel it. I could. They waited a few minutes and tried again. I could still feel it. Epidural wasn't working. They then had to rip everything down and start over. I then got a spinal and they set everything back up.
I was so tired/drugged I remember thinking I was going to die on that table or I was going to go into a coma. It was horrible. I kept falling asleep and honestly don't remember much of the actual surgery. I remember hearing him cry and then looking and chris and seeing that chris was crying. Baby was finally here. They showed him to me and it didn't even register in my brain that he was mine. I didn't really feel any emotion. I just looked at him and then fell back asleep.
The next thing I remember was being back in my room. We did skin to skin and I breastfed but I really don't remember much of that.
Oliver Charles Botts was born at 4:52am on July 6. He weighed 7lb 6oz 20.5in long and was perfect.
Things were still not good the next day. I ended up getting a blood transfusion bc I lost so much blood. I'm also taking iron three times a day for the next three months. I was also super nauseous and kept throwing up.
It was just an overall horrible experience. We finally got to leave the hospital Tuesday afternoon and things have been great since we've been home. My blood sugars returned back to normal so I no longer have to worry about that. Oliver is doing great with breastfeeding and is the most amazing baby I have ever seen.
I still don't have my computer so all the pictures I post will have to be from my phone until I can upload off my camera.
I also just want to quickly mention, bc it's also something I had to deal with emotionally, July 6 last year was the day we found out our baby no longer had a heartbeat at 11 weeks and was the day of my d&c. Its interesting how much can change in a year and that's really all I want to say about that.
July 6
I last said that at 10:30pm I was 7-8cm and feeling wonderful. I had an epidural and was just waiting for 10cm. I text my parents and sister and told them it should be soon, but to just wait until chris or I text to come to the hospital.
At 11 I started shaking really bad so they decided to check me. I was fully dilated! This was it. Chris and I were so excited. Our baby boy would be born soon, or so we thought.
The nurses started setting up the room for delivery. Another girl was in labor the same time as me and actually got her epi right after I did and was now ready to push too. We both had the same Dr so she was going to go first bc she had the urge to push and I did not.
At about 12 the nurse decided I was going to start doing practice pushes. The Dr got there at that point to deliver the other girls baby. I was starting to feel a lot of pain. They had warned me that since I was having back labor as he moved down the epi might not work anymore, and it definitely wasn't.
At about 1:10am the other lady was done pushing. That was the longest hour ever. I remember asking like every 5 min if she was done yet. I was in so much pain and was so ready to be done.
1:15am my Dr comes in and I start pushing. The epidural is doing nothing so they just shut it off. They also upped my pitocin two more times. The pain was so bad, but pushing seemed to help and I was just so ready to see him that I was trying not to focus on the pain. I ended up pushing for two hours. I would push and then when I would stop he would go right back up. My pelvis is too small. Pretty sure I could have pushed for 50 hours and he never would have made it under the bone. I was crying from the pain and was so tired from being awake almost 24 hours. I just couldn't do anymore.
We then decided I was going to have a c section.
At 3:15am we started getting around for the c section. My pitocin finally got shut off. I was still having contractions but was no longer pushing so I pretty much wanted to die. Around 3:45 the anesthesiologist came to give me two bolus of the epidural. I signed my consents and chris put on his surgery outfit. At this point I was pretty much delusional. I was so tired plus the narcotics in the epi made it worse.
They wheeled me down to the OR and set me up. At this point my blood sugar was 286 so I got a shot of insulin. They checked it again a little later and it was 254 so more insulin. I got positioned on the table and chris came in. They did poked me with the knife to see if I could feel it. I could. They waited a few minutes and tried again. I could still feel it. Epidural wasn't working. They then had to rip everything down and start over. I then got a spinal and they set everything back up.
I was so tired/drugged I remember thinking I was going to die on that table or I was going to go into a coma. It was horrible. I kept falling asleep and honestly don't remember much of the actual surgery. I remember hearing him cry and then looking and chris and seeing that chris was crying. Baby was finally here. They showed him to me and it didn't even register in my brain that he was mine. I didn't really feel any emotion. I just looked at him and then fell back asleep.
The next thing I remember was being back in my room. We did skin to skin and I breastfed but I really don't remember much of that.
Oliver Charles Botts was born at 4:52am on July 6. He weighed 7lb 6oz 20.5in long and was perfect.
Things were still not good the next day. I ended up getting a blood transfusion bc I lost so much blood. I'm also taking iron three times a day for the next three months. I was also super nauseous and kept throwing up.
It was just an overall horrible experience. We finally got to leave the hospital Tuesday afternoon and things have been great since we've been home. My blood sugars returned back to normal so I no longer have to worry about that. Oliver is doing great with breastfeeding and is the most amazing baby I have ever seen.
I still don't have my computer so all the pictures I post will have to be from my phone until I can upload off my camera.
I also just want to quickly mention, bc it's also something I had to deal with emotionally, July 6 last year was the day we found out our baby no longer had a heartbeat at 11 weeks and was the day of my d&c. Its interesting how much can change in a year and that's really all I want to say about that.
July 6
July 7
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