Shyanne- One month

Shyanne is one month old, hard to believe and I am excited and sad for her to be growing each week. This blog is for me to keep up with her:

Likes:
Her swing
Being rocked
Noise
Daddy (this should be a major love, she is mesmerized by her daddy)
Mommy
Bath time
Her Boppy

Dislikes:
Her feet or hands being touched (she gets fighting mad if you touch either)
Being swaddled
Being covered with a blanket
Quiet
Being left in a room by herself

She is trying to roll over by herself and is good at holding up her head

We have 5 weeks left together before she goes to daycare, I am not ready for this, but I have to go back to work, it will be the hardest day of my life, but I am sure she will be fine.

Shyanne Grace's Birth

I will start off with how we got to the point of Shyanne Grace being born on November 8. Around my 30 week check up, my doctor started telling me she thought the baby was measuring big, I ended up having a bio physical profile every week, and of course every week she didn't cooperate to where they could read her heart beat, so I had to have a ultrasound every week to make sure she was okay. Around 32 weeks, we noticed Shyanne was a big baby, she was measuring way beyond what she should have. So we began talking about how we were going to bring her into this world. When the conversation started out with my doctor as her saying you could have a 10 lb. baby, I knew where we were headed. So we sat down and discussed having a c-section. Me and Philip decided after much prayer, a c-section was the best way to go, for my health and the baby's health.

So on November 8, 2011, at 5:30 a.m., I was scheduled to go into River Oaks and prepare for our baby girl's arrival. I was so scared the days leading up to this. On the day of, I could barely contain my emotions. Me and Philip got up at 4:00 a.m., and began our day for the last time just being us, when we came home again, we would be a family. We got to the hospital early, of course since both of us always have to be early. When we got to the floor, preparations began, I got in my gown, got hooked up to all the IV's, fetal monitor, and then waited for all the other preparations to begin. I was so worried I would have to sit and wait and worry for 2 hours, before go time, but believe me, time flew by. I remember the nurses coming in and saying the doctor wanted go time to be at 7:15 a.m., so at 7:12 a.m. I was wheeled down the hall and into the O.R. When I got in there I remember there being a whole team of folks, I thought oh my gosh it takes this many people to get my baby out. Turns out I had student nurses observing, yay me!!!! And, the fun began. I got my epidural, which by the way, was wonderful, except for the nausea part, which thank goodness for phenergan. Finally, Philip was brought in and they began, I remember looking at Philip and asking when they were going to start, my doctor said honey we are fixing to pull your baby out, and within seconds she was out. When they did and showed me her over the curtain, my heart bursted with love. The first thing I said was she looked just like her daddy, which doggone it, she does, spitting image. My sweet girl was born at 7:56 a.m. and weighed, wait for it, 9 lbs. 8 oz. Never did I imagine I would have a 9 lb. 8 oz. baby, but I did. Her sweet daddy was so overcome with emotion, he got to go over and look at her, and he kept asking how big is she, they kept saying hold on, will tell you in just a second, he was so cute. Philip did so amazing, of course one time he tried to get up after they pulled her out, and the anesthesiologist grabbed him and said son sit down you don't want to see this, bless his heart. HA!!!! Because I was on morphine, which by the way I felt no pain, but I couldn't hold our girl, Philip did everything, and he was so amazing, and so proud and full of love for his baby girl. God knew what he was doing giving us a baby girl, so much joy for his girl, I am sure she will be a daddy's girl. We got to go home on November 10, 2011, and we were so elated, and scared at the same time. We have made it through, it's been hard, but we have made it through.

Small blessings

Yesterday at 8:36 p.m., my friend and neighbor, had her baby, Levi Michael, via c-section, he is healthy and beautiful, and all involved are beyond thrilled he is here. It's been a pure joy having her share pregnancy stories with me, I am almost sad, that it's coming to an end, now she will focus on taking care of her newborn baby. However, now that he is here, it puts into perspective how close Shyanne is to being born. We are 8 weeks away from our due date, but at my 36 week check up, I will have a sonogram to determine how big the baby is, if she is already a big girl, we are gonna talk about inducing. My doctor seems to think she could be 9-10 lbs. I really don't want to deliver a 9-10 lb baby, if I can help it. LOL!!! Shyanne has definitely been very active lately, she kicks and moves constantly, and now she has gotten to where she doesn't like either side I try to sleep on, it used to be the right side, if I slept on that side, she would kick up a storm, now she is doing it for both sides. I am now entering the uncomfortable stage, I can't find a comfortable spot in my bed, and I wake up burning up, last night I turned the air down low and put the stand up fan in our room. As hard as it is to believe, I actually froze my hot natured husband, he woke up cold as can be. Sorry, but I have to be cool or cold to sleep. I think Shyanne knows there are two dogs on the outside waiting on her, when Caution comes up to my belly, her little feet get after it. She tries her hardest to kick him, but he never knows. He just looks at me like I am an alien when I tell him he has a sister on the way. Butters on the other hand, he knows and he is acting out, so there's gonna be an adjustment when she gets here, but it will be fine. I hope for the next few weeks, Shyanne continues to grow, and gets stronger and more healthy,so when she does make her arrival, she will be all set. I never thought I could love someone I have never laid eyes on, but I do. I love her so much, and it's amazing that love will intensify when I have her and lay eyes on her. I cannot wait, yes I am nervous about the labor, but I know in the end it will be worth it. Please pray for us in the next few weeks.

Jenn

Finally Friday

I was just going back through some of my old blogs, and it was almost comical to think I thought I was the one in control of my life and certain situations, how wrong was I? The last blog post I did before I got pregnant was back in January, and I talked about how I was gonna do this and that, and blah, blah, blah. Well obviously somewhere between January and February a light bulb went off in my head, where I told myself you big dummy, you are not in control, God is, always has been and always will be. So lesson learned, well if you have read any of my blog posts since then, you know on March 18th, we found out we were pregnant, on my birthday we found out our little peanut was coming in November, and in June we found out our little peanut is a girl. Whew, all that in just a short amount of time. Ha!!!! I used to think, how will I be able to stand waiting for my baby for 9 months, well let me tell you, it flies by, I promise you, it seems like I just found out yesterday, and here I am getting ready for 2 showers, one our church is throwing us next weekend, and the other one a dear friend of mine is throwing me the following weekend. I am so excited over it, but it also makes me nervous to think, in just a few months, 3 to be exact, our baby girl will be here, and sometimes it still seems so unreal. Believe me when she starts her aerobics, I am well aware she is inside my belly, but we prayed for this child for so long, to know she is growing inside of me, and one day soon, I will get to hold her in my arms, and love on her forever, and she will be my baby, I don't have to give her back to anyone, is the most awesome thing in the world. I absolutely love the transformation my husband has taken on this, he still wants to stock up on shotguns and such, but he really is thrilled beyond words that he is gonna have a daddy's baby. Inset eye roll here, lol, I get told daily how much she will be a daddy's girl, and this and that, and we go back and forth about it, so much so, I threaten to hide her from him after she is born, so she will be momma's baby, not really yall. All kidding aside, I hope our baby girl does love her daddy with all her heart, and she looks up to him and one day when she is grown up, she looks for a man to spend her life with that has the same traits and qualities her daddy does, cause I know I have a winner in the man that God chose to be my husband, and I couldn't ask for a better man to be my husband and a daddy to our baby girl. I can't wait for her to be here, just so I can see my husband melt over her, and fall madly in love with her, and so I can tell everyone about it, even though he will probably tell me not to say anything, yeah right, lol!!!!

It's a.........

Well yesterday we went in for our 20 week checkup and also to have a sonogram. Well of course I was nervous going in, don't ask me why, I just was, I kept imagining her putting the wand over my belly and a two headed alien popping up on the screen, ha. So we get in there, and she of course puts that nasty gel on my belly, I always expected it to be cold, it wasn't, it was warm. Then the fun begins, she looks at everything she could, she took measurements of the head, the little booty, the legs, the feet, but peanut was on it side, and wasn't budging. But, let me tell you what was going on. Our precious peanut was kicking up a storm, the whole time during the sonogram, the little legs and feet were moving 90 to nothing. So much to my husband's happiness, we probably have a soccer player in our future. Well she kept looking and looking and my heart began to sink, because I knew this baby wasn't gonna cooperate, it refused to move off the side, and when it would flip, it made sure to cover up what we needed to see, to tell us what we were having. 30 minutes goes by, and by now, the wand is starting to hurt my belly, and I feel like a greased pig, and I looked at the sono tech and said we're not gonna find out today are we, she said you don't give up till I do. So bless her heart she tried and tried, and by now, Philip is saying I don't see no boy parts, go ahead and tell me I am having a girl, she said well I am leaning towards a girl, but I have to physically see the girl parts to officially call it a girl. I ask her, don't you look for the three little lines if it's a girl, she said yep, well as soon as she said that, our Peanut, rolled over long enough to show us she was a girl. Yep, we're having a girl, YAY!!!!. I immediately started crying, and bless his sweet little heart, Philip said I got to go to Bass Pro to buy a shotgun, I need to go ahead and get my collection started. Yall he didn't know whether to pass out,laugh, or cry, maybe all of the above, HA!!! To say he was shell shocked, is an understatement. Poor thing, he believed for 3 months we were having a boy, heck so did I, we were so convinced we were having a boy, that I wouldn't even entertain the idea of looking at anything girl. Well that all changed yesterday. To say I am beyond thrilled, is putting it lightly. We prayed for this baby for so long, once we knew she was on her way, we prayed that the Lord would give us what we needed not what we wanted, and low and behold, He felt we needed a girl. Shyann Grace is expected to make her grand entrance on November 16th, and I cannot wait, I know the time will surely fly by. Pray for us that these next few months, go as smoothly as the first few months.

189 more days to go......

Oh my that sounds like a long time, but really it's not, our little bundle of joy will be here before we know it, and I can not wait. Yesterday was our 12 week check up, compared to our first prenatal visit, this one was a breeze. We did get to hear the baby's heartbeat and it was perfect sounding. It was kinda funny, my doctor said when she was getting ready to put the fetal doppler on my belly, that it could take a while for her to find the heart beat, so don't worry if we didn't hear it at first, well not our baby, this baby wanted to be heard right away, my doctor goes oh my goodness, well there it is, let me tell yall, that is the most beautiful sound in the world to hear your baby's heartbeat, the heartbeat was around 140-150, and I am carrying kinda low, so she looks at me and says you might be having a boy, which is so fine by me, but I have been teasing Philip for so long he is gonna end up with a girl, that I am not looking forward to the I told you so's. LOL! But really it's fine what ever the sex is, just as long as we have healthy. That is all I pray for. I made my first baby purchase, and got excited over it. I find diaper wipes, 720 ct, on Amazon for 19 bucks, I couldn't pass that up, so the delivery should be here today, I can't wait. I know odd to be excited over wipes, but hey, it's only the first purchase of many. Well y'all have a good day.

Jenn

Three months

Well today marks our three month mark, and I am beyond excited about it. I can't imagine in what really will be a short time, I will get to hold our baby in my arms and love it like nothing else. I think Philip is probably hoping these next few months fly on by, some days he doesn't know whether to hug me or run out of the house screaming. HA!!!! So far I have had some nausea that is not fun, and it seems like every time I eat, I have to be prepared to run to the bathroom just in case. I know, I know, no gory details. I don't have any specific craving just yet, I have had a different craving every day, one day I could crave Waffle House hashbrowns (smothered, covered, chunked, and diced, by the way), or I could crave Marinara sauce, or some spaghetti and meatballs. Which by the way the only thing I have gotten out of these three is the marinara sauce, there have been no Waffle House trips, no making of spaghetti and meatballs, but I might see if I can squeeze them both in this weekend. LOL! I go back to the doctor next Wednesday, and I can not wait, I want to hear the heartbeat again so bad, it's like the time you have to wait between doctor visits seems like an eternity. The one thing I seem to still have a hard time getting a grip on, is the fact that I am really pregnant, I ask Philip every day do I look pregnant, do I act pregnant, what do you think, huh? huh? Poor thing, he surely doesn't want to tell me I look pregnant for fear I will fall out in tears, but he does admit I act pregnant, (see above statement, hug me or run out of the house). He is still beyond thrilled, as I am too, I tease him daily that we are gonna have a girl, and he gets so upset, because he is absolutely terrified of having a girl, because he said he will have to go out and buy a gun for when she gets older and boys start coming around the house, bless his heart. But neither one of us really care about the gender as long as its healthy, and that is our prayer daily. Well I guess that's enough about me, my mood swings, and Peanut. Have a good day.

Jenn

Ch..Ch..Ch..Changes

Well to say the least, almost a month ago, me and Philip had the shock of our lives. One Friday afternoon I was home by myself and decided that I was going to take a pregnancy test. Why you wonder out of the blue was I going to do this, and I haven't even talked to my husband about it. Well I had been feeling pretty funky lately, tired, sick, and all the fun stuff that comes along with being pregnant. I thought, I am gonna take this test, it will say no, nope, not pregnant, not this time. Ok, Ok, the tests don't really say that, but that's what I was feeling. I figured it will say no, I can cry about it and be over it by the time Philip gets home from work. Well folks, imagine my surprise when that sucker popped up pregnant, I immediately freaked out. I went for the phone to call Philip, I mean there was no way I was waiting an hour to tell my husband this news. Well wouldn't you know it, I am so excited I forget his cell phone number, and in a panic, I am asking my dogs to help me out, who are looking at me like I have completely lost it, which by the way they were of no help, all they wanted was a treat, I mean really who cares that I am gonna have a baby, just give me my beggin strip and we can all go on our way, ha ha! So after a few minutes, I remember Philip's cell phone number and call him, and when he answers I can't get the words out fast enough and I am crying hysterically, so immediately he thinks I am dying, or somebody else is dying or has already died, and he is telling me to calm down he can't understand me, so I finally get the words out, I said I took a pregnancy test, and in typical man fashion, he says yeah, and? I said it says I am pregnant, Philip could not believe it. Well folks five pregnancy tests later, they all came back positive. So I call the doctor's office, and I ask do I need to come in and confirm the pregnancy, the lady at the front desk, says sweetheart come in if you want to, but if you took five pregnancy tests, you are pregnant, no doubt. But, folks I still couldn't believe it, in the back of my mind, I thought there is no way this is true. After a long time of praying, and praying, your mind will do that to you. So, on my birthday, I go to the doctor, and I get to have an ultrasound, and within seconds, our baby's heartbeat comes up and it's the most beautiful sound in the world, and then the baby comes on the screen, and I cried my heart out, and bless his heart, Philip says is that our baby, it looks like an alien, ha, like I said bless his heart, the tech tells him its normal, your baby is perfect in every way. Well I immediately went on cloud nine and have been there ever since. I cannot explain to you how I feel or how I felt in that moment, but I instantly knew our God had his hand in this. See, a month or so ago, I talked with God and told him I couldn't carry this burden anymore, I had to give it to him, he was in control and it was in his will. I thought if it's meant to be it will happen, if its not meant to be, then I will know. I gave it to God and I truly let it go, I didn't think about it again, until that Friday and honestly yall never in a million years did I think it would say pregnant, and never did I think I would be sitting here typing something like this, and never did I think I could say, yay, I am 10 weeks pregnant. But what do they say, never say never. So that's the story of how we ended up where we are now, and I am looking forward to giving updates on here, about little peanut.

Jenn

Will I ever thaw out......

It is so cold outside, which don't get me wrong I love cold weather, I believe if it's winter it should be cold. This though is going beyond my love factor, I may thaw out some time this summer, which by that time I will be begging for this type of weather, so maybe I should just stop complaining. HA!

I am so saddened over the news I have been hearing about the shooting in Arizona. Those poor people, the victims of those who were killed or injured, and the family of the person who shot them. There are no winners in this. For those who were affected by this, by the hands of the shooter, and for his family. How do you answer the questions of those who want to know why, when you yourself don't understand why he did it. As his parents, I am sure they are beyond devastated. I will continue to pray for the victims and their families, and some may not agree, but I will also continue to pray for the person who did this and his family.

Me and Philip are in full force of the "Baby Westerfield" project, which means we are aggressively approaching ways to conceive. I am currently doing the ovulation monitor, and so far I am not ovulating, but it is still early, no cause for alarm just yet. I have to do this for two months until I go to the doctor and then if I don't have definitive proof I am ovulating, then we will move on to the next phase, which I am not too sure what that is. I have been going to the gym for a couple of months now, and I can tell a difference, so we are moving in the right direction, finally, on the stuff we (meaning more or less me) should have been doing all along. It is almost surreal, when you really start preparing for and doing whatever it takes to have a baby. Last week, it hit me, wow, finally we are here, we are doing this, and only God knows when, but someday we are going to be parents,and I was so overcome with joy I could hardly stand it. The main part I must remember daily is to have faith in God and even when it's hard and all I want to do is cry, to believe in him and know He is with me every step of this journey.

Have a blessed day.
Jennifer