23 weeks

BOOM!

More cute stuff for baby room...

I can't stop searching online to find cute things to decorate baby boy's room with.....

All these were found at Urban Outfitters.

State Park

I had to pay ten bucks to visit my family (for a couple hours) at Belfair State Park....but it was totally worth it because I got some good pics. 

Baby Boy or Number Two

I haven't done one single thing for this baby....as for planning, preparing, decorating ect.  I did take some infant boy onsies from Sawyer's preschool from the free bin but that is about it.  I even felt a little guilty about it, thinking we make a little too much money for free lunches and such.  I have a terrible cold and I know the only way to get better is "do nothing" expect roam the Internet and decorate the baby room in my head.  Even though we can't afford everything I want and we barely paid our mortgage this month, it's still fun to dream.  I wish I could make a collage all fancy like, but I am not the best with computers.  So here is the what's been going on in my head the last couple days.  I plan to decorate the room around this adorable bedding.   

The Land of Nod

Any ideas for a rug or another color to throw in there?  I want to make a mobile too.

etsy

Something like this, what do you think?  I have some old drift wood from the ocean, and an abundance of fishing line.

I plan on putting this picture on the wall.

etsy

This is one of my besties (Sarah B.) photos and I plan on putting it in a big chunky frame.

A cute lamp, that is way too expensive.

Land of Nod

Goodwill I am sure has a cheaper lamp, I could paint and re do the wiring (even though I don't know how).

Land of Nod

I like these curtains, but am thinking I could get cheaper ones (IKEA) and I think that would be a little too matchy with the crib bedding.  I like white curtains, to let a little light in.  Maybe I could add some ball fringe.  I saw this done somewhere and of course I didn't save it.   

Land of Nod

I love love love this ceiling light fixture.

I even think I finally decided on a diaper bag....

Layla Grace

One sale for $92, and I am getting a 20% off coupon.  Score. 

What do you think mom.....??? 

I am still taking suggestions for another color to add some pop and I would really like to get a rug but am too scared to be mixy matchy while making it still look good. 

It's a start....oh I almost forgot paint colors....

martha stewart

One of these beautiful colors.

I also have Jake's old stuffed animals from when he was a kid, I plan on shelving somehow. 

We also have a pair of antlers, needing a good home.

Too much, Nah.

And only 18 weeks to finish.

Ready, set, go....I wish it was that easy.

I'm hungry..

I may or may not eat my placenta this time....don't judge me.

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My ideal labor

Even though, I lucked out and birthed a healthy beautiful baby girl, something just didn't sit right with the whole experience.  To this day it was probably one of the best and worst days of my life, if that makes sense?  I didn't do much research, I just planned to poop her out with no drugs just like my mom did me.  But after having contrations every eight minutes three days prior to actually going into active labor and being overdue, I started the whole process very tired.  Back labor didn't help the situation and after laboring at the hospital for quite sometime, I agreed to an epidural.  Even with the epidural I still had pain, a foley cathedar (that to this day, I believe caused me some urinary incontinence issues), an internal monitor for the baby and contractions (since Sawyer was sunny side up, they had a hard time finding a heart rate) and not to mention an 18 gauge IV in the left thumb (that caused some significant pain).  I also developed an allergy to the tape on my back from the epidural and had some serious itching going on.  It totally sucked.  In addition to checking me every hour during a contraction, which I remember to this day the pain it caused.  And after have no change after an hour with epidural they turned the lights off and told me to get some rest.  What, rest? Are they out of their minds?  I wanted to have a baby.  I remember seriously asking if they could please removed all of these cords and I would just push the baby out.  Then finally I was told I was a ten, little did I know that laying flat on my back, in the most unnatural position in the world, I'd have to push for 2 hours and 48 minutes.  While my nurse kept taking pee breaks and leaving me, my mom and husband to do the pushing.  It was quite awful and brings tears to my eyes while typing.  I also had family outside waiting which only added pressure, and I also had a terrible nursing student, but I was too naive to ask her to leave.

She was quite adorable when I first laid eyes on her.  She was screaming at the top of her lungs and had beautiful color and hot pink lips that my husband and I will never forget.  I remember I was starting to get so sick just holding her, her first minutes of life.  Then after being stitched up like a rag doll, I was too sick to do anything.  I felt like I was going to die.  I was freezing cold, nauseated to death and kept dry heaving into a pink emesis basin.  While everyone was enjoying our new baby I was told to stay in bed, in missery.  I demanded a hot shower because I was freezing and sick and they wouldn't let me.  Finally when I had a chance I walked to the bathroom, barely, and remember feeling so awful like death runned over....a nice nurse brought me hot blankets and I just sat on the toilet.  I would say I was sick like this for an hour, pretty much thought I was dying.  It finally passed but that wasn't how I had planned to spend Sawyer's first hours of life.  There were several other incounters with nurses that weren't so great.  I honestly don't really remember a nice comment, whatsoever.  I remember peeing right away and no nurse would believe me.  She felt my right rib cage and told me that was my bladder.  Too bad I had already peed like a milion times, and that wasn't my bladder.  I was also in significant pain and never got any pain meds.  Finally at discharge, the nurse said, "Can't you just take some motrin when you get home?"  Besides my epidural, I didn't have not one pain med given to me after my vagina ripping to my butt.  I remember just trying to smile to all my visitors but I was in so much pain.  It hurt to sit, walk, move and breath.  This time I am bring tylenol, motrin, aleve and I am planning to sit on a bobby pillow. 

Quite the experience.  I am nervous but do feel like I have the knowledge this time to make the experience better.  I hired a doula, a sweet gal so pretty and regular, she actually went to high school with me.  She has also had two babies natural which totally makes me love her more.  I want to have my hubby there for sure.  Maybe my mom, I would love to have Sawyer there too but she is quite the busy little girl.  And my mom plans on taking Sawyer for that night.  If you are interested in hiring a doula and/or placenta encapsulation.  This is her WEBSITE.

I have done all my homework and read the Birth Partner, Ina May's Guide, among others.  I also plan on watching, The buisness of Being Born, when I can get my hands on a copy.

Is it too much to ask for to look like this.......during labor?

And labor in a tub like this.......

While watching the Notebook....

While someone gives me sips of ice cold cranberry juice.

I don't think so. 

"oh shit and cock in the eyes'

Sawyer is quite the swimmer these days!  She calls the lake/pool/anything with water the "oh shit" AKA ocean.  And she definately has been watching too much Dora, because "cock in the eyes" AKA crocodiles are everywhere. 

We have been doing lots of arts and crafts.

She eats a lot of croutons.

We have been eating lots of oysters.