Happenings

Well, I must say that these past few weeks my world has changed and my life now revolves around the needs of a sweet but very demanding little girl. We have finally gotten our days and nights figured out and she has been sleeping for 5-6 hour stretches (much better than 2 hours). Allie is much more awake and alert and I am convinced I have seen her smile, but Josh says it's just her digestive system working. . .who knows? =) She is almost 5 weeks old, and is already outgrowing some of her clothes. When I took her to the Dr. last week she weighed just over 9lb. . .and gaining steadily.
Last night was the first night that Josh and I have been able to have a date since Allie came - I was so excited! We dropped the baby off at grandma's house (who is always more than willing to oblige when the need arises) and headed off to good ol' Iron Mountain. We ended up visiting and bringing dinner to a family of a girl in our youth group who has been going through a rough time, and then with limited options for places to eat we headed to Storheims - their burgers are really good (and so is the ice cream)! We had a great time just talking and spending time together. Although I must say I sure did miss our little peanut - it's the first time I left her (6 whole hours!).
I was also excited to be packing up my maternity clothes, and had so much fun getting out my normal clothes. . .(Yes I know, small thrills, but I am loving it).

Well better run - lunch time!

Some more pics (couldn't resist!)

Mom, what are you doing. . .I'm too young for this!
Daddy's girl
Hmmm. . .I wonder
ahhh sleep at last!

Update

The story on the whole c-section is. . . I had some severe bruising and internal bleeding and upon my check-up to get my staples out, the Dr. opened part of the incision up to let it drain. I was scheduled for daily Dr visits to get it cleaned and packed (which was not fun with a small baby and 30 min drive one way).
On Friday I saw a different Dr. and she decided to re-open the entire incision again, because it was not healing like she wanted it to. She also admitted me to the hospital on Mon to recieve a wound vac which would help close and heal the incision much faster and with less scarring. However, neither the idea of leaving my two week old for an entire 24 hour period or more, or dragging her into the hospital where her chances of getting sick or getting an infection appealed to me and I was close to tears with frustration. My mom and I prayed on the way to the hospital that the Lord would work it out so I wouldn't have to stay overnight.
Our prayers were answered and we were able to work it out so that I was able to have a home health care nurse come to my house and set me up with everything, thus avoiding the hospital and frequent Dr. visits!! The Lord was gracious!! So hopefully this saga will be ending soon and my incision will begin to heal!

In the meantime I am enjoying being a mom more and more everyday. The first couple weeks were pretty overwhelming. Having my mom here was wonderful, I don't know what I would have done with out her! Aside from the encouragement and moral support, she did all my laundry, house cleaning and shopping and allowed me to get some much needed rest =). My mom is the best and I am so thankful for her!

Sorry for the Delay!! Our baby girl is here!!!!!

Aletheia Diane Neighbors was born August 29h at 6:30pm. She weighed 8 1b 10 oz (and that was 2 weeks early! Yikes).

Allie came a little earlier than we had planned. It all started on Sat the 26th when I started having wierd stomach cramps and I didn't feel her moving alot. So, the Dr. told us to come in and get checked out. Turns out I was having contractions and the baby was fine - I was only 1 cm and 50% effaced so I went home.

On Mon. I was excited to have my final ob check up and then I was going to get all the shopping I needed done before Thursday and take care of last minute details. Well. . . plans changed. My blood pressure was slightly elevated and the Dr. decided that rather than take any more chances that somthing else could go wrong, I should go directly to the hosital to get induced. So I called Josh and had him pack my bag (no, I never had one packed. . .oops=) And he came up a few hours later.

They started me on Cervadil on Mon afternoon. On Tues morning I was up at 4am and at 5am I began Pitocin. I started making pretty good progress and the Nurse was hopeful that we would have a baby by 1pm - HA! Not quite.

I was supposed to get my epidural at noon, but the anesthesiologist had another emergency so I had to wait 2 more hours. So in the meantime the nurse convinced me to take a dose of Stadol. My oh my - it knocked me out - I have never felt so weird in my life. . .but it did help to take the edge off my pain. Finally at 2pm and 8cm dialted I recieved the epidural - and I cannot say enough about how wonderful it was!! My bliss was short lived when at 4pm the Nurse turned it off so I could feel enough to push. I pushed for over 2 hours and had almost no progress, I was so exhausted from all the drugs and lack of sleep and discouraged b\c nothing was happening, that finally the Dr. made the call for a c-section. I don't remember much after that, but I remember hearing Allie's first little cry and I started bawling from joy and the relief that she was here safe and sound.

We did end up having to stay in the hospital a little longer than planned due to minor complications with my c-section, as well as Allie having jaundice, so on Sat night we were more than ready to go home!

Thank for all of you who have been praying for us - it is an encouragement to read all your comments! We are all doing well, it has been a bit of a slow recovery with the set back of the c-section and a few small problems with the incision - but nothing that time won't fix =).

Sorry for the Delay!! Our baby girl is here!!!!!

Aletheia Diane Neighbors was born August 29h at 6:30pm. She weighed 8 1b 10 oz (and that was 2 weeks early! Yikes).

Allie came a little earlier than we had planned. It all started on Sat the 26th when I started having wierd stomach cramps and I didn't feel her moving alot. So, the Dr. told us to come in and get checked out. Turns out I was having contractions and the baby was fine - I was only 1 cm and 50% effaced so I went home.

On Mon. I was excited to have my final ob check up and then I was going to get all the shopping I needed done before Thursday and take care of last minute details. Well. . . plans changed. My blood pressure was slightly elevated and the Dr. decided that rather than take any more chances that somthing else could go wrong, I should go directly to the hosital to get induced. So I called Josh and had him pack my bag (no, I never had one packed. . .oops=) And he came up a few hours later.

They started me on Cervadil on Mon afternoon. On Tues morning I was up at 4am and at 5am I began Pitocin. I started making pretty good progress and the Nurse was hopeful that we would have a baby by 1pm - HA! Not quite.

I was supposed to get my epidural at noon, but the anesthesiologist had another emergency so I had to wait 2 more hours. So in the meantime the nurse convinced me to take a dose of Stadol. My oh my - it knocked me out - I have never felt so weird in my life. . .but it did help to take the edge off my pain. Finally at 2pm and 8cm dialted I recieved the epidural - and I cannot say enough about how wonderful it was!! My bliss was short lived when at 4pm the Nurse turned it off so I could feel enough to push. I pushed for over 2 hours and had almost no progress, I was so exhausted from all the drugs and lack of sleep and discouraged b\c nothing was happening, that finally the Dr. made the call for a c-section. I don't remember much after that, but I remember hearing Allie's first little cry and I started bawling from joy and the relief that she was here safe and sound.

We did end up having to stay in the hospital a little longer than planned due to minor complications with my c-section, as well as Allie having jaundice, so on Sat night we were more than ready to go home!

Thank for all of you who have been praying for us - it is an encouragement to read all your comments! We are all doing well, it has been a bit of a slow recovery with the set back of the c-section and a few small problems with the incision - but nothing that time won't fix =).