Katelyn's Blessing!! *Updated*

It has been such a long time since I have written, time has flown by!! Well I'm gonna post LOTS of pictures and maybe update with whats going on. Starting with Katelyn's Blessing!

Katelyn just turned 5 months on the 14th!! My sweet baby girl is so big! She is now laughing, not just smiles, but full on, from deep down in her tummy laughs! I LOVE to hear them. She loves ME, she sees me and smiles, and only wants ME. I'm sure later that will get annoying, but as of right now, I'm LOVING it. I am loving this little girl!! She has totally stole my heart away! In October we finally blessed her, she was 4 months and her Great Grandma made the dress.This is us trying on her blessing dress a couple of days before the actual blessing.

We then had a professional photographer come and take pictures of the blessing too:

 This is OUR family! Not all of us, but most! Thank you for being there to celebrate our important day for our tiny baby. I know the other family members wanted to come and I totally understand that its sometimes not possible! But thank you for your sweet messages and phone calls.

 Our sweet Katelyn!

 My Mother inlaw made the blanket and my grandma made the dress! =) Perfect!

 This picture makes me laugh! Bridger is so funny!! Love that boy!

 Abulita, ME, My Mom, Katelyn

 Val, Julieanne, ME, Karrie, Robyn

 My Mother inlaw with Katelyn, they are matching!! How cute is that!?

 This is Jed's mom, and seriously couldn't of asked for a better mother inlaw. She has been amazing and my kids love her so much. We love going to WYOMING and getting to play games and visit. Its a lot of fun.

 YUMMY

 The food was SOOO yummy!! We did Cafe rio style food..and it was amazing!

 Emily helped me out so much this day cooking and preparing for me while I was at the church or tending to other family members! I love this girl so much!! She takes me flaws and all! =)

My Mom! What would I do without my mom!! I dont' know. She is such a huge part of my life and I love her so much. We live 10 minutes apart and sometimes thats close, but most of the time we love it. My kids adore her and know her since we see her on such a daily bases. We are so lucky to have family so close around us!

I'm so grateful for everyone that came to Katelyn's blessing. We loved having you with us and in this special time of our sweet baby.

Katelyn is a MONTH OLD!! *Updated*

Katelyn is fill out SOO much. She is so chunky and growing so fast, her Newborn clothes are not fitting her anymore. LOL she's growing so much! She's still so tiny and little though, and she's starting to focus on my face and voice.

She is so smart for being such a tiny baby! What other baby "talks" at one month? Seriously shes always using her voice! Its so funny, if not using her voice she makes these little "Horsey" noises that are SO cute! I have to record them and put them up.


Cat

Pressure is on!! *updated*

August 8th, 2010

Alright, so I'm having a hard time with my blogging, cleaning, laundry, kids...everything! I am feeling the pressure of losing the weight, having the house perfect, playing with the kids, having meals ready, going to church, School starting in 2 weeks.. ect. So much pressure to already have everything in control and I don't like it...I can cry at ANY minute of the day.

I don't know how other people DO IT but I feel like I'm not doing it, and I know it takes time, but I feel like the time has run out, and I don't have that excuse of "I just had a baby". Jed's work is over whelming, that he can't help out as much, even though he does help out more than other husbands that actually go to work because he works from home. I have to pump 2-3 times a night, plus then bottle fed Kate. Then the kids wake up so early (8-9) I know...thats late, but its so early to us because we've been up all night, that we just throw cereal at them and let them watch TV or play the Wii. ugh.....And the sleep deprivation  ...I can seriously sleep at ANY minute of the day. I

I know this will pass, but today I am feeling a lot of pressure, and since this is MY blog,I will WHINE.....But on a GOOD note, I love holding little Kate in my arms. She SO tiny!! and she's getting so chunky! I love it!! She's growing good. The kids LOVE her to death, and she is the favorite right now! Everyone loves Kate. LOL.

Also I am SO in love with my husband, even though he works so much, he is killing himself by helping me with the baby, and kids, and then up all night working to get through deadlines. He shows me all the time that he loves me. I don't know how I got so lucky to get him. =)

Cat

WE DID IT!! *Updated*

August 11, 2010

We have nursed for a full 24 hour period! She nursed ALL day!! ALL DAY...nursed without fussing, without crying, just took it like a champ!! My sweet girl!! This has made me soo incredibly happy!

I never had a baby have a hard time latching on and she did not want too! But she did and I am so excited, I never thought I would be this excited for her to be nursing!! 

She is seriously so sweet, and just so perfect! Her little face is so tiny and cute!! We love her so much! 

Sweet Kate!! We love you!! 

Love Mommy

Sisters and a Brother!! =) *Updated*

August 10th, 2010

I have an obsessions with "Sisters". I have this eluded fantasy of how incrediably amazing it would be to have a sister. To have a instant best friend, to have someone to talk to, to have someone to grow up with, to have another women to understand you, have memories with, love you, love her back, appreciate you, taking care of your little sis, Ect. Someone that you know, NO matter what happenes, it won't matter because in the end, she's your sister.

                                                         (She is totally smiling in her sleep! LOL!)

I don't know...I've always wanted a sister, ALWAYS! I've always tried to find that person, and I had to face facts that I don't have one. But Heavenly Father gave me something better. A daughter...a sweet perfect incrediably adorable daughter!! Her sweet name is Jocelyn....How I love this girl, you'll never know. She's my everything, I adore her to the core. She's my sweet girl...so giving, so loving, cares about others, so ..my Jocelyn. But then Heavenly Father gave me 2 wonderful gift...he gave me a son and another daughter....so now not only do I have 2 beautiful girls in my life, but I get to give them the wonderful gift of having a sister!!! I told Jed that I would not stop having babies until my sweet girl had a sister!!

You NEED a sister I told him, something that I never had I wanted so desperately for Jocelyn. She is OF course in love with her sister, and I'm just loving the fact that I have these great girls in my life. These amazing people that I get to call my daughters. I am so incredibly lucky right now. Not only do I have these wonderful sweet girls, but I have such an incredible little boy (my other amazing gift, now needs a brother, we'll see) that loves his sisters to DEATH! =) (Bridger loves to hug Kate sometimes a LITTLE to tightly, but she doesn't mind most of the time. hehe)

...to my sweet babies.  Jocelyn, Bridger and Katelyn. May you ALWAYS remember that you are BEST FRIENDS, that you respect, and admire each other, that you remember each other in your prayers, and that you never lose sight of whats important. May you always be a blessing in each others lives that bring happiness and hope. I love you guys so much...Thank you for being MY babies!!

Love, Mommy!

Kate - 15 Days *Updated*

So its been 15 days! Its been so hard, but so rewarding as well. She is so small, little, fragile, I love her so much. She has one of the most perfect newborn faces I have seen! She reminds me a lot of Jocelyn when she was born with a little bit of Bridger, and then Jed and I in between. =)

We are still struggling with the nursing, today we have a dr. appointment and I will ask him about her latching. She is having problems with the bottle as well, so I wonder if it has something to do with her tounge. Bridger had to get the underneath part snipped so that he would be able to suck better.

Other than that she is such a good baby! She doesn't have any colics, wakes up every 3-4 hours to eat, and shes a really content baby. She LOVES taking baths, she loves them !! She was falling asleep yesterday in her little bath. Bridger and Jocelyn love to watch her take baths and think its so funny that a newborn is taking a "Bubble Bath".

Bridger and Jocelyn have been amazing! They love her so much and are so protective of her. They have been so helpful and just simply amazing the last 2 weeks.

Can't believe we are a family of 5 now!! We are loving it...

Cat

Baby Kate is 5 days old

So last night my sweet girl woke up at 3:00am. I nursed her thinking she would go back to sleep. She didn't. she was wide awake...her beautiful big eyes looking around, lookign at me and smiling...she is a smiler!!

So I woke up with her and talked to my sweet girl. We had a great time talking and gooing at each other, until she wanted to nurse. We are having a really hard time nursing, and this is killing me. With my other babies, I could nurse in bed and stay half way asleep while they nursed. But we have to get UP and struggle a bit with the whole nursing thing. But 4:30am I was tired, this little event lasted until 6:30 when she finally latched on, had a diaper change 3 times, and latched on again.

For some reason I don't remember these first few days!! I think I blocked it out with my other 2!! ....ahh...Sorry so short, just wanted to remember what it was like after a newborn is BORN!!! ahhhhhhh

Cat

Recovery Room Night 1 & 2 KEEP *Updated*

I'm in SO much pain!!!!! Katelyn won't nurse, and all I can think about is the pain!! The cramping, the sorness and the ache. I asked the nurse for more meds, and a Higher dosage!! I don't want to feel any pain.

I still have some placenta inside and they gave me meds to help me fight infection and get it out. I'm bleeding a ton, and they keep pushing on my stomach every 30 minutes. I'm sooooo tired.

They finally gave me a shot in the tush of Demerol and Phenergan and a higher dosage of loratab (7.5) and IB Profen. Finally after 20 minutes I can finally relax, no more intense pain.

I can't get up by myself without Jed's help, my ligament pain is still there and WORSE, my left hip pelivic area is so bad that I can't walk on it. Jed is helping me to and from the bathroom to my bed. I am so tired of being so dependent on him for walking and moving around. He slept on the sofa bed in my room tonight, and I'm so grateful. I can't walk without him...or get on the bed either. I am so tired and still in so much pain.

Jed has been so incredibly amazing through all of this...I love him so much, if not even more now! If I had a low, it has now turned into a NEW low with this baby.....but he has been nothing but loving and supporting through it all. I'm so so LUCKY!

Oh no the baby is starting to wake up....Katelyn is having such a hard time nursing, and it hurts so bad, CREAM CREAM CREAM....OK..I've whined enough.....she went back to sleep.

Day two: 

I feel better today, and can get up a little more pain free. Jed still has to help me a TON, but I am feeling better. They gave me a shot of Demoral with Fenigrin for the pain , along with an up dose of Norco (IB Profen)?? 7.5 gm. YAY!! I am not feeling pain anymore, and can finally sleep better.

So I don't know how to say this without being totally gross, but EARLY this morning finally a big part of the placenta came out, and the nurse told me that is why I was in so much pain. Cause it was trying so hard to come out last night, talk about painful. THEN I took a shower and another big part of placenta came out again. The nurse said I probably had a lot of the placenta still inside and no wonder I was in so much pain. After that they were keeping a close watch on my bleeding and I had to tell them if I passed anymore of those huge placenta stuff. I didn't have anymore and after they passed my bleeding went down a TON and the pain went down with it as well. Finally ...ugh.

The pain was my biggest complaint, I still can't walk very well, it hurts so bad, but I got in and out of bed today with minimal help from Jed. I dont' know where this baby was, but she totally did something to my hips. I can't wait until I can walk by myself again.

BUT ON A GREAT NOTE...They have an all you can eat Room service menu....its HEAVEN! I am loving their Pot Roast and Mash potatoes. YUM!!!!! Carrot cake, and all the chocolate milk I can have. =)

Gonna go sleep.......No Pain, Baby Sleeping....Jed Snoring......

Cat


I haven't slept all night, and its 3:30am....gonna see if I can fall asleep.

CAT

July 14th......Katelyn is Born *Updated*

I woke up at 4:30 JUST waiting......until 6:00. It was nice to go to the hospital and know that they wouldn't send me back and that we were having our baby today!!

This is the before pictures! So that I can see how big I actually was and how kind everyone that told me I was so small was.

haha....I was huge! Baby Kate was ready to COME OUT!!

                                              This is right before I got into my fancy Hospital Gown.

Then we get the IV in, and they started me on Pitocin. The contractions started up very quickly and I started feeling them fast! I waited until around 11:00 to get my epidural in, before they up'ed my dose of pitocin and the contractions really started hurting!!

My Grandma came at 8:00am to come help me deliver Baby Kate!! (She is actually named after my grandma, Katelyn Ana Marie Glazner) I love my grandma she's been there at EVERY single birth of mine. I love it!!

So I was at a 2+ and I was so scared of the epidural because they missed 3 times with Bridger and I was so nervous that they were going to miss this time as well. So I waited fora bit before I got it done. The Epidcural guy was named RICK and he was awesome, gave me 2 numbing shots to make sure I didn't feel the epidural needle and I was set.

But I didn't feel my legs go completley numb like I did with Bridger. I didn't feel the contractions anymore and thought it would kick in later. THEN the dr came in to break my water at two, when he did that, I totally felt him break my water and the water gushing out. I said..."If I feel that, won't I feel the birth?" They told me they wanted me to feel the "Pressure" of the baby. But I wouldn't feel any pain.  I was like...Ok. One thing I did feel was I got ITCHY!! Which is a common side effect of the epidural. Which never has happened with my other two.

 Ok...so before I go further, another thing about this pregnancy was that I got so swollen!! My feet were so swollen the last 3 months of this pregnancy, I couldn't even wear my wedding ring! UGH...so after they put in my epidural, my feet swelled up like they never did before. Jed HAD to take pictures of them. So here they are...uhhhhhhh

LOOK at that!?!? At least I had my glitter toes...=)

After he broke my water  I started to dilate a LOT faster, at 2:00pm I was still only about a 3. VERY slow at dilating. But then around 5:00 I started to feel Pressure, with like an ache to it. I told the nurse I wanted more drugs because I didn't want to feel that. It started to really hurt, and my legs were less numb then before. That got me more worried. So the anesthesiologist came in and gave me more drugs but again told me that I would still feel pressure, this was to take the edge off. I was like..ok..but I shouldn't feel the birth. She said.." its supposed to feel like you have to go to the bathroom, but you won't have any pain with it". Again I was like, ok. I never felt that before so....

So around 6:00 they came in and checked me again, told me I was at a 7!! I was going FULL SPEED, and the Dr said before 7:00pm I would probably deliver her. I was so excited, time to call in my reinforcements. Also for this birth I decided I wanted a professional to come and take pictures of it. Not national geographic or anything, but some very tasteful pictures of the whole birth. So I called my photographer along with my aunt, and Mom.

I was excited, but I was getting way more anxious because the "Pressure" was totally there and it was NOT comfortable. The pain went away but the feeling of having to go to the bathroom and NOT be able to was miserable. Every 2 minutes I would get the urge to have to go to the bathroom and at the same time TRY and hold it. Because I didn't know if I had to or not!! She assured me that it was the baby and that I didn't have to really go. It was awful, and then I started feeling pain with the pressure, at a quarter to 7:00 they told me I was at a 10 and ready to push. I was so nervous, and feeling the pain with the pressure!

At 6:50 I started to push, and just like they said I started pushing, and then I felt this HUGE pain of fire and pulling and stretching like I've never felt before!! I started screaming it hurt so bad!! After six pushes she was OUT!! Sure enough the nurse was right I didn't go to the bathroom, which is such a relief!! I was so worried about that!!

After she came out, they put her on my tummy and she was SO beautiful!! She was so chubby!!! I thought for sure she was going to be this 8 pound baby, but she was this TINY seven pounds EVEN baby!! 19 inches long. Awww...she sure felt a LOT bigger than that. lol.

I had ONE tiny stitch and the I was telling the dr that I totally felt that, and it was burning! He said, " oh wow..you felt that? I think the epidural might of worn off, you just had your touch of natural birth ". UGHHHH I'm so sorry but I do not know WHY someone would want to go Natural!! That was awful!!! But at least I didn't feel the contractions the whole time, only the last 2 hours were bad.

While she got evaluated and check out, I got my one stitch, and was shaking like crazy!! He told me that some placenta was still inside and that he was going to give me some meds to help me get it out, and fight infection. About 45 minutes after I gave birth, they had me WALK to the bathroom, pee and get in a wheel chair. I was so surprised at how fast they had me do things! I was in so much pain!! I hurt so badly down in that area along with the cramping. UGH!!!! I was asking for pain meds as soon as they put me into my recovery room.

Finally after I had my pain meds, I felt a TINY bit better, I was still in so much pain. I was so uncomfortable. But the pain meds started kicking in and took the edge off. My family came to visit and the photographer took pictures of the kids with their new baby sister. Then with my grandma, uncle, aunt, brother, sister inlaw. I can't wait to see the pictures!

Then they went and bathed Katelyn and she came back with 2 pink bows...she looked SO CUTE!! I loved her so much!!

Then ......we start the first night with our Katelyn......The story continues!!