pregnancy & labor

For those of you who don't know, I am 33 weeks pregnant!! I am so excited because I have made it past the time when i had Elise so early!! I had her at 30 weeks 6 days. so just a day shy of 31 weeks!! So I have been sitting on pins and needles waiting to get past that point in this pregnancy. I DID IT!!! so obviously pregnancy and labor and birthing have been on my mind alot lately and for those of you who don't know, I am going to be delivering at home!! I am doing a home birth. I wanted to do this with Elise but she had other ideas. which is ok because Elise needed to come her own way. I have a feeling that this one will be a little more cooperative. It is a boy and we are going to name him Ryan James!! isn't that a great name!! James is Jeremy's middle name. I have no idea if anyone but myself reads my blog. maybe, maybe not but its a place where I can express myself. almost like a journal but with the added benefit that maybe someone somewhere will read my thought.

Which brings me to why I am posting today!! I have been reading A LOT about birthing techniques and labor, both in the hospital and out of it. and something hit me the other day. most articles I have read or peoples opinions I have read on different blogs and some of my friends opinions have been that labor is SO hard and oh so painful. which don't get me wrong it is hard and painful. But from my experience with elise, its not THAT painful. at least not to the point where you have to have medical intervention in the form of an epidural. I mean if you go in prepared with knowing what your body is going through and what it might feel like, then its pretty managable. I am not saying its the most pleasure I have felt in my life, no way. it is painful. but I was able to get through it and be able to be in control of my daughters birth in stead of having to have someone else tell me when to push and not being able to feel anything from the waist down (that thought scared me more than the pain did!! I didn't want to feel like I was paralyzed!!) call me crazy. so back to my point. in all the stories these days that I have heard about people labors and briths is that they are started.... What? started? in all the reading i have done, the body knows what its doing and will go on its own..... but then how do they start them? with pitocen. a drug that is known to make labors longer and contrctions harder. The doctors know this about pitocen but do they tell the unsuspecting pregnant mothers this? NO! all that poor mother knows is that she is uncomfortable and ready for the baby to come out and the doctors want things to happen on THEIR schedule. NOT the bodies..... so they induce a labor when the body is not fully ready to have this baby and because its not progressing fast enough for them, they give them MORE pitocen! and then because of the pit the contractions are so hard and painful that the mothers can't (or don't want) to handle the pain and so they ask for an epidural to take the pain away. so then what happens? the labor all but comes to a screeching halt because the epidural block the body's natural cheical that makes it go into labor. then because it stops, they give more pitocen and more pitocen to get labor started again!! so then again contractions become harder and more intense than they ever should or could have been had they let themselves go naturally!!

Don't women see the correlation between these hard and painful labors and being started? and having the doctors give them pitocen and these super painful hard long contractions?!?!?! C'MON WOMEN OF THE WORLD!! EDUCATE YOURSELF AS TO WHAT YOUR BODY IS GOING WHEN YOU GET PREGNANT AND REALIZE YOUR POTENTIAL AS A CO-MAKER WITH HEAVENLY FATHER!! You can do SO MUCH more than this new overly medical-zed world will tell you about unless you educate yourself.!!!

ok enough of me being on my soapbox!! but hey isn't this my blog? don't I ge to talk about whatever I want to on MY blog?!!

Happy birthing ladies!!

A few new pictures

I have no idea what elise is doing here in this picture. she thought it might be fun to press her belly up against the wall.........don't ask me

My baby girl is going to be TWO at the end of this month!!!! ahhhhhhh I cannot believe it!! she is getting to be such a big girl and she is talking up a storm and is so curious about everything!! she is always saying "whas sat"? thats her version of whats that. She is also starting to say "I do it" or "I did it" to get us to let her do something!! she is adorable.

This is what she did when we gave her the popcorn we brought home from the movies!!

This is her looking all cool in those sunny's!!

This is just a cute pic of her in the car

really really late

ok so I know that it has been 3 months since my last post, but it doesn't seem that long ago!! i really really need to get on it and finish updating everything. It will happen soon!!!

HERE IT IS!!

FINALLY THE UPDATE YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!! I figure that since the last picture.....way back in......well i am not sure when the last time I put a picture on here was. but I am going to update you all with Elise's firsts. her first tooth, first time crawling, first time walking......you get the picture. so here goes nothing!

Ok so I know this one is kind of old but it is her first binki!! the one she got from the hospital.

First time wrapped in a blanket in the sink (yea she was so small she fit in the sink :)

Her first time in a bowl of fruit

First time getting her nails done!!! (yea I had to do it while she was sleeping.) I still have to do it when she is sleeping :)
First time with pink eye!!! YIKES!! That wasn't fun!!, but the poor thing looks so cute in this picture!!



First time bored in church :)


First time in sunglasses (like she had a choice right ) But she let me keep them on her for a while and never really took them off.

First time at funeral :( That was my grams funeral. she was my favorite person in the world and she gave eilise this cute dress that she is wearing in this picture. she never got to see her in this dress so i thought it was appropriate to have her wear it to her funeral

HER FIRST TEETH!!!! THEN CAME.....

First time I was able to put her hair in pig tails!! So cute I know! Then.....

First time those pigtails were professionally photographed!!

The above picture and the one right below this one are her first pet!! two German shepherds name Mik and Kyzer :) They love her!!

Her first time in the dirt and she did NOT like it!!

First time doing any sort of swimming. We got this really cute water feature thing with all sorts of fun spouts and toys. she loves the water!!!

first time on a carousel. not too sure what to think about it


first time she pulled up to standing by herself!!!! yea for elise!!!


First time she fell asleep in her swing


ok well thats it for now. gotta go take care of the little one. thanks for lookin!!

UPDATES!!

OK SO THIS REALLY ISN'T THE PICTURE UPDATE i KNOW YOU ALL ARE LOOKING FOR, but I will be getting to it today or tomorrow sometime :)

does it really matter though? does anyone look at our blog?