2015 was a pretty darn good year, overall; my best so far. About half of my pregnancy sucked, sure, and giving birth wasn’t all that great, but in the end I got a gorgeous little girl out of it. It’s been an adjustment, taking care of this tiny human, trying (struggling sometimes) to decipher her …
First Christmas
Our first Christmas with baby Ronyn on the outside was pretty eventful, nothing too crazy. We drove up to visit my husband’s family, and found out that bedsharing in a ‘full’ instead of our normal ‘queen’ bed kinda sucked. At one point, I woke up on my husband’s side of the bed, and baby Ronyn …
Dinosaur Photoshoot
My daughter finally fit in the diaper cover and hat that my friend sent as a gift, so I threw together a little photoshoot to celebrate being (almost) 3 months old. The theme, of course, was dinosaurs. She did great sitting for the photos, no crying at all (I call that a win). Check it …
Socializing Baby
OH MY GOSH SMILES. It really is the coolest thing ever to smile at your baby and for them to actually smile back. I still tear up sometimes when she does it. Not sure if it’s still the hormones, or if it really does just affect me like that so much. I also tear up …
The First Six Weeks
Some cool things: Cuddling with baby (I can’t think of anything that tops that) No more heartburn! Breastfeeding actually feels pretty cool once your nipples are broken in I can wear my wedding ring again! And most of my clothes I can drink alcohol again. Not that I actually do, but I have the option …
Week 39, Day 6: Birth
So it turns out that was the bloody show. The next morning, I woke up and finally felt the difference between labor contractions and braxton hicks. The contractions weren’t too painful at that point, and still irregular, so I tried to go about my day as usual. By mid afternoon, it was uncomfortable enough that …
Week 39, Day 4: Bloody Show?
Just a quick update, so I have it on record in case it means anything. Well, I had some brown mucus-y discharge today. Could be mucus plug, could be bloody show. Unfortunately, unless I know for sure that it’s bloody show, it doesn’t mean much except that it’s probably gonna happen in the next couple …
Week 39: Ugh. Just, ugh.
Baby Size: Small Pumpkin Dilation: 3cm+ Effacement: 70% Station: -1 How does she even still have room in there?? I’m at the point where it now takes quite a bit of effort just to roll to my back from one side — and still need to roll to the other side after that, because laying on my back …
Week 37: Are We There Yet?
Baby Size: Honeydew Melon Dilation: 3cm Effacement: 60-70% Well, big change from last week! Baby’s head is ‘very, very low’, according to my doc, so any day now, really. Hubby’s out of town this weekend, so I’m hoping baby waits until Sunday morning at least, so hubby’ll at least be on his way home by …
Week 36, Day 2: Dilation
Baby Size: Ripe Papaya Food Cravings: Anything to get rid of this heartburn Dilation: 1cm Effacement: 50% I had my first cervical exam yesterday, at exactly 36 weeks. Gotta say, it was worse than a regular gyno visit, because the probing caused cramping for like an hour after. Definitely not looking forward to feeling that …