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Monday, July 22, 2013

Mobility Monday




Hello Everyone!

Today's post is brought to you by the Moby Wrap! (Not really, they didn't pay me or anything. Heck they have no idea I exist!)

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 (Image is from the Moby Wrap Site...Totally not me haha) 

 So this weekend my wonderful Mum picked up a Moby Wrap for me and Miss Kyra. I had been wanting to DIY one but Mum decided she would just buy me one. I am not one to pass up free stuff!

I had mentioned to her that I wanted to get more done around the house but Kyra has this problem of screaming her head off if I lay her down. She will be sound asleep and then suddenly she is awake and mad that she isn't right next to Mommy. This meant that I was trying to get all the stuff I needed done in the short little five minute spans she was asleep and not screaming. So Mum was nice enough to pick up a black Moby for us to try out and see if that would be the solution to our current situation.

I am super happy to report that after watching the Youtube video a couple of times I got the Moby folded properly and Kyra is happily asleep wrapped up on my chest as I type out this post! I have managed to get laundry and dishes done as well and that is a huge accomplishment!

The Moby material is very comfortable for the baby, though I do worry that it might be too hot if we are outside in the Missouri heat. However I most likely will be wearing her around the house primarily and I live for the cold A/C so we should be okay on that front. 

I know that other people have had some trouble with the amount of material (It is about six yards long) or the folding process but the videos on Youtube helped a lot and you just have to be patient! It was worth the minor frustration of getting it to be tight enough so that now my little lady is happy and we are getting around the house with next to no effort at all! We are mobile people!

I give the Moby an A+!!



Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Kyra's Birth Story

Well Miss Kyra is about to be six weeks old tomorrow so I thought it was about time to post her birth story! I am also working on a "Day in the Life" post detailing my days at home with little Miss. Hopefully I can get that up and going this week! I just never know what kind of day is in store for me now!

Now here is her story!



My eyes popped open at 12:30 am. I know because the clock was glaring at me. I had been having contractions for over two weeks and had already had two false trips to the hospital. This was different though. This one hurt just as much as the others but for some reason it felt different. I stood up to walk around a bit to see if it would go away. Bobby lay there in bed watching the clock and asking repeatedly if I wanted to go to the hospital. However since I had already had two false alarms I wasn’t going anywhere until I knew for sure. 

 (Me at 38 weeks, 2 days before Kyra was born!)

Two hours later I decided it was time that we headed to the hospital. 

My contractions had been sporadic for weeks, anywhere from twenty minutes to two minutes apart. On my false alarm days they had been less than a minute apart for hours but no baby. That night was no different and once I got to the hospital I was taken to the observation area to see how things progressed. I was 38 weeks to the day and they told me they weren’t going to stop labor but they would not help me along either. I was dilated to a four at the time and had been for a week.
An hour of sitting there in the observation room, they checked me again and I had progressed to a five. So the nurse suggested I move around for a bit and see if things kept going. So began the long walk through the maternity ward halls. It hurt, oh my stars did it hurt, but Bobby was with me the whole time and each contraction got worse and worse, finally to the point that I threw up. Luckily I made it to a sink. 

That was when Bobby went to get the nurse, however my actual doctor was on call that night and she came instead. She checked me and I was at a six, nearly a seven. That check was the worst of all and my husband actually grabbed my hand so I wouldn’t get a grip on my doctor. It hurt so badly I was in tears. My doctor asked me if I wanted the epidural. I said “Yes please!” and my husband laughed a bit. I had wanted to go without it but I was hurting so badly that I just couldn’t see continuing on like that.
So they moved me into the actual labor room, which was lovely and wonderful by the way, and called for the anesthesiologist to come and administer the epidural. While they were rigging me up with IVs and taking all my vitals my husband asked me if I wanted him to go ahead and call the troops. We hadn’t called them since we had already had false alarms but my doctor assured me, we were going to have a baby today! So off Bobby went to make the calls. 

Once he had started the phone tree he was back to take care of me while the anesthesiologist got my epidural going. This was the point that Bobby had to go away and lay on the floor so he wouldn’t pass out. Seeing that huge needle go into me got to him apparently! However I couldn’t see a thing and it wasn’t painful, just mildly unpleasant. However once it got going the pain was gone, and I do mean gone. I could still feel the pressure but there were no more sharp waves of intense pain. Now that the epidural had been administered they let my mom and dad into the room. She and my husband sat with me while the contractions continued but I lay there just amazingly happy, I remember telling them multiple times, “We are going to have a baby today! I’m going to be a mom!” 

Finally my doctor came in at 8:30am and checked me. I was good to go and she broke my water. I felt a rush of warm but that was all and the doctor and nurse asked who was going to stay for the labor. My parents got up and kissed me before leaving Bobby and I alone with the doctors. 

The baby’s heartbeat was not where it should have been so they nurse put an oxygen mask on me. This was by far the most annoying thing I experienced during the labor thanks to the epidural. The nurse then told me to go ahead and push. I did two big pushes and the baby was crowning, however at that point they lost the baby’s heartbeat. 

The doctor called in several other nurses and told me they were going to do a vacuum assist since the baby didn’t like the birth canal. She told me I could most likely get the baby out on my own but not as quickly as she would like. I told her to do whatever she needed to do to get my baby out safely. I didn’t care what it meant recovery wise for me; I just wanted my little girl out safe. 

So with another push and the vacuum assist at 8:46am my little angel was brought into the world.
They handed her to me and I remember thinking, “She is so tiny!” and “She has hair!” My heart was instantly filled with a love that I had never ever known before. I didn’t know that I could love so deeply or so intensely. There is no love like this love. I was crying so happily and didn’t even notice as the doctor started to get me all stitched and cleaned up. I had two second degree tears that she had to get taken care of but at that moment I didn’t feel anything right then. I would in the upcoming hours and days but at that moment all I cared about was the warm little angel in my arms. 

After a few moments they took her away to be weighed and measured. They called my husband over so he could take a few pictures. Baby girl weighed in at 6 pounds even and 19.5 inches long. The doctor asked me what her name was and sobbing still I told her, 

“Kyra, her name is Kyra Nicole Uilani.” 

Once they had her initially cleaned up, they brought her back to me so that I could start nursing right away. Baby girl was a champion and latched right on! Bobby left for a bit so he could tell everyone out in the waiting room that Kyra had finally arrived. We had requested however that we be given time to spend with our baby girl before everyone came in, but that hour went very quickly and I knew that they were all just dying to see her! The nurse actually asked me if I was ready because every time she went out there they all jumped up eagerly. I told her to send them all in. 

The whole crew came in and everyone was just amazed by how tiny our little lady was, and yet how wonderfully and amazingly perfect she was. 

My mom hugged me so tightly when she came back, and I felt a sudden bond with her that hadn’t been there before. We had always been close but now I got it, I understood just what she felt for me and how powerful her love was for me. I was a mom now and I got it…and she knew it. There was so much love in the room at those moments that I thought I might burst from it.

That feeling has yet to fade....every time I look at her face I feel it even more intensely than before! 



Thursday, July 11, 2013

If I won the Lotto Linkup




Or in other words a post to put up right now as I try and get things rolling as I update my blog!















I caught this linkup as I was  being hosted by Holly and I admit this is the first time that I have been to Kristie's blog but I will be following along now! I just happened to see this linkup go up as I was feeding Miss Kyra this morning and thought, "Now there is a linkup that I can really get into!"

This is a fun game that I like to play with my husband each week as he picks up our lotto ticket so I have been working on these answers for a long time now!  Here's just what I would do if (WHEN!) I win the lotto!

1)Pay off Debt--- This is going to sound super boring but I would get out of debt. I only have one major debt and that is the horrid student loan that I took out the second year of college. That thing is like the song that never ends...I cannot seem to make a dent at all! So I would pay that sucker off first and all the other little debts that my husband and I have.

2) I'd be a a full time stay at home mom with this little angel!

 I want to stay home now and I have two weeks of crying ahead of me before I have to go back to work unless I figure something out....winning the lotto would mean no stress over it, I would for sure be staying home!

3) Vacations- Multiple vacations! I love to travel and my husband has hardly been anywhere so we would be traveling a lot! First on the list is to go and visit my family in Hawaii! I am Hawaiian but have never been to the islands! Then off to Fiji, Tahiti, Disneyland, back to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, then off to the one in England, Scotland, back to Ireland, more Europe...all over the states, Grand Canyon, Maine in the fall for the leaves......LOTS of Vacation!

4) Big House, Lots of Land- Think Pioneer Woman style......I want a ranch....and a lodge.......and her kitchens!
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5) Shoes- Closets full of them......Enough Said.
                                                      From fb page "Dear Shoes I Love You"

6) Personal Trainer and Chef- I hate cooking, I love baking. Thus I will need someone to make healthy meals while I ruin the efforts of the Personal trainer as I bake to my little heart's content.

7) Indulge my inner Nerd- Comic cons, E3. Cosplay, you name it I would be there! Plus I would buy all kinds of things like this---
                                                         so cool
8)Now that I am done being selfish....I would donate a huge amount to the humane societies. We are their voice....plus I would adopt about a million dogs.

                                                  Oh so true
 So there you have it! A short list of the things I would do if I won the lotto! Be sure to join the linkup!


In addition I am in the process of updating my blog and making some real changes! Please feel free to click around and find out more as I get more and more things uploaded and going!