Two weeks old!

It's pretty crazy to think that yesterday (the 26th) was Miah's due date. I am so glad I was not pregnant for that long! However, it might have been a little less stressful to have no hot water for a week without a having a newborn too! Yes, the day we got home from the hospital the water heater was leaking and it turned out that our land lords "couldn't" get it fixed for a week. Actually not only did we have no hot water, but soon realized that it was still leaking and so had no water at all for a couple days. We spent a lot of time at my in laws. Finally they came and replaced the water heater with a new one, but that first week was pretty rough with no water and a new born.

Miah has been wonderful. Such a sweet personality and a great sleeper...as long as I don't eat ANY dairy or chocolate-tear:( And Tate and Allie absolutely adore her. Today was her two week doctor's appointment and here are the stats:

Weight: 7.45 lbs - 21%

Length: 21.26 in - 81%

Miah Lynn Cornwall

The day after my last post, Saturday the 10th, I started having contractions again, but didn't really give them much thought since they were just like all the others I'd been having for the past two weeks. Alex and his mother teamed up on me and made me go to the hospital to get checked out just in case. Of course it had to be at 10 o'clock at night since that seems to be the only time I go to the hospital :) At the hospital they checked me and I was at a 4 and 80% effaced and still not in "active" labor. But since I needed to have the antibiotics for the GBS they kept me and started my IV. And just like the last two weeks the contractions slowed...and stopped! So from 1:30 to 2:00 in the morning me and Alex were walking the halls trying to get things started again. No luck! So they had to start some pitocen (sp?) When the nurse checked me at about 6:00 I was at a...(long pause for dramatic effect)...5+ and 90% effaced! Seriously?! And the contractions were still not real. Dr. Ott arrived around 6:30 and broke my water. That's when the party started.

I have been planning on a natural deliver for some time now and felt that I was mentally prepared, but once the contractions started I realized that I had hardly had any sleep and was exhausted. My mental preparedness wavered a little as the contractions came harder and closer together. "Never mind. I don't want to do this natural anymore."But Alex was amazing and kept reminding me of my goal and my nurse walked me through each contraction. I refocused (with the help of Enya and my ipod), closed my eyes, and sat like a statue of Buddha only moving to nod to Alex when he needed to push on my knees. It was getting intense when I felt like I needed to push, but by then the Dr. was there and so was my sister. Pushing was tough, mostly because I'd never experienced this sensation of my body taking over before and couldn't quit figure out what was just pressure and what was a contraction. But after a little refocus and another good push it was all over and there was my baby girl!

Miah was born almost exactly 1 hour from the time my water was broken and I had my first real contraction. She was 7 lbs. 1 oz. and 19 1/2 inches long.

The kids were so excited to meet "baby sister"

We came home Monday afternoon to our closet being completely water logged. The tankless water heater sits in our closet and it was leaking and had soaked underneath all the flooring in the closet. So my dad and Tate ripped out the floor while Alex was at work. It's made things a little bit awkward and messy, but Miah is such a good baby that it really isn't too big of a deal.

Despite some rebellious behavior from Allie and a melt down or two from Tate the kids are adjusting to Miah. Although I don't know what's to adjust to, she sleeps 22 hours out of the day! No seriously last night she slept for 6 hours straight before I had to spend a half hour waking her up to eat! Such a good baby!

Quick update

So the chiropractor visit didn't work quit the way I'd planned. I had been having contractions that weren't getting worse, but that were staying consistent at 6-8 minutes apart. Then I went and got an adjustment and would you believe that all the contractions, braxtons hicks...everything stopped! Apparently it just wasn't time. That was on Monday and I spent the entire week feeling great and getting a lot done.

My doctor's appointment was today and I was seriously expecting no progress to report, but low and behold I am dilated to a 3! However, I am still only 70% effaced which is the only hold up. So Dr. Ott stripped my membrane to see if that would help a little. We'll see!

Easter!

Here are my two cute kiddos in their Easter wardrobe ready for an Easter egg hunt!

In between conference sessions we took a walk to the temple. They got sunglasses in their baskets and Allie absolutely would not take hers off for anything. Ooooh! Aren't they sweet? If only they would always be this nice to each other!

After a trip to grandma's house they got more candy of course and these cute galoshes. They have both been wearing them ever since! Allie's are pink with polka dots and Tate's are firefighter ones. Very cool and helpful when they are watering the garden!

And we ended up returning our adopted dog Milo. He was a good dog (but he did shed and I plan on writing a strongly worded email to the site that listed Jack Russel Terriers with the non shedding breeds!) The problem was he loved to escape any chance he got and poor Tayden would have a full blown anxiety attack whenever it happened. It was seriously not healthy and so when I brought up the option of letting Milo go to another home where he couldn't run away Tate was so relieved and has mentioned a few times since he's been gone about how nice it is not to worry about Milo. Not having a dog right now is perfectly fine with me.

Just a quick update. I am 37 weeks, but only measuring at 35 because baby is practically in the birth canal, she's so low! As of Friday I was dilated to 1 cm and 70% effaced. Since I've been positive for Group B Strep with my other two we are just assuming that will be the case this time as well. One problem is that I will need 4 hours worth of IV antibiotics before delivery and chances are I won't have that much time. So the doc said that if by this coming Friday I've progressed but still not in labor they will try to get things started and just have me hooked up to the IV. I really don't want that. I'd like to go on my own since he also said that if things do go quickly then the likelihood of the baby getting anything goes way down too. So I've been doing everything I can to go into labor and so far I've had lots of contractions that don't go anywhere! But I just went and got an adjustment which has proven successful to put me into labor within 24-48 hours on two out of two labors. So any day now!