Week of Halloween

This past week I took lots of pictures of my little Liam and we had a couple of Halloween festivities we went to and enjoyed. On October 30 we went to my parents trunk or treat and then on Halloween we went to a friends house and went trick or treating with my side of the family. Liam just wore a little monster onesie and slept in a pack held by his dad the whole time. Next year I am sure he will get a little more enjoyment out of the holiday. I also was able to catch him smiling on camera and hope you enjoy the video. All these pictures are of Liam this past week from 6 weeks to 7 weeks. My little guy is getting so big. He also caught a cold this past week and I took him to the pediatrician, nothing serious but did find out he is over 10 pounds now!

So sad of Liam tiny

So I found such a sad video of Liam he is like one day old and three days old in the videos. The videos were taken by his dad Paul, he did it because he thought it was funny that when Liam was learning to cry his little chin quivered. This momma just finds it heart breaking. But for memories sake I am putting it on here.

Fall can it really be so.....

I thought i would do a better job keeping my blog updated seeing as i am not working, at least not working at the hospital. But wow Liam keeps me busy, not only with feeding and all that but hates to be put down. Well this past 6 weeks sure has been a challenge. It is so true that these little angels do not come with manuals. I have had lots of bumps along the way but had lots of family and friends to help me and pick me back up when i have felt i could not get back up. Liam has been growing and learning so much. I am happy to say he did learn how to breast feed after 5 weeks of pumping for this mom i was threw. Course only a day after he decided to breast feed i was diagnosed with mastitis after a trip to urgent care with a fever of 101. So antibiotics and me will be friends for ten days. Liam smiles all the time and has graduated to size one diapers and fits 0-3 month clothes in length and is still working on the girth fitting part.At his almost 5 week check up he weighed 8lbs. 14 ounces which is the 25% and height was 22.5 inches which is almost the 90%, looks like he is def taking after daddy. His coming home outfit is now high waters which is sad cause it only feels like yesterday that i was awaiting his arrival. He has started to transition into fall clothes which none of them really fit him but oh well they still look cute and I am just loving the weather and so is Liam he loves to be outside, can you blame him with temps at 75 degrees! Liam also got to meet a future friend who was born only 6 days after him, me and his mom are good friends so we are excited to see this friendship grow.

Photo Shoot

I was so excited for our first family photo shoot. It was very much something that occupied my mind alot during my pregnancy. Paul's dad did us the honor of taking these pictures for us we thank him so much and will cherish them always. Their is alot but i think you will enjoy, I must say I have a beautiful family! I love my boys!

Liam is a growing boy

Yesterday me and Paul took Liam to his first doctors apointment. The pediatrician said Liam is a very healthy boy! He is already just about back to his birth weight. I have been having so much fun with him. He has alot of the same habits as his dad. He loves to sleep and he is deff a side sleeper. No matter what position i put him in he alsways ends up on his side. Him and daddy have had quite a few naps together course he has napped with me too. Only issues we are having is he is not a very good breast feeding eater. He takes it fine from the bottle though, it is just alot of work for this mommy. Surprisingly my lack of sleep has not caught up with me yet and i am so greatful for that. I just love taking care of this little guy even at 2am.

Liam is here!

So i thought i would go ahead and tell my story of the birth of me and Paul's first child, our little boy William James Dunn. William or to me Liam was due to be born september 8. On September 7 i was scheduled to see my doctor, doctor Falk for my 40 week appointment. I went in and was 2 cm dialated and 50% effaced, doctor Falk went ahead and stripped my membranes and said if Liam does not come by friday we will go ahead and schedule you for an induction. So me and Paul left expecting to be getting a call later that week to find out the time we would be induced. Well i dropped Paul off at work and I headed over to one of my good friends houses. By 12 that afternoon i began to notice that the braxton hicks contractionsi had been having were becoming to be more frequent just uncomfortable did not think anything of it. I decided though that i would go ahead and head home to take a nap. Over the course of the next four hours during my time of trying to sleep the contractions were getting a little bit of an edge nothing to painful but not just tightening anymore. At four I started to time them and realized they were five min apart but still nothing to painful, but I text Paul and told him when he got home we would need to time my contractions. Paul got home and they were still 4 to 5 min apart. We went for a walk and they began to be more painful. I had already called some of my family at this point thinking ok this could really be it. We got back home and i got into the bath because this whole time i was fealing all of the contractions really strong in my lower back and it was really starting to hurt. When I got out of the bath I knew this was real. I began to cry because the contractions hurt my back so much. We timed them again and they were no more than 2 to 3 min apart. I waited so long because the hospital is 30 min from us and I did not want them to have a chance to send us back home. We got in the car and headed to Gateway. We got there about 10pm and had to wait 10 min in the hall to get registered and that sucked so bad i just leaned against the wall breathing through the pain best i could. I got into triage and got hooked up to the monitor, indeed my contractions were two min apart and i was close to 4 cm. But come to find out i was having coupleting contractions which meant i would get two contractions back to back then get a 2 min break then start again and it was all back labor which pretty much feels like your spine is getting broken in two. So for an hour i sat in this little room with nothing to help the pain no heat or anything every position was horrible all i can say is i have a wonderful husband who stood by my side the whole time. At just after 11 they checked me again i had dialated about another half cm but the way she was saying things i was so afraid they were going to send me home and tell me to come back when i was like a 5. But they called the doctor and came back in inserted my iv and started the epidural right there in triage thank goodness. Getting through the epidural was the last really hard thing i had to endure. Sitting through the contractions on top of eachother was so hard but the nurse and Paul were so helpful. Once the epidural kicked in things went so smooth. I progressed wonderful through the night and was 10 cm by 5am. My L and D nurse was also able to get Liam to turn the right way for delivery, stupid back labor. At 0535 on September 8 i pushed for 10 min and Liam was out! The doctor said she was jealous for how smooth everything went for me. Liam is just perfect and we love him so much. We really feel pretty spoiled so far course i have gotten hardly any sleep just being a paranoid first time mom but its ok i am not feeling to exausted yet. Paul has been by my side this whole time and I am so greatful to have such a wonderful husband and father to my son!

August baby shower

I am a little late putting up pictures from my shower that was back in August but i thought i would go ahead and get them up here. My mother in law, aunt and two sister in laws put the shower together and it turned out lovely. I got alot of great gifts and got to see so many people i love.

The update

So I am realizing I have not posted for a while. Life is pretty busy right now for both me and Paul. We are counting down the days to when our little boy arrives. Just over 20 days now and we cannot wait. Paul has been working 6 day work weeks and then gets home and has been paiting our down stairs. I have been keeping busy with work and getting things ready for the baby cleaning and washing wise. The heat is just about killing me and I am so glad that soon I will be shrinking back to my normal size just in time for the fall. I cannot wait for the fall it is my favorite season of the year and i cannot wait to start using my jogging stroller with Liam. I must say it is quite frusterating people have been telling me lately that they can tell I am about to have the baby like how they notice I am eating so much and it is showing in my face, ya okay like I wanna hear stuff like that. What ever happened to people just saying "oh you look great and how exciting that you are gonna have him soon", I mean come on people. My shower is this Saturday and I am very excited to see lots of friends and family. Well I am about an hour away from starting my 37th week and so ready for these last weeks!