BABY SHOWER

The early birds getting some food :) (as a side note, Look how Kyra is as tall as Christina.. thats FUNNY! She's only 10 LOL )

The Game winner presents

The first few presents that arrived (and the travel system)
Kyra preparing the tray with the butterflies
Kyra bored waiting for the party to start already

So I just had my baby shower :) Loved it :) it was really fun, not too long, lots of people came (I was worried about that) :) So over all I was happy about it :) On a side note I have reaffirmed why I am having a birthing photographer LOL there were almost NO pictures of my guests :( which makes me sad :( and there were no pictures of the WONDERFUL FOOD that my mom and I spent DAYS MAKING!

I'm gonna try to describe everything so that you know all that we made for the party :)

First off Kyra has Celliac Disease so I made it very clear to my mom that I wanted as much Gluten free food as possible and for the most part she conformed. We even made the little cupcakes out of a gluten free cake mix :)

OK so on the "snacky table" we had made:

• pink and purple chocolates that were butterflies and flowers
• the cupcake tower with mini cupcakes decorated with pink and purple frosting and little white flowers on top and some of the butterfly chocolates on top (kinda like they were going from flower to flower.. it was really cute.
• chips and dips

On the counter where the "meal food" was we made:

• My oh so famous Grilled chicken, Spinach and cheese- bow tie pasta (I looked really hard to find the pasta gluten free with no success :( )
• A really stinking yummy Waldorf salad (normally I hate Waldorf salad but this was way good, along with the regular junk in the Waldorf salad we also put pineapple, dried cranberries, yogurt and some other stuff which dressed it up all good :)
• I don't know what to call this next thing but we made shaped bread in flowers and hearts and toasted them with a spinach dip, ham and cheese they were really good too :)

And to drink we did the typical sprite and raspberry sherbet, but then we also added frozen berries which made it different and dressed it up REALLY NICE!

The games we played were some fun ones :) we had a trivia game that had like 12 questions on it about having a baby.. some were kinda hard. I cant remember who won that game.

Then we played baby bingo (just like at Kyra's baby shower) where they had a blank bingo card and a bunch of names to choose from putting all over the board. it made it nice in the beginning because people were able to fill those out while waiting for other people to show-up :)

The final game was the baby changing game. There were groups of 4 people and they raced to: unwrap their baby from its blanket, take off its clothes change its diaper, put on a new outfit, and re-swaddle then pass it to the next team member.. then time stopped when everyone was finished. There ended up being 3 teams, with times of 10:00 5:56 and 6:10those 2 teams were CLOSE...

After the food and the games.. we then opened presents .. the funnest part for the mommy hahaha getting STUFF is always fun!

I'm gonna post all the pictures from the party and I'll just title all the pictures presents. the few presents that didn't get a picture however was Diapers, wipes, and travel bath stuff from Diane, and the travel system from my mother (but you can see the travel system in alot of the other pictures too)

(I had to post another blog to put the pictures because Blogger is acting wird about me adding too many pictures :P )

Hypno-Birthing!!

Hey all...

its been some time since I posted on my blog and lots to share!! Ill just bullet the stuff then give details .. New Picture, New due date, New Hypnobirthing class, New Dr. and NEW BABY NAME!! SO MANY NEW THINGS this month!!

First Check the new picture ...:) I'm getting ENORMOUS!! heres me on the morning before what was 4 weeks after my other picture (what WAS to be 30 weeks) the reason I say it like that is because that day I got an ultrasound and the baby was growing so well that she was marking growth for 31.3 weeks :P so the Due date was pushed BACK to Dec 28th!!

I started my Hypno-birthing classes mid October and should end this week. They are so much fun, and it just makes SO MUCH SENSE!! I'm kinda frustrated with the way some things are turning out but I think I'm gonna do just fine in the long run! Its seriously like training for a MARATHON!! I just hope I can keep it up!! Actually I KNOW I can!! and I WILL!! I have to listen to my Birthing Affirmations for a half hour a day (I do it on my way to work, on those days I make it an extra full hour both back and fourth so I get quadrupole duty those days!!) then My Rainbow relaxation... which is a half hour.. every day... then 3-4 times a week I need to practice my "Deepening exercises." its alot of work but its SO WORTH it to me!!

The basic theory behind it is that all animals.. including humans have painless birth... its only when other humans, fear and medicine interfear that PAIN occurs... because people round the world have and still have painless births. It is only in the Western Society (mainly Europe and the US) that women FEAR birth, and they let Medical model birthing occur which creates fight or flight fear in the mother, thus draining the uterus of its blood, thus creating a cycle of confirming the pain, thus creating a deeper fear of pain, stalling the labor, introducing Pitocin which doesn't produce ANY Oxytocin but ONLY Produces pushing of the baby into the Cervix which is not ready which WILL cause pain thus confirming the thought that labor = pain... and the cycle continues!! Any way .. So in nature and the other countries their women have painless births because they put themselves in a kind of "hypnotic" glazed over state while they give birth.. and just let the Uterus do its job and birth's the baby... Thus a painless birth.. with alot of "pressure.." but not pain...

So yeah, I'm very excited about it!

I've also had some Dr drama!! I have been contemplating a switch for quite some time, but I had a "rude awakening" when my Dr got very ANGRY because I was asking about his C-Section rates.. have something to hide much ? hahah so I switched to a new OB this week. I was really wanting the Nurse Midwife but she SHATTERED her shoulder riding a motorcycle this month so she can do any deliveries till Jan.. so that puts me out of the running for her... but over all I think I'm gonna be fine! The Dr. I ended up going with, his wife had 4 Bradley Births (similar to Hypno birthing) so I KNOW he is DOWN with natural!!

My baby shower is next week! I'm so very excited about it! Ill be sure to not let a month go by before I post pictures of it!!

Baby name change might happen! I'm REALLY liking the new name!! It all started when the date changed recently, and when my friend recently had her baby.... on Halloween and they were gonna give their baby a Haloweeny middle name just for celebration of the holiday. She asked if i was gonna do that if Donna was born on Christmas.. I was thinking Jeeeez... the new due date IS only 3 days from Christmas... REALLY close to Christmas.. what if I have her on Christmas?? **panic ensued** I hadn't really thought about it I was so set on her being a New years baby that the christmas thing never even crossed my mind.. So I thought about it.. and people were tossing around all kinds of names like Christa, Joy, Star, Harmony, Bell, Bella, when when someone said Noel and I was like OHH YEAH I LOVE THAT!! and with Donna.. Donna Noel... its just sound so GOOD!! So I was thinking if she's born on Christmas or Christmas eve it would be Donna Noel.. and otherwise Donna Elizabeth... but now after 2 weeks of hearing it... I'm really LOVING the Donna Noel....

so I have decided that if she is born in December PERIOD its gonna be Donna Noel... and January Donna Elizabeth.....