Donna Was born!!

The birthing book for donna !

Almost time!!

So much to blog about today ! First Look at all the fun stuff Ive been making laitly! I made a really cute car seat cover :) these pictures REALLY don't do it justice! I wanted the car seat cover to be more than just a car seat cover, but be multi functional! As an utter cover when I'm nursing, another blanket and of coarse as a car seat cover :) I couldn't find any utter covers and car seat covers that were combined... So I made it!!! and it worked out GREAT!

The utter cover part

The underside of the cover

This picture in NO WAY shows how gorgeous this flower accessory is. Its a white flower with a really pretty pink butterfly.

The finished and ready to go cover :)

My cute 37 week prego picture! I am thinking I'm gonna have this baby this week so I needed to get another picture in before I POP!!

So this week has been fun :) All day Monday and Tuesday I had such terrible back pain. I didn't notice if it was regular or not, I just chalked it up to being so far along and that my body was starting to fight against the gravity finally. So I went to my chiropractor on Tuesday i kept saying "man my back is just killing me!" so he kept adjusting adjusting adjusting... the pain was a little better but not gone... SO I was like whatever.. it must just be the weight of the baby on my body is finally taking its toll! Wed I went into my Dr's appt and he did an exam to see how I am doing and guess what? the back pain wasn't for nothing! It was labor pains! I was already dilated to 2 cm, baby was at station 3, and 50% effaced! I was a little SHOCKED to hear how far along I was already! so Thursday I was feeling contractions every hour .. half hour.. whatever.. no big deal :) just getting the body ready :)

Friday I woke up with a nasty rash and needed to see the Dr. so I called them up and they scheduled me to come in in about a half hour. Getting ready to go I went to the bathroom and guess what? I lost my mucous plug :) I showered quickly then went right in. While I was there he checked me again. I was 2 1/2 cm station 2 and 75% effaced.. my labor was just moving along! I asked him if I was totally fine to go to work. He was like yeah thats ok, just stay off my feet and stay in Cedar City. I told him that would be hard cause I work in St. George. He basically forbade me to leave Cedar. Because he didn't want me to have the elevation change and didn't want my water to break down there because of how quick I had Kyra he didn't want me to be far from home.

I checked how fast my contractions were coming so I made the decision to go down to St. George and to have my sister Christina drive down with me so that if I DID go into labor she could drive me back. I was able to see all my kids, all through working the contractions were staying at 30-45 mins apart. Chrissy and i stopped at my favorite place ever (in and out) and ate some dinner. My contractions started coming every 15 mins then once we were half way home it was about 8 minutes apart. I thought.. YEAH :) I made it home I'll be ok to have this baby now!

I got home around 8, kept watching the clock and keeping track of the contractions. They were wavering from 8-5 mins apart. My birthing partner is in California this week, I texted her to let her know what was going on, she gave me her friend's number whom she talked to bout helping just in case, she was a professional doula and said she would love to help! So I called the Doula at 10 and let her know that its probably gonna be tonight. She said she wanted to come over to go over some things and that she would prefer that she be there long before the contractions become intense so that she can get things ready. At this point the contractions aren't painful AT ALL!! I feel them theres just no discomfort or pain at all right now! She got over here, the first thing she asked for was "do you have a crock pot?" I tilted my head and went Huh ? LOL she explained it was to keep hot towels warm so I was like Ohhhhhh.. LOL so she got that stuff ready then we went over my Hypnobirthing folder. She is a Bradley Birth instructor, I was a little worried about the fact that she wasn't incredibly familiar with hypnobirthing but it ended up ok. So we practiced some techniques that she will use later in the labor I was feeling really confident at this point! So I went to bed so that I could get some rest at around 12. I kept having dreams about contractions, I could feel them even sleeping. I woke up around 5-6 times every hour I was still having contractions 8 minutes apart by the time I finally got up for the day at 6:30. The Doula said that since there isn't much change she was gonna go and she suggested walking around Walmart for 2 hours. I agreed that would be the best measure too! So I went to Walmart, I thought I was gonna DIE a half hour into my walking! I want really paying attention to how fast the contractions were at that point, but I was defiantly feeling the contractions more than I had the night before so I thought that it was a great sign! I finally left Walmart after walking an hour and a half (cause I was totally pooped by then!) I picked up some caster oil to maybe put the contractions closer or something. So I got home, took only a teaspoon with some juice (to induce labor they suggest 1-3 tablespoons) so I figured it was just a little so it wouldn't hurt. I mixed it with a shot of juice mixed it up and swallowed like a shot. It was kinda chunky LOL but it wasn't gross. I was a little tired so I took a nap for like 4 hours. When I woke up I was expecting to be in further labor.. Shocked.. I wasn't! My contractions were GONE.. and to make matters worse the caster oil gave me diarrhea! (I know tmi, but I figured its IS part of the story!)

So now I'm having irregular contractions this morning and I don't know whats gonna happen! I kinda want to go in to labor and delivery just to see where it is now LOL but that would be just silly! So who knows if its gonna happen today.. but we shall see! I'm gonna go to church and go on with my day!

My sister Kathy sent me this baby cake. the pictures don't show all the cute stuff on the cake! it says on the ribbons, in cute sparkly letters Welcome Baby Donna!

Baby shower gift pictures

I'm so thoroughly annoyed with blogger right now :( it posted all my pictures in opposite order and its not letting me edit them at all ..

Oh well heres the pictures from the shower :)

My big belly picture .. 34 weeks pregnant!

Kyra made me the cutest flowers out of the tissue paper from the gift bags :)

This was a Lusciously soft blanky that Christina (my friend) got me along with 2 fuzzy sleeper outfits (pictured below)

This outfit was from Chris, it was a whole Layette set with a matching onesie, night gown, top and bottom outfit (below) bib and hat

Opening the card from Chris's gift (above)

Look... I'm so happy to get a Bumbo chair.. they didnt have there when Kyra was a baby

I'm so confused as to why they got it in BLUE!!

Hmm what COULD THIS BE?? LOL its shaped like a BUMBO box LOL This was from Sharene and Tanya

This was a whole bunch of matching clothes from Melonie. It ended up being 3 full outfit sets that were inter changable 3 pairs of socks and some shoes.

I was like YEAH!!! someone listened to my invitation and got me something from the registry! This cute little car seat toy was from my visiting teacher Emily.

Opening the first gift of the day

Amy got me a way cute onesie head band and head bow

Reading what the onesie says.

Eating snacks before the presents were opened... it was REALLY RAINY that day we thought it was gonna snow!