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e understood my desires for labor and delivery she was very much an advocate of natural childbirth the method i ve been fortunate enough to utilize with all three of my boys i also really loved her enthusiasm about the fact that we were waiting to find out the sex so i made sure to get all the pertinent info i would need to make sure she was the one that delivered when the time came on december 31st i literally did all i could to get that baby born by the end of the year primrose oil walking over a mile which was probably not the best idea since i could barely waddle by the end etc nothing worked the baby wasn t ready and since we weren t to have a handy tax deduction i decided not to worry about it but to just sit back and relax on the 3rd my original due date i was definitely feeling a nesting urge i cleaned straightened organized and repeated to my heart s content i also decided to prepare dinner early so that i could go get my nails filled that evening i hated the idea of going into labor w ugly nails and knew that if i had the baby it would be a while before i could take care of that little matter after having my nails done i returned home and enjoyed a late dinner after putting the boys to bed early i also treated myself to a large piece of coconut cake with hershey s syrup and a glass of milk before settling down to watch tabatha s salon takeover while my husband snoozed on the couch about 10 30 i found myself waking up in my easy chair to a mild cramp in my lower abdomen having experienced a few more false labor contractions this time i was not too quick to diagnose the cramp as labor i switched sides and changed channels attempting to settle back down and write off the cramp as a coconut cake induced gas pain a few minutes later another cramp struck and an urge to use the rest room soon followed again i had had quite a few gastro intestinal battles in december so i was not assuming at first that this was actually the real deal i went to the bathroom and while i was doing so another cramp struck then there was bloody show a sure symptom that most of you who have delivered a baby will recognize as a definite way to know whether the time has come i quickly donned a pair of lounge pants and zipped up my waiting hospital bag i also carried my stability ball a staple during labor for me into the living room my husband seemed a little surprised that i had already accomplished this much before waking him but he was typically motivated and busy within seconds we called my mother in law to come stay with the sleeping boys and prepared to get to the hospital quickly since my labors tend to go very fast i was already clocking in the contractions at 4 minutes apart and they were progressively getting stronger we got to the hospital within five minutes of leaving the house yay again for living in town and went in thru the er since the women s pavilion entrance closes at 6pm it s funny how the staff reacts when you say very matter of factly that you are in labor it s such a rarity these days for a lady to allow nature to take its course it s no wonder that most hospital workers have never even witnessed a spontaneous birth the ladies seemed doubtful that i was actually in labor but condescendingly allowed me the luxury of a wheel chair just in case i was carrying my stability ball in my lap and the lady who was wheeling me along asked me what it was stating that it was an interesting idea she seemed very doubtful that i would actually be allowed to use it during labor much less delivery i m used to that reaction when we got to the maternity ward it was about 11 30 the nurses signed me in gave me a gown and of course they strapped me to some monitors and stuck me in a bed which is standard hospital protocol i have no problem w this initially but i do not stand for their making me do it for long the contractions slowed down when i was in the bed and since i was only at 3 1 2 cm dilated i really wanted to walk around and speed this thing up after making sure with my midwife who was en route that it was ok for me to move around they reluctantly agreed not to give me an iv or keep me attached to those obnoxious monitors which only serve to annoy and give added stress to the situation i immediately used the restroom a full bladder or intestinal tract can hinder productive labor and sat on my ball to rock my way to more effective contractions my husband was helpful but stayed mercifully out of my way as he knows to do and our good friends michael and misty had also arrived to lend their support my trusty birth coach melinda was also there to help out with her level head and loud voice within minutes the contractions were intensifying at this point i know where my body is in the scheme of things merely by how i feel this is an added advantage to natural childbirth and i strongly encourage it if you can take it the pain was getting more intense as well and i felt that signature nausea that usually heralds the arrival of active labor misty helped a lot by brushing my hair which i find extremely relaxing and massaging my lower back when the pain was too bad to feel like i could stay in control melinda helped me thru using lamaze techniques with my breathing exercises thankfully when things get this bad i know from experience that it s almost time to push and suddenly i felt a tremendous pressure in my lower regions straining against the stability ball where i sat the nurse came in quickly as i crawled onto the bed and allowed her to check my progress it really was not much of a shock that i was now at 10 cm and ready to go my midwife walked in calmly and began to prepare the staff for a hurried birth it was 1 15 by the clock that was serving as my focal point during this excruciating time i chose to lay flat on my back w my legs bent a position that is actually recommended in my lamaze book to facilitate the process of pushing and minimize tearing though it doesn t utilize gravity like squatting does it does offer a very straight line for the baby to travel the urge to push was horrid and most ladies know that the body starts to do it s own thing at this point with my next contraction i pushed with all my might using the knowledge that i did not know the sex to give fuel to my actions it seemed like forever but by 1 28 the midwife handed me a slippery wrinkly bony little girl one of the best moments of my life everyone was crying i couldn t believe my eyes and had to keep looking just to make sure she was real i cut the cord myself and immediately began nursing little ruby lu while the nurses cleaned her up she was 6 lbs 6 oz and 18 inches long i don t even really remember the afterbirth being delivered or the nurses cleaning everything up because the room seemed so huge and shiny and ruby was such a lovely surprise over the past few days ruby has become prettier and prettier as she is losing that signature wrinkly look of a newborn she loves to eat and is doing very well it seems i can t stop staring posted by jewlover2 at 7 58 am 2 comments monday august 23 2010 the end of an era sort of blogging has fallen to the wayside i m afraid my beauty blog and facebook page have taken over in a way that i did not expect but i still enjoy looking at my friends blogs and commenting on them therefore at this huge turning point in my family s lives i could not neglect to post an entry after all my blog began with our moving into this house in the country my first blog post was written while we were living in a friend s one room cabin a family of four awaiting the completion of their house o dreams my whole life i had wanted to live in the country i grew up a predominantly city girl a girl of the suburbs my husband also lived in town but both of us had grandparents that lived in rural areas and both of us yearned to someday own our own country acreage my own grandparents lived in carthage tn on a road that was inhabited by close friends and family it was like paradise to visit them the house had been designed by my grandfather in keeping with his artist needs and was tucked into the trees there was a big ol deck and a gravel drive there were gorgeous farmlands on both sides of their country road plenty of room for childish gallivanting and my childhood crush lived right up the road i could sneak out at dawn and watch him shimmy up trees and do his morning chores my good girlfriend also lived right up the lane i could hang out at her house with my cousins and even walk to the kingdom hall on sunday morning a novelty indeed so in 2005 when my husband and i felt that our family of four was outgrowing our 1300 sq foot home we decided to try our hand at building a house we found 20 acres for a great price in pleasant shade another area i visited often as a child we opted to build a home that was only slightly larger than our current home about 1800 sq feet but with all that land figured we could enlarge whenever we liked also the house would have a basement in the same footprint as the house providing possibilities to double the square footage when necessary we had big plans plans for raising goats and chickens plans to build another home at the top of our property someday in the future leaving the house to the kids and thereby keeping the place in the family forever we planned to start our own businesses writing or painting that would eventually make driving that long 35 miles to my husband s current job no longer necessary i already worked at home after all and the boys school could practically be seen from the property just a stones throw away it was a great little country school with only 55 students and a good reputation the next best thing to home school if you ask me the kh was just a mere 10 miles away the closest we d ever been to a congregation since our marriage in 1995 the property was also centrally located for shopping only 15 miles from basic shopping and about 35 miles from several larger shopping options none of this seemed like a big deal back in 2005 as we watched our house grow from nothing and breathed in the fresh country air around us i enjoyed picking out the custom cabinetry for my new kitchen and settling on a lovely ocean color scheme that really suited the bright and airy feel of our home i actually had a great time scheduling the different workers and paying out of the construction fund keeping all the paperwork and timing factors in order my husband and i contrary to popular belief did not fight during this time we were in sync on most things he left the decorative things to me and i left the structural stuff to him our two boys then ages 5 and 1 loved climbing around on the giant dirt hills and playing with the rocks unearthed by construction there were a few hiccups we had to re work the blueprints to suit our needs and the slope of the land a huge rock caused almost a 3 month delay in the building due to the fact that it had to be blasted in order for the foundation to be poured this also made an unexpected and very large dent in our budget causing us to go more than 30 000 dollars over our anticipated amount we sold our home quickly but the house was not yet ready when we did so we had to move into the aforementioned cabin for a couple of months before we could close on the new place the building took about 12 months to complete still we came in at a very decent finish it appraised for well more than we owed by its completion and we settled in nicely with a nice big padding of equity in our favor living in the country was great for the most part i enjoyed the views the open air the freedom unfortunately my husband didn t get to enjoy it like i did since he worked full time the upkeep of the property was a bit more time consuming than i imagined and we never did get around to landscaping once we moved in it became harder to find time for such things especially when i found out i was pregnant again in 2007 but we still loved our home and my kindergartner was loving his little school then things began to change first the school lost its battle with the state and was shut down the kids were all shuffled off to a larger school about 10 miles away making bus transportation necessary for us since carting around my son plus the toddler and my pregnant belly was difficult gas prices hiked ridiculously that year remember by fall of 2008 it had reached 6 00 a gallon in some places an unchanging income and a quickly changing economy is bound to have an effect on the average family then the housing market crashed properties everywhere were upside down jobs were lost initially we wanted to move out west since we have a deep love for desert climates but changing jobs in an unstable economy didn t seem like the best bet so we decided that it would be best to move to an area more convenient to my husband s job and closer to schools and shopping the house was put up for sale in 2009 i am not as sad to be leaving it as you would expect like i said the change in the economy caused alot of changes not only in attitudes but also in priorities we are now expecting our fourth child and i currently don t have any desire to own property as odd as that my seem i don t want that kind of responsibility or the stresses of maintaining property value i m ready to be within a mile of shopping i also hope to take advantage of our proximity to the beauty college i d like to get licensed as a stylist so i can start a vintage styling and photography business eventually i like not having to worry about the fact that my cars could break down at any moment knowing that if we absolutely had to we could walk to most things heck we can even order a pizza to our home the rental house we found is right smack in the middle of town and is actually larger than the one we live in now it kind of fell into our lap and we didn t feel we could pass it up i m even a fan of the style of the place which was built in the 1950 s and retains much of that original appeal a more recent addition is less to my taste but provides the novelty of a large laundry room and a gasp third bathroom most importantly the schools and jobs are close enough to qualify our continuing to drive to our current congregation at least for the time being this was a key factor since i didn t want the boys to have to deal with changes in every aspect of their lives right at first i will of course miss this view i ll miss the smells associated with the country and the fact that my kids could run rampant on the hills without our really worrying about them but everything has its trade offs and i m ready to move on i m ready to be a city mouse again at this point in my life all in all we loved this chapter of our lives and have absolutely no regrets posted by jewlover2 at 9 41 am 1 comment wednesday june 30 2010 turkey chipotle chili recipe has it really been since january that i have posted to this blog shame on me anyway this chili recipe is worthy of writing home about so without 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