Our girls are getting pretty Big!

I took the girls to their dr appts in Bonney Lake today. They both needed immunizations. Heidi only got one and didn't complain a bit. As soon as the nurse pulled the needle out of her leg, she stood up and asked for a lollipop and a sticker. She has always been so good with shots! Hannah, on the other hand, really cried a lot. She had to have three shots and one oral immunization. She cried for a while. I gave her some tylenol as soon as we got home. I don't think she's been feeling very well this evening since we got back. She felt like she had a little but of a temperature.

Our girls are definitely healthy little girls:

Heidi
Age: 3 1/2 years
Height: 41 inches (95th %)
Weight: 38 lbs (75th %)

Hannah
Age: 3 months + 17 days
Height: 25 in (95th %)
Weight: 16.1 lbs (97th %)
Head: 16.5 in (75-90th %)

Any ideas?

I first started my blog when Brian went to Iraq, as a way of writing little notes of things we were doing and how Heidi was growing while Brian was gone. I guess now that we have another child, the name of my blog "MyTimeWithHeidi" should probably change. Any cute blog name ideas?

In our new house and back online!

We finally found a house and moved in a couple of weeks ago. Today, we finally had the internet turned on, so I am able to give a quick update. The house that we bought is in Auburn, WA. The walls are not in the best shape, but with a little paint/patching up here and there, it will look a lot better. The house is pretty big (3400 sq ft), so that's really nice. It has 5 bedrooms + a good-sized bonus room (that does have a closet, so I guess it could actually be considered a 6th bedroom). I'll try to put some pictures on here when we get our other computer unpacked and load some pictures onto it. The previous owners took the dishwasher, fridge, and built-in microwave oven. The house was advertised as having stainless steel appliances, but when we got it, it only had the oven. Oh well... we already bought a fridge (I guess they don't usually come with the house anyway), but we still have to buy a microwave and a dishwasher. We are just glad to finally have a home again. Our things were packed up in Texas last August... and it is now June.

Heidi is also making some new friends and Hannah is really growing FAST! Hannah started rolling over about a week before she turned 3 months old (May 14th). Now, she is rolling over all of the time! Tomorrow, I'm taking both girls for check-ups with their new doctor. Heidi has been coughing since April and Hannah never had her 2-mo well-baby check-up/immuniztions.

Hannah: 3 1/2 weeks old

We had another doctor's appointment yesterday. Hannah was 3 1/2 weeks old. We had to have the second PKU test done and another blood test to make sure she isn't getting too anemic from the antibodies my body started making to attack her system when I was pregnant with her (because of our blood incompatability).

She is in the 95th percentile for her height and weight right now!

Height: 22 3/4 inches
Weight: 11 lbs 6 oz

We were also in a car accident the day before yesterday. Someone hit my car when I was driving to Ben and Jenny's house in Maple Valley for a Saint Patrick's Day dinner. The EMT's checked Hannah out and said that she seemed to look okay, but that I could take her into the ER that night or tomorrow if I thought I needed to. I just had her dr check her out at her appt and he said that everything seemed to be okay with her... so I was glad.

She is definitely growing really well though! The doctor said "You must have fabulous breast milk because she is growing really well." She has really been getting chubby lately. He said she is in proportion, though... and that she is not really that chubby. He said that she's just going to be a tall girl.

Blood Incompatability

When Hannah was born, they took a sample of her blood and my blood and they found that while I was pregnant with her, I started producing antibodies to attack her blood. I have type O+ and she has type B+. I guess this is pretty uncommon. They said that if I have another baby, they will have to monitor it more closely while I am pregnant. Hannah had a blood test taken yesterday at her one-week follow-up appointment. If my antibodies continue to attack her blood, she may have to have a blood transfusion... They are going to take another blood test from her in two weeks to compare and see what's going on. I really hope she doesn't have to go through that. If she does, though, at least Brian and his mom can donate blood for her to use, so we won't have to worry so much about hepatitis or anything like that. I hope she will be okay...

Hannah: One-week-old

Today, I took Hannah in for a follow-up appointment... and she Really Grew this first week!

Birth Weight: 8 lbs 14 oz
Weight at 1 week: 9 lbs 5 oz

Birth Length: 21 3/4 inches
Length at 1 week: 22 1/2 inches

Hannah Grace Picture - 9 Hours Old

Last Thursday morning at about 1:20am when I was laying in bed trying to sleep, I felt something that felt kind of like a pop "down there." I wasn't sure if my water had broken or if it was something else that I don't want to describe on here (in case I might gross somebody out). I also started shaking a lot (from adrenaline, I guess)... and I think that's about when I probably started having some mild contractions. I went into the hospital to be checked out at 7:30am, but they sent me home to rest...

I had been having contractions all day and they were getting pretty intense as the day went on. Brian was supposed to go to a meeting down in Portland Friday with work, so I was hoping I could at least wait until Friday evening to go into the hospital (so he could be there when she was born).

As the day went on, I started to worry that I might not make it to Friday evening. My contactions had gotten to about 2 minutes apart... so I called the hospital to see if they thought I should go back in yet, but the doctor that I talked to (Dr. Kellert, who was also the same doctor who sent me home that morning) said to me "Well, you should know if you are in labor or not since this is your second baby." But I really wasn't sure if I was to the point that I needed to be admitted or not yet. She really was not very friendly and was even a little on the rude side... and told me that maybe I should stay home and rest if I am not in labor yet. I just didn't know for sure if I was. I was induced with my last baby and the experience was totally different. (This was at about 8 - 9 pm)

Anyway, I decided yhat I would try to relax... and was going to try to go to bed... but then when I just decided that I couldn't relax, Sylvia took me to the hospital. It was kind of hard getting in the door because my contractions were probably about a minute apart by this point. (This was at about 10 pm).

When I made it to the front desk, I told them that I thought I needed to be checked because I might be starting labor. I wasn't even sure if I had dialated. The previous morning, I was only dialated to 1/2 cm. The lady at the desk said "I don't think we even need to check you... we're going to go ahead and get you into a birthing room... I can tell by looking at you that you are in labor."

They immediately got me into a room and checked to see if I had dialated... and she said that I was at a 7 and fully efaced. I was just worried that they were going to tell me that I was only at a 1 or 2 and think I was just being a wimp... and send me home again... but, they immediately called the dr and anesthesiologist and told them they needed to get there NOW. Sylvia called Brian (who was going to sleep down in the apartment on the other side of Seattle, which is two hours away) and told him to get up here. I guess he was only slightly understanding what she was saying... but he got in the car and was up here in two hours... JUST in time for the pushing!

I was pretty disappointed when I heard that I was going to have Dr Kellert deliver my baby. That was the same dr who sent me home that morning and the same dr who was a little rude on the phone with me just a couple of hours earlier.

I was also worried that I was not going to be able to get an epidural because I was already at a 7! I guess the dr did not even call the anesthesiologist right away. We kept waiting for one to show up, but nobody ever came... and a nurse called the dr again to find out what was going on... and I guess one hadn't even been called yet!!! One of the nurses said something like "somebody needs to be told about this..." because we should have had someone in there by then to give me an epidural.

Soon after, a girl came in and said that she had to give me something that was fast acting. I was already dialated to a 9 by then... (my water broke and kind of exploded across the room when she went to see how far I was dialated) and soon after, Brian came in... I started pushing... had to push for about 3 hours... and finally, at 3:29am, Baby Hannah was born... sunny-side-up (so she was really difficult to push out).

When her head came out, they told me to stop pushing because the cord was wrapped around her neck twice. Luckily, it was a long cord and they were able to unwrap it pretty quickly... and then the rest of her was born.

Brian was back on the road at 4am to make it in time for the meeting in Portland... and back on the road up to Bellingham that evening to spend time with us in the hospital.