Update...Baby...

Wow - I can't believe I didn't post on this thing since March!

The latest update is that I had a baby....probably why it hasn't occurred to me to post. April 3rd, my lillun (Charlotte) was born. I wasn't expecting her for a week so that sort of caught me by surprise. I started labor in the parking lot of the Subway Restaurant lol. Then ended up scrambling in between contractions trying to finish up work and farm out last minute instructions. During that time I had a convo with my boss while trying not to let him know I was in labor. I did pretty well, but then I just blurted out that I didn't think I would be there for the rest of the day. I made it until mid to late afternoon.

I drove home - usually a half hour drive - by myself, stopping on the side of the road for every contraction. Everyone thought I was crazy but it's not like you're going to die while driving. You feel it coming on and you pull over and wait it out. Man labor sucks!!

My husband and kids had just gotten home from a weeks stay in AZ to visit his parents. Good thing I didn't go into labor sooner!

Anyway it didn't all go as planned and I ended up having a c-section. But after 19 hours of labor I was just like "CUT ME OPEN ALREADY!" This time I was awake...mostly...during the c-section. My first one I wasn't. (2nd was natural delivery). To deal with pain or discomfort I HAVE to sleep, so I actually kept falling asleep during the operation. The anesthesiologist said I was snoring!!

The baby is fabulous. She's so happy and relatively easy - you know, as easy as a baby can be. She squeals and screams and coos and gurgles and smiles the biggest smiles. The greateast thing is getting her out of her bassinet every morning and she's so happy to see me and smiles so huge. I just adore her immensely and unbelievably!!!!!!!

Unfortunately I'm back to work now - the start of my third week. I pretty much hate it. In all I took off 12 weeks, but only had two weeks after my older kids got out of school. It was tough to leave them all and I'd so prefer to stay at home and do mom things. MAN I miss it! If there was any way I could manage it I would walk out the door this instant.

The first day back I was really depressed. My boss asked me about how I felt and I could barely look at him while I spoke because I was afraid I'd start balling. He's pretty sensitive to his employees needs so he was very cool about it when I said that if I didn't absolutely HAVE to be here for economic and insurance reasons, I would never have come back.

It's gotten better though because Charlotte has adjusted well to other people caring for her and it doesn't seem to have interrupted her schedule or altered her happiness at all. Plus I know that my mom and sister are helping to care for her and the older girls so that's good. The baby just has to go to daycare two days a week and the daycare providers are wonderful - they can take care of six babies and ALL of them are happy all the time. So I'm happy with that. I'll muddle through.

Ok - I have one more post to make about something really weird that happened to me recently. Check it out!!

Peace