Well since the last blog my life has completely changed. We welcomed our perfect baby girl. On October 16, 2013 10:40am we welcomed Charlotte Ryann into the world at 6lbs 10oz. So since then I've learned to appreciate sooooo many things.
One I appreciate my amazing husband. Not only is he an amazing husband he is an amazing daddy. He knows exactly what to do and when to do it. You can clearly tell she is already such a daddy's girl. She loves being rocked in his arms and just laying on his chest. I know it will be difficult for him to return home tomorrow without her but I know he is going to stay strong but miss his little girl so much. And I know Charlotte will miss daddy feeding her and burping her. Mommy cant get her quite upright enough to burp her really well especially being in bed. Travis is such an amazing man and I am truly lucky to have him. I know you are all probably getting really tired of reading about how great he is. But I never ever want him to think he isn't an amazing man because he has done so much and sacrificed so much for Charlotte and I. To me that is something that no matter how many times I say it he will never know how much I truly appreciate and love him.
I appreciate the amazing NICU and OB nurses for helping Charlotte Daddy and I get used to this new life. Charlotte is such an amazing little girl and the nurses have all fallen in love with her. Daddy and I are thankful for all the nurses that have shown us the little tricks of the trade on breast feeding, changing diapers, getting her to stop crying, bottle feeding and everything else that Charlotte needs. There are times mommy gets frustrated especially when breast feeding that daddy is able to help because of the handy hints the nursing staff have shown him and I. The NICU nurses helped daddy feed Charlotte her first bottle and he did an amazing job with it! They showed him the tricks to get her to eat more when he thought she wouldn't eat anymore.
I'm thankful for all the visitors we have had and everyone that shared their love for Charlotte. I know this little angel is so loved by so many people. I know she loves all the attention =] She has been amazing thru all of the visitors and being held by everyone. All the visitors and everyone that has shown their love for Charlotte have made this an amazing experience. We all know no pregnancy was meant to go like this but for me trying to look on the positive side of things, I think we have gained so much out of it. Charlotte now has so many people that love and support her - which she would have absolutely had so many if none of this happened- but she has the love and support of everyone she has met. I know she has changed each persons life that knows about her and our story even if its just a tiny bit or a huge bit she has made a positive difference. She made it thru so much and still came out so perfect.
Little thing to be thankful for this week I simply have one thing and its not so little.....LIFE....I am so thankful for not only my life but all of my loved ones but life in general. Its such an amazing miracle. So appreciate life and the life of all living things around you. <3
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Last post before the Csection tomorrow
So tomorrow Travis and I will officially welcome our precious little angel into this crazy world. We are so very excited. I'm a good combination of excited and nervous and I think Travis is too.
As we get ready to welcome this precious miracle to our lives I am very thankful to have made it to 36 weeks. With our first scare that they may have to deliver her at 24 weeks we have come so very far. I am also thankful to know that she has the best possible care with the best nurses. They keep telling me there is slim to no chance she will need to go to the NICU with the exception of the med withdrawls. Which I'm hoping she will not have to go thru. The nursing staff from OB/NICU/Ortho have all been amazing and Charlotte and our family will be in all of their hearts tomorrow I'm sure of it.
I'm so glad Charlotte will be able to stay with me until I am discharged with the help of my wonderful hubby and my mom. This will be a learning experience for Travis and I and I have every faith that we will do an amazing job at raising Charlotte into an amazing young woman. I know Travis will be an amazing daddy and that our families will support us thru the next few months which will be rough with my recovery but as a family we will get thru it and come thru stronger than ever. I know that Charlotte will grow up with an amazing sense of family and know how truly important family is because at the end of the day they are the ones that will stand by you and take care of you when you need it most. We are so blessed to have the amazing families that we have and the amazing family we have created together!
I'm so thankful there is an end in sight. As much as I loved being pregnant and feeling Charlotte move around, seeing the ultrasounds and knowing that I had this beautiful little miracle that I could care for I will be happy to have her here finally, and the morning sickness to disappear. And to be able to have my hip surgery in just a few short days then be able to make my way home!! On October 28th I will have been here for 100 days!! Can you believe it?!? I know I can't. I still wonder how I made it to 90 days without loosing my mind. I think it has so much to do with my family and my nurses I knew I could talk to them about anything. They all helped time fly by. I found things to do and things to keep me busy even though there's not so much you can do laying in a bed. But I know after this is all over with it will all be worth it to have me home and be on the road to recovery finally.
Little things to be thankful for tonight are support of others no matter how big or small. Family even if they do drive you crazy sometimes. Sometimes its the craziness that makes you appreciate them just a little bit more. For those of you that are parents appreciate your kids. I bet they drive you the craziest out of anyone but be thankful for them, I know some parents that would give anything to have their children back. So count your blessings every night and appreciate all the little things.
As I finish up for tonight two of my wonderful nurses came in. They made me a scrapbook page for Charlotte's scrapbook. It has beautiful pictures from the baby shower and everyone wrote a nice message to us. I cannot say enough good things about these fantastic nurses they are all amazing and all of them have hearts made of gold! Charlotte will not only be a member of our huge family she will forever be a C6 baby =] (even though we are on B3 now) <3
As we get ready to welcome this precious miracle to our lives I am very thankful to have made it to 36 weeks. With our first scare that they may have to deliver her at 24 weeks we have come so very far. I am also thankful to know that she has the best possible care with the best nurses. They keep telling me there is slim to no chance she will need to go to the NICU with the exception of the med withdrawls. Which I'm hoping she will not have to go thru. The nursing staff from OB/NICU/Ortho have all been amazing and Charlotte and our family will be in all of their hearts tomorrow I'm sure of it.
I'm so glad Charlotte will be able to stay with me until I am discharged with the help of my wonderful hubby and my mom. This will be a learning experience for Travis and I and I have every faith that we will do an amazing job at raising Charlotte into an amazing young woman. I know Travis will be an amazing daddy and that our families will support us thru the next few months which will be rough with my recovery but as a family we will get thru it and come thru stronger than ever. I know that Charlotte will grow up with an amazing sense of family and know how truly important family is because at the end of the day they are the ones that will stand by you and take care of you when you need it most. We are so blessed to have the amazing families that we have and the amazing family we have created together!
I'm so thankful there is an end in sight. As much as I loved being pregnant and feeling Charlotte move around, seeing the ultrasounds and knowing that I had this beautiful little miracle that I could care for I will be happy to have her here finally, and the morning sickness to disappear. And to be able to have my hip surgery in just a few short days then be able to make my way home!! On October 28th I will have been here for 100 days!! Can you believe it?!? I know I can't. I still wonder how I made it to 90 days without loosing my mind. I think it has so much to do with my family and my nurses I knew I could talk to them about anything. They all helped time fly by. I found things to do and things to keep me busy even though there's not so much you can do laying in a bed. But I know after this is all over with it will all be worth it to have me home and be on the road to recovery finally.
Little things to be thankful for tonight are support of others no matter how big or small. Family even if they do drive you crazy sometimes. Sometimes its the craziness that makes you appreciate them just a little bit more. For those of you that are parents appreciate your kids. I bet they drive you the craziest out of anyone but be thankful for them, I know some parents that would give anything to have their children back. So count your blessings every night and appreciate all the little things.
As I finish up for tonight two of my wonderful nurses came in. They made me a scrapbook page for Charlotte's scrapbook. It has beautiful pictures from the baby shower and everyone wrote a nice message to us. I cannot say enough good things about these fantastic nurses they are all amazing and all of them have hearts made of gold! Charlotte will not only be a member of our huge family she will forever be a C6 baby =] (even though we are on B3 now) <3
Thursday, October 10, 2013
catching up for long lost time
“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.”
- Ralph Marston
Tonight I thought I'd start this blog off with this quote I found. This sums my thoughts up perfectly. I hope you enjoy this blog. I will be working on trying to blog more diligently and more than just once a week.
First of all I want to say Thank You to everyone that has read my blogs, sent me messages, sent me cards, sent good thoughts our way, prayed for us and everyone that has done anything for us! It is greatly appreciated and we are so very grateful for each and everyone one of you. I know I say it alot and talk about it alot but Travis and I have amazing support system. I am told quite often how strong of a person I am and how great of a mom I'm going to be, but I tell Travis as much as I am told that I wonder if its really true. Then I realize I am strong and I will get thru this and it will make me a better person -- but the only way I have remained strong and positive thru all of this is the amazing people that support me, my family, my friends, my nurses, my doctors everyone that comes into my life help me to stay positive.
I cannot believe in just over 5 short days our little angel will be welcomed into this world. As boring as it has been laying in bed day after day and not being able to show off my baby belly that I am so very proud to have, I have to say time has gone by surprisingly very fast. The closer it gets to Charlotte's arrival date I realize also more and more that she has so many guardian angels looking out for her. Travis and I have lost several people very close to us for me my Aunt Jeanne and my best friend Meghan, for Travis his brother Matthew and his grandfather. We both know that all four of them are looking out for not only Charlotte but for both of us. She will have those angels thru her entire life to watch out for her and protect her.
I've been in a private room now for over a week now, there's a few things I've noticed since moving. Not having a roommate sometimes is lonely. As not so much fun as it was having the confused roommates or the roommates in pain at least there was someone for you to talk to or if they couldn't or wouldn't talk to you then at least they had nurses in and out many times. I have great nurses but I'm pretty independent so I really don't like to bother them unless I need something. However the nurses have been fantastic and even if I'm not their patient for the day they come in and check on me. A few of them even tell me they think about me when they go home. My favorite is one of my nurses told me today she had a dream that I had Charlotte on Tuesday so she was going to call on her day off to see if her dream was true. They are truly amazing nurses and I hope to be 1/2 as good of a nurse as some of them. Another thing I've noticed now that I dont have a roommate I enjoy cross stitching at 2am. I don't have to worry about disturbing my roommate with the light. So from 12-2am is usually when I get most of my cross stitching done. I think just because the hallways are quiet and its just a good time to think about things. So thank you to Aunt Cathy for sending me all of the cross stitching I'm working on it to get it all done and I love all of them!!
5 days!! Can you believe it?!? I know I can't!! So I'm thankful that there are just 5 days left. I'm thankful to have such an amazing husband that will be a fantastic daddy! He has already done so much to get ready for our daughter to join us - from sorting her clothes, installing carseats, buying last minute things we haven't gotten yet and looking up things we should know before she gets here. I can't wait to see the amazing man I married hold our daughter for the first time. I know I worry about how he is going to do in the operating room because lets face it child birth is messy let alone a csection but I know once he sees our beautiful little girl he will be just fine and forget about everything else that is going on his world will stop for that second that he holds our baby girl in his arms.
Little things I'm thankful for this week are a little bit of everything and quite a few things. Facebook to keep up with friends and family. It allows me to talk to them and see what they are up to and allows them to talk to me and see how I'm doing and how Charlotte is doing. Google because it give Travis something to do =] Well not really something to do but it helps him be able to understand things that the doctors are telling us. He can look up things we don't understand or we have more questions about. Pinterest because its giving me lots of things to look forward to doing/getting/making once we can go home. Windows I can finally look at my window and see what the weather is like. Even though my view is of a garden with another building across from it at least i can look and and see that its raining or the sun is shining. Hair bows (I'm thankful for these my hubby not quite as much) =] I got quite a few hair bows for Miss Charlotte to wear that will match her outfits. She will be a very fashionable little girl.
I know I need to get better at putting up blogs more often and I will continue to work on it. When Charlotte comes I will start blogging about how she and I are doing because surgery will be soon to follow for this momma. But I most certainly won't forget to include the things we are thankful for. =] I want everyone to remember if there's ever a day you don't feel so good about yourself or something you are doing just remember I appreciate you and I am thankful to have you as part of my life because even if I've only met you for 5 minutes you've made a difference no matter big or small in my life.
Enjoy these cool fall days and nights, hug your loved ones tight and enjoy all the fun activities that come along with fall! <3 I love and appreciate you all!!
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
long lost blogging
I know its been a long time since I've blogged and for those of you that follow I'm so sorry!!! Things have been crazy.
The baby shower was amazing!! I hope everyone that was able to attend had a great time no matter which one they attended. I am thankful for everyone that has helped us celebrate our little girl. She truly is a miracle after all she has been thru. I cannot believe it's almost time for her arrival. And we cannot wait!!! She will be perfect in every way! My favorite thing of all is the homemade blankets we received they are so meaningful and heartfelt. I know Charlotte and I will both love them and use them all the time!! She will use them for as long as possible!
Second thank you to everyone that has posted the fall pictures and sent me the fall pictures! I love them all!! Hopefully Charlotte and I will be home before the end of the month. Yes there is an end in sight!! I hope everyone is remembering to be thankful when they go outside and take in the fresh air and the great smells of fall. I cant wait to get home and make a homemade apple pie :) I'm sure the hubby will love that!
I know quite a bit has been going on in our government and politics since I've been in the hospital and I'll be the first one to say I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING!! I know some people are thinking what is wrong with me I should know what is going on. Well as much as I'd like to know every bit of details it truly scares me and confuses me on how our government has so much going on. But one thing I am sure of is I'm grateful for the great country I live in. We have amazing healthcare which I know I'm certainly very thankful my husband and I have amazing health insurance otherwise I would have zero money for when I leave the hospital if we didn't. And no this isn't a rant about health insurance or the lack of for some people its just me stating I am thankful for what I have.
On another note that is one thing I am sure of especially as of lately. I am sure that I am very thankful for all that I have. I am thankful for my friends, my family, the job that I had, the house I live in (when I'm not living in the hospital). I am thankful for every little thing I have in my life. Although I may not have all the money in the world one thing I do know for sure is that no amount of money would buy all the love that I have in my life or the happiness my life brings me. It has been an emotional few days as I miss home more and more. The thought of what I will have when I go home truly makes me happy - although my husband and I thought we would be able to have our own place before our daughter arrives atleast I have my parents house to go to where I can have the help we need. No one has the perfect life lets face it we would all like to say we do but I realize as long as I am able to breath and talk to/see my loved ones I have all that I need and that is what keeps me going every day is that I know I have everything I need to see me thru this rough time.
My closing thought for the night...Everything happens for a reason. Even though I am not a go to church every Sunday as most of you know-- I am sure of this if God brings you to it he will bring you thru it. So if you are struggling know that you are strong enough to get thru it. If you don't believe that you can make it thru whatever it is you may be going thru just remember this as someone once told me you are a strong intelligent human being with alot to offer! You can make it thru anything <3
The baby shower was amazing!! I hope everyone that was able to attend had a great time no matter which one they attended. I am thankful for everyone that has helped us celebrate our little girl. She truly is a miracle after all she has been thru. I cannot believe it's almost time for her arrival. And we cannot wait!!! She will be perfect in every way! My favorite thing of all is the homemade blankets we received they are so meaningful and heartfelt. I know Charlotte and I will both love them and use them all the time!! She will use them for as long as possible!
Second thank you to everyone that has posted the fall pictures and sent me the fall pictures! I love them all!! Hopefully Charlotte and I will be home before the end of the month. Yes there is an end in sight!! I hope everyone is remembering to be thankful when they go outside and take in the fresh air and the great smells of fall. I cant wait to get home and make a homemade apple pie :) I'm sure the hubby will love that!
I know quite a bit has been going on in our government and politics since I've been in the hospital and I'll be the first one to say I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING!! I know some people are thinking what is wrong with me I should know what is going on. Well as much as I'd like to know every bit of details it truly scares me and confuses me on how our government has so much going on. But one thing I am sure of is I'm grateful for the great country I live in. We have amazing healthcare which I know I'm certainly very thankful my husband and I have amazing health insurance otherwise I would have zero money for when I leave the hospital if we didn't. And no this isn't a rant about health insurance or the lack of for some people its just me stating I am thankful for what I have.
On another note that is one thing I am sure of especially as of lately. I am sure that I am very thankful for all that I have. I am thankful for my friends, my family, the job that I had, the house I live in (when I'm not living in the hospital). I am thankful for every little thing I have in my life. Although I may not have all the money in the world one thing I do know for sure is that no amount of money would buy all the love that I have in my life or the happiness my life brings me. It has been an emotional few days as I miss home more and more. The thought of what I will have when I go home truly makes me happy - although my husband and I thought we would be able to have our own place before our daughter arrives atleast I have my parents house to go to where I can have the help we need. No one has the perfect life lets face it we would all like to say we do but I realize as long as I am able to breath and talk to/see my loved ones I have all that I need and that is what keeps me going every day is that I know I have everything I need to see me thru this rough time.
My closing thought for the night...Everything happens for a reason. Even though I am not a go to church every Sunday as most of you know-- I am sure of this if God brings you to it he will bring you thru it. So if you are struggling know that you are strong enough to get thru it. If you don't believe that you can make it thru whatever it is you may be going thru just remember this as someone once told me you are a strong intelligent human being with alot to offer! You can make it thru anything <3
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