Ahmie has been having more consistent and closer contractions throughout Sunday. We went to church and I was not with Ahmie during the service because the childcare was loaded with kids and I opted to help out. During the service I checked in on her and she told me that she was having a period of 3-5 minutes between stop and start of contractions, with the contractions lasting for about a minute.
After church we went to Malley's and Ahmie picked up an Ice Cream Sunday. (She promised herself that in early labor she would have a Sunday.) We had called our Midwife and she came and checked on Ahmie and found that she is about 4 cm dilated and thinks that she would likely deliver in the next day or so. While this is all happening I was furiously trying to clean up the blue room.
It seems that Sabrnia (one of Liam's Godparents) is coming up from West Virginia to be here for Piglet's birth. Also Ahmie's mother Cindy will be arranging time to be here also for the birth.
Ahmie thinks that Piglet will come in the next 24 hours.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Is Piglet's arrival imminent?
Ahmie has been feeling more contractions this past week and over the past two days she has been feeling them a little bit differently. She has been noticing contractions since before Summer break started but they were irregular and infrequent, they were a bit more frequent last week and it seems that as this week (week of June 17th). She has been feeling them come with more frequency and this evening she had been noticing that they are between 5-10 minutes apart. Ahmie had a glass of wine this evening to help slow down these contractions.
I wonder if his arrival is imminent because the contractions she had this evening, as she described them "they are inwardly focusing" and she said that she felt the contractions "starting higher up and washing downward towards her backbone and pelvis". Ahmie's due date is July 7th which I think would be really cool. Ahmie is however not disappointed if our baby piglet (because this is the Chinese year of the Boar/Pig) were to be born sooner because she does not like hot weather. She does not look forward to the hot weeks ahead. Suprisingly it has been quite cool the past several days.
We have been cleaning sorting and rearranging the house a bit. So far the living room, office, and kitchen are pretty clean and tidy. Our bedroom needs to have clothes hung up the bathroom needs some attention and the blue room has had much improvement but we still need to vacuum and organize some things in there. Our bedroom is getting there we have our mini cosleeper set up next to Ahmie's side of the bedroom.
Ahmie wanted to give birth at home for Liam's birth but due to several reasons we decided not to give birth at home but instead at a hospital attached birthing center. Most of the hang ups were with me. I did not know for sure how Ahmie would endure labor with Liam. I just was not sure what happens during a birth. I was concerned what if something went wrong. Personally being part of Liam's birth and being there and seeing how Ahmie knew and was very aware of birthing Liam. I was much more comfortable with Ahmie having a home birth with Piglet. I however wanted to have help and assistance to oversee Ahmie's labor. We decided after moving to our new house that we should home birth.
Reasons (in no particular order)
1. We are really close to the hospital. In the back of my mind I do fear some sort of complication but we are like 3 blocks away from Lakewood Hospital.
2. Birth is a life event and rarely a medical event. Since we are in a home that we own and plan on living here for many years to come . I think that it would be great that our children born at home and have a deep connection to the home that they live in.
3. Both of my parents were born at home.
4. I know Ahmie can give birth and I have faith that she will be able to bring Piglet into this world also.
Liam is so wonderful it is hard to imagine life without him. I think he would be a great big brother. We knew that he understood that there was a little baby inside Ahmie and it is just priceless during winter when he would say:
We have also decided to start really potty training Liam, he can go most of the day without accidents if we ask him to go every 30 to 45 minutes it seems that he can hold it while he naps so things are good.
But Friday Liam developed strange red splotches all over his body and on his face. We were concerned and we took him to an Urgent Care and the doctor said that he may have a systemic allergy attack, meaning he ate something he was allergic to. He seems alright but he looks horrible with the splotches all over his face. Obviously this puts a hamper on the potty training and complicates preparing for Piglet's arrival. He mostly seems to be itchy. We give him Oatmeal baths and lotion him up and give him Benedryl to try to treat this. Tho the doctor at the urgent care gave a prescription for Zyrtec I wanted to try to give him something over the counter before giving him a prescription. He is still splotchy but seems to be diminishing, still itchy but lotion seems to take care of that along with the oatmeal baths.
Its getting late and I should make sure I rest up. Because I know I won't pretty soon.
I wonder if his arrival is imminent because the contractions she had this evening, as she described them "they are inwardly focusing" and she said that she felt the contractions "starting higher up and washing downward towards her backbone and pelvis". Ahmie's due date is July 7th which I think would be really cool. Ahmie is however not disappointed if our baby piglet (because this is the Chinese year of the Boar/Pig) were to be born sooner because she does not like hot weather. She does not look forward to the hot weeks ahead. Suprisingly it has been quite cool the past several days.
We have been cleaning sorting and rearranging the house a bit. So far the living room, office, and kitchen are pretty clean and tidy. Our bedroom needs to have clothes hung up the bathroom needs some attention and the blue room has had much improvement but we still need to vacuum and organize some things in there. Our bedroom is getting there we have our mini cosleeper set up next to Ahmie's side of the bedroom.
Ahmie wanted to give birth at home for Liam's birth but due to several reasons we decided not to give birth at home but instead at a hospital attached birthing center. Most of the hang ups were with me. I did not know for sure how Ahmie would endure labor with Liam. I just was not sure what happens during a birth. I was concerned what if something went wrong. Personally being part of Liam's birth and being there and seeing how Ahmie knew and was very aware of birthing Liam. I was much more comfortable with Ahmie having a home birth with Piglet. I however wanted to have help and assistance to oversee Ahmie's labor. We decided after moving to our new house that we should home birth.
Reasons (in no particular order)
1. We are really close to the hospital. In the back of my mind I do fear some sort of complication but we are like 3 blocks away from Lakewood Hospital.
2. Birth is a life event and rarely a medical event. Since we are in a home that we own and plan on living here for many years to come . I think that it would be great that our children born at home and have a deep connection to the home that they live in.
3. Both of my parents were born at home.
4. I know Ahmie can give birth and I have faith that she will be able to bring Piglet into this world also.
Liam is so wonderful it is hard to imagine life without him. I think he would be a great big brother. We knew that he understood that there was a little baby inside Ahmie and it is just priceless during winter when he would say:
Piglet come out mama's tummy help Liam shovel (snow).Recently, Liam has been in the habit of pretending to take Piglet from Ahmie's tummy and holding the pretend Piglet in his hand and carefully holding the baby. When we had the mini cosleeper set up he did exactly that and he placed Piglet very gently in the cosleeper and then gave the imaginary Piglet a kiss. It just melts your heart.
We have also decided to start really potty training Liam, he can go most of the day without accidents if we ask him to go every 30 to 45 minutes it seems that he can hold it while he naps so things are good.
But Friday Liam developed strange red splotches all over his body and on his face. We were concerned and we took him to an Urgent Care and the doctor said that he may have a systemic allergy attack, meaning he ate something he was allergic to. He seems alright but he looks horrible with the splotches all over his face. Obviously this puts a hamper on the potty training and complicates preparing for Piglet's arrival. He mostly seems to be itchy. We give him Oatmeal baths and lotion him up and give him Benedryl to try to treat this. Tho the doctor at the urgent care gave a prescription for Zyrtec I wanted to try to give him something over the counter before giving him a prescription. He is still splotchy but seems to be diminishing, still itchy but lotion seems to take care of that along with the oatmeal baths.
Its getting late and I should make sure I rest up. Because I know I won't pretty soon.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
I know it's been 10 months, anyway My 30th birthday and Scrapblog
I know it has been about 10 months since I last wrote on this blog. Indeed much life has occurred during the interim I started teaching at a new school, most likely I will be back teaching there again this year. Ahmie became pregnant again and is due soon. Along with my parents we bought a double house in Lakewood. I think other than the year I started teaching in Virginia this has got to be the most stressful and action packed year in my life.
April was my 30 birthday and it went okay. I have to say that I probably should have invited my friends to the party earlier but having been so busy with work and the Robotics Team and home life I just did not muster the energy to call anyone any sooner. I invited my co workers and ex-coworkers and friends. I had hoped my ex-coworker friends Josh and Clark would have made it. However the party went well anyway. More the problem was the foot plus of snow that we had the week before the party and I had wanted to have a party in the back yard. But the yard was muddy from all the melted snow.
Check out the scrapblog below for pictures of the party and my brother visiting for my birthday.
Marvin called me Saturday morning from the airport asking for me to text him his ticket confirmation number because he had forgotten it. He arrived at about 11 am and we went out to eat and afterwards we went to church for an evening of boardgames. We spent Sunday afternoon together after church. Dropped Marvin off at the Airport Sunday afternoon around 4pm and had to pick him up because of heavy rains canceled his flight and the next flight would not be until early in the morning. It was great because Liam was heartbroken when we had to drop Marvin at the Airport and Liam was so surprised when Uncle Booger... ahem I mean Uncle Marvin came back. This meant I had to wake up extra early to drop him off at the airport so he can be harassed by the TSA and not miss his flight.
I think I will most definitely post some more soon.
April was my 30 birthday and it went okay. I have to say that I probably should have invited my friends to the party earlier but having been so busy with work and the Robotics Team and home life I just did not muster the energy to call anyone any sooner. I invited my co workers and ex-coworkers and friends. I had hoped my ex-coworker friends Josh and Clark would have made it. However the party went well anyway. More the problem was the foot plus of snow that we had the week before the party and I had wanted to have a party in the back yard. But the yard was muddy from all the melted snow.
Check out the scrapblog below for pictures of the party and my brother visiting for my birthday.
Marvin called me Saturday morning from the airport asking for me to text him his ticket confirmation number because he had forgotten it. He arrived at about 11 am and we went out to eat and afterwards we went to church for an evening of boardgames. We spent Sunday afternoon together after church. Dropped Marvin off at the Airport Sunday afternoon around 4pm and had to pick him up because of heavy rains canceled his flight and the next flight would not be until early in the morning. It was great because Liam was heartbroken when we had to drop Marvin at the Airport and Liam was so surprised when Uncle Booger... ahem I mean Uncle Marvin came back. This meant I had to wake up extra early to drop him off at the airport so he can be harassed by the TSA and not miss his flight.
I think I will most definitely post some more soon.
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