JaszyMarie

My water broke yesterday afternoon at 6:30pm. It quite freaked me out because I had just been arguing with Michael that I was not going back to the hospital until my water broke. About 30 seconds after that I stood up off the couch so that I could go pee because it felt like I had been holding my bladder for ages on end.

Low and behold here comes the rush and my thought of “Well that is not pee!” Thankfully Michael’s mom had just gotten off work, michael was just getting off work and my parents were easily available. It was a long and hard process. Emily was being a little stubborn one and it took awhile to get her here but thankfully not as long as it did with Brittny.

At 4:57pm March 14th, 2009 Emily Grace Tilson was born after only 8 minutes of pushing. It took awhile to get to that stage of pushing but it went super fast after that stage arrived. She is so precious and I cannot wait for Brittny to meet her little sister. She is doing really good. She weighed 5lbs 4.3oz 18 3/4 inches long and has a 12 1/2 inch head. She couldn’t be more perfect.

My Dad and Michael ran to Target to get some pictures developed for my parents and his mom and as well for us. I’m going to try and get the pictures posted on here so that everyone can see them! I am so excited and blessed to have two beautiful little girls. I think it is just now setting in on me 4 hours after she was born what has all happened in the last few days. Michael and I are both overjoyed. Welcome to the world Divine Miss Em!

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So in the last few weeks alot has gone on. I have been in the hospital three times. Not exactly my idea of fun. I’m having the same problem that I did with Brittny. I have been “in labor” for a week now. Emily is healthy and fine and according to the blood tests they did her lungs are developed etc… and would do fine if born now.

Me being such a small person probably has alot to do with it. I simply wasn’t built to carry babies. She is measuring big. She is measuring at 36 weeks instead of 34. I kind of knew that was going to happen because Michael was quite a large baby at birth.

We’re basically in waiting now to whenever Emily wants to say hi. The labor with no progression part really sucks but I know the extra days in there are doing her good. I do think it will be in the next two weeks that I have her. My body is doing everything that it did before I had Brittny. What matters most to me though is that she is healthy. Which she is.

Everyone keep me in your prayers cause with the contractions getting stronger and still no Emily it is getting really hard to not get discouraged and just give up. But I know that I can’t do that. Like I have told everyone unless I have an appendage sticking out of me or my water breaks im not going back to the hospital.

Keep you fingers crossed. I put a new picture up…

I’ve reached the milestone of 8 months prego! It’s both exciting and discouraging at the same time. I’ve decided when I will be leaving for maternity leave and I am in full countdown mode lol. My last day will be Tuesday March 31st, 2009. I will be 37 weeks 1 day then.

I’ve been back to work for almost a week. Been trying to make up as much time as possible. Because I was out for a full week of work. They finally ordered me new shoes that will be much better on my feet! I’m super excited about that one.

My skin has been so dry and itchy all over this week that I went and splurged 5 dollars on myself at target. I found any womans best friend. I have been lotioning twice a day everday since I found out I was pregnant and my skin has still been super dry everywhere.

I found the miracle that is Palmers Lotion and Baby Bee Belly Butter. They have worked so well over the last few days. I love them. It is really helping my skin feel nourished and stay that way! Pregnancy is definetly starting to catch up with me. Im super sore and tired everyday no matter how much i’ve slept or rested. Thankfully this is just about over. Enjoy the new picture. I put up pictures of the lotions so that you could find them if you wanted to buy them yourself. My gestational diabetes appointment is on Wednesday. Wish me luck everyone.

This last week has been a long one for me. On valentines day I started having contractions. So I was monitered in the hospital for about 5 hours. Thankfully enough they weren’t dialating or effacing my cervix. Just weren’t exactly the nicest thing to go through. So they put me on medication to stop any further contractions until it’s time to have this little girl. As bad as I wish that it would be time, it’s not.

I’ve been out of work since then and have been extremely bored. Since getting the okay to return to work tomorrow from my o.b. I have been having the arguement with Michael & my family about me returning to work. They don’t want me to but I am trying to save as much money as possible before Emily is born. I understand that I am high risk. Been there already accepted that fact but things are going alot better in this pregnancy and as long as things continue to go good I want to continue to work.

My 31 week appointment went well. I weigh 135. Michael is mad at me because I have lost 0.8 of a pound. I hate it when I have to see a doctor that isn’t either of my regular ob’s. This lady was trying to tell me I am only 26 weeks along. No way jose! other than that I am doing great. Everything looks good and Emily is still head down.

Had my three hour glucose test this morning. It was double the amount of glucose of the one hour test. Thankfully I haven’t had any of the symptoms that I was experiencing after drinking the glucose with the one hour test. My arm is in pain but who wouldn’t be after being poked four seperate times to draw blood. They drew blood from a fasting point, one hour, two hours and three hours. It went by pretty fast and hopefully I have good news in the morning. Meaning no phone call. Cause like the nurse said today no news is good news.

I return to work tomorrow so wish me luck on re-calibrating myself tonight to overnights again. I will let everyone know how the results came back when I know.

Im 30 weeks today. Feels good to be in what my pregnancy newsletter calls the single digit weeks countdown. Although I still got awhile till she is here. Still got another 8 weeks before I take my maternity leave. So for me it still feels like forever. My body is still reaping the third trimester woes. Thankfully the nausea has calmed down a little bit. The heartburn is still that fire breathing dragon that hourly assaults my esphogaus. I think im going to finally break down and actually buy a bottle of tums or rolaids. I have been buying the rolls of them but that tends to get pretty spendy.

My brother gets released tomorrow. We are going down there this Wednesday-Friday. I’m super excited to be able to see him. It feels like forever since I have seen him. The last time I saw him I was 18 weeks pregnant. So yea that says a little bit. We’re making a whole bunch of food to eat and scarf down. Just because we know he has got to be starving by now.

I failed my one hour glucose test. So I at this moment in time a possible diabetic. I won’t know until I do my three hour glucose test next week. Thankfully my parents are going to take Brittny on my days off next week. I go every two weeks for my ob check ups now. So my next appointment is on the 18th and then I have to do the three hour glucose test on the 19th. According to my ob alot of people fail their one hour test but pass the three hour because you have to come in from a fasting state for the three hour and you don’t for the one hour. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Will keep everyone posted. Enjoy the new picture. I think I am starting to drop. I feel like my belly is much lower. I think it shows in the picture. Let me know what you think…

Im 29 weeks 1 day today. My body feels like it has been beaten and bruised. The wonderful thing called nausea is haunting my nights and days again and I hate it. In my pregnancy news letter they asked if I had been feeling like a barn with legs. YES!

Emily seems to think my body is a giant circus tent for her to do her damage in. So ready for this to be over but I know I gotta wait just a little bit more….

So the day after my last post I had to go the emergency room because I just was not feeling any better. Puking and coughing at the same time is not fun. After hours of being poked and probed looking for a problem they finally figured out that I had bronchitis.

If I ever see the lady who gave me my iv again I will smack her. She poked me in the arm five times trying to get it in there and then finally gave me a shot of something to numb my arm so that I wouldn’t feel it anymore. Some people.

I’m feeling better now. Although work is really starting to take it’s tole on my body. I’m 28 weeks 1 day today. The ever so exciting third trimester! It’s exciting for me but not at the same time because I know I still have another 10 weeks before I take my maternity leave, because I will most likely be delivering by c-section. Trying to work until I can’t anymore.

I don’t feel like i’ve gotten much bigger but I can definetly tell that Emily has. She is kicking so much these days it’s hard to rest even when I do get a chance to rest. Oh the joys of motherhood right? There is a new picture up. Enjoy it. Gotta try and get Brittny to calm down. Thank goodness it’s my Friday.

So good news the results from my mid-pregnancy pelvic came back normal. They did decide to change my due date though. Because when they did the follow up ultrasound I was measuring at 25 weeks even and the samples that they took from my cervix a couple days later came back that I was 25 weeks 2 days. So now my due date is April 20th. So the new picture isn’t exactly at 26 weeks I apologize.

I have been having growing pains like no other. That is normal though. Thankfully Braxton Hicks has been kinda to me the last few days. But my body has made up for it by making me sick. At first it was some kind of stomach virus and then now it has turned into the worst cold i’ve had in a very long time. Needless to say I feel like (insert expletive). I’ve been visiting my parents the last few days so i’m going to try and get in with my old doctor before I head back home today. I also have to work tonight but I think I am going to call out because working around food like this is definetly a food safety hazard.

My pregnancy news letter for week 26 says that Emily can see now and that is why her movements are increasing. It’s exciting to know i’ve made it past the point of Derek’s pregnancy with no complications at all. I am getting to that point where I just want Emily to be here already but I know I have quite a bit still to go until she is here. My body is beginning to reap and sow the downsides of pregnancy and i’m trying to work full time through it. My second trimester is almost over and I still have yet to experience that “second burst of energy” as they call it. My mom says it’s because im working full time and am a mommy full time with little time to rest.

Enjoy the new picture everyone. I will have a new one again in two weeks. My next appointment is on Feburary 4th and I will be 29 weeks then. Even though its just a few weeks away still feels like forever. Michael says it feels like tomorrow that Emily will be born but I say it feels like eternity.

Everything went really well this morning. We had a much better ultra sound technician. She was able to get all the pictures she needed really easily and was including Brittny and answering all her questions. Brittny behaved alot better this time. Mostly because the ultrasound technician was explaining to her what we were looking at and even let her move the doppler over my belly.

Emily was much more cooperative this time. She is still a girl. The picture is a very clear view of a vagina and not a penis. She weighs 1lb 15oz so just 1 oz under two pounds. Michael was happy that she didn’t looking as creepy this time because we could see her skin and she had put on baby fat as they call it. Her heart beat was again a steady 134 beats a minute.

I was able to get much better pictures with my phone this time so they are much clearer and able to tell what everything is. Again if you want to see the bigger picture of it just click on it and it will open up bigger. They are all on Emily’s page. There are four new ones. Enjoy!

Today I hit a new milestone. Six Months! It’s exciting to me but it sucks at that same time knowing that I still have another three months left before Emily will be here. Its a sucky concept to me lol.

I had my doctor appointment on Monday. They messed up when they rescheduled me so I will be having to have all of my tests and my pelvic exam at my next appointment. That was a little frustrating but I guess it all works out in the end. Everything looks fine. I’m gaining weight accordingly. I started out between 115-117lbs and I weighed 131 on Monday. So I have gained about 14-16lbs.

The baby’s heart rate was at 134. My Ob says that Emily is measuring big. I’m not too worried though because it was the same thing with Brittny. Im just a really small person.

They scheduled another ultrasound to try and get the picture of the spine that they didn’t get last time and to check on my dates because of how im measuring. So I have that on Monday January 5th and then my appointment for my Glucose test and Pelvic Exam Ob appointment on the 7th.

I think I have like two more appointments left before I start going every two weeks. Cause they start you going every two weeks at 32 weeks. Pregnancy is really starting to take a toll on me. Working full time is too. Just been getting tired easily and my feet and ankles have started swelling everynight. Although they swell the worst in the morning after I get off work.

Enjoy the new belly picture. I will post the ultrasound pics and updates on Wednesday or Thursday after both my appointments. Hope everyone had a great New Year.