I’m so in love!

She’s just my everything!!! I have been so busy breastfeeding , staring at her, kissing her adorable toes , changing diapers, smiling, laughing, cuddling and kissing her chubby cheeks that I have forgotten to blog. I’m soooooooooooo sorry. Kennady is just the most amazing tiny human ever.
Now I ask you when did hospital pictures get so darn “fancy”? I’m not complaining but wow they are GREAT now!! Our hospital uses Bella Baby Photography. They came right to the NICU the day Kennady was being discharged. The photographer setup her props and stuff in the middle of our pod (there are 4 babies per NICU pod). I went home and got a couple different outfits for her to wear. What happened next was not only a lot of fun but made my heart feel good. Having a baby in the NICU isn’t easy. It’s scary, tiring , draining and emotional so when I saw a few of the NICU nurses come over and start helping with Kennady’s photo shoot I was like WOW these women really do care about these tiny little sick babies. It became a big “party”. Nurses came and watched the shoot as did one of the mommies from our pod. We laughed , talked, moved props and soothed Kennady when need be. It was a lot of fun. Our photographer was amazing. She pretty much started shooting when she walked in the door. She got some great candid shots with my mom , Kennady and I. I love those the most. We even got to use the wreath that Amy made for my baby shower as a prop.  All in all I’m overly happy with how everything turned out with the photo shoot. I just love her!!!

 
Inza

NYC Expert Last Lip Color

I got this NYC Expert Last Lip color in my Influensters.com VoxBox. I love how how long it lasts. It’s not the best color for my skin tone but for parties or a fun concert it would be great. I put the lip color on around noon and it stayed on until after 4:30pm when I went swimming. The only reason it came off then was because I wiped it off with my towel. Who knows how long it would have lasted had I not gone swimming and needed to wipe off. I am totally going to try another shade of this product.

 

Inza

My new VoxBox!!

As many of you know I’m a member of Influenster.com and I get these really cool voxboxes filled with amazing products all for FREE!!! This time I got the UniVoxBox . This was a great box! I was actually having a pretty bad day when I got this box in the mail. lets just say all the products made me smile. Stay tuned and I’ll give you my honest opinion on a few of these products in future posts.

Inza

SHE’S HERE!!!!

Well in true Inza style my labor and delivery was an "event".  On the 6th my friend and I went to California's largest baby/kid consignment sale. I had lost part of my mucus plug that morning but wasn't about to miss this sale. So we went around 2:00pm. The place was packed. We walked around and I found some great deals on last minute stuff I wanted for the baby. 2:45pm rolled around and contractions started, I told my friend to go stand in line for me bc my back hurt and I went and sat in the breastfeeding area. I started timing my contractions. By 3:30pm I'm still sitting there waiting for her to pay for my stuff and my contractions are 3.5 minutes apart. FINALLY she's done. She comes back and says lets go. I said "we need to make a top first" She said "where?" I said the hospital my contractions are 3 and a half minutes apart. She kinda freaked out lol oops! So we get to the hospital. Thankfully it was only 1 mile from where we were shopping (which is oe reason I waited). They get me into L&D. My midwife comes in and checks my cervix I'm 3cm. I was in so much pain my midwife ordered my epi before they did any lab work. I got my epi !!! After that it gets kinda fuzzy. I went from 3cm to 7cm in less than 3 hours. Tho I didn't much care because well I couldn't feel anything lol
My midwife wasn't happy with how the baby was reacting to labor. She would react after my contractions not during. My midwife came to me and said she was worried and wanted to make a call to her backup doctor and see what he wanted to do. I said ok. She let me labor for another 15 minutes or so. She sat down on my bed and said she didn't have a good feeling about this and she didn't feel right about having me labor any longer. I said ok. She gives me a "pep talk" about how I didn't fail and not to blame myself and all that good stuff. At 8:00pm they wheeled me into the OR, 8:15pm they made the first cut and at 8:24pm Kennady Caryl Mae was born. Not bad seeing that I got to the hospital at 4pm. Turns out she had pooped before birth. She was born doing this shallow breathing thing and since I had a horrible cold I passed it on to her so that was an issue too. She has spent her first days of life in the NICU. She's currently still there. She's "fine" but she's still on antibiotics. Both of our white blood cell counts were off. They kept me almost 5 days at the hospital.  I wasn’t allowed to see her for the first two days due to my cold/cough. Finally they slapped a mask on me and took me down to the NICU. My BFF Amy has been the most amazing friend EVER. She has spent every minute with Kennady since I wasn’t allowed to. They pulled Kennady out of my body and Amy was on baby duty. She took  a ton of pictures for me and even had them printed and made me a brag book. Grandma got one too lol My midwife came by and saw me two days later and wanted to thank me for trusting her. She said her gut feeling just wasn't good and when God speaks you have to listen. I said Amen to that and thanked her for following her gut and not a medical book.
 Kennady’s mommy

BABY SHOWER!!!!

Sooooooooooo my baby shower was Feb. 22,2014. It was great yet bitter sweet. My cousin had a stroke a few days before the shower. She isn’t doing too well but shows signs of improvement. Life around here has been a bit hectic. Now on to the happier stuff. My BFF Amy planned the perfect baby shower for Kennady and I. It’s funny how well she really knows me. The decorations were adorable! There was a lot of pink and purple with touches of zebra and sparkles. I’m not one who likes baby shower games but these were fun games. We played the baby bottle drinking game, the don’t say baby game, gift bingo and how big around is the mommy to be (my mom won that one lol). It was funny watching all of my mom’s “older” friends playing the games and CHEATING!!! YES the senior citizens were cheating. Too funny!! All in all I had a wonderful time. I wish my aunt and cousin could have celebrated with us but hey we will all celebrate her first birthday together :)

 

 

 

 

Inza

39 weeks day 3

YAY Baby Shower Hostess Gift!!!

 

A small part of me had forgotten that I needed to get my BFF a hostess gift for throwing my baby shower. Pregnancy brain sucks lol I ordered us matching bracelets from Gambizzle Jewels. https://www.facebook.com/gambizzlejewels  and http://www.gambizzle.com/  I love the way they turned out. Now I just have to figure out a grandma gift. My mom doesn’t like jewelry really so I have to figure something else out.

Inza

36 weeks day 3

Childbirth Prep Classes

Well we’ve started our childbirth preparation classes. They’ve been fun and informative. My mom has been going with me which has kind of been a hoot. She’s been very supportive. Damon is going to the next class with me so he can see the birthing facility. So that should be interesting. I’ve been doing a lot of shopping and trying to get ready for Kennady.

After my last midwife appointment I went shopping. It’s the first time I’ve had any energy to do more than one thing during the day so I was thrilled and I HAD COUPONS!!! I have discovered I love Burlington Coat Factory. I got Dr. Brown glass bottles for cheap. It’s funny the things I get happy about now lol  Oh I also got a nice new bra for my ever expanding bust line. NO UNDERWIRE!!! YAY!!!

My perinatal nurse gave me info on a consignment super sale called Moo LaLa Boutique. it’s on/right around my due date but I still hope I can go.  http://moolalaboutique.com/ I’m all about consignment shops for clothes and stuff. Just not car seats. Don’t go cheap on a car seat!!

I’m just overly stressed right now and trying to deal with life. *sigh*

Inza

35 weeks Day 4