What a morning...

Please forgive me if this doesnt make much sense..I am still mad and tired from this morning..

A little bit of background for those of you who don't know. Joanna has had problems pooping since birth even when I was breastfeeding. She will have better days but then it always goes back to straining and big poops that hurt her. We have tried everything, and I am mean EVERYTHING the doc has perscribed and nothing has seemed to help so far. My mom said I was the same way when I was a baby....and growing up I had ulcerative colitis and now I still have IBS...my stomach has never been right. The doc thinks she may grow out of this, man I hope so!! :( Makes me cry everytime she is in pain because I know the feeling.

Well we left at 9:30am this morning on the hunt for baby suppositories..Joanna and I ended up going to all the pharmacies in town and NO ONE had baby suppositories!! By the last pharmacy I was really about to punch someone because Joanna was straining the whole time. So...I get fed up and I call back the doctor office and say "look I can not find a baby suppository in this whole town, something has to happen.." She first says they might can see me in the afternoon...I tell her I am not trying to be rude but do you want my baby to struggle all afternoon like this??? So then she says to bring her right in...

We get there and the doctor perscribes her Miralax, hopefully that will act as a stool softener..but he is still dumbfounded by why she isnt going regularly with all the stuff we have tried. So the nurse comes in and puts in a suppository...this should work.....we wait....Joanna is screaming, crying with her legs locked out straining. I am seriously about to punch someone now......"Its not working!!!!"
So I look and about 10 minutes or so later the whole thing comes back out not dissolved at all!...so we try another one...she is still screaming. The doc comes back in and says I am going to have to go into town and now get an infant enema...the suppositories arent working!!!! So I am like WTF...do I take her into town like this? So I call my sister and thank god she was close and she bought one and brought it by.

So as we finally do an enema a poop the size of a large dill pickle comes out...an adult poop!! You could tell Joanna felt so much better...and so did I.

So after Joanna screaming and crying...me crying and about to punch someone...we finally got the poop out!! It took 4 hours of searching around town and being at the doctor to do it.

My poor baby

I'm back! I'm back!!

Well this is going to be a quick one just to get me back into the swing of things..but I plan on writing in my blog at least every other day..(shhh probably while I am at work.hehe) Its the only free time I get. I know that sounds crazy but its true! When I am at home I am running around 90mph and Joanna is very clingy at night so by the time she goes to bed I go to bed too because God only knows what her sleeping schedule will be like from one night to the next! She totally spoiled me when she was 12 weeks old sleeping from 9:30pm-7:30am on the dot every night and then BAM....something screwed that schedule up! So sleep is hard to come by these days!!
Anyways, I hope to get back into the world of blogging and join all you wonderful ladies!! I am sooooo super jealous of all the fancy blogs and blog giveaways(which I know NOTHING about, but it sounds so cool) but ya'll will just have to deal with my free background and scrapblog header for now;)

Christmas pics so far:)

Here she is zonked out at our family christmas party!


Here she is is one of her many christmas outfits! This one is from mtendere!


Here is one of the three of us..dont pay attention to the camo shirt..lol He was hunting that day;)


And here is one..I just like!:) That I took of her yesterday.


Merry christmas eve everyone! Just pray that I get all my cooking done, take a shower(which is kinda hard these days), and get all the presents wrapped and ready to go before 5pm! WOW!...I better get going!

Its has been waaay too long!

So as you can see its been since August..wow sooo much has happened I dont even know where to start. I will not bore you through 3 months of stuff..just a quick run down..

Pregnancy: To sum it all up baby Joanna was always big in my belly and the doctors were right on target the whole time about her weight and length. My doctor was scared to death to let her go to 40 weeks. I was dialated for like 3 weeks at 2cm and 80% effaced but I never did go into labor. So they thought it was in my best interest that I have a C-section on October 28th, the day after our 2 year wedding anniversary so that was pretty awesome!:) The C-section was not bad at all, we had to be there at 8am and miss Joanna arrived at 10:07am weighing 9lbs, 6ozs and 21 1/2 inches long!! She looked just like her Daddy(look at pics above) It was truly the best day of our lives and we still cant keep our eyes off of her.:)

So...for the past two months we have just been trying to get on a schedule and its going pretty well so far. She has gone from waking up every 2 hours and eating 2-4 ozs, to now sleeping almost 6 hours and eating 6-8ozs throughout the day and night...SHE IS ONE BIG GROWING GIRL!

I still can't get over the fact that she literally did not fit into ANY of her newborn clothes at all and went straight to 0-3month and some 3 months clothes. Now within a matter of almost 2 months she is now in 6-9 month clothes because she is so long! We weighed her 3 days ago and she weighed 14.4lbs and is 25in long! What can we say we didnt expect her to be a little baby by any means.:)

I promise, promise, promise I will keep up with my blog from now on, now that I have a few minutes throughout the day when she is napping, etc.:)

We have one big BABY!!

Well last Wednesday we had an ultrasound to check the location of the placenta to see if it was till covering my cervix. I was so nervous because I knew that if it was still in the same position we were going to go ahead an schedule a C-section.

Well my husband met me for the ultrasound and right when she started to measure Baby Joanna's head, arms and legs we found out that we have a bigger baby then we thought!! She is measuring 4 weeks ahead in her weight and her height! At 31 weeks she weighs 4lbs 9ozs already! The u/s tech said that since we were both big babies and I am 6'0 tall and my husband is 6'4 that it was no surprise to her that this baby would be big:).
Well we went in to see the doctor after the u/s and the doc was shocked! She wants to triple check to see if by a slim chance I might still have GD..so I have to check my blood sugar for the next couple of days until Tuesday..so far it been fine so I dont think there is any chance I have GD. She just can not for the life of her figure out why I am measuring so ahead...I havent gained but 15lbs, my belly is not measuring all that big, I passed my 3 hour test(only failed my 1 hour by one freaking point)....I just want to shake my doc and say..SHE IS JUST A BIG BABY AND SHE IS READY TO COME EARLY! :) So we'll see what she says on Tuesday..the baby is big and healthy with a full head of hair and my placenta is exactly where its supposed to be!!! :) Looks like she will be her in October more than likely!

Progress in the nursery!

Wow! What a day of painting!:) I got her tree in the corner about 80% done and her bunny is almost done too. Now I just have to add a few butterflies around her changing table on the wall to the left. We also hung her name letters today over the crib, they are toooooo cute! I plan on adding a little something to those too before I take a picture of them;). I am so happy everything is starting to come together and the more I move around things the more I think of new ideas, so who knows what it might look like when I am completely done. Mrs.Carroll6-10-07 is making my bumper and crib skirt!! It is going to be soo cute and I am ever so thankful to her for wanting to do that for me.. pics to come of all that as soon as she is done so I can show off her work!
PLEASE feel free to give me some feedback positive and negative because the more people that look at my artwork, the more opinions on things that i can improve on!

Oh wow it has been forever!

First of all i would like to apologize to my GP ladies, I have NOT forgotten about you at all I have just been super busy with work. I got a promotion at work(woo hoo) and my schedule and work load has changed dramatically...so I am trying to get caught up on work and get used to the new job! I used to have so much time to get caught up on the boards, but now I just have to make time because I miss it!!!:(

Let's see, its been about a month since I have posted. I am getting bigger and bigger of course you tell from my weekly bump pics and she is getting more active by the day! I love feeling her kick but sometimes she hurts Mommy and makes me about want to jump out of my chair!:)
I have my 1 hour glucose test August 3rd so I am sure I will write and update about that, let's pray that all goes well and I dont have to go back for the 3hr one. I will have another ultrasound at 30 weeks, so only a few more weeks and they should be able to tell if my placenta has moved up on its own, or if not I will more than likely have to have a C section.

Oh I almost forgot my husband and I went to a class last week "Intro to childbirth" or something like that. It was great and made us even more excited! Even though I knew about the majority of the things we went over it was just a cool experience all together and we got a free tour of he hospital! I can't believe how time is flying! I will post new pics of the nursery tonight, it is slowly coming together!!