Baby Haze

On Friday, August 20, 2010 Lisa gave birth to a beautiful 7lb. 0oz. 19 1/4" baby girl at 3:35pm. Her name is Emelia Michelle Gray. (pictures to be posted in a separate update).

Today marks day 10 of her life and mom and dad are still in a slight baby haze. Dad took the week off from work following her birth and mom is taking full advantage of the 12 weeks of maternity leave under FMLA from her company.

Big Big brother Anthony, Big brother Jackson and Big sister Taylor adore their new baby sister. Everyone wants to love on and kiss on and hug and hold her. The three of them tend to her cries and if they can't...guess who they call and tell "the baby is hungry"? With the kids off at school and mom and baby left at home most mornings, bonding is at it's peak right now. Of course mom is still trying to do a lot of things she did before baby was here...Facebook, Farmville, Frontierville, Fold laundry (wow...that's a lot of 'F-words'). But mom is also trying to force herself to rest when Emelia is resting. Mom's rest usually comes in the middle of the afternoon/early evening.

Thus far, very little jealousy has occurred other than within the older siblings when it comes to helping out with the baby. Mom and Dad are very fortunate that the kiddos are primarily cooperative with each other and WANT their baby sister around. Ask us again though in about a month once the baby haze starts to fade how everyone is doing. :-)

10 More Days???

My official due date is August 18. So if this baby stays inside her warm waterbed for that long then I have at least 10 more days left. My OB is out of town this week (he left town on the 6th) and won't be back until the 16th which is when my next appointment is scheduled for. Between now and then we have school packet pick-up (tomorrow). Open House (next Sunday) and then the first day of school the following day.

Symptoms? All I've had is Braxton Hicks Contractions that have at times lasted all day long. They aren't booming and there's no other changes occurring. One thing that is nice though is that I am able to get a lot of sleep between now and when baby makes her entrance. The kids have been able to hang out with Nana and Papa before school starts and Tony has been around a lot.

I'm still working and intend on working full-time until I head to the hospital. Hahahah, since I'm mobile, if I can, maybe I'll continue working through each contraction until I deliver. We'll see on that one though! My manager is predicting that I go into full blown Labor next Sunday at or after Open House. Hee hee, we'll see.

I'm hoping that this baby holds out until my OB is back in town so he can be there for my delivery but then again, I'm getting fairly uncomfortable. I'm torn, if I want to deliver the baby now or wait.