Emmalia is 6 weeks old already!

Now we just need to figure out what we’re doing while the carpets dry…. this means walking somewhere and having Eva and Emma out until the kids get home at 3:25.

But I figured I would post my house so you can see what I’ve been working on. The clean and the trouble areas. I’m sure we all have trouble areas?

Currently I have two major projects at the top of my to-do list. First, I have to get the study organized. Ive rearranged my livingroom and moved some of the bookshelves from the back room leaving a few stacks of books that need homes. At the moment, their home is the kids study table. I don’t like that.

Second, I have a washingmachine that is on it’s last leg. It is a Duet series washer and drier (front loading) so everything is run by circuit board computer parts. When you start a load it auto locks the door, so when it fails (gives me an ‘F’ fail error) it wont open and I have to finess it 5-6 times a load sometimes just to get it to spin and release the clothes.

Needless to say, I have laundry stacking up.

What is your trouble area?

But for the most part, she fills her day with either sleeping or nursing- not much inbetween.

I am slightly concerned about what looks like Exotropia (or one eye turned out) but we will watch this and evaluate it at her next appointment. We don’t have a family history of this so, much is in our favor at the moment.

I’ve been having false labor for most of the day, which means hard contractions but very far apart and not consistant. Tonight it’s been worse and I literally cannot sleep.

I knew better but ate spaghetti anyway at about midnight so now my body ISN’T digesting and instead is churning threatening to rot any food in my stomach. at 3am, Im mentally tired and physically ill.

I called L&D at OHSU and at least I know the waterbirth room isnt taken and they arent packed! Still I wish these contractions would start becoming consistant and things would progress already instead of keeping me in limbo.

For now, Im trying to pretend I’m not pregnant for a little while so I can go back to sleep.

Jay snuck downstairs a good hour ago or so to sleep on the couch- not sure if he wanted to give me more space on the bed of its just cooler down there since I’m a heater… but I am tempted to just disinfect my bathroom until I am sleepy enough to go back to bed.

Here is a great website on information about labor and birthing. It has some wonderful info on false Labor.

-Jyn

The View from the OHSU Women's Center

I decided to put up this page for all my friends and family who need information when I do go into labor.

Everything from directions to the hospital, my room number,  to the size of the baby and pictures/updates.

I am going to be delivering at OHSU Medical center (if everything goes as planned) in a planned waterbirth with a midwife and kids present. OSHU is a Science health university who holds the mother and baby in high regard, one of the reasons Im happy to deliver there! They also have a class III neonatal unit which is wonderful in case of a problem, but we aren’t foreseeing there will be one.