My Little Peapod

We tried on our Halloween costume today, it is a little big, but cute!

Mom's Surgery

My Mom's surgery seems to have went well, it took a lot longer than they had planned due to some other issues they found while they were in there fixing the things they were aware of. We are not sure when they will release her from the hospital, she had some issues last night and has fluid in her lungs.

So we may be taking our second trip to Rochester today, this time we will be able to see my Mom for a little longer. She was pretty tired and drugged up after she got back to her room last night.

Sleepy Baby......

I am already starting to get bored being at home all day. Ashlyn is such a good little sleeper that I don't even need to nap during the day. She started sleeping in her crib instead of the bassinet and she seems to like it much better. She gets up about every 3-4 hours to eat and then back to sleep!

There isn't really anything else exciting going on. We will be making our first road trip tomorrow, my Mom has her surgery at Mayo in Rochester, so Ashlyn and I will be heading over there with Lisa and Taylor. They say it can take from 4-10 hours to complete the surgery, so we are hoping that it will only take 4 or so. It is a pretty routine surgery it sounds like, they complete at least 3 surgeries of this kind per day. So as long as all goes well, she should be in and out the next day.

Ashlyn Kristine Luscomb 10-18-08

Our baby girl is one week old today! I have not had the chance to get on since then, so here is the short story.....

My water broke about 3AM Saturday morning, shortly after Chad got home from work. We called Labor & Delivery and they told us to come in. We got to the hospital about 4AM and I was admitted. It was a long day, and she was finally born at 5:45PM on Saturday, October 18th. I was completely surprised that it was a girl, we were all so convinced that I was having a boy. Even the nurses thought so - based on the heartbeat. Chad decided it was going to be a girl a couple of hours before she was born, because the nurse was commenting on the amount of hair she had and his Mom brought in a little blue teddy bear right as I was starting to push. I won't go into any detail on the whole labor process - thankfully it is all worth it once you hear that first cry and they put your baby on your chest.

She came in at 8 pounds, 2.8 ounces and 22 inches long - I don't know how she ever fit in my belly! She also has a full head of dark hair......

Pictures from her birth day.....

Cute little feet!

A picture from today - one week old......

That is all I have for now, hopefully I will be better at keeping this updated now!

38 Weeks 5 Days

Well, I went to the doctor today and there has been no change since last week. She did offer to try stripping my membranes to see if that would work, but I decided not to do that. If it did work then I would probably go into labor within 36 hours. Which means, my doctor would be gone, my Mom would be gone and Chad would be working at Big Dog. So, I go back in on Monday and we will schedule a time to be induced on Wednesday. So unless I go into labor before then, I only have one more week to go! I can handle that. I feel better just knowing that I won't go past my due date.

I am pretty positive it is going to be a boy. They hooked me up to a monitor for 20 minutes to monitor the baby's heart rate and movement and the highest it got was the 160's while he/she was moving. The nurse thought that it seemed like a boy's heart rate too, although that is not always accurate with all babies. They had to use a buzzer to wake the baby up at first, but after that the heart rate and everything looked good.

Congrats Chad & Mel!

Congratulations to Chad and Mel on the arrival of their baby boy Aidan Micheal yesterday! Oh yeah, and her due date was one day before mine, so when is it going to be my turn?????

38 Weeks - No baby yet!

With only 14 days until my due date I am getting awfully impatient. I am feeling much better this week compared to last week. My feet are still huge and my back has been constantly hurting so hopefully this little one decides to come soon! I am getting nervous that this baby is going to be huge!

I went to the doctor on Tuesday, my blood pressure is back to pretty much normal. I am dilated to a 3 and 70% effaced. So pretty much I am not ready yet and I will go back to the doctor on Tuesday again.

My Mom informed me last night I have to have the baby by this weekend because she has to be gone for work next week. I would love to have a baby before the weekend, but I don't think that is going to happen!

37 Weeks

Big Belly and Swollen Feet!