A Baby Story

Well, it's hard to believe, but my little Jade is a few weeks old now. They grown up much, much too fast.. I've never really gone into detail about any of my births, but since my blogging is sporadic at best, and all 4 children are (for once!) napping, here's a recap.


As Liam noted, I went into labor at about 10 AM on the 20th. I hadn't been feeling well at all for about a week, and I had had this similar situation with the 3 girls before, so I started packing my bag and such, although repeated consults with my doctor INSISTED that I was several weeks off. Yeah right. I believe that THEY were the ones that were off, as Jade was fairly large for being around a month early.

I don't have a lot of detail. I dropped off the kids at Faye's at about 2 that afternoon when Liam and I took off for the hospital. I was only about 4 centimetres. Ick. Petocin, unfortunately, does not agree with me so I begged, pleaded, and cried with the doctors to let the child be a slow poke. The listened until about 7, when I was still only 6 1/2. I took off at that point, and then my water broke at around 11 or midnight. Isn't that always a pleasent experience, moms? To make a long story short, Jade Celine came out at around 2, after about 20 minutes of pushing. Her head was huge! Ow.

So, that's my story. Moms who read ( all 2 of you...hahaha) what's your story? If you have more than one child, is there any correlation between birth order and speed of labor? Mine seem to be getting longer!! I'm scared to have more.

Better go catch some much needed Z's now. When the children sleep, you must sleep. Or suffer dire consequences.

Jade Celine Kyrell

This is Liam, by the way, on Ellie's account, while she's at the hospital with the baby.

Born early this morning at 2:14 AM.

7 lbs. 14 oz.

21 in.

Both mom and baby are doing well.

Ellie promises to blog later once she gets out of the hospital later.

She started having Braxton-Hicks about a week ago and then at about 10 AM yesterday, she started having the real thing.

Chloe, Memphis, and Cassie all love the baby.

The News

I'm bad at blogging, I have decided. I left you all (all 3 of you..hahaha) possibly worrying about my little girl 5 months ago. I'm sorry.

Memphis had meningitis, but after a while, they were able to treat it. She's fine now.

Our lives are fairly boring, so the thought of blogging never crossed my mind, really. With preparing for the baby coming in a few weeks, and Memphis' hospital bills (which were/are atrocious by the way. Thank God for insurance and a loving church family who was so eager to help us) and with Chloe starting school.

I am sorry for my lack of blogging. I'm getting ready for church, so I have to log off now. I'll give you more updates later.

Prayer

Memphis is in the hospital yet again. It looks like she may be for a while. I'll try to blog here and there, but don't expect anything great anytime soon.

A Little Help

Rebecca is the writer of What The Muffin, which there is a link to on my sidebar. She has entered a competition to help her win some money for college. Please vote for her blog. Sorry, I don't usually do PSA's on the blog. I will try not to let it happen again.

I'm going into Dora overload...

The day I dreaded is finally here.

Not only did Memphis take her first steps the other day, which while it's good because Liam and I were getting worried because of all of her developmental delays with the problems with her kidneys and liver and being hospitalized so much in the first year, it's also not fun because my baby is growing up. (I know. Serious run-on sentence there.) But also, my two youngest have discovered Chloe's passion. Dora The Explorer.

For the longest time they have sat in with their sister and stared blankly at the screen, but the past couple days, they have really got into the whole thing. Cassie even calls her "Do-a".

Dear lord, I will never get these movies out of my house.

Another girl, perhaps?

Much to my husband's chagrin, I think that I may be carrying another girl. I have been ridiculously sick for the past 8 weeks or so, much like I was with Chloe and the twins. I don't know that another girl would bother me, as Liam and I plan on having 6 or 7 children altogether, so there's still time for a boy. I just think that it would be nice, should something happen that would prevent us from having more. And Liam so wants a son. He loves the girls to pieces, but you know how guys are with all of that.

Altogether, not much to report. Things are good with the baby and now we're just making preparations for Easter. The whole family will be getting together for that, so it will be a full house. I'll get to see my sister and her kids again, which is great, since I don't get to see them much. I'll be sure to update later.