Jane Lily is Here!

Jane Lily is here!

The birth went great.

It was so similar yet so different from Alice's birth.

The timeline was identical, even the day of the week.

For both births, it went like this:

I started having mild, 15 min apart contractions Wednesday night.

They continued all day Thursday.

At 11pm they got stronger and closer together.

At 4:01am (Alice), 4:07am (Jane), baby was born.

Crazy right?

So with this birth, we decided to go to the birth center around midnight.

A wonderful lady from a church came to our house to stay with Alice.

I felt amazing when we got to the birth center.  Like too good.

I was afraid it wasn't the real thing.

I had so much energy and was kinda hyper and talking and laughing between contractions.

I calmed down as time went on but overall the pain of the contractions was really manageable.

At the birth center it was me, Stephen, our midwife Sheri and our doula Rene.

Sheri and Rene were great and helped when we needed it but mostly stood back and gave us our space.

Stephen was awesome.

Somewhere around 3 or 3:30, when the contractions were getting more intense, I got in the tub.

It's amazing how much the water helps, everyone should do a water birth.

Hospitals that don't allow water birth are just cruel.

It really cuts down on the pain.

After being in the tub for a little while I felt the urge to push and in about 6ish pushes, Jane was out!

(That is compared to an hour and half of pushing with Alice!  And no tearing this time.)

She nursed right away with no problems.

She was born March 20th, 7lbs, 4oz and 20 inches long. (Alice was 6lbs 11oz, 19in)

We stayed and rested at the birth center till 11am and then went home.

Alice ran out to the car and said "Baby Jane!  Hold her!"

 Alice keeps saying "Big sister now!"

She seems to be adjusting really well to Jane and hasn't had any jealousy issues yet.

Jane is doing great, eating and sleeping well and has barely cried at all.

It's been a really easy recovery for me.

I did a mini photo shoot of her when she was 4 days old.

Newborn photos are harder than they seem, but I think I got some good ones :)

40 Weeks: Watermelon

Today is my due date!

Didn't think I would make it to 40 weeks, I didn't with Alice.

Unfortunately its been a really rough week for me.

I got a cold that turned into my first ever sinus infection (great timing right?).

The worst part of it has been the sinus toothache, something I never knew existed.

Thankfully, the toothache has been gone the last 2 days so hopefully that's a sign the infection is going away.

I don't think I have ever blown my nose this much in my life.

I really don't want to be sick and in labor, or sick with a newborn and recovering from labor so I don't mind that Jane is taking her time.

Alice seems pretty excited about Jane coming soon.

She keeps asking "Jane out?"

I tell her that God decides when Jane will come out but that it will be soon.

Ran an errand yesterday and had some people ask me when I am due.

Loved the looks on their faces when I said "Tomorrow".

Two people asked me if I was scheduled to be induced.

Thought that was really sad that that is the assumption these days.

I told them "No, she has two weeks to come before we have to worry about that."

Another lady's reply to me saying I was due tomorrow was "And you are out shopping?!"

Thought that was funny, as if I should be sitting on the couch just waiting for the contractions or something.

Well one thing is for sure, the next pictures you will see wont be of a fruit (what's bigger than a watermelon anyways?) it will be of Jane!