I gave Lance a $30 gift card to Family Christian Bookstore in the hospital to pick out some books to read to Taylor. My original intention was to take him out to eat and then shopping that day. Well, as you can probably figure out, I was in no shape for shopping that day. So we decided that Taylor and I would take him out today. We went to eat at Smokey Bones and then to the store. Lance got a big book of bible stories to read at night before she goes to bed and some other little books. When we got home he read to her for the first time.
It was a tough couple of weeks leading up to the birth but definitely worth it. I developed high blood pressure at the beginning of June and the doctors were keeping a close eye on me to see if I had pre-eclampsia. I was worried that I wouldn't make it to Jeff and Christi's wedding, but I did. It was a hard weekend but I'm glad I got to be there. The wedding was beautiful and I couldn't ask for a better sister-in-law. When we returned from the wedding we went to the doctor for a blood pressure check and it was high. The doctor then sent me down to the hospital (for the third time). They kept me there for a while to monitor my blood pressure and Taylor's heart rate. After several hours the doctor sent me home with a 24 hour protein test to complete. I turned it in on Wednesday and went to the doctor on Thursday for another blood pressure check. Because my blood pressure was still high, they officially put me on bed rest. The next morning (Friday) the doctor's office called and let me know my protein test had come back positive and I needed to go back to the hospital. Once we got there Dr. Sober decided it was time to induce because I had developed pre-eclampsia. I was in labor for about 33 hours and wasn't progressing so on Sunday morning at about 2:30 Dr. Sober decided to go ahead and perform a c-section. A few minutes later we had a beautiful baby girl.
We are both doing great now. She is just perfect! My mom came and stayed with us for a couple of days to help with Taylor. The Huntsmans arrived a few days later to visit and stayed a week. We were worried that with everyone holding her all the time she might be spoiled and not want to lay in her crib, but she doesn't have a problem laying down without fussing.
Now that things have slowed down, I will be sure to update the blog more often! If you want to see video of our cute little Taylor, go to youtube.com and search for TaylorTotHuntsman. Lance is putting videos up as we make them.
We got a ton of cute clothes!
My brother's graduate recital was today and I was very sad to have missed it...I hear he did a fantastic job. I am trying to keep myself rested up and not take too many trips so I can make it to his wedding. I'm actually almost finished with their wedding present, which is pretty amazing because normally I would be up til 4am the night before trying to get it done. I guess I shouldn't speak too soon because it's not quite finished yet...
Rusty is acclimating to his life on the floor and out of the nursery. He still thinks he's in trouble though and pouts a whole lot! Hopefully he won't be too upset when we bring home a tiny squalling baby.
Well...I am posting a 31 week picture...I'm not sure it's the best idea to publicize myself this large but here it is!
The ladies are over at the church building now decorating but I have to wait 4 more hours to go over! But perhaps the most exciting part of the week was our 3D ultrasound. It was pretty amazing how detailed everything was. We saw her yawning and you could see her little tongue moving. She was being pretty stubborn for the first half...her leg was up over her head in front of her face and she was holding it there with one of her hands. Then she stuck both her legs up over her head right before she crossed both of her legs and stuck them in her mouth and started to chew vigorously. The ultrasound tech just laughed at how flexible she was and said we'd better be prepared for a soccer player or a ballerina. Either one would be fine, but I kind of hope for the ballerina because I don't know anything about soccer I'm posting some pics from the ultrasound below, the first is her sticking both her feet in her mouth (I just think it's funny) and the second is one of her little face. She's a little over 2 pounds and about 15 inches long now just to give you an idea of the scale of these pictures. I'm so glad that my student's spring break is next week...I'm going to need a week to recoperate!
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