Haddie - 6 months

Half of our baby's first year is already over! Wow! I cannot believe she is growing so fast. She is still very laid back. She goes to Mother's Day Out twice a week now. She is still sleeping in our room and has not started any food yet. Haddie loves her brothers and sister, her exersaucer, swing, being held and ANYONE who will talk to her. She is our little sweetie. She likes to say "Lylylyly" & "dada." Of course she has no clue what she is saying, but Lyla & Scott will disagree. Lyla calls her "little Bella." We have no idea where this comes from, but no one else is her "bella." Only Haddie!

Haddie - 4 months

At 4 months our sweet girl weighs 13 pounds, 14 ounces. She is at about 50% for both height & weight. She is rolling over from her stomach to her back. She is still very laid back, happy and super sweet! She laughs a lot and loves her brothers and sister. Such a blessing!!!

Maternity Photos

Two weeks before Haddie was born we had these pictures taken. I'm so glad we did it and love the way they turned out :-) Thank you Beth!





Lyla was convinced she had a baby in her tummy too. Sometimes she would say she was having a boy and one day even told us his name was Caliou :-)

Taking Haddie home

We were released Wednesday almost exactly 24 hours after having Haddie. They wanted to check her blood sugar for every 3 hours for 24 hours so we had to make sure that was all ok.

Dr. Harris and baby Haddie. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful doctor.

Haddie going home. We had a little excitement on the way out of the hospital. Scott went to get the car and a nurse was getting me in a wheelchair ready to wheel down to the car. Once we made it to the elevator all of the alarms started going off and the elevator quit working. There was evidently a child alarm going off and everyone was looking at me! They finally realized it was on the pediatric floor and located the child. We went on down and every single person in the hospital stared at me with the baby in my arms and asked if I was the one. Lots of questions about the baby being mine and all. Drama! Eventually they opened the doors and let us out to get in the car.

Our kids were so excited to see their little sister. Lyla loves holding Haddie.

Gavin and Haddie

Caleb & Haddie

Haddie is Here! - 8-30-11

We were so excited to finally meet our little Haddie Jane. We had to be at the hospital at 5 am to be induced. Once we arrived we got checked in and had to sit in the labor and delivery waiting room along with 2 other pregnant couples. Finally, at 7 am we were taken back to triage. What a way to get started! They got the pitocin going, IV in and all the monitors hooked up to my belly. The labor and delivery floor was full. Apparently lots of babies are born in August & September. At around 9:30 am they finally had a room ready for us.

Our kids all spent the night away, were taken to school and then came up to the hospital at 11:30. The 5 of us...

Here she is! Haddie Jane weighing in at 8 pounds, 4 ounces and measuring 21 inches long. She wins our biggest baby award :)

Our family of 6!


Lyla meeting her baby sister. She was so excited!


The details:
check in 5:27
triage 7:05
Pitocin around 8
Room 276 at 9:30
Epidural at 9:55
Dialated to 4 and broke water at 10:15
Dialated to 6 at 11:36
Still at 6 at 12:22
Dialated to 10 at 1:25
Started pushing at 1:45
Haddie was born at 1:56 pm

Haddie's Room

I thought I would leave you with a few pictures of Haddie's room. I had so much fun decorating this room. I still have a couple of little projects to finish in here, but overall it is done and I am loving it. Tomorrow there will be a baby to go in here! I'm so excited!

I'M READY TO POP!!!

It's about that time! Strangers are whispering behind my back about the twins I MUST be pregnant with. Other random people are not afraid to ask now when I'm having this baby. My ankles are officially cankles. All of my maternity clothes are too small. I am ALWAYS hot! I am definitely ready to POP!!!!

Tuesday, August 30th I will go in to be induced and I am so looking forward to finally holding this sweet baby in my arms. Please pray everything goes smooth!

36 Weeks

Today I'm 36 weeks with baby Haddie. I am so excited we are getting so close! At this point my stomach is huge (as you can tell) & heavy! My ankles are swollen and it is WAY too hot to be preganant. I just knew at my appointment today my doctor would tell me I was ready to have this baby. Nope! When she checked me nothing is happening. Haddie is happy inside and I know it is best for her to cook a little longer :) Man, I look huge!!!!

34 weeks with Haddie

I was 34 weeks on Thursday with Haddie Jane. I can't believe she will be here within 6 weeks! I had an ultrasound on Thursday. Everything looked good. Her heartbeat was 150, her legs measured 36 weeks and everything else was measuring between 34-35 weeks. Once all was measured, the ultrasound told us she weighed 5 pounds 9 ounces already! A 34 week baby should only weigh 4 3/4 pounds! Oh my goodness I'm nervous now. She already weighs more than Caleb did when he was born at 37 1/2 weeks. He only weighed 5 lb 6 oz and my biggest baby so far was Gavin weighing 7 lb 9 oz. An 8 pound + baby makes me nervous (not the baby, but the gettting the baby out part!) I'm so thankful she looks healthy and I pray that she continues to grow perfectly. I just hope my due date was calculated wrong!!!

Baby #4 has a name!

I don't think I ever posted the name we chose for baby #4. We chose to name her....

32 weeks

This was taken last week. I'll actually be 33 weeks tomorrow. Woo hoo! I can't wait to meet this sweet girl. I am feeling great. My only complaint is the heat. I truly never feel cool, but it is worth it :)

25 weeks - Baby #4

A peek at my 25 week belly and a little one who wanted to be in the picture. I am so thankful for such a wonderful pregnancy!!!

20 weeks with Baby #4

I made it to the 1/2 way mark! YAY! At 20 weeks I still want anything and everything sweet. I would rather have dessert for every meal. I'm eating real food, but it's not my first choice. I'm still wearing a lot of non-maternity clothes, but I am getting close to not fitting into anything. I have gained around 15 pounds so far. I started feeling this baby move around 18-19 weeks. This is the first time I have craved Cokes while pregnant. I try to just have a couple a week, but I love them so much right now! I have not had so many soft drinks since college when I gave them up!

17 weeks pregnant

ok friends, I'm 17 weeks and want to find a name for this baby. We have some ideas, but cannot make up our mind. Please give me cute baby girl name ideas. Please! I know many of you look on my blog and never leave comments. I would love to see your comment here, your name idea for our baby girl.

What do you think baby #4 is?

I had an appointment today. I'm almost 16 weeks! It seems to be going so fast, but at the same time so slow. This is my first pregnancy that is not high risk and boy is it different! I have not seen my doctor for 5 whole weeks. I am used to going at least every other week. When I went I was prepared for an ultrasound and all I got was a measurement of my belly and listening to the heartbeat. This is like a whole new ballgame. I shaved and everything :-) I am SO THANKFUL for a healthy baby!!! The heartbeat was right at 150 and I gained 6 pounds since the last time I went.

So, my big question is..... What do YOU think I'm having? We will find out at our next appointment. I can't wait! & I want to know your guess! Leave a comment :-)

Our BIG Surprise!!!

For one month we have had a secret :-)

We got the surprise of a lifetime... one we thought would never happen!

We found out we were pregnant without the help of any doctors!!! All of our babies are miracles and all of our pregnancies are because of God & His plan for us, but this was just a fun surprise and I can't stop smiling :-)

I went to the doctor today and the baby measured almost 11 weeks putting my due date at September 1st. He/She was so cute & was very active! So fun!!!

I have been blogging (secretly) about this 4th baby since we found out. Go back to January 7th to begin reading from the beginning.

Exhausted

I don't ever remember being SO tired with any of my pregnancies. I seriously think I could just stay in bed and sleep the day AND night away. Everyday I try to take a nap and I go to bed with my kids now around 8:30 or 9:00. I am also starving. I'm sure I've gained a ton of weight. Things that I am craving are cookies, cupcakes, cakes, yogurt and fruit. I'm not very fond of meat, but can tolerate it. I also think I could eat mexican food for every meal. We are trying to decide if we are going to find out what this baby is. I'm not sure I can wait 9 months! :-) I would love to hear what you did or ideas on how to make it fun!

8 Weeks

Yesterday I was 8 weeks. I'm telling you, with each pregnancy this belly just stretches faster and faster. I did read that my uterus is the size of an orange which makes me feel a little better. I think it looks more like a canteloupe or maybe even a small watermelon, but I'm really ok with that. It is getting so hard to hide. I wear the same couple of outfits everyday to try to hide this big bump. Caleb & Gavin do not know that we are expecting again, but Caleb keeps looking at my tummy. He probably already knows. My kids are weird like that. They will figure something out and then when you tell them they just let you know that they already knew. They must get this from their dad because their loudmouth mama would just ask!

The heartbeat

We went to the doctor on Thursday. Dr. Harris did an ultrasound and we saw a tiny heartbeat. So sweet! I was hoping she would say I was around 10-12 weeks along, but the baby only measured 6 weeks, 5 days. Now we wait to say anything & I stay a little nervous until the 1st trimester is over.

I did take a test everyday until my appointment. :-) Oh my goodness! I am so excited and so thankful!

THE TEST

What? Positive? Seriously?

For those of you who know me know that we cannot (or thought we could not) get pregnant without IVF. We were given a 10% chance of getting pregnant on our own around 12 years ago when we started trying for a baby. Over the past 12 years I have taken MANY pregnancy tests hoping and praying we would have a miracle and they would be positive even when I knew what would happen. It sounds so mean to do this to myself, but you have to understand that the greatest surprise ever would be to get pregnant on my own.

Well, we were about ready for another round of IVF. We have 5 little embryos sitting waiting for us. I called our doctor last week & made an appointment for the 17th of January. The first step for IVF is to start your cycle so that you can start meds, so I've been waiting for mine. Anxiously... And nothing is happening. So, I decided to take the test... 2 lines? I reread box. Pregnant? Really? I practically ran to the phone to call Scott. I asked him to come home and then I waited. I think I was in shock. That 10 minutes was the longest ever and I think I just sat and stared at that stick the entire time. I also thought about all the snow skiing, falling off the lift, moving all sorts of furniture because I decided to rearrange everyone's rooms upstairs. Oh my goodness! I cannot believe it!!! Scott made it home, saw the test and got all excited. I'm still in shock. Only God! I'm so happy and so very anxious to see my doctor. I just happen to have my yearly appointment scheduled for Thursday. It cannot come soon enough. We are praying everything is ok. Healthy baby, long pregnancy. We are So blessed!




Oh yes, I HAD to do another test! :-)