One Month!

This is a little late but Ava is one month old! Time has gone by really fast and it doesn't seem like she is only one month old. She seems a lot older... Here are her accomplishments for the past month.

She is 8 lbs. 12 ounces and 22 inches long.

She will smile and laugh when played with or when you are talking to her.

She loves to be held!

She is a picky eater. She won't eat a certain kind of formula and when I try to feed her with the bottle she won't eat it unless it is warm...

She loves to be held!

She is a good sleeper. She wakes up about once during the night to eat and then again around 7 or 8 am.

She will look at you when you talk to her.

She loves to take a bath.

She loves to play with her daddy.


Here she is in her bouncy chair. She likes to play in it for about 10 minutes and then she gets tired and cranky so I have to take her out.

Blake was lucky enough to get this picture of her. She loves to stick out her tongue and lick her lips.

This is a little "photo shoot". I love this little dress on her. She looks like such a girly girl. This picture she is starting to get fussy. She only cries when she starts to get tired and so I couldn't really get very good pictures of her.

Everything is going good with Blake and I. I am going to start going back to school on Monday. I am going to go back full time so that I can be done in 6 weeks. Luckily my mom lives close by and she is going to take care of her while I am in school until Blake gets off of work. Last night Ava slept through the night! I couldn't believe it! Hopefully that will continue and I can get some more sleep at night. What a good little baby I have!

Update

Here are some pictures of Ava in the past 3 weeks. She is almost 1 month old! I can hardly believe how fast she is growing up.


This is one of her favorite sleeping positions...

Picture of mommy and baby

This is her in her car seat. She loves to go for rides in the car!

This is her in the bouncy seat. She likes it for about 10 minutes. Then she gets tired and cranky and I have to take her out to put her to sleep.

This is her after having a bath. She loves to take a bath!

Baby Ava

So I know that this post is long overdue but I have been really busy and really tired to post it. As most of you already know...baby Ava was born on Sunday, February 21st at 12:52pm. It was a pretty long labor and almost ended in a c-section.

It started out on Saturday morning at 12:55am. I woke up to a little gush of water while rolling over in bed. I got up, went to the bathroom and it looked like I had peed my pants a little bit. I put a pad on and went back to bed. I was so worried and excited that it could be my water and so of course I couldn't sleep! So a few hours later, I woke up again to a little gush, got up, saw that my pad had a little pink tint to it. Changed my pad again, went to bed and woke up around 5 am to the same thing. So I called labor and delivery, told them what was going on, and they said to come in. So I woke Blake up, and we headed to the hospital. While there, they ran some tests and said that it wasn't my water. What the heck?! They think that because I have a bad cough that I must have coughed and peed a little bit without even knowing it... I thought that was pretty retarded but whatever...anyway, they sent me home and I was so sad and disappointed. So since I didn't sleep at all during the night I went straight to bed when we got home around 8. I got up around noon and as I was rolling over to get up, my underwear was soaked all the way through and there was a huge wet spot on the sheets! So I called Blake and said that I needed a witness that I really wasn't crazy and that it wasn't pee! I needed to redeem myself since I felt stupid for going to the hospital only to be sent home again. So I called my mom, told her what had happened and I called my sister Sarina because she had her water break with two of her pregnancies and she said that it sounded like it really was my water. So I called Labor and Delivery again and they said to come in. So we loaded up the car once again with all of our stuff and headed back to the hospital.

We showed up at the hospital around 1pm and they ran tests, all came back negative. What is going on? I was so frustrated! They wanted me to stick around until I had another gush come out so that they can use that to test. Then around 4pm they finally said that it was my water (no kidding!) and that I was staying. By this time I still was not having any contractions...I was having some cramps though. They said that the reason why my tests came back negative was because it was a high leak and so not very much was coming out to test and it was mixed with mucos and other stuff. Gross I know...but anyway, they started me on pitocin around 5pm and they checked my cervix and I was only 1 cm and 60% effaced. They checked my a few hours later and we I was 1 1/2 cm and 70% effaced. I was having some pretty bad contractions and so they said that I could have the epidural anytime. I took advantage of that really quick! So they said that I was just not dilating and they were going to try a few things to get my cervix to open and if it didn't work then they were going to have to do a c-section. So they put in a tube and it was like a baloon and it was supposed to get me to dilate. While he was doing that my water broke and they were hoping that I would dilate because of that too. So when they checked me two hours later I was only to 2 1/2 cms! So disappointing! They continued to check me periodically throughout the night and I trid to get some sleep. Around 8 am my doc came in and checked me and I was only dilated to a 4. He said that he was going to go to church and that he would come back afterwards to check on me. Only in Utah would that happen. At 9am they checked me and I was dilated to a 5 and 90% effaced. At 10 am I was dilated to a 6 and 100% effaced. Then at 11am I was dilated to a 9. I went from being dilated from a 6-9 in one hour! Then at noon they checked me and I was fully dilated and were getting things ready for me to push. They had me on oxygen because the baby's heart rate would go down when I would have a conraction. Also, Ava had a bowel movement inside of me and so they said that I wouldn't be able to hold her as soon as she came out. I started pushing at 12:14pm and my doctor comes in, still dressed in his Sunday clothes and says "Is this the girl that I left 3 hours ago and was only dilated to a 5?" He left to go and change his clothes and came back and the baby's head was already crowning. He expected me to push for about 2 hours but I suprised him once again! I was able to feel the contractions on one part of my body because the epidural was acting weird so I knew when to push. Ava came at 12:52 pm and she was absolutely beautiful! After 24 hours of labor (I count from when I was admitted into the hospital for the second time, even though my water had broke 12 hours before) and 45 minutes of pushing she was finally here! She weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz and was 19 inches long. Blake and I instantly fell in love!

So far she is a pretty good baby. She will tell you when she is upset or uncomfortable. She has a big set of lungs! I know that everyone is dying to see what she looks like so here are some pictures Ava Susannah Tuckett. Enjoy!

First time mommy and baby meet.

Poppy and Ava

Daddy with Ava.

Baby room

Here I am at 37 weeks! I have been feeling a lot of pressure and pain in my lower back and my hips feel like they are going to fall off! No one has asked me if I am having twins or anything like that but I do feel like I am huge! I don't think my belly can get any bigger! I went to the doctor last week and he said that I wasn't dilated or effaced at all. He just said that my cervix was just a little "squishy". My mom thinks that I have "dropped", I have felt a lot of pressure down there so who knows. My doctor says that she is head down but really nothing else... hopefully this week I will have some kind of progress that says I will go into labor soon. I had my baby shower a couple of weeks ago and so I will have to get those pictures up soon. Everything is done and so I finally feel like I can have this baby now and everything will be fine. I'll keep you all updated on my progress!

The babies room is finally finished! I'm so glad that it is done. I feel like if she decides to come now I am ready. The walls are a little bare and so we might get some more wall hangings to tone the yellow down a bit.

These curtains really help with the lighting in the room. During the day the room is really bright. My mom made them and I think they turned out really good!

Our dresser with blocks that my friend Suzi made that say "Ava". They are so cute!

A few wall hangings that are right above the stairs.

Here I am at 34 weeks and I feel like a big fat cow. It's especially comforting when I get told how big I am! Oh the joys of pregnancy! I am feeling like this pregnancy is flying by and she could come at any moment. I am getting the baby's room ready and getting last minute items together. We are super excited to meet our little girl!

Another update... This is a video of Cierrar walking. I saw her just last night and she was crawling all over the place and now she is walking! We are so proud of her and we are still looking hopeful that she will continue to progress.

An Update on my Niece

Well, I figured it was time to give an update on my neice Cierra. A few months ago I posted about what happened with her and the Swine Flu. She has made some amazing progress! Everytime I see her she has made a huge improvement from the last time I had seen her. She can sit up, she doesn't thrash around at all anymore and we think she understands us when we talk to her. It was really hard on Christmas though because she wasn't excited about it at all and that was really hard for everyone to see. Especially for my sister, Angie, because she saw how all the other kids were acting on Christmas morning and Cierra just sat there...but on a happier note, I just saw her tonight and she is taking baby steps! Literally, she will stand and shuffle her feet. She will stand up but she is still not strong enough to stand on her own. She was laying down on the floor and then she got up and sat up all by herself. What a big girl! She is making such great progress and we are so proud of her! It still breaks my heart to see her like this. I look her in the eyes and she still doesn't see me...I think that's what hurts the most. She loved me, everytime she would see me she would run up to me and hug me and say "Auntie Britty!" and now when I see her she doesn't react. I can't wait for the day when I can look her in the eye and have her look at me and she will actually know that it's me. I know that day will come and when it does I know that miracles do happen.

Our Christmas and New Years

I know everyone just loves to see pics, but I'm lame and never take any! So this post is going to be pretty boring...sorry!

For Christmas we went to Heber City and stayed in a cabin in the woods. It was a lot of fun. Blake was especially excited to go for the snowmobiling. It didn't snow at all but he still had a lot of fun. It was fun being with my family. I haven't spent Christmas with them like this in a long time. For Christmas, Blake and I got a nice video camera. Exactly what I asked for! Blake got a few shirts and a pair of pants. I also got a Tim McGraw CD and the movie "Fools Gold" from Santa. It was a pretty good Christmas and it is hard to think that this is the last Christmas that we will spend together without a baby! Two more months! I can't believe it!

For New Years Eve we spent it at the Tuckett's house. We ate and played lots of games. If you remember my post from last year, with all the funny pictures, that was pretty much how it was again this year. Man, people get weird when it's late at night! I was mostly ornery because I am not a night person...I'm not really a morning person either...but I was so tired last night! But we had fun bringing in the new year! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year celebration! We sure did!