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Puppy trouble.....

Yesterday when John got home from work, Kaiser came up to great him as he always does and he had his head tilted to the right side.  John asked me if his ears had been giving him trouble (he has chronic ear problems) and I said I didn't think so but got out the ear medicine and began to put it in his ear that's when I noticed that he DID indeed have hear trouble, he has a huge hemotoma on his right ear.  I immedately called the vet and being that it was already after six o'clock the vet was gone, however, I spoke to his assistant who assured me that this is very common with dogs that have big floppy ears and that I could bring him in on Friday for the vet to take a look at it and they would probably have to do surgery.  I did my own research because I was a little skeptical that surgery was the best option, however, with all of my research, it looks like surgery is going to be the only option.  So....we are headed into the vet first thing tomorrow morning for him to have surgery....this breaks my heart that my poor baby boy is going to have to have surgery tomorrow.

 

Emily is one month today....

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Wow....it

seems like just yesterday that I was walking down that long hallway at the hospital going to have my

beautiful baby girl and now she is already a month old.

I could have never imagined how wonderful it would be to actually be a mother to something other than a dog. 

Everyone warned me how horrible

a c-section would be and that was a piece of cake!!!!  Other than totally freaking out when I went into the delivery room, it was easy and the recovery wasn't anything either (heck!!!  I was painting my living-room 4 days after surgery).....I guess I am Super Woman (at least that is what John says).

Everyone warned me about sleep deprevation, that hasn't been too bad.  Maybe I just don't need as much sleep as the average Joe (or mommy in this case)

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What no one warned me about is the projectile spit up that will happen when she has drank one sip too many.  This happened the second night home and I was convinced that it was because she was laying flat in her bassinet so I made the decision that she was going to sleep in her bouncy seat in her bassinet which made me feel better and the peditrician said to let her sleep where ever she sleeps best just keep her on her back and preferably not in the bed with you and your husband.  Then just night before last she must have taken in one sip too many because just after she finished her bottle and burped really good, she did it again....this time it was all over me! 

The last month has been such a joy and I just can't belive how big she is getting in a month.

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Traveling Mommy....

I felt like I had this "mommy" thing down pat.....until Emily and I had our first outing.

Yesterday, Emily and I had to go into my office so I waited until she woke up from her nap and fed her and got her diaper bag all ready, just in case we needed more diapers or a bottle or anything else that fits in the diaper bag.

About an hour after we were at the office, I started to panic......I was so prepared and guess what!!!!  I left the diaper bag at home right next to the door.

Fortunately she didn't wake up while we were out and we didn't need anything from the diaper bag.....I was too embarrassed to tell anyone at the office, I just told them that we had to leave.  (I wasn't getting much done at the office anyway because everyone had to come by and see Emily and I).

Better luck to mommy next time :-)

 

Emily's brother and sister love her so much....

Mickey and Mini are so happy to have a little sister to love.

When I asked Mickey if he told his friends at school that he had a baby sister he said, "No!  I told the whole school during announcements"

 

 

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She's the perfect baby....

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My beautiful baby.....

 

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Today is my sweet baby's one week birthday.....

I could have never guessed how amazing this could be....

Here are a few photo's of her birthday!!!

Emily is looking great.....Mommy, not so much.....

 

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What!!! No bath?????

When I was being discharged from the hospital yesterday, my baby doc told me that I have to take showers for the next 6 weeks.

Are you kidding me????? This has to be the worst thing that I have heard since having my baby....I am a B-A-T-H person....that is how I relax. I have had two showers since coming home yesterday and a shower just isn't the same......this just isn't relaxing like a bath is....this shower thing sucks!!!!

It all became real.....

We were released from the hospital yesterday around lunch time....after begging the doctor to let me go home. The minute we started driving away from the hospital, I started to tear up.....it all became real.....this is my baby girl and I get to take her home.....Wow.....that's when I realized that my husband had given me the best birthday present in the world....God I love him!!!!

The long road.....

I can't believe that after such a wait, my baby is finally here and is now 72 hours old. I could have never imagined how this would have been.....all I can say is, it is wonderful!!!

We had to get to the hospital at 5:30 Monday morning for my scheduled c-section.

Let me just start by saying....I don't do hospitals, I have never been in a hospital and as we were walking down the very, very, very, very long hallway....I thought I was going to pass out.

Then....I get into the first room and they start an IV and take some blood.....this should be very simple...well, not for me. I forgot to mention that I have never had an IV either. I started to break out in a cold sweat and almost passed out, fortunately my wonderful husband was there to fan me and it helped.

Then....the   came in the anesthesiologist and told me they would be giving me an epidural and what to expect. What do I say.....I ask her if she has done this procedure before, once she told me that she does about 100 a week, I felt okay and then told her to have some extra drugs on hand because I was nervous as hell and I might pass out....she said not to worry.....yeah right...I'll try not to.

Next we are introduced to this nice lady who tells us that we will be going down to the OR with her and she'll be with me through surgery and into recovery.

Oh goodness.......we walk down to the OR and they ask John to wait in the waiting room until they give me my epidural......What!!!! I was thinking I'm not going if he's not going....we're in this together. So....I reluctantly walk into the OR and I'm met by about 10 nurses and I immediately loose it and start to cry because now not only is my life-line aka my husband in the waiting room, this OR is just plain scary!!! After pulling myself together, they start administering some drugs and they must have been some good drugs because I quit freaking out and then in comes John and he can't believe how well I am handling this whole ordeal.....don't worry, I told him the 'whole' story later.

The next thing was my doctor's partner came in and started making jokes with me to try and calm me down a little more. The next thing I know was my 'baby doc' was walking in and was all about taking care of business....I heard someone say, "cut time is 8:16" and four minutes later they were telling me she was out and then I heard her little cry and I started crying all over again.

John assured me she was perfect and was he ever right!!!! We have a perfect little girl!

She is here.....

My precious angel baby arrived this morning. John and I have to be the two happiest people on earth right now.