already a month old

I can not believe that my sweet baby girl is already one month old. It actually makes me want to cry thinking about how quickly she is growing up. But it may be because of the sleep deprivation. Who knew that babies were SO exhausting? Jason has been a wonderful father and gets up all hours of the night to help take care of precious baby, but we are both still very tired. Now that Lila is one month old, we have finally been able to sleep a little more. She sleeps from 11ish pm to about 4ish am, which gives us about 4 hours of sleep, sometimes 5! Which is amazing sleep compared to the two hours we were getting at first. Lila is such a good baby, she only cries when she is hungry and she loves to be held. She is able to hold her head up and even roll from her back to her side. She is obsessed with her hands and they must be by her face at all times. I love it when she yawns and all of the funny faces that she makes. She is starting to smile at us, and that is probably the best feeling that I have ever experienced. Who knew a little smile could melt my heart?

Lila is finally here!

I know I have been awful at this, I knew I would be! It has been 4 months since my last update. But, since then a lot has happened. On October 20th at 9:26 pm Jason and I were blessed with the arrival of our precious baby girl. Lila Isabella Krol was born weighing 7 lbs 12 oz and was 20 inches tall. After 14 hours of labor we were finally able to hold our sweet baby. I was so overwhelmed with emotions. All I could do is cry! But it was a good cry. I fell in love with her immediately and Jason did too. He could not stop smiling. It was so sweet to watch. Later that night little Lila had problems with getting enough oxygen and kept turning blue. They took her to the NICU where she spent the next 4 days. The doctors did a series of tests, brain sonogram, heart echo, blood tests, and it was finally determined that the reason she kept turning blue was because of two reasons- one, she had two small holes in her heart, which closed up eventually, and she had a lot of fluid in her lungs and stomach. They had a tube going into her stomach that they used to get the excess fluid out. They also kept her on an IV through the top of her head. It was the scariest time of my life, but everything is fine now and I am so thankful. I was so angry and sad and emotions that I really can not explain and I pray that I never have to feel like that again. There were other babies in the NICU that were much worse off, there was a tiny baby- only 27 weeks old, that was in a closed incubator. I was very sad for her mom because I can only imagine how much she wanted to hold her little baby. Because Lila had to stay in the NICU and I was being discharged on Thursday, our friend Clarence got us a hotel room 1 mile away from the hospital. I can honestly say that that was the nicest thing that anyone has ever done for me in my entire life. I could not imagine coming home without my baby girl, and he made it so that I did not have to. Not to mention how awful the drive would have been every two hours. We were able to leave on Saturday October 24th and come home as a family. We are home and we are safe and that is all that matters.

Week 26

The most exciting thing happened this week! Jason felt the baby move! YAY! I have never been more excited about the baby moving (well, except when I felt it for the first time) but now she is moving to the point where he can feel it too!



Besides that, nothing has been to the nursery, besides it being painted. I worked really hard on sanding and repainting a crib that originally was Jasons when he was a baby, but I am starting to be skeptical about it's safety. We may just end up purchasing one.



And my friend Jennifer gave me a lot of baby clothes that her two year old daughter has grown out of, so Jason and I enjoyed going through that, washing them, and hanging them up! Baby girl clothes are SO cute!



It is exciting because I have two friends that are also pregnant! They are a little behind me, but within a few months! It really is all going by so very fast. She will be here before we know it!



At this point the baby is: as tall as an English hothouse cucumber and weighs about 1 2/3 pounds. (Length: 14 inches, head to heel.) ummm.... surely they meant 12 pounds, right? I mean what else could cause the many other pounds?? :)



The network of nerves in your baby's ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. She may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner's as you chat with each other. She's inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of her lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when she is born and takes that first gulp of air.



And that is exactly why my Iphone was a great investment- It lets me play classical music and I just play it ontop of my belly. haha.

Just a few more weeks until I get to see my baby again on the sonogram machine! :)

nothing new... week 23

The next few weeks are boring... I won'thave another sonogram until week 28 and the baby is not doing anything super amazing yet. I mean she moves around, but it is not to the point that anyone but me can feel it. We finally agreed upon a name, however as of now, we are going to wait until her arrival to share it.

according to the books and information, she is over 11 inches and weighs approximately 1 pound. (surely she weighs more than that, because I have definitely gained more than 1 pound!!!!) :(

also, she can supposedly start to recognize sounds, so I am sure she is tired of my dog barking and jason snoring. however, I do make him talk to the baby everyday. (he secretly likes it)

and nothing has been done to the nursery, besides the fabulous painting job that I did. Hopefully I will get some time sooner than later to work on it.

oh and I am getting bigger and hotter by the second, and am already starting to not be able to sleep well, I am going to invent a bed that allows you to sleep on your stomach by cutting out a whole in the mattress. or I will just start sleeping on an inner-tube.

half way there...

Now I am at approximately 21 weeks, give or take a few days. Some updates wth baby:

How your baby's growing:Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against her torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of her head to her bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, she's measured from head to toe.) She's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for her digestive system. She's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in her bowels, and you'll see it in her first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery). (eww)

some updates about me: I can't sleep and I am becoming as big as a whale. maybe one of these days I will post a picture of my enormous self. Also, it is getting quite hot in Texas, which makes me a little cranky. Thankfully for Jason, we have a swimming pool. I think that I am just going to move into the backyard. :)

it's a girl!!

At 19 weeks we went back to the doctor and had another sonogram done- this was to confirm the sex of the baby- and check everything else as well. As you can tell from the title, it is a girl. yay!!! I am so excited to meet her yet terrified of everything that I have to do and learn from now till then. Baby is developing just fine, weighs about 1/2 a pound and is approximately 6 inches tall. The first picture is my favorite- you can really see her nose! :)

In this picture she is starting to move her arms, which made the picture slightly blurry.

She is sucking on her thumb, but I think it looks like she is starting to smoke a cigarette. Can you see the smoke coming out??

And now.... she has almost finished her cigarette! So much smoke. I think that this is a sign that I am going to have a rebellious daughter, I H.A.T.E. cigarette smoke!! :)

This is the back of her face, she was tired of us bothering her.

The sonographer decided she needed to move to the other side so she could check the other side of her body, after much effort my stubborn baby moved, but she was unhappy- she is hiding her face from us!!

14 week sonogram pictures!

This is a view of baby's legs.

Here you can see baby's head and upper body

all of baby laying down.

Better view of baby- legs are up!!

Baby scratching her face!

Apparently I was not meant to be a blogger, because I don't really enjoy all that much and I am not very good at keeping up with it. But we can just blame it on my may-mester class that has taken over my life! Thankfully only 4 more days!

But at 14 weeks baby is doing great and baby's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, urinate, and possibly suck his/her thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, her facial muscles are getting a workout as her tiny features form one expression after another. her kidneys are producing urine, which she releases into the amniotic fluid around him (which I find disgusting by the way) — a process that will keep up until birth. She can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch her sucking her thumb. In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, she measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and she weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His/her body's growing faster than her head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, her arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of her body. (Her legs still have some lengthening to do.) She's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over her body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and her spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel her tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.