Samantha Kaitlyn Fern Mize has arrived!!

I know I haven't been on here in forever to update you all!! But as most of you know, Samantha made her entrance on October 11th, 2009 at 8:56AM. She was 7lbs 1oz, 19 1/2 inches long!
Labor and delivery went surprisingly awesome! I started having contractions after I woke up from a nap the day before. I could barely tell they were contractions. So we waited a little while to see if they would get stronger. They ended getting a little stronger so my husband and I went to the hospital to see if I certainly have started labor. The nurse told us I was only dilated to 1 and the contractions weren't strong enough. She told us we could either stay at the hospital or go home. We figured it would take a while so we just decided to go home. We didn't want to stay at the hospital longer then we had to.
After returning home around 10 or 11. I decided to get something to eat and lay on the couch. While I was laying there I felt and heard a big POP! Yup... My water broke! (let me tell you... it is the MOST disgusting feeling, felt like you were peeing on yourself constantly) I called labor and delivery. The nurse told me to take a shower and pack my bags and head to the hospital. My husband called his mother and after I was done showering and packing a few more things, off we went to the hospital.
As we were driving my contractions were getting a lot worse and on top of that I was leaking everywhere. We finally made it to the hospital. My husband wheeled me up to labor in delivery. We got to our room and I changed and got hooked up to the monitors. Everything was going beautifully.
The contractions were getting a lot worse so I tried the Whirlpool a couple of times. It helped for a little while. Then while I was laying in the tub, I just couldn't take it anymore. So I told my mother in-law that I needed a nurse and some epidural. After getting sick (thank you mom for holding my hair back,lol) I went back into the bed and the nurse hooked me back up to the monitors. Finally the anesthesiologist got there with the most wonderful drug in the world! He had me lay on the bed on my side with my needs touching my chin, which as you can imagine was very uncomfortable with this big belly, I had a couple of contractions as he was poking me which wasn't fun but I didn't think it hurt at all getting poked. I thought getting my IV hurt more then the epidural. They also gave me some Pitocin to help things speed up. After a few minutes I was pain free!!! I could actually lay there and just relax and watch some movies. I was going to try and get some sleep since I've been up all night but, I couldn't. It was just too exciting knowing that we were going to meet our little girl at anytime.
It wasn't more then an hour and it was time to start pushing. I pushed for a couple of minutes and my doctor told me that she was hung up on my tail bone so she had to use a suction cup to help her out without having to break my tail bone. Before the doctor had Samantha all the way out, the doctor held her head up and waved Samantha's arm to Grandma while she took a picture. It was so incredible! I ended up only having to push for about 15-20 minutes and there she was!! Our beautiful baby girl! It was AMAZING!!!!!!
I got to hold her right away. I couldn't believe it! This beautiful creature that lived inside of me for 9 months was in my arms and I could actually see her moving around and hear her cry! Everyone was crying themselves.. Yes, even my husband! Which I have NEVER seen him cry before. But I knew this day was going to be the 1st!
They took her away to get her cleaned up and weighed and do all the things they needed to do to make sure she was a healthy baby. And she is a VERY healthy little girl! We are so blessed and couldn't imagine not having her in our lives!

36 Weeks

I know I haven't posted for a long time! Things have been kind of crazy around here. Yesterday I was 36 Weeks along. 1 more month to go! I cannot believe it! It has been a wonderful journey so far. Having this life inside of you is just unbelievable. We are soo blessed! Next week I will be full term and should pop any ol time. I am getting pretty nervous/scared about the whole thing. I just don't know what to expect and when to expect it. I just can't wait until all of that is over with and I can see my husband with his daughter. That's what I am looking forward to most!!

We have been working on Samantha's room. Its going kinda slow. Seth is working on the trim. My mom and best friend helped paint her room. It's a light yellow color. It looks so cute! Hopefully next week we'll be getting the carpet for her room and the living room. Can't wait to say good-bye to this nasty, green carpet. Here are some pics of it so far.




September 5th was my baby shower! I had SUCH a blast! It was a wonderful day! My Mom (mother in-law) and best friend, Amanda, threw us the shower. They did such an amazing job! It was a coed party. So everyone and their husbands/boyfriends was there. We played a few games. The guys got to play their own game, Diapering the baby, which was a BLAST to watch. We also played the toilet paper game, bingo and the piggy bank game. There was awesome food! The cake was sooo cute! Mom and Amanda made this AWESOME diaper cake! We got a lot of wonderful gifts! It was just a great day!

Busy

I know I haven't posted for a long time! Things have been kind of crazy around here. Today I am 36 Weeks along. 1 more month to go! I cannot believe it! It has been a wonderful journey so far. Having this life inside of you is just unbelievable. We are soo blessed! Next week I will be full term and should pop any ol time.



We have been working on Samantha's room. Its going kinda slow. My mom and friend, Amanda helped paint her room. It looks so cute! It's a light yellow color. Seth is working on the trim. Hopefully next week we'll be getting the carpet for her room and the living room. Can't wait to say good-bye to this nasty, green carpet.





September 5th was my baby shower! I had SUCH a blast! It was a wonderful day! My Mom (mother in-law), Amanda(sister in-law) and best friend, Amanda, threw us the shower. They did such an amazing job! It was a coed party. So everyone and their husbands/boyfriends was there. We played a few games. The guys got to play their own game, Diapering the baby, which was a BLAST to watch. We also played the toilet paper game, bingo and the piggy bank game. There was awesome food! The cake was sooo cute! Mom and Amanda made this AWESOME diaper cake! We got a lot of wonderful gifts! It was just a great day!

36 Weeks

I know I haven't posted for a long time! Things have been kind of crazy around here. Today I am 36 Weeks along. 1 more month to go! I cannot believe it! It has been a wonderful journey so far. Having this life inside of you is just unbelievable. We are soo blessed! Next week I will be full term and should pop any ol time.

27 Weeks/3rd Trimester

I just realized a few minutes ago that I'm in the 3rd tri. It has gone by soo fast!! Now it's time to be uncomfortable 24/7, sleepy, cranky. And so on and so on. But it just means that I'm getting closer and closer of holding our little girl. I keep getting bigger and bigger! When does it stop? lol.
These next few months are going to be the busiest we have ever been!!
I booked our maternity pictures for August 22nd. I'm very excited for those. Hope they turn out real nice. Seth and I have a preparation for labor class at Mercy August 4th and 11th. You know Seth is soooo excited! lol.. Not!
We still need to work on the nursery. Seth is Mr. Procrastinator! Hopefully we'll have that done asap. My baby shower is September 5th. Which I'm wayyyyyy excited for. Can't wait to see all my friends and family in one place. Well.. and of course get all the baby goodies! We have a vacation coming up in September also. The whole family is going to Wisconsin dells. Which should be a great time!
So.. that's that. But I'm sure there's more to come.
Here's my 27 week belly shot

3D Ultrasound

Last night (7-13-09) we went for our 3D ultrasound. It was the most amazing thing I have ever experienced! To actually see her moving around in my belly. And yes, she's definitely a girl! We got a lot of great pictures of her. But she loved hugging on mommy so we couldn't get a full face shot. We got to see her sucking on her lips, sucking her thumb. They gave us a video of her also. I cry every time I watch it. It's just incredible! She didn't have a whole lot of fat on her so I would love to do another one!! lol. But I don't think Seth will allow that!
Here are some pictures of our little girl

25 Weeks and Our 2 Year Anniversary!

Today I am 25 weeks along. 15 more weeks to go! I just can't believe it! I had a doctors appointment last Friday the 26th. Everything was perfect! My doc couldn't get a steady heartbeat of Samantha because the little rascal wouldn't stay still! You could hear her moving around with the Doppler they use.. it was pretty cool. Her heartbeat was 152. My next appointment is Monday, July 27th. I'll be about 29 weeks along then. She has me scheduled for the glucose test, which I'm not looking forward to. I have to go to the lab before my appointment and drink this (I hear it's pretty nasty) orange sugar drink then go to my regular doctors appointment and wait an hour then they take my blood. I hope it goes okay!
Our 2 year anniversary is today!! I got Seth and nice outfit. Jeans, T-shirt (which says "trophy husband") and a nice button up shirt. I'm planning on making him a nice, romantic dinner tonight. Just can't believe it has been 2 years! It's just crazy how everything works out in life. I have known Seth for like 8-9 years. I would have never thought that I'd be married to him and having his baby!! He's the most wonderful man in my life and he will be an even more wonderful father!!

Here's my 25 week belly shot