Ruby's Blessing

We blessed Ruby today and it was great! It was a good day but I am glad that it is over. I was really stressed trying to get everything ready. We blessed her at our house and we had a ton of family and friends show up. Thanks for all of your support! My mom made her dress and she looked adorable. Will blessed her and it was such a sweet blessing. Ruby slept the whole time and she didn't even make a peep.

Her cute dress that my mom made, she also made the shoes and head band.

Say Cheese

Ruby and her Daddy
Ruby and her Mommy
Our Family
Exhausted after her long day!!!
She always sleeps with her hands up when she is really tired.

She is getting so big and she is so much fun. I had to go back to work on the 17th and it was so hard. I sobbed the whole way after I had dropped her off. When I went to pick her up, she was perfectly fine and that reassured me a lot. She is getting so smiley and she is a really good baby. She now goes down around 9:30 and gets up about 6:30. I had to go in and wake her up today at 7:30 and she was still totally out. We are so lucky!

Wearing her new beanie that her daddy bought her.
She also has matching vans shoes that go with it.

I have not posted any pictures of her room, but I need too because it is so cute. Will's parents made the crib, my parents bought her dresser, Will's aunts and Grandma bought us her rocker, and my sister Mandy made the cute letters. It turned out so cute and we love it. She had been sleeping in her room since she was 5 weeks.

Ruby is a Fatty!!!

I took Ruby for her 2 month check up on Tuesday and let's just say that my baby is a fatty! She weighed 11 lbs 14 oz and she is 21 1/2 inches long. Her weight is in the 75% and her heighth is in the 25%. The doctor said that she is definitely healthy. At her 2 week appointment we were worried about her gaining weight but we don't need to worry about that now! Ruby also had to get her shots. She was furious. I thought she was going to pass out because she was holding her breath for so long. I am not looking forward to her 4 month appointment.

Ruby is a great baby. She is very happy and smiley. She is still sleeping through the night. She goes down at 10:30 and gets up at 7:00. I am very, very LUCKY!!! Ruby is still eating 5 oz every 3 hours. She has a new toy that she will just lay under and look at. She loves the mirror that is on it. She will see herself and just start talking. She loves the bath now. She will just lay there and relax the whole time. She has officially gotten her first kiss from Abe(at least the first one that I saw) and she loved it. When he was done, she started to talk to him and smile at him. I can't wait to see how they will get along when she is older!

Smiling at herself in the mirror

Ruby just chillin' in the bath
Abe "protecting" Ruby while she sleeps

When Ruby was about 2 weeks, we went and got her newborn pictures taken by our friend Katie. They turned out so cute. Here are a few of my favorites!

She hates to be naked!
I love baby feet

Being a mom is the best thing and I am so sad that I will have to go back to work on Monday. She has great babysitters but it will still be hard. At least my hours are not horrible and I will get all of the holidays off with her. We will be blessing her at the end of August and I can't believe that she is already 2 months old. Time has flown by!

Sleeping Through the Night

I just wanted to let everyone know my good news!!! Ruby has now been sleeping through the last 3 nights. She goes to bed at 9:30 and gets up at 6:30. Thank Goodness (hopefully she keeps it up)!

Catch up on Ruby

Here's Ruby!!!

I have been a slacker! Sorry. Life has been kind of crazy! Well Ruby will be 6 weeks old on Thursday. I can't believe that my baby is already a month old. Being a mom is the best thing in the WHOLE world!!! When I took Ruby for her 2 week check up she weighed 6 lbs 15 oz. She has definitely gotten chunky since. At first she was only eating 2 ounces every 3 hours and now she is up to 5 ounces every 3 hours. She is also a really good baby. She just kind of hangs out! For the last week she has only been getting up once a night and then at 7:30 for the rest of the day. I am so lucky! Let's hope that in the next few weeks she will just start sleeping through the night (everyone cross their fingers)!!! I take her for her 2 month check up on August 11th.

She always has to have her hands up by her face.
Looking at her new toy
What a chunk!

Being a Mom!

Well being a mom is great but it is time consuming. It seems like as soon as I have fed and changed Ruby, I have a second to breath and then I get to do it all again. I love being a mom but I am definitely adjusting to our new schedule and way of life.
Well to keep everyone updated, we came home from the hospital last Saturday. We were glad that we were all able to come home together because Ruby had to spend her first night in the NICU. Her oxygen levels kept dropping and she couldn't keep them up by herself, so they took her down to NICU to keep an eye on her. Well as soon as they took her down there, she was able to breath on her own (of course). They kept her in NICU until the morning to make sure that she would be okay. When our pediatrician came to check on her Friday he explained to us that normally they would not consider this a reason to bring a baby to NICU but it was IHC's policy. Most babies take about 4 hours to breath on their own but it took Ruby about 7 hours, so that is why they took her down.

Ready to go home!!!

The day that we were released from the hospital, they checked her jaundice level and she was at a 12. I guess that when they get into the mid twenties they really start to worry because it means that their liver is not working properly (I think). So on Sunday our pediatrician had us bring her back to the hospital to have her tested again to make sure that it didn't jump to much. Well it had jumped up to 19, so he wanted her on the lights. Let's just say that she hated to lay on the bed because she had to just lay there with her diaper on and she likes to be bundled up tight. So on Sunday night, Aubree stayed over to help. It was a very long night of crying and no sleep. On Monday we went back to the doctor and she had only dropped to 14 so we got to have another night with the lights. On Tuesday I took her back to the doctor and this time she had dropped to 12.5, so he gave us clearance to not use the lights for a few days. Then on Thursday I took her back for one last check and the doctor told us that she looked great so we were officially done with the whole jaundice thing. Thank Goodness!

The light bed to help with her jaundice.

It was really fun to see how Abe responded to Ruby. He has gotten used to having the house to himself. He was really curious and he loves to smell her. He came up and got right next to her while she was in her bouncer. Ruby doesn't mind him but he is now acting jealous and picked on. I guess it might take a little bit for him to realize that now someone has taken his place as #1.

Ruby's 1st encounter with Abe! Nose to Nose!!!

It has also been fun to see the way that Will has taken to being a dad. He is so cute with her and he loves to hold and cuddle her. Her favorite place to sleep is on his chest while he lying down. This morning he woke up to feed her at six and brought her out to the living room. Well I fell back asleep until 10:30 and he just hung out with her and let me catch up on my sleep. He is a great dad and I am lucky to have him!

She HATES the bath!
Sweet Girl!

She's here!

I am just going to do a quick post to let you all know that Ruby is here! She came yesterday at 2:43 pm. She weighed 6 lbs 14 oz and she was 18 1/2 inches long. She had to be in nicu last night because she couldn't keep her oxygen level up. The pediatrician came and checked her this morning and said that she looked great. She was able to come and stay with us in our room after she was released. She is so adorable!!! We are all coming home tomorrow and we are excited she's here!

She's coming tomorrow!

I went to my doctor's again today and I have great news! I am being induced tomorrow!!! I am 39 weeks today so I went in for my weekly check up. On Thursday, of last week, I started to have a really itchy stomach so I thought that it was just dry. I put on lotion every few hours to help it. Wrong thing to do! It just irritated something and I broke out with a huge rash all over my stomach. So on Friday I called the nurse and she told me to take some Benadryl and call if it got worst. They thought it was just a heat rash. So, since then I have been rubbing a Benadryl cream on my stomach about 4 times a day and trying not to itch it. Then yesterday, I started to notice that the bumps were spreading to my legs and closer to my back. I tried not to panic and I made sure that I mentioned it to my doctor today.
So when I went in today I mentioned the rash and how it was spreading and not getting better. He took a look and informed me that it wasn't a heat rash like they thought, it was something called PUPPS. PUPPS is something that some pregnant women develop during the 3rd trimester of their pregnancy. It is not harmful to the baby but it itches like crazy. It looks like hives but they never go away! The only thing to get rid of it, is to deliver your baby. Dr. Merrill said that he could give me stuff to help the itch, but it would not go away and it will get worse as it gets warmer. His suggestion was to induce me tomorrow because this can be considered a medical reason to be induced and it won't go away. Well, there was no argument from me!!! So he called the hospital to schedule it and I am 4th on the list. He said that I should be fine to be induced because I am dilated to a 3 and 85 % effaced, so my body should handle it okay. I am glad that I am effacing because he said that he wouldn't have induced me if my cervix wasn't softening.
So to sum it up, I am being induced tomorrow and I am so happy! I will be glad to finally have Ruby here! I will post pictures soon and let you all know how we are doing.