We are home owners

We closed on our first house yesterday. I'm kinda excited about moving but I'm going to miss the area I'm in.
Now we have two places to clean I'm not looking forward to that. I actually forgot that I was writing this post. But anyway its been about 7 to 8 months since when closed on our house. We are finally moved in but still have yet to make it feel like home. Its messy ( what happens when you have kid and the parents work different shifts), nothing on the walls, and quite a few money pits. Hopefully after the year is over with we will have most if not all of these things taken care of.

So many things I want to do

I'm not that creative but ever since I was proposed to I wanted to a lot of crafts for the wedding. Now that my little girl is here I want to make hair bows, bands, and clips. I'm pretty sure when we move into our first house (in the processing of closing) I will want to design all the rooms. I just need to find extra time to work on these things.

Time

I haven't been on here in a while I'm still adjusting to having a lo to take care of and finding some time to clean and catch up on sleep. Hopefully soon I can start to get more things done

Cesarè Addison's Birth Story

Friday morning I went to work with some leaking problem (remember to do kegels). Around 10 I started having some lower back pains but nothing I couldn’t handle. Around noon some light contractions started. I sent DH a text to let him know what I was feeling and to be prepared when he goes to work and I will stay at work until I was off at 6pm.

After a while the back pain increased and so did the contractions but they were still manageable when I told little breaks. Around 230 or 3 the contractions were 4-5 minutes apart and very strong with increase back pain. I had to stop what I was doing just to breathe through them. 330 I finally said something to my bosses and told me to take a sit and rest. I tried that but it didn’t work 4pm came the store manager came by and called DH for me to let him know I was labor. DH took over an hour to get to my job (rush hour plus rain). He picked me up and went 5 minutes down the street to the hospital.

By then my contractions increased to 2-3 minutes apart and lasting over a minute. We checked in and I was requesting the epidural (was going to try natural but the back pain got to me). Took a while to get but when I did it felt like I was walking on clouds. The checked me and I was 2cm dilated and 90% effaced. They took my vitals and I had a slight fever so they started me on antibiotics to be safe.

They checked me and did vitals about every hour. I was making little progress dilating but my temperature kept rising. Around 1030-45 I was only 4 cm dilated and LO had an increase in heart rate. They did the internal monitor to get more accurate readings of her HR. Another half hour passed and I still had a fever and LO base line was higher than normal and her heart rate was in the 180-190 range.

Because of my fever not going down, the increased heart rate, and making little progress they decided to do an emergency c-section. At 11:51 pm 8/31/2012 Cesarè Addison was born. She was 7 lbs and 2 oz and 20 inches long. DH got to hold her for a few minutes but then they had to take her back to special care to start on antibiotics and do blood work due to my fever.

She started off on a 48 hr antibiotic until they got some results back. So I didn’t have a chance to hold or feed her that night. I still had a fever and was put on 2 or 3 more antibiotics.  On Saturday I finally got a chance to feed her but was having trouble (she started favoring the bottle and fault the boob).

Her blood work finally came back and it showed signs that she was fighting an infection at some point in time but there were no bacteria growth in her cultures and no signs that she is physical sick (good thing they started the antibiotics early). With that they decided that she has to stay for the week to finish out her antibiotics. They did cultures on the placenta my side didn’t grow anything but her side had something growing. So they believe I might have had a small break in my water (they couldn’t detect AF the day before tho) and that lead to her having a high heart rate.

The only time we have with her right now is when she comes out for feedings (She’s going great with a nipple shield) and it’s the best. I am just so in love with her. I cannot wait until she comes home with us.

Me on the other hand, I keep developing fevers and they have no idea why and I am in the hospital for an extra 2 days for more tests and body scans. I was so close to going home today but my stupid fever reared its ugly head. At least that means I get to spend more time here with my little girl.

The second love of my life

The second love of my life was born Friday August 31, 2012 @ 11:51 pm. She is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. She weighed 7 lbs 2 oz and was 20 ins long. I can not wait until she is home with us. Her name is Cesarè Addison.

So what's happening right now

Right now I'm 38 weeks pregnant and it doesn't seem like this little girl is ready to come yet. I guess that's a good thing because I'm still trying to figure out what to put on the walls in her room (even tho we will only be in the apartment until the end of Nov.) and she still needs to grow. I have to finish packing my hospital bag, go grocery shopping for easy meals that my husband can make (pizza and pasta are his specialties), and clean the apartment.

We met with a couple of mortgage loan officers to get pre-qualified for a loan. Didn't realize there was so much that goes into factoring what a person can afford. We have some thinking to do and saving to do if we want to be out of this apartment by the end of November.

Thought I would express myself

Hey all, this is my first time blogging so I figured my first post should be about why I wanted to start and a little about my life. First off I'm Jasmine, I'm married, and I have a little girl on the way.

To start off, I grew up in St. Louis, graduated high school in 2007, went off to Mizzou, met the love of my life, got engaged, graduated in 2011, moved back to my home town...

Back in December of 2011 my then Fiance and I moved into our first apartment together. It was our first step into adulthood and being on our own. No more living apart, no more parent rules, more time together, and more responsibility. After moving in together we had to kick it into high gear because we were 5 months away from the second step into adulthood... our wedding.

We had to find a reception location, pick out our music, pick out the food, pick out flowers and decorations, find a photographer, find an officiant, pick suits, etc. So much needed to be done and we barely had any time to decorate our place or even think about anything else. (Our wedding website: Jasmineandjames.weebly.com)

January rolls around and guess what WE'RE PREGNANT(I'm pregnant! It was not something we expected to happen for at least a couple of years in the future or at least until after the wedding. Now I'm trying to plan a wedding and I'm thinking about how in the hell are we going to raise a kid when we are just beginning. After getting started on the pregnancy stuff, I realized that first we have to get through this wedding and then I can do as much pregnancy/baby related stuff I wanted.

3 months later I married the love of my life.

These is me 5 months pregnant at our wedding.

Now the wedding stuff is out of the way, its time to get baby stuff started our third step.

We signed up for classes, picked out a name (we already had a list of the names we liked),  bought books, and read hundreds of things online about pregnancy and babies. Then we realized there is no way we can live in this apartment once our little girl comes. So we decided we might as well take another step (fourth) and purchase our first house.

So to recap: Step 1-move in together, step 2- get married, step 3- have a baby, and step 4- buy a house.

The reason for this blog is express my thoughts about being married, being a first time mom, buying our first home, and everything else I find myself getting into.