Hello to all of our family and friends. We apologize for not getting this out sooner, but this little girl has been keeping us very busy. Ada is now a month old and doing great. She arrived September 5 at 11:42 a.m. after a quick 7 1/2 hour labor. She weighed 6lbs. 3oz and was 191/2 " long.
I woke up Friday morning around 4:15 with minor contractions and headed downstairs. I was fairly certain I was just having false contractions, like I had the previous Friday. I did some reading and walked around the house to see if they were true contractions. When they didn't go away I went to take a shower. They started to get a lot stronger and closer together. Doug woke up around 6:30 and I told him that something might be happening but I wasn't sure. We frantically started to get ready to go to the hospital. We left when my contractions were one to three minutes apart at around 7:40. Once at the hospital we got checked in and found that I was 3cm dilated, which quickly turned to 5cm and then 8cm. Ada was posterior (facing up) which made me have horrible back labor. We tried different positions to see if she would flip, but being stubborn like her mom she refused. I started pushing at 11:20 and about twenty minutes later she arrived cone head and all. To my disbelief Doug announced that it was a girl! We both agree that it was the best surprise of our life.
Doug and I are loving our new roles as parents and finding it to be surprisingly natural. Doug took off our first week home and we had so much fun taking care of our baby girl. We have however found ourselves doing some strange things in the night which we blame fully on new parent anxiety and total sleep deprivation. One night Doug discovered that he had been sitting on the side of the bed rocking his pillow for several minutes, and I have woken up many times trying to feed my pillow, scary. During all of this Ada was always sound asleep in her bassinet.
This past week she started sleeping in her crib and waking up only once or twice in the night. We were excited to see Ada smiling at only a couple of weeks old, but disappointed to read that it was most likely just gas. Now when we smile at her she flashes her toothless grin back at us. She especially likes to smile at me in the morning when I sing to her.
Today we went to the doctors and had a great checkup. She now weighs 8lbs. 12 1/2oz. and is 20 3/4" long. We will continue to take lots of pictures and pass them on to you. Thank you so much for all of the prayers, love and support you've given to us over the last month. We feel extremely blessed to have Ada join our family and can't wait to watch her grow.
I woke up Friday morning around 4:15 with minor contractions and headed downstairs. I was fairly certain I was just having false contractions, like I had the previous Friday. I did some reading and walked around the house to see if they were true contractions. When they didn't go away I went to take a shower. They started to get a lot stronger and closer together. Doug woke up around 6:30 and I told him that something might be happening but I wasn't sure. We frantically started to get ready to go to the hospital. We left when my contractions were one to three minutes apart at around 7:40. Once at the hospital we got checked in and found that I was 3cm dilated, which quickly turned to 5cm and then 8cm. Ada was posterior (facing up) which made me have horrible back labor. We tried different positions to see if she would flip, but being stubborn like her mom she refused. I started pushing at 11:20 and about twenty minutes later she arrived cone head and all. To my disbelief Doug announced that it was a girl! We both agree that it was the best surprise of our life.
Doug and I are loving our new roles as parents and finding it to be surprisingly natural. Doug took off our first week home and we had so much fun taking care of our baby girl. We have however found ourselves doing some strange things in the night which we blame fully on new parent anxiety and total sleep deprivation. One night Doug discovered that he had been sitting on the side of the bed rocking his pillow for several minutes, and I have woken up many times trying to feed my pillow, scary. During all of this Ada was always sound asleep in her bassinet.
This past week she started sleeping in her crib and waking up only once or twice in the night. We were excited to see Ada smiling at only a couple of weeks old, but disappointed to read that it was most likely just gas. Now when we smile at her she flashes her toothless grin back at us. She especially likes to smile at me in the morning when I sing to her.
Today we went to the doctors and had a great checkup. She now weighs 8lbs. 12 1/2oz. and is 20 3/4" long. We will continue to take lots of pictures and pass them on to you. Thank you so much for all of the prayers, love and support you've given to us over the last month. We feel extremely blessed to have Ada join our family and can't wait to watch her grow.
Ada's nursery
The hospital gave each baby Husker gear for game day.
Doug & I finished making the stork a week before Ada arrived.
Riley greeting his new baby
Ada's first bath at home
Ada visiting daddy at work
First stroller ride
Three weeks old
This is Ada's version of tummy time, catching some zzz's.
