Beautiful Baby Stella

Now that I've gotten my favorites for the week out of the way.. here is my #1 FAVORITE of the week.

My BFF became an aunt!!! Her whole family IS family to me, so I am so so happy for Chaz & Tess... and also dying a little inside that I can't hold her yet!!! She is so far away! Damn New York for being so far from Georgia!!!

Meet Baby Stella:

Tess & Stella


Ali, the proud aunt!!


The happy family!

April 16, 2011
8:44 pm
7 lb. 1 oz. 20 in.
:)

NEED. TO. HOLD. THAT. DANG. BABY.

Tess went into labor on her due date! And she pushed twice! haha. Lucky mama!

>:[

My pregnant friends are stressing me out.

2.5 years after having Maddox, I've learned a lot that I wish I had known before he was born. And now I see and hear friends going about their births like OK DOC WHATEVER YOU SAY.. and I just want to grab them and shake them and tell them to wake up... BUT.. I can't. It's not my place to push it on them. Is it? Other than giving advice in the beginning, I don't think there is an easy way to say something like that. I can't be like YOU ARE MAKING A MISTAKE. :[


Friend's FB status: "We have redefined the term "mamas boy" when your doctor looks at you and says "I promise I won't let u go past 41 weeks" may not be a good sign...!"

To which I replied: "Why won't he let you go past 41 weeks?"

And she said: "It puts the baby at risk to go longer! Idk what the risks are but there are some! Maybe being too big??"

***FACEPALM***



Next, one of my close friends went into early labor last night. I was texting them frantically at 4am because I'm SO excited. She went to the hospital & they sent her back home because she wasn't ready yet. A few minutes ago... around 2pm.. I get a text from him saying: "We're on our way to the hospital now. Since her labor is so slow, they are going to induce her today."

:[ Ugh. It just makes me sad.


EDIT: I think I overreacted a little bit about that text because I was cranky about the other girl's FB status. I actually just started crying because I'm so excited for them.

wow. just wow.

“What Made You Think You Had Any Right To Have A Baby At Home?”

My OB said WHAT?!?

I really REALLY hope that some of these are just made up because I am FUMING.

potty training & THINGS

A girl I know posted a link on her blog recently:

BirthCut

It's a Cesarean support website & I have been in tears going through it while Maddox naps. The artwork, the Cesarean Rage section, the C-section stories & VBAC stories.. all of it. A few months ago Bailey & I started talking about our next birth [not any time soon] & we both agreed that we don't want another hospital birthing experience. I can't do it again. We were lied to, terrified, pressured, and our emotions were used against us. I can't even get into it right now. Too much. I thought I'd want to write more about it right now but I don't think I can.


IN OTHER NEWS:

Today is Day 2 of the 3-day potty training method we're doing. It's been going incredibly well.
Yesterday we got up & I put big boy underwear on Maddox & explained to him that he doesn't pee in his diapers anymore, now he's a BIG BOY & has to use the potty. I reminded him all morning not to wet his new underwear and to keep them dry. He had an accident while he ate breakfast. One of the main things about this method is that you stay glued to them for 3 days straight.. Maddox usually plays by himself pretty well at random times during the day.. none of that during these 3 days. You stay right on top of them so that you catch them AS they start to have an accident & run them to the potty. Once they have already had an accident & then you sit them on the potty.. it doesn't really make sense to them. It just seems like a sort of punishment at that point.
SO, after his accident during breakfast, I put a new pair of underwear on him & explained once again that he has to tell mommy if he needs to go potty. He kept saying NO WAY. But every 2-3 minutes I would ask him "Do you need to go potty?" and usually got the same response from him... NO WAY. lol.
I kept giving him water or apple juice whenever he would ask for it.. that way you have more potty times to work with during the training process! And eventually I could tell that he was HOLDING it. He kept doing this little prancing around the room sort of thing and holding himself. He would pee a little & get really upset & then hold it again. We went through 7 pairs of underwear before he finally couldn't hold it any longer and let go in the potty. He looked terrified at first & then I started praising him & clapping & telling him it's ok. He was so happy & excited & then he got a cookie & a sticker. :D
THEN IT CLICKED. He got it. It was so exciting.
He peed in the potty 6 times after that with no accidents. He would tell me every time he had to pee & I totally picked up on every little signal that he had to go.
Bailey got home around 7:15pm & grabbed Maddox and hugged him and told him what a big boy he was and how proud he is etc.
Shortly after he got home, we could tell that he was uncomfortable & he was getting pretty cranky. I knew he had to poop because he usually goes early in the day.. so I was pretty sure he'd been holding it all day. He acted like he wanted to sit in the recliner with me & then he got up & acted like he was going to play with some toys.. so I asked if he had to go potty & he said yes soooo we went & he peed & then said OUCH and tried to get up so I helped him and realized he was POOPING.. so I immediately put him back on & said "You can poop in the potty" and HE DID.
I NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE SO EXCITED TO SEE SOMEONE POOP IN THE TOILET. HAHAHAHA
He got a brand new Hot Wheels car for pooping. ;]

Last night went pretty well too. He had one accident before bed because he was falling asleep & peed. But other than that, he slept in his bed all night with big boy underwear on & woke up DRY. :]

I'm so proud. And SO ready for this. Tonight when Bailey gets home, we are packing up all of Maddox's diapers & giving them away.

YESSSSSSS.