For Me This Is Heaven

I can't count how many times I've thought that over the past week...then every time I do I have to start singing the Jimmy Eat World song....good thing its a great song

My sweet girlies...

Paiges Story

So in the interest of time I'll try and make this quick and easy to read!

For those who don't know...we decided to have this baby at our home with midwives. I have to admit the initial reason we even considered it was because we don't have maternity coverage on our insurance but the more we educated ourselves the more we were sure that this was something we wanted and felt confident about doing! Honestly, even if an actual home birth is something you would never do yourself, there are three things that I did during this pregnancy that I wish I would have done with Emery and that I think every pregnant woman should do during her own pregnancy

1. Prenatal Yoga

2. Read Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

(it gets pretty granola but still very informative and empowering)

3. Watch The Business of Being Born

now onto the story...

Friday November 12

10:00 am had an appointment with the midwives to have my membranes stripped. When we got there I was dilated to a 4 and 90% effaced but still needed a little help telling my body to release that oxytocin to get things going so she stripped me and said to get walking.

12:00 pm Morgan and I met my mom, Annie (who had Emery with her while we were at the appointment) and Courtney at Sams Club so I could walk while my mom did her shopping. Started having some contractions but I figured they were just cramps from having been stripped

2:00 pm came home to put emery down for a nap, we laid down for a little bit too but I couldn't really get comfortable so we got up and did some stuff around the house...dishes, laundry, watered the flowers etc...

4:30 pm my mom, Annie and her two kiddos come over to hang some china plates i'd been wanting to hang. We worked on a puzzle Annie brought with her and timed contractions. 3ish minutes apart by now but not quite lasting a minute

5:00 pm contractions were getting harder...I decided to give the midwives a call to keep them updated. They said to get to bed early and call when they get more intense

5:30 pm I decided it was time for Annie to take the kids and go to my parents for the evening...we sent Emery with her pj's thinking she'd either sleep there or have Annie sneak her into bed sometime in the late evening

6:10 pm by now the contractions started to change...and when I say change I mean hurt...oh wow, they hurt (come to find out I was in transition) so Morgan called the midwives and let them know

6:45 pm midwives got to our house (thank the heavens) I was complete and ready to push!! My water hadn't broken yet so she broke it and I started pushing

7:14 pm out she came!! And we became a family of four. Words cannot describe the feeling...

8:00 pm Emery got to meet her baby sister

We are totally in love with our new little girl...and so grateful to our amazing midwives who got her here safely :)

She's Here!

Our sweet Paige Ella Pew was born Friday November 12, 2010.

Weighing in at 8lb 2oz and 20 inches long...

Her birth story coming soon!

Well my due date has come and gone....I'm trying not to be impatient or disappointed even though its really hard... I'm definitely eating my words when I tell other moms who get to that "done" stage to just try and enjoy it! I just can't wait to see her little face and smell her sweet baby skin...oh gosh...I can't even talk about it or I just want to scream! But at the same time...I feel a tinge of guilt because I have a baby...these are precious moments that I get to have with just Emery and I want to eat them up...So I'm going to! Number two can come whenever she wants...:) Well i'm glad I got that off my chest...now, I saw this video on Facebook today and wanted to rememeber that I watched it the few days before #2 made her debut...

So I know the video its slightly cut off on here so if it bugs you enough look it up on YouTube :) But do watch it!

Halloweeeeen & One Big Belly

Oh Halloween...I'm not going to lie, not my favorite holiday...I guess I'm just not that into all the "scary" stuff...maybe as our kiddos get older it'll be more fun to get all into it and get everyone dressed up :) Because honestly, I don't think Emery really got what was going on...or maybe I didn't prepare her enough for it? Either way, this year we decided to go ahead and partake in the festivities! The Wednesday before Halloween our ward had its Trunk or Treat and Emery went as a princess sporting the dress my mom and I (mostly my mom but I learned a lot!) whipped up for her...I think it turned out pretty cute...but not nearly as cute as the little girl wearing it :)

By the way, this is her getting into "dads truck" which I have to document that she love, love, loves...especially going over the "whoas" :)

Emery got her face painted...(thanks Aunt Chris) and even got to pet a "little bits pony" with dad...we thought for sure she'd be afraid of the pony but she surprised us both and had no problem petting it yay!

Now Friday night we got a babysitter

(not really, Morgans mom watched her which doesn't really count as a "babysitter" cuz Emery has some semi-serious separation anxiety so we're afraid to try a "real" babysitter cuz she'd probably flip out like she does in nursery....its so sad...)

Anyways! Morgan and I went to our friend Halloween party and had a BLAST! (thanks to the Sisters Banks and Mallory) Morgan and I dresed up as a "Basketball Player and the Ball" which I may or may not have stolen from the internet...we wanted to take advantage of the fact that my belly is huge without being too cheezy like going as "Mother Earth" or whatever...OR offending anyone by going as a Nun and a Priest (which we considered) Plus the whole costume cost us like $10 dollars by the time we bought the paint for my belly and the sweat bands...win win!

And as if there hasn't been enough belly already for one post....here's the official 39 week Photobooth belly pic

Honestly if it wasn't for Photobooth we would have pretty much NO documentation of this pregnancy...which is one of those things that I know I'll want to look back on every now and again...:) Hopefully there wont be a 40 week photo but I guess its not really up to me! If this little girl still feels like she needs to cook a little longer then so be it (just as long as she doesn't get any bigger) :)