Tonight we watched the George Strait thing with all of the performances. My favorite had to be Jamie Fox & Alan Jackson, they were just too great. I love how they announce Jamie Fox as not winning any country awards. While we watched Micah chewed & attacked a video game box. We danced together to a few songs & cuddled. We flipped to the Lakers/Nuggets a few times. I made a bad joke about what kind of nuggets are the Denver Nuggets…chicken nuggets? Micah farted more then ever tonight, could it be the sweet potatoes?

Ugh after all the junk food I’ve been eatting lately, sweet tea by the gallons & more chocolate then any normal body should be able to handle. Well I think I’m in need of the best weight loss supplements on the market, maybe just a pill that expands into a sponge into my stomach so I can’t eat. I just imagined Sponge Bob Square Pants in my stomach…laughing. Oh my I think my bed is calling to me!

This past Monday we were going to have a morning in the park to take pictures…oh my gosh. It was soooooo full in the museum distract that we just went to eat instead, food is always a nice substitution to…well everything. And then I saw that the TV we had just bought went on sale for almost $100 less, well I took the receipt to customer service and got the difference back. $95! Suhweet!

Micah started solids today. I baked & pureed sweet potatoes. One sweet potato looks like it will be enough for 7 meals. I froze the leftovers in ice cubes and am going to put them in a big baggie later. Micah enjoyed his first solids & after his first solids he had a bath, some nursing & went to bed.

Ugh my skin is still flaring up & I have no idea what to do. I’m on the look out for the best acne treatment on the market but have no clue which one it is. I used Proactiv before & it worked great but don’t feel like shelling so much money out. It seems like all the good & even not so good stuff is expensive. If you aren’t a magnet for acne…be very grateful for that. Wow after checking out the reviews on the Philosophy Acne Kit, I am so glad I didn’t buy it a few months ago when I wanted to. It has horrible reviews! I was actually going to buy it because all of the other Philosphy products I’ve tried are wonderful but now I’ll just stay far away! Well I’m off to read more reviews because this postpartum baby skin is keeping me up more then Micah (who once in a blue moon will keep me up).

Read Part 1 of My baby Story Here
Read Part 2 of My baby Story Here
Read Part 3 of My baby Story Here

More blood and gross stuff.

JP told me that as they were helping me into the wheelchair I flung my body violently back into my bed and started to shake. This I do not remember. I remember bits and pieces since I was very in & out of consciousnesses at this point. Open my eyes & see three nurses around me. The one on the left is playing with machines and putting an oxygen mask over my face. The one on the right is telling me that she is going to give me a shot. I look down thinking “Thank God my epidural hasn’t worn completely off yet” as the needle pierces my thigh. I see another nurse at the foot of the bed talking to the nurse messing with my oxygen mask. I am completely confused and scared at this moment. All I want to do is see my newborn son & to hold him for the first time. I breath in and out deeply trying to grab as much air as possible, hoping maybe I’ll just miraculously go back to myself so I can hold Micah. I black in and out while nurses, my doctor & JP hover around me and the room. My mom brought my brother & sister to the hospital but I requested for them not to come after I had my oxygen mask on, I didn’t want to scare them.

I hear someone tell me that I need to be taken to the O.R. (Operating Room) so they can check and make sure nothing is wrong with my…well you know where ladies have babies from. I sign some paper okaying it (wonder what that signature looked like, I probably signed it give me my damn baby). In between somewhere of these blurry visions I had a few friends visit, one who had never visited a woman in the hospital who had just given birth. So all the extra needles & oxygen mask scared him. And then the next thing I know they are wheeling me down the hallway. All I can really see is the ceiling lights, I’m not even strong enough to look around anymore. I get into the O.R. where I somehow end up on the operating table and off of my stiff bed. I had a friendly Asian doctor tell me he was going to be administrating the anesthesia and that soon I would be out. My doctor asked if I could move my legs & my last thought was “Lord please don’t let me die”. That is the scariest thing in the world to think and truly believe that there is a chance you won’t live.

I heard JP & my doctor talking. My doctor saying he was so sad to see this happening to me. And then it turns to just chatter that I can’t understand.

“They said you won’t be able to use your legs, we’re going to have to buy you a wheelchair for the house” JP told me so calmly. WTF?!

Yes my husband was joking around with me and this is the point where I regained consciousness. Then I laughed and told him to stop messing with me…once I made sure I could still kick my legs around that is. JP was relived to have me finally conscious again, he said he’d been sitting next to me talking to me just waiting for me to come to. I was happy I was alive. My doctor came in quickly after I regained consciousness. He told me that I had lost a ton of blood and my blood count was under half of what it was suppose to be, they were getting blood transfusions ready for me. He also told me that when I had thrown up earlier it had ripped my stitches from my tear & that he had to restitch me up in the O.R. Everything internally was fine but I lost a significant amount of blood. Once the doctor left I told JP to take a picture of me and knowing me too well he took two, just in case.

Soon after I saw nurses come in with coolers that contained the blood that my body needed. The most painful needle was not the epidural but the one they shot in the side of my wrist for the blood. Holy ouch! And the blood felt like ice entering my system. The whole night I continued to go in and out of sleep, waking every few minutes because the blood pressure machine was now set to go off every 15 minutes to monitor. Very annoying to a tired mama but somehow I managed to sleep through it a few times. Finally around 1 am I woke up and requested that Micah be brought to me because I hadn’t got to hold him yet. I held him for a few brief minutes before getting light headed & handing him to JP, fearing I would pass out again. Luckily the night went well. Blood pressure taken every 15 minutes, nurses in & out every 30ish minutes, very swollen hands (those things looked like they were going to burst!), a new bag of blood and some sleep here and there. By morning I was able to scarf down my whole breakfast, minus the eggs. And then it was time to have Micah come visit his mama, so I held my sweet boy as we watched Obama’s inauguration. Soon the blood was all in my system & I was feeling much better. A few needles came out of my hands, the catheter came out (LOL @ peeing while talking to my 22 year old brother, it’s fully grossed him out) and I was on my way to my new room, out of my laboring room finally. And all continued as it should have, except having to stay an extra day at the hospital. The rest of my stay was happily uneventful and full of staring at my beautiful son & husband. And thanking God that I was alive.

First of all a huge congratulations to Tracey & her growing family, she gave birth to a beautiful (and I do mean beautiful) baby girl, Jovie on May 21st!!

So I know it is Saturday but the week was full of errands and my dad so I didn’t get a chance to update when I would have liked, so I’m doing it now. We went to a huge and wonderful rose garden on Tuesday that I love. Micah seemed to love it too. We spent some time walking around smelling the roses before we had to head to Micah’s doctor appointment. I took too many pictures & Micah behaved as he always does (like an angel).

At Micah’s 4 month appointment he weighed in at a hefty 16 lbs & 12 oz. And he measured at a 27.5 inches long! He got 3 shots in those chubby legs of his and screamed only for a moment. Then it was back to smiling and flirting with the nurse…I’m going to have trouble with this one day but for now it’s adorable.

I’m feeling horrid today. I woke up with pains in my stomach & feeling very nauseous. Once I was on my way home from dropping my dad off at work, I decided to stop by Dora’s house (my sister in law) to do some coupon stuff but instead I threw up. But I didn’t throw up food, just bile (??). And geez that sucked the life out of me so we (Me & Micah) came home to nap. Thank goodness my little Micah decided he wanted to nap with me  because I was thisclose to calling JP to come home from work & watch him. But we both got some cuddle & sleep time. During our nap I threw up two more times  (bile again) & Micah comforted me by cuddling up when I came back to the bed. It’s funny because days where I need to get work done he won’t sleep but when I NEED it he is the perfect little baby. Lucky me huh? I guess he knew his Mama needed more sleep. *sigh* I still have a lot to do today but I just want to go lay in bed with my baby boy. :p

Okey enough ramblings, I’m going to have some lunch & talk to my baby.

Yes I just called my son a creature. Is he not? My dad is staying with us this week, so right now Micah is screaming at him. More on that later.

I miss blogging & having my computer, I SHOULD have my computer by Monday. And hopefully the contents of it doesn’t get wiped out. It’s unlikely but possible. So send good vibes my computers way. I think it’ll be very intense moment when I get it back. My macbook is my drug & I’m having withdraws. You know the shakes, trying to rob apple stores…the usual

Why oh why am I breaking out so much? I need some acne treatments. I bought some new products but it has been very stubborn lately. I feel like I’m 14 again Okey so I have to run, I’m blogging from my sister-in-law’s computer….makes me miss my mac. Yes. I am a…. *gulp* a mac snob. Sorry.

My video card in my computer went out on Sunday night, great end to my first Mother’s day huh? Oh well it’s still under warranty so it’s free to fix. Ugh just wanted to say hello really quick. Lately just have been a bit blah for me lately.

Tonight we’re heading out to the Astros game! It will be Micah’s first sporting event (not counting my sister’s ball game the other day)! The Astros haven’t been doing that wonderful lately but my mom offered us her tickets for tonights game & I’m surely not going to say no! Plus tonight is fireworks night! We’ll see how it all goes, but I’m really excited over it!

And darnit I think my little Micah is a flirt. Everytime a woman comes and talks to him he lights up, coos & smiles at them. Oh man I’m going to have a little lover boy on my hands. But thank God that won’t be for awhile. One thing I want him to learn is to respect women. I don’t know how many men have hit on me in such insulting ways, if you are interested in a woman don’t call her honey, baby, shorty, or little mama…. ugh just don’t do it. LOL No idea where this rant came from but I’m hoping that Micah will be as respectful to women as JP is.

I couldn’t decide which pictures to post… so here are a few! Click on the pictures & it will send you to my flickr account with the larger picture!