Birthday!

The story is actually very long and detailed, but would take me days to type it all up. So if you want the real thing we can chat.
Basically my body wouldn't dilate and I was at an almost 1cm for 4 weeks or so. My doctor thought that an induction would be best since we were over 41 weeks, almost to 42. They don't like you to go much further than that because of safety of the baby.

 July 19-Scheduled our induction for the 21st at 7:00am
Saturday July-21 6:00am- wake up really early to get ready, while in the shower the nurse from the hospital calls and says there isn't a bed available and to call back around noon. Nels' parents were in town, and mine were on a plane heading this way.  So I picked up my mother in law and headed to the airport to get the parents. We were going to go waste some time at the farmers market. (of course Nels and his dad didn't want to go so they stayed at the hotel and hung out)

• 12pm- call the hospital, they have a bed!! Yay! We leave the farmers market excited to get this show on the road. Call Nels to tell him to meet us at the hospital.

• 12:45 arrive at the hospital, get all ready, lay in bed and wait for Nels to arrive. Meanwhile getting an IV put in. OUCH!! Nels arrives. 

• 3:00pm they put in a drug called cervidel. It is put near your cervix in hopes to help dilate you from a 1 to a 3. It is in for 12 hours at that time they take it out and start pitocin.  Fast forward 12hours later.

Sunday July 22 3:00am  they check me. I've progressed from a almost 1 to a 1.5. Not what is supposed to happen. Most women actually progress when on this drug.

• 6:00am start pitocin. Which they come in every half hour and up the dosage. 
•  10:00am I guess we decided to get an epidural. I actually didn't tell them I wanted one yet, I wasn't in pain yet contraction-wise, just bum-wise :) My bottom hurt so badly from sitting in one position for so long. 

Anesthesiologist comes in to give me the epidural. Screws up and it doesn't work.(again ask for details if your curious) Nels goes and gets them to come back. It instantly works! Hallelujah! Now we wait.
Meanwhile they check me for any signs of progression every so often. I have dilated to a 2. By this time I am a wreck and can't handle waiting anymore. I hurt from sitting in one place and was frustrated  since I was going nowhere in the dilation area.

• 4:30pm doctor checks me and says that my bag is bulging (his words not mine) He walks out of the room and I feel a gush. I tell Nels and he gets a nurse to come check. She checks me and my water has indeed broke. Also the baby had a little poopy so now they have to watch that closer. 

• 9:00pm they check me and I have dilated to a 2.5 by now. I'm so frustrated, uncomfortable, and just tired that I have Nels call our parents to come back to the hospital to help give me a blessing. I got my blessing and instantly felt peace. In the blessing though I remember distinctly Nels saying this was not easy and wasn't going to get easier, but that I would be able to stay strong and have peace.

•  11:00 they gave me some pain med that makes you sleepy, but the more you take it the quicker it wears off, I had already had it a few times, but Since I didn't sleep the night before that was just what I needed.

 They checked on me all through the night, but I was able to just go back to sleep each time I was woken up. 

Monday July 23

• 6:00am The nurse checks me. I haven't dilated a bit!!! Still at 2.5cm. So frustrating, but I was calm and at peace and felt that I could wait longer. Nels and I talked about our options at that point, yet again. We decided that we would see if I could progress at all and if not then we would go ahead with the C-section.

• 10:00am. They check me again and I am still at a 2.5. We called the parents and told them to get to the hospital, because we were going to go ahead with the c-section.  They were 20 minutes away from the hospital and the doctors were ready to start.

I'm not sure of the time, but it was fast! They wheeled me into the O.R and Cordelia was born at 11:16 am July 23,2012. It was an amazing feeling of instantly falling in love with her. 

We ended up having to stay in the hospital for a few extra days because every time they would get close to discharging me I would spike a fever. Then right as twenty four hours of fever free it would spike again. So they had me on heavy antibiotics to make sure there was no infections from the surgery.  We finally were able to come home on Thursday the 26th.

Pregnancy

Well the baby is here, but I do want remember what I looked like to be large with child. So these are just for my own sake, and so they are saved somewhere else rather than my phone taking up storage space. The tail end of pregnancy was the easiest for me, besides the waiting game. I stopped being as sick, I felt pregnant instead of just fat, and I loved feeling her move. These pictures are not flattering, and now seeing them I was HUGE!!! If only I would have known that before posting them on facebook.

Newest addition

The newest addition to the Johnson Family is a 2000 Chevrolet 2500.  Nels and I have been talking about the need for a second vehicle. We have had his dad's 1971 Ranchero, but that is being sent back, sadly for LaVarr (younger brother) to learn to drive on. Nels has loved having the Ranchero.
     When the truck came into his view he had to have it. It helped that it was a good price, in great condition and what we need it for it will work. Getting used to the gas prices of a truck unfortunately are not as easy to get used to. Yikes!!! Luckily it is just our secondary vehicle and only used for short distances and when the corolla isn't available.
     This weekend we packed up the back of the truck with pillows, blankets, our love sac, and headed to the drive in. It was so much fun! We got a great, comfy view and I got a few hours of uninterupted snuggling. Which I'm a sucker for. :) I figure the days of snuggling are going to be few and far between fairly soon so i'll take what I can get.
     Have I told you how much Nels loves this truck? He is like a giddy school boy in it. If he's talking about it, he's smiling, if he's riding in it, he's telling me "we're truck people now honey." If I didn't know he loved me I might be slightly jealous of his love for this truck.

     

The best three years!

This last weekend we decided to take off on a little road trip for our anniversary/getaway before the little bambina arrives.
We started down to Solvang Friday night after work, we got in really late. We crashed and then spent Saturday at the beach walking through the sand looking for tidepools and just enjoying warmer water and the sunshine. It was fantastic!!! We ended up sitting on some rocks by "the point" and just watching the surfers catch some rather small and unimpressive waves. It was pretty entertaining though because we spent almost 3 hours doing this.
The next morning we headed to Victorville, one of the armpits of California in my opinion. :) Nels has a mission companion that lives down there with his little family and they were blessing their 3rd baby and had invited us to come down. We stayed at their house for the day and then headed off on our drive back home. Which we decided to split into a two day trip.
We ended up just making in time for one of the passes through Yosemite opening!! I have only been to Yosemite once, but LOVE it there and would gladly take any visitors for a trip there if you come visit us! Inccentive? I hope so! If Yosemite doesn't thrill you then at least the chance of seeing a real life wild BEAR should!!! Which is just what we saw! He was just walking around sniffing the grass. Happy as can be.
We then continued on our way home. It was such a great few days. I love spending time with my Nelsie, and getting to go on a real roadtrip with just the two of us was the best. Especially because that was one of the first things I fell in love with about him. His sense of adventure and love for the road and driving. Nels is the perfect man for me, he knows me better than anyone ever could. After three years he still makes my heart go pitter patter.

I love you Nels!!

Looks like we've made it!!!!

           I don't really have anything new to say, but that we've made it to 30 weeks!!!! This feels like such an accomplishment, yet at the same time a little anti-climactic. 30 weeks is almost ther, but yet still 10 weeks away. I keep reminding myself that it could be longer or shorter than 10 weeks and that is both exciting and terrifying at the same time. I'm ready to see her, hold her, cuddle her, feed, diaper, rock her to sleep, and all that other fun, and not so fun stuff. Then I look at what we still need to get for her, newborn clothes, blankets, binkies, and such and then I realize we're not ready at all.
           Also can I just say I wanted an October baby, but now that I'm getting a July baby and the heat is coming a little quicker than I had planned, I am more than pleased to be having a July baby. I sweat I am sweating like a sinner in church most of my day. I breathe and I get uncomfortable hot. I have a fan blowing on me in my air conditioned office at work, and I'm still warm. I don't know what I would do if I had to be hugely pregnant in August and September. So to you, my little perfect surprise baby, Thank you, I couldn't be more grateful we are getting you when we get you.

27w 5days

Baby girl is definitely growing, her kicks are very noticable now and my stomach is no longer "suck-in-able." (Not that it was before)
We are getting more and more anxious for her to be here! My body is starting to feel the aches and pains of carrying a baby and I'm getting a little bit more uncomfortable. We are actually now at 28 weeks 3 days. Getting so close, yet so far.
We are slowly, but surely getting things ready/bought for her. Actually we haven't bought much, everyone has been very nice and given us hand me downs. We finally have a place for her to sleep. A friend gave me her old bassinet, so she won't have to sleep in a dresser drawer or laundry basket!!!

We had our first baby shower and were spoiled rotten. Baby girl is going to be one chic dresser. We were down in Solvang for the weekend and let me tell you those ladies were very generous! We got a stroller car seat combo, can I tell you how real that makes this feel? I mean I know were having a baby, but it feels way more real when you finally realize she will be wearing these things, wrapped in these blankets, and sitting in that stroller. CRAZY!!!