12.26.2009

Say Hello to My Little Friend

Oliver Tron Arnold
Born 12/18/2009 at 8:15 P.M.
9 lbs 9 oz
20.5 inches
Dark Brown Hair
Dark Blue Eyes
Tron thinks he gets all his features from me...which may or may not be true
He has sideburns which are definitely from Tron

So, I was a week and a day overdue. People kept saying that maybe the due date was off and what not. This my friends was not the case. He was just content to chill there. He was definitely overcooked. I mean come on 9.9! That's a big baby for someone who is not a big lady. They had us come in at 7:15 on the morning of the 18th. They broke my water at 8:30. I had a few little contractions, but nothing too bad. Then I got the epidural at around 10:30 or 11:00 which was AWESOME! I could move my legs and had control of them, but could feel nothing in the place that counted. Plus, getting it was not as bad as everyone makes it seem. I was horrified that they were going to stick a huge needle in my spine. When really they only use a tiny little bit of the needle. It's only long so they have a handle to control where it goes. Anyways, I was in active labor for about 4 hours, but didn't feel any of it. I mostly just slept and laughed. The nurse said I was her best patient and they could hear me from the hall and wondered what I was laughing about. (Yes, I'm very aware I have a loud laugh) After I was fully dilated they had me wait for an hour before starting to push. To give me energy, but it's not like I was doing much other than sleeping before hand. Then the pushing started and after a while the nurses changed and this nurse checks me and informs me that my bone structure is really small and that's why the pushing was taking so long. Here I was thinking oh man I must suck at this game. All in all I pushed for 2 and a half hours. He finally got there and we realized oh no I rock at this game most woman would have had to get a c- section. (which sometimes seems more appealing)

Anyhow, he's here now and we are so happy. He's so small and cute I can't help but want to squeeze him.










































12.08.2009

Feelin' Good with 2 Days Till Due Date

Tron has a final tomorrow and a paper due on Thursday, then he'll be done with the semester. Which will be great! I won't see him any more than I do now at least during the day, because he'll go straight to full time again. It will be nice to see him during the evenings without homework being done though. So, here's what we are hoping for...We have an appointment with the doctor on the due date at 3:45. We hope that we'll go in and she'll just say oh you're dilated enough let's just take him now. That way we'll have the weekend and Tron can just go back to work without missing a beat and all the finals will be done, Bonus! Things rarely work out just the way you want them to, but here's to hoping. But if he decides he's cool where he is we'll have to wait for a week after his due date before they'll start me. So, if worse comes to worse he'll be here on the 17th. ha ha please don't let him wait that long. Also, please don't let my water break at our apartment, I do not want to clean up that mess. Especially since the carpet condition is part of the deposit.

12.04.2009

I haven't posted in a while...

Because I was waiting to put the maternity pictures I had taken. The CD is in the mail, but I'm just so excited about them I thought I'd put these up from her blog (don't worry I asked her permission). Anyhow, the photographer is Marilyn Cutler and she's awesome! I just love her. For those of you from my home ward in Layton you may know her as Jeremy's wife. Anyhow, I just love her style and I have a link to her photo blog on my other blog. Check her out! I think they are fun. They were taken around the beginning of November.

Here they are:































And my personal favorite














I think she did an amazing job. I normally don't like to look at pictures of my pregnant self, but when they look like these I can totally handle it!

As for baby news: A couple weeks ago the doctor thought he'd be coming sometime this weekend, but when she checked me yesterday she thinks he's going to stay a bit longer. I'm holding strong at 90% effaced(or however you spell that) and 1 centimeter dilated. He's dropped he was at a -2, but she said he's dropped farther than that I'm not sure if he's at a -1 yet or not. So, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. I'm not too uncomfortable so it's cool. The only thing that bothers me a little are my hips, they do not like to spread or they do and are loving the pain they are causing. ha ha ha

10.12.2009

Here's the thing

Everyone says I'll miss the kicks once I've had the baby. I'm not so sure that's true. This kid never stops moving. And sometimes the kicks are so large my whole body moves from them. Maybe I will miss them, but I have a feeling that I'm going to be more like my sister in law Liz who loved feeling like her body was her own again. I can't be certain, but I think it might go that way. But I have a hard time believing anyone could miss being kicked this much. Don't get me wrong, I'm VERY happy he kicks this much. It saves me the trouble of having to count and I know he's strong and healthy. It's just so funny how much he kicks. Anything that touches my stomach for more than 2 seconds he will kick. He's not the type to shy away, you touch his area and he kicks you away. People keep asking me if I have felt him have the hiccups to which I respond I doubt I could tell if he did or not. They always say I'd be able to tell the difference between regular movements and hiccups. I told them he moves all the time and does consistent rhythms. No one believed me. But during the kidney stone business they were monitoring him, he got the hiccups. And guess what people I was right it just felt like his regular movements. The only way the nurse was able to tell the difference was because it wasn't him hitting the monitor. My favorite of his kick is when I have the laptop on my stomach and he hits it. It's so funny to me to see the laptop moving up and down. Tron pictures him being an angry little guy kicking anything that invades his space. I more picture him being annoyed that anything is coming close to making his already small space smaller. I think the best example of this is every time I suck in my stomach or flex (which isn't very much, but it's something) it feels like he puts his feet on my back and spreads out as much as he can just to get back at me.

Also, I know a lot of people who hate it when people touch their stomachs while they're pregnant. I don't care. Perhaps it's because everyone touches my stomach. Or perhaps it's because I don't really feel like it's my body anymore. And if it's not my body what do I care?

10.05.2009

The Stones

Alright kids here is what happened!

On Thursday morning I woke up, got ready, and sat down to chill. I noticed my back on the left side felt a little weird, but I thought nothing of it. My friends said to come over (they live in my same parking lot) so I grabbed something for breakfast and headed over. I was sitting there eating yogurt when the weird feeling in my back turned into a slight pain. I was wiggling to see if it'd go away, but no dice. We left to run errands, while we were doing them I stayed in the car and decided to call the doctor because the pain kept getting worse. They told me to take a warm bath, pop some pain meds, getting a heating pad, and call them in a few hours. I tell my friends and they take me home. I call Tron because he has the only pills I'm allowed to take. All the while the pain keeps growing. He gets there as I'm about to get into the bath. I take the pills, get into the tub. I call for Tron to bring me a big bowl because it's getting worse and I'm not feeling well. Just as he hands me the bowl I start throwing up. (I'm sure you love hearing that) Luckily it didn't get anywhere, but the bowl. I call the doctor after I can control myself for a minute, because obviously this isn't a pulled muscle like they were thinking. I tell them what happened and they say to go into the hospital as fast as I can.

I get up and put on pajamas and we rush to the hospital. They get me right in. But they can't give me anything until my doctor is out of a delivery. (she's the only one on call for my clinic because of UEA) The nurse was asking me questions, and trying to get me to drink something so I can give them a urine sample. The problem with that is when I drink things I throw up. So, I'm dehydrated and can't give a sample so they can find out what is it. They decide to give me an IV so they can get my fluids up, but lucky me they can't find a vein because I'm so dehydrated. The nurse finally finds one in my hand (which she says she won't be doing when I give birth and I'm glad because it does not feel good) after a lot of tapping all over my hands and arms. She gives me the fluids, but still can't give me any medicine. But they call down to the ultra sound people to get me in as soon as possible. They also put monitors on my stomach to make sure the baby is fine. He's great and just keeps kicking the monitors because that's what he does when anything touches my stomach for more than 2 seconds.

Finally, I'm able to give a sample, but they can't use it for some reason or another something about too much skin. And thank heaven the nurse is able to bust into the labor and get permission to give me medicine. Or at least I think thank heaven. They give me medicine they give women in labor that's supposed to be pretty hard core. And lucky me it does nothing, but slightly take the edge off. They keep trying that medicine for a few hours, and nothing no relief. My nurse gets permission for another drug that's supposed to be 8 times as powerful as morphine, while she's running to go get it (this one's a pill) they come to get me for the ultra sound. I tell them I'm not leaving until she's back with the medicine. She finally gets back (it felt like forever when really it was 5 minutes) I take the pill and they wheel me down. They do the ultra sound the baby looks great and his head is pushing on my bladder (which I'm sure was really helping with the pain, but luckily he was sticking to my right side and only kicking there. Or else I'm sure it would have been a lot worse) but they can't tell me anything. The lady wheels me back and the nurse comes in and tells me I have kidney stones like she thought. Oh lucky me. By this time I'm thinking ok whatever when is this pill going to kick in. It never does.

They tell me that there isn't enough fluid going through my bladder to make it move or so it looks. So, they think it might be lodged in there. They tell me I might need to get surgery to get it out. The urologist (sp?) comes in to talk to me about it. He says that he's not going to do the surgery until the next morning. And that he's going to x-ray me to see if it's passed and if it hasn't he'll do the surgery that day. So, I'm a little freaked, but am thinking just get this thing out of me. He does however give the order to give me some really heavy duty pain meds, because nothing is working, but he says to give it to me in my butt. Not as fun!

I decide maybe it's time I call my mom if they might be doing surgery. So, while the nurse goes to get the new and improved medicine Tron calls my mom. She says she's on her way. The nurse comes back, gives it to me, and all of the sudden my butt is on fire! I was like what the crap! She asks how the pain is and I just tell her I don't know my butt's on fire! I was laughing, because this is supposed to be a pain reliever and it causes pain. Anyhow, that doesn't work either. But they decide I need to eat something. They bring me some sort of meat thing and I tell them I can't eat meat. So, they bring me a salad. Which I was not in the mood to eat either because of this pain. My mom gets there finally and we're just chillin and I am just waiting for new medicine to take away the pain. A new nurse comes in and checks on me. Then gives me more medicine which doesn't take the pain away but it knocks me out. I wake up an hour or so later and the pain is gone. I was hungry so I started eating and was totally normal and happy. I went to the bathroom and turns out the pain was gone because I had passed the stone. Our friend Gabe came, he and Tron then gave me a blessing to help me be less nervous and that everything would be ok. I finished eating and the nurse said I could go home if I wanted to, but I'd have to come in just in still to get the x-ray to make sure it was gone and I thought umm no I'll just stay just in case. So, I stay they wake me up every so often to go to the bathroom and to monitor the baby. Then in the morning they said I didn't need the x-ray or the surgery because I had passed it and the pain never came back. YAY! I'm all about no surgery. So, it turns out I still have stones in my kidneys but they aren't going to worry about them unless they start moving. lovely. So that's it. I'm just hoping the epidural works on me because obviously pain meds don't. And they never have. When I got my wisdom teeth out I got a few different kinds that didn't do anything. Lucky me. Oh, but what is even better the pain killers don't work, but the I still get that lovely narcotics head ache. My fav.

10.02.2009

Figures

So, this is what I get for being bored with a normal pregnancy. I get Kidney stones! I'll tell you all about it later. I'm going shopping with mom now.

9.15.2009

I DID IT!

Today was the glucose test. I drank the drink which wasn't nasty like they said. It just tasted like a melted otter pop. But I did chill it, then had it with ice, used a straw and put the straw in the back of my throat so I couldn't really taste it. So, maybe it is as bad as everyone says. Then an hour later I went to the doctors and they took my blood. And I'm not sure if all of you know this I am HORRIFIED of needles. I freak out and cry hysterically, I can't help it I just revert back to being a 5 year old. But you should all be proud of me, I didn't cry at all! Not one tear. It's probably because I didn't wear make up preparing for the water works. I did have fast heavy breathing until the lady told me to breath normal.

After that we had the regular doctors appointment. Everything was normal. Apparently, he's a total mover. While the doctor was checking the heartbeat he kicked her 3 or more times. Now that I'm in my 3rd trimester I'm supposed to count the kicks and make sure there are at least 10 in 2 hours. Which won't be a problem there's usually 10 in 10 minutes. Anyhow, it was a good appointment and we'll see if I have diabetes. I'm sure hoping I don't.

9.10.2009

Breastfeeding Class

Today, Tron and I went to a breastfeeding class for WIC. It was interesting you might say. They used this weird boob pillow to show certain things. I'll just say it made me laugh. The instructor was very nice, but pretty weird. I don't know maybe I just thought it was all kinda weird because I think breastfeeding is kinda weird itself, who knows. But I got pretty sad because there was a girl in the class who asked about what you do when your baby can't drink your milk. The instructor asked if she meant if they were allergic or something and the girl finally just said "Well, my baby isn't going to live, it's going to die right after being born and I wanted to know what to do to dry up the milk without pain." I just sat there and couldn't believe how she was saying this without crying her eyes out. (p.s. weird instructor kept a smile on her face as she said sorry to hear that. kinda weird) I want to know why they had her go to that class in the first place, that would be so hard. Hearing about other women preparing to take care of and feed their little newborns, that poor girl. And it was their first, that would be so hard. Anyhow, breastfeeding apparently there's no drawbacks. Except your nipples drying, cracking, and FALLING OFF! (p.s. that just happened to someone I know. So, you can't say it doesn't happen)

9.07.2009

On Second Thought

I'm not sure if I'd know how to handle a shy child. I like the idea of a shy child, but I'm not sure if I could relate to one. Tron's mom was talking about his sister's son being crazy shy. To the point where he just buried his face when he was playing a game with other kids. I then got to thinking, I wouldn't know what to do for that. Because I've never really been that way. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what we get and how well I relate to the situation at hand.

Side note I started working on the rocking chair today. If I had a staple gun I'd be able to finish it today, we'll see if I get my hands on one.

9.01.2009

I've Decided I Would be a Hassle to Raise

So I really hope that this kid is like Tron and not like me. I was so wild, naked, and far too friendly. A child like me would be so hard to keep up with. ha ha ha But maybe because I still have that same energy I'd be able to do it. I just hope they are sweet and shy like my dear husband. Well, maybe one like me just not the first. Here's to hoping.

Mostly this



















Only one of this.


8.28.2009

One year and counting!

August 28th, 2008
Yay for the anniversary of paper!
He's my everything and I'm his, who could ask for more?
We're about to start our little family and I couldn't think of anyone else I would want to start it with.
If work and school would allow it I'd be a hermit and just spend all my time with him.
(that should tell you something to those of you who know me.)
He makes me want to be a better, nicer person who actually uses tact.
(the tact hasn't really happened and probably never will, but the want is there...sometimes)
He makes me feel safe and loved.
I can't sleep without him there.
He's so caring and loving with me.
One year isn't enough, here's to hoping that eternity is, because that's all we get. :)

8.25.2009

A healthy and normal pregnancy should be enough but...

So, I had another doctors appointment last week. I've noticed that doctors appointments are kind of boring. And don't get me wrong I love that they are, because that means nothing is wrong. But it would be nice if they weren't so boring about everything being perfect. For instance why don't they get really excited and give me a sucker or something? just a thought.

8.17.2009

poll

Ok kids! I would like to know what you think. The name Finley girlie or no?

8.05.2009

Ok, picture time!

So, here are the pictures of the little baby! Still no names as of yet.














There HE is.














And his Legs crossed



















Ok, Now people have been asking to see my pregnant stomach so I'll give you the before and the Now.

This picture was randomly taken a couple days before I got pregnant while I was deciding which outfit to wear.



















And here are the pictures of my stomach as of today! Swollen legs, feet, hands, and all.


















7.21.2009

The results are in!

Well Kids! It's a BOY! YAY! pictures to come later!

7.17.2009

Just some thoughts

So, we're only a few days away to finding out if everything is growing and developing the way it should also to finding out what we're having. I'm crazy excited about it. It means I get to start sewing for this little one. Pregnancy has been really easy for me, and I am very grateful for that. I guess I got my mom's good genes for easy pregnancies. I just hope I also get her genes for easy labors. My sister did, but she didn't so much get the easy pregnancy.

I won't lie to all and tell you that I'm not weirded out by pregnancy, because I am...very weirded out. ha ha ha I am not one of those ladies who thinks it's beautiful and natural. I think it's cool, very cool, but also very creepy and weird. I mean there's this thing growing inside of me and it's feeding off of me. I just start thinking of what is actually happening and it's pretty weird. I felt the baby move the other day. It was so strange it just felt like I was poked from the inside. Tron felt it later and thought it was pretty cool.

This kid is definitely his, and not just part it's all his. I don't have many cravings, but I am craving is watermelon candy. I am loving candy. And for those of you who know me know that that just doesn't happen. I'd much rather have chips. This kid is lovin' the sweet persuasion.

I'm just going to send out a warning to everyone out there. Be careful what you say to ladies who are pregnant. You have to realize that even though you mean it as a compliment we are crazy and have emotions that are out of wack at the moment. For instance, I went to cafe rio the other day and someone told me that I didn't look pregnant at all. I wanted to smack them. I was like do I just look fat to you!?!?! It's much worse when it's someone you know who says you don't look as pregnant as they thought you would. So, that's just my warning to those of you. It happens to the best of us. Anyhow, I'll let you all know what we're having and how it goes on Tuesday.

5.27.2009