Sunday, January 1, 2012

Ivy Mae Dearle

Well its taken me 2 weeks to post this but Graham, Hadley, and I are so happy to welcome Ivy Mae Dearle into our lives... Born December 18, 2011 @ 7:25 pm... She weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 20 inches long. She looks just like her big sister and is just as sweet! We are absoulutly in love! Hadley has been so great with her. She gets a little over zealous when loving on her and we are constantly reminding her to 'be soft', but other than that it has been a really smooth transition.

As far as labor goes, it was SOOOO much easier with Ivy than Hadley!
We got to the hospital at 3:30pm and I honestly wasn't sure if it was the real thing or not... I had been having contractions but nothing overly painful and defiantly nothing like it was with Hads... We had Hadley's birthday party at 5 so we thought we should just go get checked "just in case"! We got right in, got checked, and into a delivery room within 30 minutes... It was go time! I got the epidural and my water broken, pushed for 20 minutes and Ivy was born at 7:25pm! Everything  happened within half the time of Hadley and about a quarter of the pain! I always wanted to punch those women who said 'labor wasn't that bad' after I had Hadley, because it was so horrible with her, but after Ivy was born I honestly turned to G and said "That wasn't that bad"! hahaha. 

The first 2 nights were a little rough because Ivy had her days and nights confused and was so gas-y!!! She cried a lot and I was terrified that was going to be our lives since we had it so easy with Hadley.... Since the 2nd night it has been great! Ivy is a great baby! She is eating well (minus a spit up problem) and sleeping well! She is back to her birth weight after getting down to 7 lbs in the first few days and her jaundice levels were normal after day 4!
We have been so lucky to have G home on winter break for the last 2 weeks! He has one more week home and then reality sets in for me! I am a little nervous to have the girls home by myself but hopefully will get the hang of it quickly!!!





I will try and be better about blogging, but have never been good at it when I am home...
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years!!!