Updated Garett

Now that the Birth Story is done, it is time to start updating everything else.  So here is some updated pictures of Garett from the last couple weeks.

Oh man...He is just so cute!

Birth Story

So, this is my 3rd, and LAST birth story!  I can't believe it has come this far.  Garett's Birth Story!

Wednesday, January 8th.  Happy Birthday Mike!  I had a Drs. Appt. that day and I still hadn't grown.  Dr. Christensen is starting to get worried and my fluid is not rising, so he asks me to go get a non-stress test and ultrasound to measure Garett to make sure he is still growing.

Friday, January 10th.  I go to work, normal, typical day.  My work throws a "baby shower" for me at Tucanos (Amazing food) and we talk about what I have left to do and fun stuff like that.  I finally hear from the Hospital about the Ultrasound and they have NO AVAILABLE APPTS. for Friday.  I scheduled one for Monday and called the Dr. and he says to still go get the non-stress test done.  This is all still a week before our scheduled inducement.  I leave work a half hour early to get the test done and head to the Hospital.  I check in at 3:30 get hooked up and go through all the questions and they monitor me for half hour.  I start having contractions 4 minutes apart, and they are hurting.  Garett's heart rate dips every time I have a contraction, so they monitor me for another half hour which turns into an hour.  By 5:30 the nurse came back in and said that Dr. Christensen decided it was too risky and that I needed to be admitted to have the baby.  So I was desperately trying to reach my mom because this was a week early and we didn't have anyone to watch the boys, my bags weren't packed, the boys were still at the babysitters, Mike wasn't off work yet. It was a disaster.  Mike finally got off work, picked up the boys, packed up some bags for us, and took the boys to his Cousin Felisha's house.  I got a hold of my mom and her and my dad decided that they would start the drive and stay somewhere overnight.

By 6:30 I was in a room with a gown and they had started my IV and Pitocin.  One note about the IV, the nurse started to place it in my left arm right above my wrist but the needle was too big, so she got a smaller needle and finally placed it in my left hand by my ring finger.  But when she poked me in the wrist, she hit a nerve or something and still to this day my pointer finger and thumb are numb and hurt! Super annoying still 4 weeks later!  By 8:30 Mike had finally showed up and my contractions were super close and hurting like no tomorrow.  I got the epidural and felt so much better then Dr. Christensen came to break my water to really get things going but there was no bag of waters to break he said...that is how dry I was!  Things really started moving by after that and by 11 I was throwing up and ready to push.  I pushed about 3 or 4 times and by 11:15 pm he was here.  All purple and the cord was wrapped around his neck, but he was beautiful!  I did tear a little and so that has been a little traumatic for recovery.  Garett was 7 pounds 12 ounces, 18.5 inches long and did great on his Apgar scores.  Before he was born, Dr. Christensen was talking to us about with him being 11 days early he might have to have breathing treatments with the CPAP machine as well as he might be jaundice, but he was amazing and didn't have any problems at all.  He wasn't even on the charts at all for jaundice and took pretty quick to nursing.  He only lost 5% of his birth weight when we left the hospital.  He did so amazing!

My parents were here Saturday to take care of the boys until we came home from the hospital and help for the first couple of days and my mom stayed a week with us.  This recovery was super hard and I haven't really felt like doing anything, but I have gotten through it and feel better now.  Garett is a great eater and sleeper for the most part.  He does lately have a 2 hour middle of the night awake time, but he will get through it.  We are so lucky and blessed to have him here with us and thankful that Dr. Christensen listened to the Spirit when it told him we needed to not wait the weekend to have him.

At his 2 week appointment on the 24th of January he weighted 8 pounds 4.5 ounces and was 21.25 inches long.  He is a growing boy.  He is now out of Newborn clothes and diapers and in 0-3 Month clothes and size 1 diapers.

Just had his first bath

Baby just born

Weight!

Getting ready to leave the hospital

Garett Dean Wallenberg

Introducing Garett Dean Wallenberg!

Preggo Update

We need to have another Preggers update...

I went to the Dr. last week on Monday with a little bit of a sore throat and the Dr. wanted to check my fluids.  He didn't say why but I was measuring 5 instead of 7 (where it should be) so he told me to stay hydrated.  Well, then on Tuesday (Christmas Eve) I woke up sick.  We did our Christmas Eve stuff and Christmas I woke up even worse.  I didn't eat anything on Christmas.  The day after Christmas I spend most of it in Bed but did feel a little bit better and actually ate something.  Friday I went back to work and Saturday we were busy with a Family Baptism and other fun stuff like that.  Sunday we took down Christmas (this sounds like a Christmas post, but really it isn't) and hung out getting the house cleaned and doing laundry to get ready for baby!

Today I had another appointment. I told the Dr. I hadn't stayed hydrated because I haven't been feeling good, but he didn't check my fluids.  He will next week he said.  I am dilated to 2 and 70% effaced. He said we will see if we can make it to the 17th :/  Hopefully we will!  I had the Group Strep B test today (Yuck) so we will see how that comes back.  In the meantime, we will have another 2 appointments if we make it to the 17th and that is only 18 days away!  In the homestretch!

Rantings and Ravings

I had lots of titles to this post...Thoughts of my last pregnancy...Rantings of a 36 week prego...Final thoughts on my final pregnancy...You get it, but with being sick this week and only have 3 weeks until my induction date, I felt it needed to be titled Rantings and Ravings.

This Pregnancy has kicked my butt.  I thought Greyson's was bad with testing positive for Group Strep B and having to be induced, but it was 10x better than this one.

At least I don't have Gestational Diabeties!  Pregnancy in your 30s is so much harder than in the 20s.  I don't know if it is because I already have 2 kids, and am working full time with a pretty demanding calling while taking 9 College Course Credits online that has kicked my butt, but I am struggling.

School is over for now. The Holidays are now past (which I never want to be this pregnant and/or sick during Christmas ever again!) and I am hoping we can get through the next 3 weeks going back to school and work and not getting sick before we need to get into a new normal of 3 boys!  I miss ibuprofen!  Tylenol just doesn't cut it.  I always feel like I have been kicked in the down there area.  I have gained 41 pounds so far with this pregnancy..the most I have ever gained and weighed in my life.  I am glad I am pregnant and know this baby has a plan and purpose to be here with our family, but it is hard and I am getting through it, but not very gracefully I feel like.

I am not meaning to complain, but Greyson jumping on my belly all the time and all the pain I feel will be worth it in the end, when I don't have a belly to jump on anymore and the pain is gone :)  Hopefully I can make it another 3 weeks.  I guess I don't really have a choice in the matter, he will either come before than or be forced out on January 17th!

Belly Shot

I have not been good at all this pregnancy documenting my belly.  Poor baby, his brothers have all these pictures of them in the belly and he will get like 5 or something.  Here is the latest one, 34 weeks :)

Family Update

So, I have been going to people's blogs and cursing them because they aren't being updated...and I am not even updating my own.  I should be cursing myself.  I have had a lot going on...ok!  So, I just did a Baby update, now a Family update?  Ok!

Greyson:  Has been sick for the last almost 2 weeks with a cold, cough and maybe ear infection. The Dr. says it is borderline ear infection so we are seeing until tomorrow and if he still has a fever, he will be on antibiotics.  He knows a lot of his letters now and amazes us everyday with what he knows.  He knows his colors, but sometimes struggles with them.  He is an okay eater only when he is really hungry but will put away a sucker like is it no ones business.  He is on every other day Miralax now which is great for 18 months everyday having it.  He is a great sleeper for the most part and loves his blanket and doggie to sleep with.  He is not a TV boy unless he isn't feeling good or tired and he loves anything cars, trains, planes, trucks, basically that moves.  He refuses to go to nursery. He hates his coat and cries when we put it on, even if it means we are going outside.  He is a biter, and pincher, and hitter and no matter what I do, he continues to do it to his brother.  He is in 24 Month and 2T clothes (pants and shirts) as well as size 4 diapers (still not potty trained) and size 6 shoe.

Gavin: Is still loving Preschool, he can write all his letters and write his name.  He knows all the letters and what they say and a word that starts with each letter.  He loves Christmas time...He probably should have been born at Christmas Time.  He has already sat on Santa's lap, but is still naughty sometimes and us telling him that Santa isn't coming doesn't phase him.  He is kind and patient with his brother even when his brother is mean and hurtful to him.  He loves to watch TV and likes Garfield right now.  He is in 4T clothes (Pants and Shirts) and is still doing good potty training.  He has his accidents, but I guess who doesn't?  He is so excited to get another brother and he talks about it all the time!  He sleeps great and has a thing for going to bed without socks.  He is a good eater lately for the most part.  He is starting to eat more things and try new things.

Michael: Is the Secretary in the Elders Quorum which I thought would keep him busier then the Secretary in the Sunday School Presidency, but it doesn't.  He is supposed to update Home Teaching but doesn't have a key to the church, so he can't really do that, and with Greyson not going to nursery and church during Nap time, one of us (who isn't teaching 3rd hour) is usually out in the car with him.  He is struggling at work right now, so if you have an extra prayer for him, that would be great. We are still looking at a LOT of opportunities so we will see which way the wind blows...

Me: Still pregnant, Fall semester just ended for me because I finished my last final last night. Still Beehive Adviser. Still working full time at PCS. Still not blogging...You know the usual. Just trying to get through school, raise a family, grow a baby, help pay the bills and serve the Lord all while making it look good, which I am sure it doesn't, but no one is complaining...except for me because I am done being pregnant. And this is for sure our last baby, I don't know how we are going to handle that yet, but it is being worked on as we speak, so our Family of 5 with 3 boys is as good as it gets! But I am thankful for it!

Baby Update

So, I am 34 weeks pregnant, planning to be induced on the 17th of January which gives me 5 weeks 3 days left and I feel like I haven't even said anything about this pregnancy since 20 weeks.

At 28 weeks I failed the glucose test, and had to go to the 3 hour one which was not cool at all.  I did at least get some Psychology studying done, but it was still not cool to do.  I did pass that one and everything else has been on track this pregnancy.  I have gained so far the most with this one and still going, I am at 37 lbs gained.  I only gained 30 with Gavin and 20 with Greyson.  I weight the most I have ever weighted before too.  It should be fun getting it off.

My last appt. the Dr. said he thought he weighted 5 lbs...Holy big baby...I still had 8 weeks to go then too.  Hopefully he is just being generous.  Other than that, he moves around like crazy, he will probably be another Greyson.  I will totally have my hands full!  Gavin is super excited to have another baby and Greyson knows that he isn't the baby anymore, the baby is in mom's belly and he lets you know it.  Hopefully this little guy keeps cooking and stays in until the 17th! That is when I am planning for him!

Family Pictures

So like a month ago, we went and got family pictures done.  I am finally posting them!

Dear Boys

I had to write a paper for my Psychology class and this is the one I chose.  So I decided I better post it to the blog for future:

9.2 Dear Betty or Bob: A Letter to Your Future Child(ren).  Remember that your letter should be embedded in a paper format with introduction, conclusion, reflective writing.

I already have children and a blog so really I think I write to them often on my blog, but it is not really anything specific just a recap of the things we have done as a family and it is something that I print off yearly and keep it in book form for future generations or even just for my kids and maybe their wives and kids to see one day.  It also helps me remember how my kids were as babies, what they liked and didn’t like, and fun things we have done before.

But to write them a letter about why I chose to have them and how they changed my life would be different.  Dear Gavin, Greyson and future baby boy due in January.  Really first off I am glad to be your mom.  And I am sorry for all the bad parenting decisions I have already made with you or will make in the future.  You are only 4, 2 and not even here yet and so we have a long way to go with each other.  Also, I wish you would be nicer to each other.  I know that this is something that every parent wants for their kids and maybe eventually you will get there, but right now, the fighting is killing me.  We are all we have forever (besides Grandmas and Grandpas and Aunts and Uncles and that family), and also your future family, but we need to be good and nice to each other.  We have to spend eternity with each other so let’s start making the most of it now!

You all have changed my life in so many ways.  With you I feel like my heart is walking around with you outside my body and I hope and pray for you every day that you get the best that you need and deserve out of life every day.  I know I work full-time and am not always there for you, but you are making it and learning things every day, so really you aren’t struggling too much.  Before I had you we used to say that our kids would be perfect and never do anything wrong, (story of every parent’s life) but having you changed that ideal so much and I have grown more patient because of each of you and your unique lives and personalities you have brought to our family.  I wouldn’t change anything about any of you for anything.  I love you all the way you are and for what you are and who you will become.

I hope one day you grow up, and find someone to be with to share a family with.  I haven’t really thought much at all about becoming a grandparent because I am still carrying your baby brother, but I hope one day you get to experience parenthood and all the joys and heartbreaks that come with it, because there is no way to describe it other and living it and feeling it.  I hope that being a grandparent it a little bit sweeter than being a parent.  We need to be rewarded in some way for raising you 3 little guys.

I hope you boys know how much I love you and how much me working outside the home, and going to school is really for you boys.  I need to help with our family income and would like to better myself through school for you boys.  I am sacrificing now so we will be better off later.  I cherish the times we spend together and love the things we do together.  I love everything you tell me about your day and all the kisses, snuggles and loves.  I love you boys and hope you know I am always proud of you!  Love, Mom.

Reflective: This was an emotional paper.  While I have written letters to my boys before, I guess I tried to let it all out here.  I am planning on posting this to my blog so we can have it in the future for them and they can read it in the future.  Parenthood changes everything about everything.  You aren’t alone anymore and for some people that is what they always wanted.  Others don’t want that and that is their decision but I wouldn’t trade my decision for anything.  I can’t imagine my life without my kids.  I can’t wait to see them when I get home from work every day and we plan to do fun things together on the weekends so we can spend time together and we try to cherish our time we have together.  I look forward to the future and what it will be for us.

It's A...

BOY, if you haven't already seen Facebook, Instagram or talked to me or anyone in my family...besides Gavin, because he keeps telling everyone he is having a baby sister.  Crazy Kid.  So we had the ultrasound last week and it was interesting.  She (the ultrasound tech) did things like way backwards for what we are used to.  She went through the placenta, (which is up top by the way, so super excited to not have to worry about that this pregnancy) saw where the cord was attached the placenta and the baby bell button. We looked at his heart, head, spine, lips, hands, (two!) legs and feet, (again two!) his kidneys and diaphragm.  Finally Mike got to the point where he was like, um...is it a boy or girl.  So she poked, prodded, pushed, pulled and finally the baby moved and we saw that he was a boy! Baby boy #3!  So there you have it.  He looks healthy according to the ultrasound tech, and we don't have to worry about getting more ultrasounds because my placenta is up.  No cleft pallet, he looks good. So my 20 week appointment. with the Dr. will be tomorrow (at 21 weeks) and we will find out more then.  

Belly Shot

16 weeks 4 days

Baby Update

I am now 16 weeks, 2 days prego.  It feels like I am as huge as a whale.  I am starting to wear maternity pants now because everything else is just becoming too tight and uncomfortable.  After Gavin's Arm appointment yesterday, we did a baby check up.  The Dr. asked how I was feeling and I told him tired but good and I feel like I am hungry all the time with this pregnancy.  I haven't ever had this.  I have gained 15 pounds so far this pregnancy and am at the weight I started with at Greyson's pregnancy.  I will probably hit 153 like I did at the end with both my pregnancies.  The Dr. did an ultrasound to try to find the baby gender and he couldn't really see it but said that the 3 bright lines he saw usually indicate a girl, so we aren't for positive it is and will have to wait until our big ultrasound sometime the first week of September.  Baby's heartbeat was good, I am growing and everything else is good.  I will try to get a belly shot sometime and I need to start posting those :)

Another Family Update?

Well, I don't mind if I do...  Another Family Update - I know it has only been a month, but a lot has happened.

Greyson - Still talks awesome...and is starting to make up his own words and put them into his sentences.  Crazy kid.  He does good with his ABCs and counting.  He still doesn't know colors, but we will get there. Still doesn't eat good, but will eat Sausage, Pancakes, French Toast, and any other Breakfast food you give him, but doesn't like really anything else.  He has serious stranger danger and doesn't like going to nursery, unless I am there with him.  He is still on Miralax, but what else is new?  He likes to watch Shawn the Sheep and Phineas and Ferb.  He loves to listen to music and dance to it.  He has become very independent and wants to do everything himself with no help.  All in all, he is growing and learning and we love him.

Gavin - Can't wait to go to preschool in September.  Will start Soccer next month (Hopefully).  Loves hanging out with the babysitters and doing fireworks.  We are trying to teach him how to ride a big boy bike with training wheels.  He fell off once and won't get back on.  He loves to walk around the neighborhood and go shopping with us.  He loves Sundays and going to church.  He loves his Sunbeam class and teachers. He likes to watch Phineas and Ferb and also to listen to music.  He asked for a Vacuum for Christmas so he can help clean.  Crazy kid.  He gets himself dressed everyday and in jammies every night.  We love Gavin and are so glad he is in our family.

Mike - Same old, same old.  Still working.  We are trying to come up with money to carpet our downstairs room, then we can finish it and move down there and get room for this new baby.  He has been working on the downstairs to get it organized. He is still working on deciding what he is doing with the Military and what he is going to do about getting an A&P License.  Still doing monthly drill weekends.

Me - I got moved from Mia Maids to Beehives.  I miss the Mia Maids, but Beehives are so much less dramatic (So far ) :)  Of Course...Pregnant.  14 weeks 2 days today.  Still feeling sick and tired all the time.  I don't eat very well because all the crappy food is what sounds good.   Still working like mad, and getting ready to start Fall semester with 13 credit hours.  I will be going crazy come September.  Pregnant, 2 kids, Husband, Full time job, going to school full time, calling...

Other than that, we are trying to sell some more stuff and make some more room for all the baby stuff we already got rid of to be ready for the new baby.   Everything is going good and we are surviving.  Love you all!

Pregnant Girl Problems

Before I even told anyone at work that I was pregnant, I bought all this stuff for lunch one day.  I am surprised they didn't realize.  I have seriously been so hungry all the time this pregnancy!  I had to take a picture of what I was buying...

Baby #3

*WARNING, this post contains TMI*

I know, I know.  It has been said and written here on the blog that we are done having kids and two was good and enough for us...

Let me set the stage for you:

January 2013!  We go out to Lunch with Mike's mom for his birthday.  We are talking about heirlooms and I said to her, that I wouldn't have a daughter to pass on something that she wanted to pass on to me, but that maybe I could give it to one of my son's wives or something to pass it on, and my Mother-in-Law said, "you never know, you could still have a girl."  And while she was saying that I was thinking, no, I won't have a girl because we are done having kids.  Then on Sunday at church in our class I was holding my friends little girl while she was getting some stuff out of her bags, and Mike was having a field day with her, playing with her and loving on her.  That night our friends came over to the house to bring us cookies, and Mike got out their little girl and was cooing her and playing with her and my friend said something about "Maybe you will have a girl next," and Mike was like, you never know.  And again, I am thinking, what is going on here? We are done having kids....  Then on Monday I went to work and my coworker started asking me questions about am I sad that my baby is almost 2, and how they lose that baby smell and that triggers something in the parents about wanting a new baby.  I told her I was okay, and that we had decided we were done.  After that conversation, I decided it was time to talk to Mike about it.  Where was all this baby talk coming from? We talked and he said he thought there was another baby up there for us.  I was shocked.  We had sold a lot of our baby stuff!  So we decided to take a couple days and decide if this was what we both wanted.  We then decided I needed to get my IUD out.  The day that I got my IUD out, there was a lot of mixed emotions.  Mike and I were both freaking out.  I was freaking out so bad, my Dr. even said he wouldn't take it out because he was worried I was freaking out.  Well, I got it out.  We then decided that we would protect and go from there.  If I hadn't gotten pregnant by the time I turned 31 we would go get the IUD back in and call it good.  In February we even decided that we weren't going to try, we put so much pressure on ourselves and we both just felt so much better letting it go.  We went to the Temple in February to see if we could get an answer, but neither of us received anything, so we just moved on with life.

Fast forward to April, I haven't started yet, and since I got my IUD out I had been regular.  I bought a Pregnancy test but Mike kept saying, you are fine, we are not pregnant, you are going to start next week.  Sure enough I did start the next week.  Then May comes.  I still have the unused pregnancy test and it is in the back of my mind.  I though I was supposed to start on the 21st of May, but upon further examination I should have started on the 14th.  I thought that I wouldn't take the test until June 1st to give my body plenty of time to start, but I was having all these weird things happen...My stomach was bloated feeling, I was nauseated, my cravings have been crazy, having to pee all the time, just all these crazy things happening.  So, just out of the blue on Thursday the 23rd I decided to use that pregnancy test and see what happens.  It was a + - one and it literally changed right to +.  So then the real freak out begun.  We took another pregnancy test on Friday (A digital one) and of course it came up (Pregnant!).  So here we are.  Pregnant with baby #3.  I guess we are ready for another wild ride on this journey!