Top 10

The top 10 things I have learned so far

#10- Rocking a baby to sleep makes me sleepy also
#9- I can can sleep upright with my chin touching my chest from #10
#8- I don't need as much sleep as I thought
#7- My baby likes to go in a clean diaper and will do so sometimes within 5 min of changing him
#6- There isn't crap on tv during the day
#5- There is a crap load of infomericals on at night
#4- I can spend all day at home and not get anything done
#3- It feels sooooo good to get a shower and clean clothing on
#2- I can so many tasks very quietly, dishes, cook, and clean
#1- It is all worth it when he smiles

Early

Well,

Our little man decided to come a bit early, July 22 at 3 am I was awoke by some slight contractions, nothing that was to terribly painful and they weren't close together.  I got up to get a bite to eat and to time them just in case they came more often.  I then noticed I was "leaking"  a little.  I pulled out the What to Expect When Expecting book and read about water breaking.  It isn't always a gush, can be a slight trickle.  I wasn't completely sure if this is what was going on or not.  I tried to go back to sleep but couldn't, I didn't want to wake Sean if it was a false alarm.  I knew I would be going into work at 7 am anyhow and would get checked then. Walked in a half hour early and told my co-worker that I was going to get checked.  They tested me to see if it was truly my water breaking and sure enough it was.  I had Sean go to work and I told him I would call with the results of the test.  I wasn't having any contractions so I was hoping that I could work a few hours.  Now I don't love my job that much, we just have A LOT going on and I had A LOT to get finished before I took 12 weeks off.  Nope, I was strapped down with all kinds of monitors and wasn't going any where. 

Called Sean and the family and let them all know what was going on.  Thankfully the hospital has wifi so I could play on my ipod touch and get on the Internet and facebook.  Have to kill the time some how.  I got the epidural put in around 1100, it was great!!!!  The worst part is that now I couldn't eat any more.  I hadn't eaten much all day, guess it was the nerves.

By 1200 I still hadn't progressed that much they started me on pitocin to help move things along.  5pm still hadn't progressed that much more and his heart rate was dropping with each contraction, so they took me off the pitocin and started talking about a c-section.  I didn't want to go down that path but they want the kid out within so many hours of your water breaking to prevent infection.  8pm check and then it was time to push, 38 min later out he came.  And wow did he let out a scream.  8 pounds exactly and 20 inches long with lots of hair and blue eyes. Hayden Allen Wagner

Hard to describe the first time seeing your child, was just amazing! The next few hours were spent with family, Sean's parents, brother wife and kids, and my parents were all there.  Got some nice photos, and me in the background of my mom holding Hayden is me eating.  I was so fricking hungry. 

Now 3 weeks later we have been adjusting.  I use to love sleep, I was at least an 8 hours a night girl, now if I get 3 in a row I am happy.  He is just perfect, although I am a bit biased.  Sean took the first 2 weeks off it was so nice to have him home to help.  It is hard to believe it has been 3 weeks already.  Seems if I would have lots of time during the day but it just flies by, with the seemingly endless feeding and changing. Diaper changes are going well, it seems as if I do it 100 times a day, and I have been peed on only a few times, he got Sean good during a bath, it was pretty funny! The grandma's have been so nice to watch him for a few hours here and there so we can get out.  As for the beer I had in the fridge, it was ok.  It just didn't taste as good as I hoped it would.

As for me I am figuring out this mom thing, it seems to me that it is a gene that we have and for some of us it doesn't get turned on till we have our own child.  But as people have told me instinct kicks in and it has.

Today's photo

2 weeks to go!!!!

Well that means that technically the baby is full term and can come out any time he wants now.  Which means if he takes after Sean, late as usual.  I am always waiting for that boy, he is the one who takes the most time getting ready.  I will try and not get my hopes up for an early arrival.  I am just planning on being at least one week late.  Bags are all packed and the to do list ready before we head out the door.  I have been hearing from people on how to get things moving.  I think it will happen when it will happen regardless of what I do.  I will keep walking, but I will avoid the other crazy suggestions.   I won't go into details, just google them if you want to know. 
We did the big baby shower/party a few weeks ago.  I got so much nice stuff, I am really thankful for the friends and family I have.  I was feeling pretty good that day, running around with the other kids a bit even.  This last week though I feel as if I have another anchor attached to me.  I had one and got use to caring that around and now another.  I don't know if it is work or the weather, and my luck this whole next week is 90+ degrees and humid!  At least we have air conditioning and the lab at work is a beautiful 71 degrees at all times!

I was pretty board this weekend though, I hate spending my summer inside, I am so use getting out for a nice long bike ride on weekends, or planning some other fun work out.  At least I don't feel as guilty for watching 3 hours of Tour de France coverage like I use to.  I did manage to get out side yesterday for an hour and work in the yard a bit. I TOOK IT EASY, but it did feel good to sweat a little, like I actually did something besides get larger. 




And here I am, HUGE. 



And here is my stroller I got with the money my co-workers gave me.  It is the Bob Ironman stroller.  From what I have read on the triathlete and runners sites that this is one of the best for running.  While at Colby Cheese days (local carnival dedicated to cheese/beer/tractor pulls and brings out all the wierdos) yesterday I told Sean that next year I will run the 5k with baby. Hopefully Sean's knee is better and he can run with me.
 I had to go to get some of the best cheese curds, not those pre formed ones that are deep fried, but real curds in homemade batter.  Ohh so good, but so much grease.  I am good for another year now.

Soon! 

6 weeks to go

The weeks have been flying by!  Just over a month left to go, we have everything ready but are we ready to do this? This little guy will be done playing hide and seek soon and "ready or not here he comes" 

People have been asking me about if I have had any cravings.  I want to eat cheese burgers and fries instead of steak.  I don't want to eat blue cheese any more, and the smell of Manwich makes me sick.  Other than that no.  I just want lots of food in general. That is what gets me out of bed at 5:45 besides the urge to pee and it is light outside, I am HUNGRY.  Other things, my belly button is not sticking out yet, I have had Sean painting my toe nails and the best of all the hair on my legs has seems to stop growing.  If only that would last!

With only 6 weeks to go, I haven't had a hard time breathing yet, they say before the baby drops that they get into your diaphragm.  I have never been considered a small person so maybe he has plenty of room yet.  I feel him more on my bladder which is why I am in the bathroom 8-9 times a day and 2-3 times during the night.  It makes sleeping hard.  People say "oh but it is good practice for when the baby comes"  well you know what would be better?  Sleeping 8 full hours a night for the last month because when he comes I am sure it will be many months before that happens again! 

I can't complain too much, compared to others I have had it pretty easy.  I am not looking forward to this last month, work is going to be crazy!  We have people off on vacations, we all have to work harder and longer to get the job done.  I just can't move as fast any more, also drawing blood had gotten harder.  Trying to squeeze into the smaller ER rooms with my phlebotomy cart, and 2-3 other people sometimes is hard. Getting down on both knees draw blood, get up, I just keep telling myself I am building more leg muscles doing this.  I feel like a cat who's whiskers are not long enough.  I think I can fit though a space but I can't.  I guess my brain hasn't caught up with how big around I am yet. 

We are having a baby shower/4th of July party.  I didn't want to have any sort of party, I got out of my bridal shower but couldn't talk my way out of this one.  I did get the silly baby games thrown out.  I don't want to guess what candy bar is melted in the diaper, and I don't want to know how many squares of toilet paper it takes to go around my belly. I am happy this is a family/friends cookout party and not just a baby shower. 

I will get a photo on the next update.

Week 31

The weeks seem to be moving by faster and faster now.  We have our appointments every 2 weeks now and have had OB classes the last few weeks, guess that makes time go when you are busy.  One of the classes Labor and Delivery was a bit over whelming for me.  I knew most of what the entire process entails but really labor can last 16-18+ hours?   Longer than my Ironman's?  WTF? I am hopeful for something a little shorter, but left that class thinking an epidural is the way to go for me.  I have been told by lots of people how they did it, with and with out an epidural and why I should do it their way.  Why subject myself to more pain than I need to, I am sure if I could do it the other way, but you get your teeth numbed before getting a filling, I am sure that people could handle the pain but why. 

I got to go swimming at a local lake this weekend, somehow I squeezed into my wetsuit and that was almost as much of a work out as the swim!  It felt good to swim again, and see some of the other local triathletes.  I miss talking and training with these guys. It is going to be hard for me this summer now that tri season is starting up.  I was pretty slow, and the belly is defiantly a huge drag in the water.  I think I would float the same with out my wetsuit on. When I stopped swimming and tried to float strait up and down to clear my goggles I had a hard time keeping my bottom half off the surface of the water. 
The water was a bit chilly but thanks to my wetsuit and my "maternal stores" the baby books way of saying fat, I was plenty warm. 

Going to be a long 2 months, I hate the heat normally and now it will be worse.  I told Sean I think I will be spending lots of time in our basement where it is nice and cool. 

And when I get back into the shape I was before, I will not make fat jokes about myself again!! I will have some work to do, but can't wait to get started. 

Baby room is done!!!  We got the last little things in it, and got some diapers and other little things.  Just needs a cute little baby now.  62 more days!

Week 29

Not a whole lot going on the last few weeks.  Just getting larger and counting down the weeks till D-day.  Feels as if I have a football wedged in my stomach.  Some days it is horizontal and some days it is vertical and jabbing me in my lungs, I wonder what little body part can be so pointy, a foot or elbow.  2.5 more months of the kid getting larger and more jabbing, I hate to complain now about it, I know it will only get more and more uncomfortable.  Just makes me think those women out there that have 10+ kids are completely crazy!

This little guy is an active one.  I am suppose to be counting kicks now and trying to get 10 in an hour.  Well if I count around 8pm, I can get 10 in about 1 min.  I think he is running circles around in there, then using my kidney as a football, my bladder as a trampoline. My whole stomach just giggles back and forth, such a weird and painful feeling. 

Spring seems to be here finally, and so is race season.  I am motivated more than ever to get back into shape and start racing again.  Best of luck to all who are racing this summer. I hope to get out to a few races and spectate.

77 more days, but I am sure I will go late so hopefully no more than 84.

Week 25

Well I am nearing the last third of this journey.  We got the crib and changing table, and bedding all together.  I was not looking forward to putting the crib and table together with Sean.  We have different ways of putting stuff like that together.  I look at it as more of a puzzle and look at the photo and usually have to try a piece a few different ways before I get it right.  He reads the directions front to back, checks and rechecks the parts list and then still gets it wrong and gets frustrated.  Drives me nuts!!! By some divine intervention the power went down where he works (food plant) and since he is the manager of QC he had to help get all the product down to 40 degrees before it was too late and it all had to be thrown out.  Well that gave me the 3 hours needed to put it all together by myself.  When he came home, he said "well it is probably better this way."  I couldn't agree more. 

I am starting to get lines on my ankles where my socks sit.  I am hoping this little bit of swelling doesn't lead to the dreaded calf/ankle combo cankles!  Do I start to wear my compression running socks to prevent this?  Maybe it would look better also if we actually had some nice weather and could get some color instead of looking half dead!

Oh and I have passed Sean on the scale.  That's just great!  He eats twice as much as me and still cant gain a pound of sympathy weight.  Maybe my legs will get stronger caring all this extra weight around.  I know when I do 3 flights of stairs I am breathing heavy.  I use to run up 2 at a time on my way to draw blood in the hospital.  Now I walk up to the top, and the other day my roll of tape used to tape the gauze down, falls off my tray and rolls all the way to the bottom of the stairs!  SHIT, I don't have another on my tray so I walk all the way down and then all the way back up, and need to take a break at the top so it doesn't look like I ran 5 miles before I go and draw this guy.  That was pretty depressing.

I was this weight once before in my life and even more, just out of college.  I keep telling myself that I lost it all once before I can do it again, and that this situation is completely different than before.  I just think I shouldn't look at the scale when I go in for my appts.  It is just a darn number. 

Photos of the room. 

With the room ready for the most part, I would have to say I am getting a bit excited.  I have tried to hold back due to what happened last time.  Well the room will be complete in 14 weeks well I hope it isn't any longer than that but if the kid takes after Sean he will be a bit late.