Mazziotti: What now?

So Camila has been home with us for 6 days now and things are going really well. She is a pretty relaxed baby so far. She is very alert when she is awake and has very curious eyes... they are always wandering and looking at the room. Initially she was on an atrocious schedule of sleeping all day and being wide awake from 11pm until 3am and then passing out. That was fun. I woke her up often during the day to nurse and successfully switched her schedule to her falling asleep after eating at 10:30 and she then sleeps for 6 and a half hours! She wakes up at 5am and eats, then goes back to sleep. It is pretty awesome and she has followed this schedule the past two nights and right now it looks like she will follow the same one tonight, as well.

Our family welcomed Camila Claire today at 12:53pm. She weighed in at 6 pounds and 7 ounces, the same as Madison! She is 19 inches long with dark hair. She got the highest score possible on her Apgar. I will post more about her story when I have 2 hands to type with.

Talk about going out with a bang... the last thing I ate was a BBQ burrito, lol. Now I get to eat hospital food for the nest few days! Really it's not that bad at all... as long as they don't give me mushrooms or fish - ew.

So it turns out that I totally forgot to go get my blood drawn at the clinic prior to today (Jesse reminded me at 6pm yesterday, lol) so I get to go in EXTRA early to get it drawn 2 hours before the c section today. Yay! <- Not really. I didn't sleep much last night and no one in my house is even awake yet. Silly me.

Anyway, if it turns out that Cmaila is no longer breech I will post here.

Your prayers and thopughts are welcome :-) All we want is a safe procedure and a healthy baby.

As far as I can tell, by the hard skull like shape floating at the top of my abdomen, Camila is still breech. Which means that tomorrow at noon (granted, she has not turn around by then) we will be proceeding with the cesarean section we had scheduled a while back. We check in at 10am. The kids, my mom, and probably my sister as well, will all be joining us on this endeavor. My mother and Amber will entertain the kids while the procedure goes on.

I loaded the stroller into the car already today, as well as my gifts to the new big sisters. I wasn't sure if I would be bringing it but then I considered the pain it was to lug a baby in a carseat to the car, as well as all of the other items (suit case, bag, gifts, etc). I imagine if I leave it at home I will be wishing I had brought it for the travel down to the car and the loading portion, as well. The carseat clips into the stroller so we're set.

Now I just have to remember all of the other things I am going to bring with me! I got a post-postpartum girdle to aid in a speedy recovery. I have heard nothing but good things about them and this particular one got really great reviews on Amazon.com (it is by Underworks). And Bio Oil apparently helps a ton to reduce scarring so I invested in some of that, as well.

Overall, I feel like I am well prepared. However, I tried to install blinds in Camila's room today. To my disdain, it seems that the inside of the window is metal (?). I tried to put some pilot holes in the window and got absolutely nowhere. I was even armed with my drill! So that kind of stinks. We will figure it out later, I suppose. In the meantime I hope Camila doesn't mind a super bright room! Last I checked babies didn't adhere to daylight standards anyway (you know, sleep when it's night and wake when it's light).

Madison and Emilee keep saying "I can't wait until Camila is here!". I keep thinking "Wait until she's waking you up four times a night!" but realistically my kids sleep like logs. I don't think they are going to even notice the midnight feedings. We'll see!

I am excited about taking care of a baby and feeling like my life isn't cram packed with a schedule that has no leniency what-so-ever. Living in Marysville and working in Seattle will do that to you! I am really excited about seeing what color hair she has, lol. I have spent the vast majority of my pregnancy (and even pre-pregnancy!) dreaming about a little girl with blonde hair. I had one dream recently where she was wearing a hat my whole dream and I took it off and she had a head full of jet black hair. Watch her come out with a little bit of brown hair and be nothing like either of my dreams, lol.

For those of you who are unaware, we will be at Providence in Everett at the Pavilion for Women and Children. The address there is 900 Pacific Ave, Everett, Wa. Feel free to visit!! We will be there for at least 2 days.

Camila is still breech. We are okay with that, though. We had our pre-op visit yesterday and were warned about risks, etc. It will be at least a 4 week recovery, which just means that I can claim disablity for at least that long. I have been paying into my disability insurance for 3 years now - I might as well use it!

I am busy gathering all the odds and ends of convenience based items that we really don't need - like a Moby wrap, which I will hopefully get today. I also need to vacuum the nursery, clean the kids' room (I don't think it will be up to my standards unless I help, lol), and fold ALL of the laundry so I don't have to do it after Camila is here. Oh and clean the car. I should probably make a to do list.

Today is my last day at work, then hopefully (eventually!) I can transfer to another center. God didn't plan enough hours in the day for me to get an infant ready in the morning and make it to Seattle by 9am (unless I plan on getting like 6 hours a sleep a day and never spending any time with my kids). Not to mention getting her ready to LEAVE the center and then making it to the kids' daycare by 6:30 when it closes. Only time will tell - we will cross that bridge when we get to it.

In the meantime, Robin and I are going to the reannaisance festival at Volunteer Park (I have no idea where that is) on Sunday. That should be fun, I am sure the kids will find it interesting in the least!

Today we have 10 days until the c-section (Camila is still breech) and 16 days until my due date. I just packed my bag yesterday with all of the essentials that we will be taking with us to the hospital. I recently purchased a breast pump by Avent that got really great reviews, so that is exciting (in an odd way). Oh, and we officially have a dishwasher! Finally!

Camila is still breech.