Two Weeks!!

preslie is already 2 weeks old... and we are loving every minute of having her in our home! the girls and i can't get enough of her and he daddy loves to cuddle with her every night. it is so different for me, since i had a csection i have to stay down a lot more... this is a huge adjustment because i am such a go go go person. but it has been so nice to get to sit in my chair and cuddle with her and read a book. i love it. i wouldn't change those sleepless nights for anything because i just hold her and she just stares at me and is so calm.

she is doing better with sleeping though. this week she has had a couple 5 hour stretches and they have been wonderful! she LOVES her binki. she loves her sisters. she has had one fairly big adventure being carried across the room by shaylie. she rarely cries. she wailed at her 2 week appointment getting her PKU. she hasn't lost any hair yet... hoping somehow she can keep it! she is perfect... really she is!

Daddy Daughter Date at Beauty and the Best at Capital Theatre. Mylie LOVED it!!!

Movie Night for the girls that stayed home!

2 Weeks Old!!!

Meeting Great Grandma and Grandpa Mann

LOVES the sink baths!!

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weight: 8 lbs 2 oz

Height: 21 inches

30th!!!

Chris turned 30!!! since i am still down and out we kept it very simple this year. chris went to work and for the first time in our married life i didn't go to his work to give him lunch... it was sooooooo sad!!! but when he came home we had a surprise waiting for him here. we had 30 friends and family write a note to him or memories and i attached them to 30 balloons. he loved them. then we got him some shoes and cologne. like i said, super simple but i think memorable. we went to get preslie her newborn pictures that night and then went to my parents because my mom made chris his favorite dish...and i made an eclair cake for him.

week one...

well since the majority of her first week of life was spent in the hospital it was kinda boring...so this is the week that we have been home. i have been adjusting, and it has been a very different experience for me. anyone who knows me knows that i am not a person that asks for help alot and sometimes want to be superwoman and do everything by myself. well that had to be changed, because i couldn't do it on my own.

even though the doctors let me come home wednesday they made me promise that i would have help and get some naps in as well. well in came my mom and she took over. (dad too) they have been soooooooo good to me and my girls and helping anyway they can. it took me a couple days to even be able to get myself upstairs without wearing myself out. the hardest thing was at first when i would get up 12 times a night with preslie and it took me 3 minutes at least to get myself out of bed.

another hard thing is not being able to clean my house. chris took over the first couple days we were home and help soooooo much with the cleaning, laundry, the kids. there was a day i was laying on my bed with shay watching tv, i dosed off for what felt like only a minute only to find shay still sitting next to me already bathed and her hair blown dry and beautiful. my husband is awesome.

so as of now, i am feeling a whole lot better but definitely not where i want to be. patience is not an easy thing for me. preslie is a gem. she is such a great baby. she hardly cries. she loves to eat. she doesn't mind being malled by the girls. she is still so tiny. her hips look better to me, but we still don't know anything. she sleeps a lot and is adjusting to sleeping at night.

she is a huge blessing in our lives and we all adore her.

Great Grandma Dora...Her 97th great grandchild while she was 97 years old!!!

Introducing Preslie

Birth Story...LONG

this pregnancy has been a whirlwind!!! it started so differently then the other girls. i wasn't very sick at first, at 16 weeks we were beyond shocked that it was another girl, at 8-20ish weeks i had a lot of cramping and didn't think that was very normal, at 20 weeks is when they first noticed she was breech, at 30 weeks for my 3d ultrasound she was still breech, at 32 they thought she had flipped, at 35 weeks they ultrasounded her to see she was STILL breech, and right up until the very end...she was STILL breech! i tried EVERYTHING!!! i did acupuncture, i did chiropractic adjustments, i did all the crazy home remedies trying to get her to flip...but lets just say she was VERY comfortable!!! me on the other hand was very uncomfortable. i thought i was a wuss, but was told by my doctor that breech babies are harder to carry... i had many sleepless nights just laying awake not knowing what would happen. i always knew that a c-section was the worst case scenario and even that wasn't that bad...but it was still the unknown.

well the day finally came, my doctor Ollerton was going to be out of town the week I was to have the baby so he suggested that we induce on Sunday the 11th before he was to leave town. so the day came. we were scheduled to go in at 12:00pm and so we decided to go to church before the hospital. we just went to sacrament so we had time to get the girls to Jenn's before we headed out. so we walked into labor and delivery and were greeted by some great nurses. krista was the nurse assigned to us and she was amazing. it took them almost a full hour and a half to place the IV because my veins kept collapsing. the crna was close behind the IV's and Kevin came to place my epidural. he was kinda a dry guy but he explained everything in detail to chris while he was doing the epidural.

so after 10 minutes of getting numb, in came Dr.'s Ollerton and Aagard. they tried the version and only after 5 minutes knew she was not going to budge. there was definitely not a lack of trying because i ended up with indian burns and nail marks on my stomach of how hard they were trying. babies heart dropped a little and immediately bounced back. within minutes they handed chris his awesome suit and my awesome hair net and we were headed to the OR.

the OR was so surreal. i kept thinking to myself that this wasn't as scary as i thought and that it was so relaxed in there. krista and heather, my nurses, were singing to no doubt and it was just comfortable. Ollerton did the surgery and Aagard assisted. we just all chatted and i laughed just about the whole time. kevin, my dry CRNA, turned out to be my best friend. he just sat behind me explaining to chris and i what was happening and the layers and just every detail about the surgery. we all joked around and within a few minutes Preslie was born. She was born at 2:12pm and immediately starting crying when she came out. she weighed it at 7 lbs 9 ounces and 18.5 inches long.

chris headed over to the other side of the room to be with baby and i was there being sewn back together. kevin put his hand on my cheek as to calm my nerves a little and continued to tell me what was happening. i just wanted to see my little girl and it felt like forever before i got to see her. she was perfect... they came and put her in my arms and she immediately stopped crying and we were together. it wasn't long before i was put back together and being wheeled back to my recovery room. mom, dad, and nancy were all there waiting for my arrival. they said they could hear me laughing the whole surgery and knew everything was ok.

in recovery i was definitely in shock and couldn't stop shaking. i felt ok and was just relieved that she was here and very healthy. chris came back to the room and we waiting until they were ready to take me to my room. a lot of what happened after that is a blur because i felt crazy. they brought Preslie to me and she was all clean and i noticed she had a TON of hair and looked just like her sisters. i wasn't allowed to eat anything but clear liquids.

we had Jenn bring the girls to meet their sister, but we were very careful because mylie had a bad cough and shaylie was just getting over hers. so they wore masks and only stayed for 15 minutes. that had to be the hardest part for me was to watch mylie as she wanted so bad to be there for me because i was sick and she couldn't stay to help me. she cried. i cried. and it was so sad. i said goodbye, but didn't realized it would be 3 more days until i saw her again. grammy and papa took very good care of my girls and nursed them back to health while i was gone. we skyped, but it wasn't the same. i cried every time i hung up because they both cried when they saw me.

we had a lot of visitors the first day, but again i don't remember much. i remember that i was in pain and itching terribly. i never realized how much you do with your core muscles until they are cut into and not easy to use for a while. chris was awesome as always. he took care of me and Preslie and was there for us. my sweet friends came to see me throughout the next couple days and it was great to see people from the outside world. i go stir crazy in the hospital and this was going to be a long stay. i would walk the halls, read, watch tv, sleep, and enjoy my visitors when they came.

so back to Preslie. since she was breech the pediatrician ordered an ultrasound of her hips because he thinks the right hip is out. so we will follow up with that this week. other than that i had nothing to worry about...she is/was perfect. she didn't hardly make a sound the days we were there. the nurses would bring her to me and just say how cute she was or that she was their cuddle buddy that night. she is so sweet and rarely cries. she grunts a lot, but no cries.

she loves her binky and has since the start. she is a great eater and helped my milk to come in after only 2 days...not exciting!! we love her!!!

we were finally let out of the hospital Wednesday. i was so relieved they let me go. naomi, my 70+ year old nurse helped me on the first day 2nd day and 4th day. i loved her. i had another great nurse carolyn probably in her 50's and loved her too! i was so ready to come home. when they told me i couldn't vacuum for 4 weeks, they thought I would like the sound of that...i cried! haha i was so anxious to see my girls... they finally came about 3 hours we got home and i just sat and loved them.

whirlwind..i think so. but in the end everything is perfect and it turned out the way it was supposed to. there are so many reasons why she could have not turned and i am ok knowing that somebody else was in charge and she got here healthy and that is what matters.

we love her!!!