Top 10 List

As the date gets nearer for little Weston to make his big debut, I have started to get the labor jitters. It's not that I didn't have a great labor and delivery with Stella, because it did go great. I think it is because of all the horror stories I hear from everyone else and how "they" say no two labors will never be the same.

Here is my top 10 list of concerns that have been floating around in my head:

1. Healthy Baby- my biggest prayer is for a healthy baby boy. That's it. As long as he is healthy and makes it into this world safely, Mike and I can take care of the rest.

2. Healthy Mommy- I know that the risk is low, but a part of me gets so scared that something will happen to me during the pregnancy and I won't be there to see my children grow up. Again, prayers are the best remedy for this fear because I know that God will take care of me and my baby.

3. C-Section- This wouldn't be so bad because I know plenty of people who have had one. I am just a little nervous about the procedure and being put under since I have never had any major surgeries before.

4. Complications with the placenta- When Stella was born, I had trouble delivering the placenta and the cord snapped. I am praying that everything will go smoothly in this department. Again I do not want to have any surgeries.

5. Tearing! With Stella, I had a tear but not the common perineal tear but a labial tear, which was a painful recovery. I am freaking out about being ripped from one end to the other and it is not a pleasent thought at all!

6. Poop- yes I am literally afraid of shitting myself during labor! I know it is practically normal but what do I do if I make a mess all over the baby. Ahhh!

7. Breastfeeding- Again, this department was pretty good for me except for the fact that I got mastitis and suffered some serious swollen boobs. Along came the fever, the chills and the large lumps in my breasts that took a lot of massaging and anitbiotics to get rid of. I am not looking forward to the chapped or blistered nipples either. Hopefully I won't have either.

8. Pads and mesh undies- You know when you have a heavy period and you think "I might just have to wear a liner today with my tampon, just for the extra protection." Yeah, no tampons allowed after having a baby. Just super huge pads. These are the kind of pads that your Grandma would wear for her incontinence. And not only are they the super huge grandma pads where you think they will last a little while, no, they have to be changed almost hourly. And to make the deal even sweeter, they give you these lovely little mesh undies which don't hide your huge grandma pads at all or your new recently aquired huge ass.

9. Pee Bottle- This would be the little bottle that they give you to squirt yourself with while going pee. Thank God for this bottle because it would hurt like hell otherwise, but just the thought of having to use this bottle again makes me shiver.

10. No Sex! Self Explanatory Except who is really thinking about having sex after just having a baby except for a horny husband. :)

Cascade Falls

Last weekend we had our annual July family pictures taken down at Cascade Falls in Osceola.

Becky Walstead with TellaStoryPhotography did an awesome job! If you want to see more photos or enlargements, just visit her website at www.tellastoryphotography.com and go under clients. From there our password is DM628. We can order pictures up until July 28th so let me know if there are any you are interested in!

Here are a couple family and belly shots.

Stella was such a cutie and loved the waterfall. She was just in awe by everything around her and we got so many great pictures. I loved that Becky did so many candid shots because it made the pictures turn out 10x better than I thought.

These are a few of my favorites! She took over 200 pictures overall and then she narrowed it down to her top 80 for editing. Now we just need to narrow it down to our top favorite 25 pictures. They were all amazing and it is going to be really hard to decide which ones to pick!