Alyssa Irene Hakes

We welcomed our newest addition Alyssa Irene Hakes to our family on Sunday June 26, 2011. She was born at 4:40 am at MMC. She weighed 8lbs 4.2oz and was 18 3/4in long. Her blood type is O Negitive. I was so ready to not be pregnant any more that I was starting to feel like asking the midwives to induce me but I was actually really happy that she picked her own birthday! We named her Irene after Josh's Grandmother. Of course we were in the hospital until the very last second trying to pick the name. That is always the hardest part. We are very much loving having her home! Trying to figure out the new level of craziness it brings! We love you baby Alyssa!

Labor Story

Last pregnancy picture, almost 39 weeks.

Here is the amount of monitering they did on me from the time I walked in til the time I delivered.

FYI: this contains my labor story so if you'd rather not read about it skip this one.

A little preface after being on bed rest for 8 weeks to prevent preterm labor, I had then been off bed rest for almost 3 weeks doing everything I could to go into labor. I must say I was getting pretty frustrated not going into labor after so long of working so hard to stay pregnant. Now I can say I've pretty much test every myth and they all get an F.
On Saturday Night/sunday morning I got up once to go to the rest room and was feeling fine and normal. About an hour later at 3:15 I got up to a huge gush of water. I was completely soaked. I called the mid wife and my mom and with in about half an hour we were on our way to the hospital. The midwife suggested that if I wasn't contracting yet, which I wasn't at first, I could just stay home to labor but I told her I was really wanting an epidural so I was going right away. We arrived at the hospital around 4 and were up in our room by 4:10 starting the long list of questions. I kept asking about the epidural and the nurse told me that as soon as we got through the questions she check me and we could go from there. We got through them and I was at a ten, she told me sorry your not getting an epidural. They called in a midwife I'd never met to deliver my baby and all the nurses rushed in. I was needing to push so they all quickly gathered around and I pushed through 1 contraction and she was here. They told Josh he got to announce the gender but I saw it and couldn't contain myself so I shouted it's a girl! We are so glad that our new baby Aylssa is here safe!

Welcome to our family baby Alyssa!

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to my sweet Hubby! He's such a great dad, and I'm always impressed about how much he cares about our kids and there well being! I love all the little things he does for them like playing on the floor and chasing them through the house or playing hide and go seek. I'm also very grateful to my wonderful dad! We also got to go see Josh's dad for Father's day!

In pregnant news, I'm still Pregnant! Can't believe it! I've been 3.5 cm dialated for 4 weeks and when they checked me on Monday I was at 4cm. I'm 38 weeks and 2 days. Almost the same as when I had Hailey (38 weeks 3 days). I'm going crazy, I've been trying everything I can think of to go into labor and nothing is happening! Good luck to me! Luckily no one stays pregnant for ever hopefully I'll be done soon! (I'll post some updated pregnant pictures soon.)

Made it

Well I made it 34 weeks. It looks like it's a miracle that I'm still pregnant. I'm 3.5 cm dialated, 90% effaced and basically the baby's head is right there. And contracting all the time. So Basicly I'm a ticking time bomb but I could go another week. If I'm anymore dialated next week they said they will just send me to the hospital. Luckily I get to deliver here now and the likely hood of my baby being fine are very good. I really am so glad to have made it at least to 34 weeks!

almost 34 weeks

I hope tomorrow to post a picture but I wanted to do a little post while I had a moment. I'm so very excited to be at 34 weeks tomorrow. I feel like I'll be able to let out a big sigh of relief. While of course I'd love to stay pregnant for another week or two I feel like getting to 34 weeks is huge! Two of the providers I've seen in that last two weeks each told me seperately that they thought I probably wouldn't stay pregnant for very many more weeks. So I kinda feel like I might be in ending stretch. (Even 2 more weeks is not very far away) My last ultrasound showed a cervical length of 1.5 cm my smallest number to date. I go back in tomorrow. Although my last FFN test done at 32 was negative so that was a very good thing for me. It means I should not deliver for at least 2 more weeks from the date done. I do really at least want to make it to Wednesday! My mom has her last day of school that day and they will have the results of my Strep B test in by then also. I really don't like taking antibiotics unnecessarily. I've been on modified bed rest or low activity orders for 5 weeks now and it has had it's up and downs. I'm so grateful to friends, family, and our wonderful ward for making it much easier. Even little phone calls, texts, and messages on FB have been so uplifting. My hubby has even done some coupon shopping for me!
I've also been wanted to document of few little fun pregnancy things. My favorite things that I've been craving are Chile Cheese fries from Sonic, Powerade, Shamrock Vanilla Milk (only at albertsons), Baskin Robbins Peanut butter and Chocolate Ice cream, and of course chocolate in general. Almost every single night I have a bowl of cereal and goodness how the heart burn has been wicked! (Same as the other two) I remember with Troy loving Chocolate cover strawberries and pickles. With Hailey i remember a lot of chocolate in general usually with a glass of milk.
I feel pretty uncertain of the baby's gender. I go back and forth all the time of what I think it will be. I'm definitely in suspense. I have a little bag with some of both items to take to the hospital so that I feel prepared. (I felt totally unprepared for Troy, didn't even have a outfit or blankets to take him home in.) I'm getting very excited for that surprise!

Updates

Katie and Joe came by for a quick visit on there way to look for a House. We are so excited to have them live a little closer. I was a lot of fun and the kids enjoyed each other pretty well. Julia and I got to be new best buds. She is a blast to talk to! I wanted to get a picture of all the cousins together but we didn't really get that coodinated. I really do wish I was better at taking pictures, I didn't really get a good one of Troy or Julia, and Harmon came over for a bit and I didn't get any of him but he did have a blast with all the cousins! It was a fun weekend!

Cousins and sisters-in-law! Does it get any better?
Last time we took a picture like this she was pregnant and I was not.
Smores by the fire, Hailey just loved loved loved this!
Hailey and Nathan playing. These two are so fun together! They have a ton of fun!

This is brand new baby Emma Leigh Kohler. Born on May 3rd, 2011. Even for being almost 2 weeks past her due date she was exactly 7lbs. Perfect size!
I also forgot to mention that about mid-April Kalli gave her home coming talk and lots of family came to visit. The Bluths, Cassi and Daphne, Grandma Hakes and Grandpa McCuistion all came for the weekend. Hailey and David had a lot of fun together. He was a little like a big brother to her, looking out for her and they had a lot of fun.

Here is Hailey with the other girl cousins, Cora and Daphne.

Still Pregnant

Here is a picture of me at 30 weeks. I've been meaning to update my blog for that long. I'll be 32 weeks tomorrow. I'm very excited to be at that mile stone and I'm really hoping to go at least 2 more weeks. This last week I feel like I've been contracting a little more despite sitting around doing nothing but my FFN tests have all be negative so far so that is huge. Also at 31 weeks my cervical length had gone down a little to 1.9. I go back in on Tuesday and will be getting another FFN test done along with an ultrasound. We are hoping for the best! Here's to 2 more weeks!