So tiny.

How funny! Everyone keeps saying how small Sydney is. She just looks normal size to me, until I see a picture of someone's head or hands next to her. Even then I don't think she's small. I automatically think , "Jeez, I've got an enormous head!"

Thus the beginning thoughts of yet another parent whose child can do or say no wrong. I even can say 'her poop don't stink', truthfully!

Pictures and updates

Well,

Between interruptions and other responsibilities (changing, feeding, etc.), it's only taken me (Shawn) 4 hours to make this post. Granted, I cherished and enjoyed every interruption!

Here's some pics and info for you:

Here's another pic of her with her beautiful eyes open:

Here's a pic of all 3 of us:















Here's a pic of (newly) Grandpa Ross holding Sydney:




















Here's a nice close-up pic to give you some perspective:
















Here's Sydney saying "wow, who are you?":















Here's a pic of the 2 leading women in my life:















Keep checking our blog, because I may be able to cut some video together later!

Thanks for everyone who prayed for this bundle of joy, Michelle, or I during the process of Sydney coming to us.

Pics set 1

Here's a couple pics of our new bundle of joy for your perusal:

Sydney Grace not long after birth: (that's Shawn's finger being squeezed by her hand)














Another pic of her squeezing Shawn's finger:















Last shot of her doing her daily stretching exercises!:

And three makes a family!

Soooo, how a perfect little angel graced our family.....

I started having contractions at 7am, oh, on Sunday morning. This is not counting the contractions I had saturday night from 6pm to 5am. So the Sunday 'wuss' contractions kept going and going every ten minutes or so during the day, through walking the mall and watching TV. During Happy Gilmore I was bouncing on the birth ball, walking the stairs, and eating like, fifteen mozzerella cheese sticks. The next hour, during Battlestar Galactica, the contractions got really bad and I cried like crazy over Lee and Dee's marital problems. Then Shawn said, "We should either go to bed and sleep or go to the hospital." so I promptly produced a bunch of barf and bloody show (TMI, hee hee) and decided we were going to the hospital. So much for the cheesesticks!

We take a twenty minute bumpy ride to the hospital, bumps negated by lamaze breathing techniques, thank you very much! Lauren, our doula met us at the ER. Walked up to the baby floor and found out I hadn't dialated anything since my check-up last week. Two lousy centimeters! Stink! So I was sent home with Perkaset and Ambien to sleep through the night. My stomach and uterus now felt like a big bruise from contracting for twenty four hours. Lauren came home with us, and a good thing too! The sleeping pill and the narcotic served to loosen up my cervix to four centimeters in one hour. Whammo! Did that hurt.

So back again to the hospital at four thirty in the morning on a bumpy road, and no lamaze breathing techniques were really helping this ride! We popped back into the old room from eleven pm. and called an anesthesiologist PRONTO. He was actually at the hospital and came in within about ten minutes. Meanwhile, Shawn was doing an awesome job keeping me sane by counting to four within two inches of my face. He said later that I was exhaling so hard I was drying out his eyeballs... and my breath wasn't so nice. But that's what love is all about!

So I recieved the epidural during contracting, which was kind of nice because I didn't notice this huge needle gong into my spine. I was too busy blowing on my husband's eyeballs.

So within an hour I was seven centimeters and within two I was fully dialated. Alisha had arrived for photographing the birth. Dr. Voegtle came to break my water and got the junk all over her street pants. Woops! While she went to change into scrubs, Sydney crowned and within ten minutes popped out. Whoopee!

Success!!!!

Well, the next queen of the Ross household has arrived!

Sydney Grace Ross came to us on Monday, January 29th at 10:31AM CST.
She weighed in at 6 lbs., 9 oz., and is 19 inches long.
She has beautiful black hair with possibly some blonde mixed in. Pictures to come!

Edit: I changed the birth month to the correct month (January). I mistakenly put it in as September originally (in my half-awake state).

Progression...

Well, we arrived back at the hospital @ 5am, and it's now 7:35am. Sydney will be making an appearance soon! For all of my geekiness, I have no clue what all this medical stuff is. It's truly amazing...

Well, we arrived at the hospital tonight, planning on having the latest member of the Ross clan show up. So far, we're hoping and praying that she comes soon!

Count this as another rantable post in the "start labor now" category...

Get Outta There!!!

Warning: Rant!

Can I just say that being pregnant is getting really old. Can I just tell you the things I have tried in the past 48 hours that have NOT sent me into labor?

*Eggplant Parmesan*
*Walking Three Miles*
*Bouncing on the Birth Ball*
*Pressure Points*
*Doing Married People things*

Can I just say that those have not worked. At all. And I have had little stupid contractions for two days that are just wuss contractions. Aaaarg! What's the deal?