We survived...

Well, on Tuesday Abbie will be three weeks old! For the first two weeks of her life my mom, her Granmommy, was here to help us out! But last Sunday she had to head home & with a tearful goodbye we had to split ways. Eric asked me often "what are we going to do when your mom leaves?" & I replied "I don't know, but we will figure it out". I was really nervous about being on my own because it seemed like we had faced a lot of obsticles in the first two weeks. Abbie caught a cold, I had an infection in my incision which left me feeling really bad, I had an allergic reaction to the medicine for my infection, my dad got hit in the head & had to have staples and my grandmother was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. It just seemed like a lot to deal with.

Well Eric went back to work Monday morning and Abbie & I were left on our own. And I am happy to say with some trial & error we figured it out! I'm a lot more tired during the week then on the weekends because I try my hardest not to wake Eric up in the middle of the night so he can be rested for work. But on the weekends he really tries to help me out. I have always prided myself on my organizational skills & they have never come in more handy then now! Being organzied is the only way I am surviving! Call me crazy but the only way that I can remember what time I feed her last & how many wet/dirty diapers she has had is by keeping a running list on a legal pad! Life is different but every time she stares up at me, my heart melts & I could not imagine her not being in our life!

Some things I have come to realize:

• My clean & organized house will never be the same! It has been over taken with baby items & my OCD nature to have things clean and in their own place is having to take a back seat to all of this "stuff". It is a balancing act to not get overwhelmed by my need to have my house organized & realize that the most important thing is spending time with our sweet girl.
• I won't sleep through the night again until about the year 2032...when she graduates from college. I have full on Mommy hearing that awakes to the smallest squeak, sigh or skirm. But that is okay because I am learning to live on the naps I get in between feedings!
• I will never again be without laundry to do. Almost every feeding or diaper change leads to some article of clothing needing to be washed.
• No one ever told us that burping a baby was going to be an art form that will have to be perfected and still may not prove to be fruitful. We try over the sholder, sitting up then back over the sholder then back to sitting up, massaging the back and finally we might get the burp we are looking for.

I am not going to lie & say this is easy but every minute of missed sleep is worth every time her big eyes stare at you & you feel like there is no one else but you and her around. We have a long way to go from being "organized" & "scheduled" but we are getting there! And I am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband that lets me be a stay at home Mommy & take care of our precious little girl! Here are a few pictures! Now that we are catching up a little on sleep and getting things under control, it is my goal to start taking more pictures!!!

Abigail Grace...

I know I have not made a formal anouncement on my blog yet but one week ago today Abigail Grace Broberg was born!



I went at 7:30 to the hospital to be induced Monday night. There was apparently a rush of women in labor & we had to wait quite a while and did not get checked in and put in a room unitl midnight. That is when things started going not as planned! I did have a sweet nurse though, that I actually had met before because she was a Chi O at OU. They were suppose to start my induction that night with a pill & then move to Pitocin the next morning. After getting hooked up to all sorts of IV's, gadgets & monitors, the monitors reveled that I was actually contracting every 2-3 minutes. I had no idea. So, the plan was changed and the pill could no longer be used. I was then hooked up to Pitocin then instead of in the morning. After a night of painful not fun contractions my doctor came in early & broke my water. I was having horrible back labor so I opted for an epidural asap! And it was a good thing.



To make a long story short I had gone in to the hospital with high blood pressure that continued the entire time. At some point in time in the morning my contractions were not getting any stronger and Abbie's heart rate was dipping pretty low with each one. After watching the monitors for a while, the decision was made that a C-Section was going to have to be done. As my doctor put it "we can stroll back to the OR right now or we can rush back there later." Basically meaning this was the way Abbie would be coming into the world no matter what. At 11:30 the decision was made and at 12:00 p.m. Abbie was born! By 12:20 I was back in my labor & delivery room. By Thursday afternoon we were discharged & back at home adjusting to a whole new way of life!!



A lot of my pictures are on my camera that is not working with my computer right now! So I will post more pictures eventually once I get that situation worked out!!