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Big Brother Quintin


Big Brother Collin

Melody Taylor Simper
6 lbs 14 oz
20 1/2 inches long
Born December 18th, 2009

Daddy and Baby


Mommy and Baby

all done please

Contractions started again last night around 12:20 AM. They were not the cute little ones that get you excited. Everytime I had one it felt like I was being run over by a car on my back. They were every 7-12 minutes. After an hour I jumped in the shower before waking up the world (I don't want to be wrong again), packed up the suitcase again and went back to bed for more fun. They lasted until about 3 oclock but were slowly getting easier to deal with. So exhausted I went back to sleep only to have one about every half hour. Feels like a wasted night and I am not getting along with my children who decided 5:30 AM would be the opportune time to wake up this morning. Blah.............

tick tock tick tock

Went to the OB yesterday. Dialated to a 4 and had my membranes stripped (ouch) Sorry I am a wuss but that was very uncomfortable.
Spent the day with Carter and Grandma Carter making candies. Carter went up to Globe to meet with the rest of the family and I was too chicken to leave Coolidge so I did all the laundry and cleaned the kitchen (soooo tired of nesting)
No contractions happening just lots and lots of pressure. Come out baby, come out.

Heads up

For all of you poor people in the dark. Yesterday about 2:00pm I started having labor pains. They started 1 every ten minutes and dropped down to 1 every five minutes. They were strong enough to make me stop what I was doing and "concentrate." My water did not break or anything so I gave it some time. My parents got the boys around 4:15, contractions were still every 5 minutes.

We left to the hospital just in case around 4:30. Got to the hospital and contractions were back up to 9-12 minutes apart and fading :(

Nurse lady got mad at me because I suck at drinking water and long story short, I have an ugly UTI which is probably the cause of the contractions. They gave me fluids, prescription, and scolding and sent me home :(
Got to eat a wonderful dinner date with hubby, picked up kids around 9:30 PM and slept very hard when I got home.

Finals are over, papers are done.....this baby needs to come out. I need a trampoline or something. I am going to request to have membranes stripped tomorrow at the OB and we shall see if anything happens.......

The Christmas crap is up! (most of it)
Finals are this week, and term papers are due by the 15th. I hate this semester, I am glad to be done with it.
We finally wrote down some baby names for this poor little girl. Have we picked the names? No, but at least we have ideas now.
3 weeks of pregnancy left, with any luck she will be early so we have more time to recover before next semester of school.
Collin is doing great in school. Has had only one naughty day since the beginning of October and he has started to read on his own.
Quintin has finally started saying real words and when he says them, he is very proud of himself.
I am looking forward to the end of this year and starting something new and hopefully a little different than what this year was.