Synchronization of Us

Today has just been one of those days……..

It started off just fine, we had a lovely morning and the girls and i had fun dancing along to American Idol before nap time. They both napped well and i had a lovely bath in fact i had
to wake both of them up as we were going out and that’s when the trouble started.

I hate using the double buggy for the girls, its big and heavy and basically a pain in the butt . If I’m going out with DH or my sister we normally take two single prams but today i was meeting my sister at hers so we couldn’t take single prams . Of course i came up with a wonderful solution just take Rebecca in her pram and Eilidh in the sling, then once down the shopping centre Rebecca can walk and Eilidh in the pram.
To start with i guess it would help if i knew what i was doing with the sling and although i think i got the positioning correct i still did not feel Eilidh was 100% safe and didn’t like taken my hands off her. So i pushed the pram one handed to my sisters , then walked the rest of the way terrified of her falling out .
Once at the shopping centre we made the swap , Eilidh seemed to love being in Rebecca pram and was so happy in it but Rebecca was being very annoying and refusing to walk and wanting carried. She would go down and walk a little but would try to crawl and at spots lay down on her belly and pretended to swim ………….toddlers…………
My dad was suppose to pick us up but couldn’t make it so i had to get a taxi home with the two girls and just me, Eilidh in the sling again on my lap and Rebecca in her pram . I hate them not being in car seats and was terrified of something happening.

Then came the dinner disaster, we got home i fed Eilidh then started making dinner but Eilidh was just not happy - she was tired having missed her afternoon nap and screamed the entire time. Rebecca was being so sweet trying to help but in the end she was miserable to , crying and getting in the way. I was making Chicken Omelet dippers with potato salad but after making one omelet decided to just feed Rebecca and get Eilidh down , my dinner could wait (although i was famished). I gave Rebecca hers and let her eat it in watching tv , something i never do so i could bath Eilidh and get her down.
Rebecca was eating happily so i made mine, completely messing up the potato salad and destroying the kitchen DH had only cleaned about an hour before.

Rebecca’s bath was no better, she normally loves it but cried the entire time and finished it with a nice big poo . I guess im just grateful both kids go to bed at 7 as i just needed a break by then, its now 7.32 and both are sound .

Laura

Normally once a month my sister and i take our girls to visit their great gran. Its something i really enjoy doing, its the only grandparent my sister and i have now and we just adore her.

I guess i also really enjoy showing my girls off and i really want them to get to know there great gran , i know she enjoys the visits to and appartley likes to brag to her friends about us coming up.

It was such a nice day today that we walked down , we stopped to get drinks along the way but for some reason my bank card was not there and my neice was moaning about needing a drink. I only had 42p on me and the cheapest drink was 43p , i went searching under the prams for money and found a drink of Courtneys from months ago - it was unopened and still in date so we let her have it. Lets hope it was ok.

My gran enjoyed seeing the girls and we took some photos , she also measured the girls for new cardigans - she knits the most wonderful stuff and the cardigans are just great for summer. She done a wonderful shawl for Rebecca which i also used for Eilidh and plan to use for all my children, i would love to keep it and someday give it to my first grandchild .

The girls get to see there grandparents quite alot, we go to my mils every Wednesday and my parents every Friday. I always look forward to both days as not only is it a nice break but the girls have such fun and get spoiled. I feel family is so important and we are so lucky to have them so close that we should really take advantage .

Laura

Hey i can post again, im sure blog spot hates me……….

Some more looking back

A 32 week pregnancy update

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I cannot believe im 32 weeks today, this pregnancy has just flown in and its so hard to believe that at the most 10 weeks
this baby will be hear at that it will likely be in about 7-8 weeks. Her room is almost done now and i can’t wait to start on cloths.

I had a check up today, the way it works here (Scotland) is we see a midwife throughout the pregnancy and delivery with
a couple of check up with the doctor and today was a doctor check up and the first bad one i have had.
To start with there was sugar in my urine which was my own fault as we went for lunch before hand and i eat loads of sugar and
had a glucose drink just not thinking, then my blood pressure was higher than normal 140/80 whereas its normally around 112/60.
The doctor was concerned at my lack of fetal movement and im actually feeling quite bad over it just now and wish i had listened
to my own instinct and called them a few weeks back when it started but as everything i read said 10 kicks a day then i thought
i was being silly and just left it, i feel the occasional movement and normally at night a flutter of movement for about 5-10 minutes but
thats it , my doctor is concerned about the placenta and sent me for (what i think) is a non stress test tomorrow , he called
it something different though but it sounds the same so i am a little worried about it but trying to stay positive and thinks its nothing.

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A 40 week pregnancy update

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Well i hit the 40 weeks mark on Tuesday and i still cannot believe i made it this far, i was 6 days early with Rebecca and
i just assumed i would be at least that with Eilidh to but nope……….im 40 weeks and convinced im going to be pregnant forever.

I had a check up on Tuesday and everything was fine blood pressure etc… , we do not get checked for dilation or anything at this point
so i have no idea if im making any progress at all . I have my final appointment next week at 41 weeks where we will talk
about induction, the doctor said 10 days is the norm so Eilidh should be making an appearance next weekend at the latest.
Induction scares me though, i really wanted a water birth this time around and im pretty sure they will not let
you have one if induced ,the doctor had no clue - he said at first that waters births were not allowed in this country huh!!!!!.
Midwifes are the ones responsible for our pregnancies mostly and im hoping she will be able to reassure me a little on Tuesday,
i really wish i had the strength to refuse induction but im just way to tired of being pregnant to do so.

Im actually feeling alright though, i think im nesting a little as i seem to have so much energy the last few days . My house
is spotless so there is no way the baby is going to come now :). Rather that get more real everything is becoming quite
surreal and im almost convinced there is never going to be a baby . I have been trying everything i can to help bring
on labour with no luck, im not really wanting to try castor oil or other herbs but have been eating more spicy food than i can
handle and well everything else to . Im hoping the midwife will strip my membranes on Tuesday but im not sure if they do that
here or not.

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A 41 Week pregnancy update

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Well as of today im now 41 weeks pregnant but thankfully an end is now in sight…….

Was up at 5am this morning with Rebecca (damm clock change, we finally got her out of that habit and now its started again) and mild
contractions started just before 6, they were very mild only lasting about 10-15 seconds but coming every 10 minutes. I went to the toilet soon
after they started and was having a bloody show, i got quite excited and was sure i would be having the baby very soon.
Well of course things are not that easy and the contractions went to very irregular with varying intensity and stayed that way most of the day.

Now it just so happens i had my last appointment with the midwife today she checked and i was 2cm dilated , never mentioned effacement
but she did say my cervix was still quite high up but my blood pressure was up (around 140/90 my baseline was 128/68 ) and protein in my
urine so they sent me to our local hospital for a bio-physical profile (not the one i will deliver at, our local hospital has a day unit and
its where scans etc are done) . Everything came out fine , baby is doing fine and completely happy and blood pressure was fine to i still
had the protein but as they were planning to induce this weekend they were not concerned. So my induction is scheduled for Saturday morning,
i have to check in between 7-8 Friday night so only a few days to go .

I am hoping i go into full blown labour by myself before then , been having contractions roughly 10-15 minutes apart since 5 o’clock there painful
but not agony as i can still semi function during them. If i was asked to rate them pre-my first labour i would of properly said a 6 or 7 but as i
know just how bad it can get at the very most a 3 or 4 they do seem to be all in my front rather than back (like with Rebecca) so im grateful for that.
I also do not seem to be bleeding much anymore but have been losing a little bit of my mucas plug.

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And well FINALLY

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Im so happy to announce the arrival of Eilidh Joyce McIntyre , bornWednesday 15th November at 4.02pm weighing in at 8lb 10oz and 54.5cmlong (quite different than her 6lb 13oz , 50cm long sister). She wasborn with the cord around her neck and had swallowed meconium in thewomb so it slightly dramatic when she was first born but she quicklybrightened and took her first feed like an expert.She is doing well and we got home yesterday , she is quite a fussychild so far and wants to be on the breast constantly i never got tobed till 6.45 this morning. Im hoping once my milk comes in thiswill die down a little or we may try a paci even though i was sohoping to avoid it this time.Rebecca is doing okay , she gets a little jealous and seems alrightaslong as we cuddle her to . She does not like in when she criesthough and starts doing it herself , DH is away for a nap with herand Eilidh is in her moses basket asleep and im just waiting for themidwife to come (hopefully soon so i can get a nap)Will type up my birth story shortly, right now going to curl up onthe couch and relax.I have a couple of photos uploaded here , 2 with DH and one with herlooking very unimpressed at only a few mins old.http://www.freewebs.com/mcintyreclan/100%5F1884.JPGhttp://www.freewebs.com/mcintyreclan/100%5F1885.JPGhttp://www.freewebs.com/mcintyreclan/100%5F1886.JPG

He he that was fun, going to look back at some posts I made during my first pregnancy with Rebecca

Laura

I have been thinking allot about how i was feeling this time last year , i was pregnant but had no clue about it. I never found out till 5th April and i was around 9 weeks along by that point.
Curious i took a little trip down memory lane at some of the posts i made to my parenting groups during the pregnancy .

This one is from the 5th of April and i had not long done the test

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OH MY GOSH

I have just had the biggest shock of my life , I’m pregnant……again……

I just had to share with someone and we have agreed to keep it quite till the doctor confirms it…………..but i have been having symptoms for a few weeks now (nothing to bad just loads of food aversions).

We are happy, if slightly in shock (as you can see below Becca is just coming up 10 months) we were hoping to get pregnant again just not this soon, going by the date of my last period i would be 11 weeks, due 23rd October but I’m thinking I’m not that far ahead as i almost felt like i got a period without the bleeding in Feb….

I’m still breastfeeding and praying that i can at least make it till she is one, but would love to Tandem if my body lets me.

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From May 6th after my first scan

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Finally got my scan done yesterday and the baby measured perfectly for 13 weeks, and they gave me the due date of
7th November. It has really surprised me a little as i was convinced i was around 11 weeks but gaining 2 weeks is not really to
bad , i guess my body is screwy though as my one period started on 16th Jan, and my est. ovulation date based
on the scan was 14th Feb it would make sense though the way i felt around the time…….cramps, dip in milk supply but
no bleeding……..I’m thinking it was basically implantation rather than period. Otherwise the baby looked good ,the pictures
were so clear and he/she was all spread out and moving around like crazy I’m so excited that i could be feeling movements
in just a few weeks time. My next appointment is next Friday , its all just going so fast.

As for me the first trimester has been a dream, apart from tiredness in the evening and some food aversions i have been great , i feel
like one of these women i hated so much last time round with Rebecca and so hope it continues. It looks like i may even have found a diet
that works LOL as i have lost about 6lbs in the last few week , i did have 40lbs left over from Rebecca though so it has been nice…….esp. when i think
at the stage in the pregnancy with her i had already gained about 24lbs. I am eating fine, i think I’m eating more or less the same as before but with less chocolate (lucky me i cannot face it or fizzy drinks).

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From 15th June when we found out the sex

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GIRL

I admit i was hoping for a boy and when she said girl i was the slightest bit disappointed but im so thrilled by the idea now, hopefully Rebecca and her sister will be the best of friends and i know they will always have each other. We have very little cloths we need to buy which is wonderful although i was looking today at some dresses and such…………
We are also going to redecorate the girls room, we kept it neutral before just in case as the kids would be sharing a room we are going to go crazy with the pink now , really can’t wait.

Im still getting my head around it but am over the moon, i love saying Daughters or referring to Rebecca as my eldest daughter……..now to just get hubby to agree on names

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After a shopping trip on August 23rd

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Gosh im so tired just now, i have been on the go for the last two days and im in pain all over.

We are actually finally getting somewhere in getting ready for this baby, we got a double pram last week free of my cousin its in perfect condition and just the type i would
of bought myself . Her daughters are 20 months apart and its barely been used and she only used it when going for longer distances otherwise her eldest walked.
And yesterday we found the perfect crib for a great price, we have been looking everywhere for one but it was getting impossible as we were wanting one that was a cot bed with a drop side (i never imagined it would be so hard to find) and it hard to be more or less a certain colour so it would match the crib already in the room that my daughter uses and of course it had to be at reasonable priced. Well we were out looking for some smart trousers (or pants for you Americans) for DH and passed a small selection of baby stuff in a department store and it was just sitting there the perfect cot meeting all our requirements and costing a total of £195.00 once we got a mattress too. (Its about $370.00 not sure how that compares but it is definitely cheap for us most
decent cotbeds cost at least £200.00 without mattress).
Then today we were out doing more shopping and got the wallpaper for the room , we were looking at carpets too but they were more expensive than we thought so are going to go to DHs aunt shop to get them its a much more upmarket shop and cost twice the price but as she gives us them at cost with free fitting it will end up costing about the same - and much better quality.
The room is getting done next week DH starts back university the end of September and as he works weekends to it needs done for then, being 30+ weeks pregnant and running around
after a one year will not give me much time to get it done plus well im terrible at it. Our bedding etc.. is all picked out now check it out at http://order.next.co.uk/page.asp?b=X38&p=968&o=1 if
anyone fancies having a look.
Its great to finally be getting there, we just need to buy a chest of drawers now and sell out travel system then buy a new car seat (we have an infant one with the travel system but as we no
longer need the buggy part will just sell the whole lot and use the money to buy a car seat that goes from an infant one to toddler one ), and once the room is decorated my mum is coming to
help me sort through all the baby cloths and my MIL is going to baby-sit for the day to let us get it done.

Apart from shopping tiring me out pregnancy has been going fine, im 29 weeks 1 day today and getting more excited all the time. I had my last scan today and baby is doing great, weighing around 3lbs 1oz just now and fluid is normal (i had polyhydroniss(sp) last time around ) , the doctor did say the measurements were all coming back at between 30 and 31 weeks but they always go by the due dates on the first scan ……im still convinced im having a Halloween baby just because i really am not wanting to (its my sisters birthday and as much as i love her she will never stop going on about it) .

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This is getting long so im going to split into two posts

Laura

Gosh i weighed Eilidh today and she was 13lbs 12oz (she will be 4 months on the 15th) so is around the 60th centile for weight.

I checked up and at 4 months Rebecca was around 12lbs 3oz so only around the 25th centile.

Eilidh is definetly a bigger girl than Rebecca, she is quite abit longer to but i don’t know the exact figures just now.

BUT i looked back and Rebecca had actually put on more weight at this age that Eilidh had, by
4 months Rebecca had put on 5lbs 6oz and Eilidh has only put on 5lbs 2oz ……so there both growing at about the same rate its just that Eilidh was almost 2lbs heavier to start with. Hopefully i can get her height checked next week and compare them to.

Laura

Today for the first time i really saw how much Rebecca loves her sister.
She has been wonderful to Eilidh really, she has her moments but she is only 1 year old.

This morning Eilidh was having another long lie (9.30 today) , Rebecca kept trying to get into the room and when Eilidh finally woke up she ran into the room grabbed the cots bar and
started shaking them and getting so excited. They both went for baths shortly after and she
kept kissing and trying to lift her sister up , i think she has been missing her in the mornings.

It has been nice to have some time with Rebecca in the morning, today we played with bubbles and a balloon , read some books and snuggled loads. She also completely surprised me by doing a pee pee in the potty , she had just a night dress on after having taken of her nappy and although
i kept telling her to go and pee in the potty , she would go and sit on it then get off having done nothing but today she DONE IT. It was funny though as she never lifted up her nightdress and sat down on it but it still counts.

Eilidh also decided to get up on all 4s today, i really hope crawling is still a way off I’m so not ready for it.

Both of them are just getting so big, Rebecca has completely left babyhood behind and Eilidh seems like such a big girls already i honestly felt she was barely a newborn.

Laura

Well its sure been a crazy week.

It started of terribly , both girls were driving me insane. I’m pretty sure Eilidh is teething as
she has everyone of the symptoms and Rebecca was getting her bottom eye tooth through so of course they were both moany and not sleeping great. Last Monday was probably the hardest day emotionally i have had since Eilidh was born , everything was getting on top of me and i was just so tired.

It did get much better though as the week went on , Tuesday night was Eilidhs last night in her moses basket as i could no longer get her settled in it (she would fuss and have to be rocked for ages then wake up constantly ) , if i let her sleep with me she would wake up around every 15-30 minutes crying so we made the very hard decision to move her into her cot full time . This
is very upsetting for me as i really believe she should be in my room for at least the first 6 months but as we cannot fit a cot in here i had no choice.

Wednesday night i had my first night off since Eilidh was born, my sister and i went to the pub for a few drinks (only a couple of course because of breastfeeding) and then to the movies to see “The Number 23″ , we were only gone a few hours and DH was home alone with the kids thankfully Eilidh never woke once as although there is milk there she has never taken a bottle before. It was great to get a couple hours off to just be me and not “mum” .
That was also the start of the good sleeping nights, Rebeccas tooth broke though and she was back to normal and Eilidh only woke up twice during the night.

Things just got better, Thursday night she only woke one at 5.30 and last night never woke at all - she slept for a whole 12 hours it was amazing, Rebecca slept in the living room with DH and i had the bed all to myself . I feel like a diff rent person at the moment.

And today we went to a cousins birthday party (well my cousins daughter), it was at “Buckaroo Jaxx” one of these kiddy play areas and Rebecca had a ball running around and climbing on everything , she was so well behaved and it was wonderful to show her and Eilidh off . My 14 year old cousin Jack was there and we is just this wonderful kid who is so helpful and ran after Rebecca most of the time.

All in all its been busy, both girls are sleeping now and I’m hoping will be for a while. Its a busy
week next week to Eilidhs gets more jags on Monday and Rebecca is at the hospital on Friday.

Laura

Trying again…..written last night but for some reason it would’t post.

Last night was thankfully much better , i actually managed to get *some* sleep.
Both girls woke up at 2am - Rebecca wouldn’t stop crying and seemed scared of something so im thinking she may have had a bad dream . Then Eilidh woke up at 5am full of giggles and babbles, Rebecca has finally started getting up a little later most days and all i wanted to do was get her back to sleep. I put her down on her play mat to play , and i curled up on the sofa and was planning to doze - but she kept rolling right off the play mat so no more leaving her alone .

Today for the first time in months i had some me time, my parents had offered to take
the girls out for a while as they were taken my neice to a big park - they could play in the sand, feed some ducks and go on some rides. At first i said no to Eilidh
but i figured that the fresh air would be good for her, its the first time i have been away from her since she was born. I did plan to finish the girls room, i have
started sorting through there clothes as i really need to get rid of some of it and
you can currently see very little of there floor and Rebecca’s bed is pilled high with stuff .In the end i went for a nap , two whole hours of peaceful sleep and it was heaven.

Tonight for dinner i made Apple Chicken Quesadillas and they were just so tasty but i will definitely use more Apple next time - you can find the recipe here http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Apple-Chicken-Quesadillas/Detail.aspx

Laura