Tayte's first week......

It's been a pretty easy first week cause all she does is this....

oh the life of a newborn

I lay her down on the ground with no blankie on her to try and wake her up, but she is just dead to the world

Oh I love this stage where they will just sleep anywhere and always cuddle with you and never give you any grief. Too bad it doesn't last longer, I know any day now she's gonna start waking up more.

She had her first doctors apt. last Mon. She weighed 6lbs 7oz (lost 8 oz) and they measured her length 20 1/2 (which means she grew an inch? I don't think they measured her right at the hospital.) Everything looked good, except they said she had a little jaundice and wanted me to go right to the lab to do a blood test. So I had to hold her while they poked her than squeezed blood out of her heel for like 3 minutes, so sad:(

The dr. called me that afternoon and said she's right on the borderline of her jaundice being ok or not, so he wanted me to go back to the lab the next day and do another test to see if it got any better. Poor baby! I hated having to do that again! But luckily the results turned out better, so no more.

They told us to lay her in the sun a little bit each day to help with her jaundice.

I think she likes it. Starting early, our bathing beauty.

Her big sisters just love her to death. I set her down on the ground and leave for a minute and everytime I come back to this. They always want to be right by her.

And this, playing peek a boo

and whenever she cries, they sing her a song

And this was the cutest. Madix got her favorite nursery rhyme book and set it up in front of Tayte and her and Ty took turns singing them to her.

She reunited with cousin Jace who is just about 2 1/2 weeks older than her. Crazy to think they were just in heaven together waiting to come to earth.

just cuddling with cuz, Jace didn't seem to mind

first bath, wasn't a big fan of it. Dave held her while I washed and she peed all over him:)

She was happy once she got all covered and warm. Nothing like a freshly bathed baby!

Dave is home for 5 days! it's so wonderful! and the girls have loved having him home. He has done such a good job playing with the older girls so they don't feel left out. He took them to the zoo and here he is having a sleepover on the tramp! They had lots of treats and popcorn and a movie. The girls were SOOOO excited. Mads only lasted about an hour than came inside with me, but to my surprise Dave and Ty slept out there all night. What a good dad he is!

The Story of Baby Tayte's Birth

Tayte Ruby Eastman

Tayte- we just have always really liked this name. When we thought we were having a boy, that was gonna be his name. Then when we found out we were having a girl, we thought it would be just as cute for a girl. I was spelling it Tayt, then Dave saw it in the hospital and really wanted to add an e to the end, thought it looked more faminine:)

Ruby- This is after my granny, Ruby Riding

Born: Thursday, May 20th 2010 at 1:05 pm

Weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long

Original due date: May 29th

The Story: I had my last Dr.'s apt. last Mon. and the doc said "your ready, how about we bring you in this Wed. night. I said, well my mom's in Hawaii until Fri. He said, ok lets bring you in Sunday night. So that was the plan.

We woke up Wed. morning and Dave said, "let's have the baby tonight!" He had some really important meeting in Prescott next Mon. and Tues., so this way he wouldn't have to miss those and then could take the rest of this week off and the end of next week. So would have more days off to spend with us. I didn't really know what to think, have a baby THAT day, really?? So then I was just kind of in shock all that day and a little overwhelmed. Dave came home really early on Wed. to help and make sure everything was ready for baby Tayte to come.- YIKES (wasn't sure if I was ready to have a baby!)

The hospital said they would call between 6pm and 3am that night. So around seven we took the girls to where they would be staying (thanks Jess, Alisa & Tami!!), then came home and waited. And waited and waited. Finally 1am they called, said we had to check into our room by 2am. So here we go to have a baby, ready or not.

We get there at 2am Thurs. May 20th, they show us our room and say our nurse will be in in a little while. We both lay day on the skinny hospital bed and fall asleep. About 3:30 am a nurse finally comes in and not until about 5am they start hooking me all up and doing something. (why didn't they just let us sleep at home on our comfy bed and come in at 5am???)

First and WORST part of the whole labor experience was putting the IV in me. I hate, hate that part!! and it took about an hour for it to stop bugging me. I was dialated to about a 2, so they gave me one gel to start getting me going. They said the dr. would be in around 7:30am to break my water. Even though I wasn't feeling any contractions I wanted my epideral BEFORE he broke my water. So they came right in and gave me my epideral (2nd worse part about giving birth), but is SOOOO worth it. I was pretty comfortable from there on out.

About 7:30 Dr. came in and broke my water and estimated she would come around 1-2 that afternoon. So we just relaxed, Kacey came and visited and sure enough right around 12:30 the nurse told me to start practice pushing. They called the dr. and out she came at 1:05pm.

It all went relatively good. I only pushed for maybe 1/2 hour which wasn't too bad, but in the middle her heart rate kept dropping, so they thought the cord might be wrapped around her and then they started saying "She's OP, she's OP! This is an OP baby!" Me and Dave were thinking, what the heck does OP mean??!, and that made us a bit nervous. To find out after the fact OP stands for Occiput Posterior, which means the baby's head was face up instead of down. Which makes it a lot harder for her to come out, and her face has to scrape against my pelvic bone. They had to use the vacuum and suck her pretty hard to get her out (major cone head, but looks good now). And poor thing came out with her right eye all swollen from trying to get out.

But she made it safe and sound and is just the sweetest, cutest baby ever!! She was so good in the hospital and continues to be an absolute angel.

She already has Dave wrapped around her finger. He absolutely adores her! It's so cute.

Right after she came out. Poor thing had a tuff time coming out, she looks like she was in a fight. But she recovered quickly and by the time they cleaned her all up, she looked perfect.

Aunt Kacey and Uncle Kyle

The girls were SOOOOO excited to meet baby Tayte! They were SOOO cute with her!

I can't believe we have a family of FIVE now!!!

My great friends who came to visit and brought my big girls and brought me dinner. Alisa, Tami and Jess.

The big girls were only home with her one day, then went to gigi's for the weekend (thank goodness!), but that one day they were obsessed with baby Tayte (kinda drove me crazy, but so cute!) Always wanting to hold her and talk to her and sing to her. They are gonna be good big sisters.

Gigi was in Hawaii only cause she thought I wasn't having her for another week, and was really upset to miss it. But is home now and is gonna come stay with me for the next couple days to help. YAY!

LOVE this picture! My 3 girls! Mads, Ty & Tayte

Only 6 more days!!

I had my doctors apt. this morning. He told me I'm dialated to a 2 and my cervix is really soft and ready. I was scheduled for the 26th but he didn't think I would make it that long and wants to do it this week! I told him my mom's in Hawaii until Friday night, so he said, OK, let's do it Sunday. I said OK, (I didn't really know what else to say, I my as well). So this Sunday it is. Really I'm gonna have a baby in 6 days??!!! They'll bring me in Sunday night to probably deliver Monday morning, so May 24th should be her birthday, YIKES!!!
Watch Me Grow

3 months

4 months

5 months

6 months

7 months

8 months

This was yesterday 9 almost 10 months! Could be my last photo prego. We'll see if I last another week:)