Daddy's little Girl!

Last weekend I went to Idaho for my cousins wedding . Matt had to work, so I took Selene, and we just headed down for the day by ourselves. It was great visiting with family and friends that I haven't seen in a while. Selene and I headed back for home quite a bit later than originally planned, and we ended up pulling into the driveway about 11:30 at night ( I tend to drive slow at night, and Selene can't go 3 hours without eating, so we had to stop at a rest stop to feed her) when we pulled into the garage, the door from the house popped open, and out came Matt. He was so excited we were home. He went straight over to the passenger side and pulled the car seat out of the back. He looked at her, and she looked at him and gave him the biggest smile we have seen her give anybody. It is so fun to watch him interact with her. He says things like "cute" , which he used to make fun of his friends for saying, but now he says it on a regular basis.

On Sunday's, I play piano in primary ( I think I'm going to be in there forever) so Matt takes Selene for two hours. . . I go crazy missing her for just those two hours. It's really going to be bad when I have to go back to work. It's strange how these little ones come into your life and have your heart wrapped around them instantly. In one way, it's strange that we have a kid, and in another, It seems like she's always been a part of our family. I'm so anxious for her to get to the next stage where she will be more interactive , but at the same time, it is making me really sad how fast she is growing and changing.

The trouble with hair

So Selene has tons and tons of hair ( in the picture, you can kind of see that it is a couple of inches long, by looking at her ears ) . . I always thought hair on a baby was a good thing . . . . until yesterday . . . . You know how if you have long hair, and you are holding a baby, they tend to grab a tight hold on your hair, and the only way to get them to let go, is to pry their hands off of it . . Well, yesterday Selene started screaming, ( this girl is so good, she only cries when something is wrong , and this time she was SCREAMING!!! ) trying to figure out what the issue was, she had one of her hands behind her head. I kind of turned her around and there she was with her hand pulling hard on her own hair. . . . she was trying to move her hand away from her head, but the more she tried, the worse it hurt, and the louder she screamed. I had to pry her hand open so that she would let go of her hair, and once I did that, she was fine. Unfortunately for her, she did this 4 times . . . . I'm going to have to start putting mittens on her.

yea!!!! the epidural worked!!!!! oh, and the baby is here!

On August 26th, Selene Allison Freestone was born at 6:19 am. Labor started at 3:00 am on August 25th. . . after that I couldn't go back to sleep. . . .Sent my husband to work at 10:00 am, and I got onto a conference call from home. during the conference call, I muted the phone and called my doctors office to see at what point should go to the hospital. . . they told me if the contractions were more than 5 per hour, then I should go to the hospital to get checked out. . .. at this point, I was having between 10 and 12 an hour. . . .I texted my husband and told him he better head home, so that we could go to the hospital.... We got to the hospital about 11:30 am. they checked me and I was only 2 cm dialated. . . for the next two hours, they monitored me and I only got to a 3. . . they sent me home with some percocit to try and relieve some of the pain of the contractions so that I could sleep . . . . percocit doesn't help me a whole lot as a pain killer. . .I slept between contractions and at 7:00 pm that night, the contractions were becoming unbearable. . . . so we headed back to the hospital. after about two hours of sitting in triage, they finally had a labor and delivery room cleaned up . . . I immediately asked for an epidural and the anestition nurse did a great job of getting it in. the IV hurt more going in than the epidural. the epidural was working within two minutes. and it worked great. the doctor came in later to break my water and that wasn't hard, it was a lot lower than they expected. a bit later ( I kept falling asleep, so I don't know how much time had passed. ..) the nurse came in and we started to push . . I was afraid they would turn off the epidural or not let me have a refill if needed, so I pushed as hard as I could. . . . . I pushed for 3 1/2 hours. .. . ends up one of my bones should have been rounded, and it was more flat, so the baby wasn't really moving down very well. .. . . the doctor finally came and they were debating weather or not to do a c-section or use forceps . . . .they were worried about the tearing with the forceps. .. . they decided to try the forceps . . . they went in with no difficulty, but they did cause some tearing . . . . with the forceps in place. I pushed three times and the baby was out. they took the baby and cleaned her up a little bit. She made a little bit of noise as they were cleaning out her mouth and nose, but after that she quieted right down. . . she's been that quiet and calm ever since. I was able to hold the baby while they were stitching me up, unfortunately that took 1 1/2 hours . . .the tears were difficult to get to.

Selene sleeps for 6 hours straight at night. . and has since the day we brought her home. She is a very content baby and very cute. . she has a lot of hair . . .I had a good amount of hair when I was born, but nothing like this. She was born 7 lbs 12 ounces, 19 inches long. within 7 days of having her, the majority of the pain is gone, and I think I am healing well. We aren't really sure who selene looks like . . . I guess there is one picture of her that she really looks like Matt, but I am not sure which one it is. . .she doesn't really look a whole lot like me. She is a lot of fun and I am so happy that she is so good and so healthy.