Natalie's parents came to Nat and Kam's church to celebrate Easter. We dressed Ezra in his cute duds from Nat's cousin, Kayla. He looks so cute as always!
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Baby's 1st Easter!
I know it's been awhile since Easter, but I'm catching up. Natalie is not a big journaler or blogger.
Natalie's parents came to Nat and Kam's church to celebrate Easter. We dressed Ezra in his cute duds from Nat's cousin, Kayla. He looks so cute as always!
The next day we went to Southlake to spend more time with Nat's folks and Ezra explored the grass in the backyard...
Natalie's parents came to Nat and Kam's church to celebrate Easter. We dressed Ezra in his cute duds from Nat's cousin, Kayla. He looks so cute as always!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Looking back and so thankful!
I am in awe and so thankful when I look back to see what prayers God has answered for us! When I took the class Equipped Disciple 2 at church, we were supposed to make note of our prayer requests in order to remember that we had specifically prayed something and then write God's answer next to it when we got an answer. I wrote in the journal what had been a strong desire on my heart especially around that time which was to, "have enough money for kids in 2011 for me to work part time or less and to have kids by the year 2011." My son was born on 1/2/2011! I wrote these requests on September 10th, 2009 thinking that these just weren't going to be possible for us financially. I was in school at the time because I felt I needed to go back and get a degree that I enjoy and one that will allow me to work part time some day even though I truly desired to not have to work at all and to spend time with kids full time some day. I also requested that I would finish school and get an internship that would allow me to have this future career as a dietitian. Well, despite my work experience, great grades, and volunteer experience, I did not get the internship in April of 2010 and soon after finding this out, became pregnant immediately which was such an amazing answer to prayer! Thank you Lord for such wonderful gifts and for giving me the desires of my heart! We also happened to pay off the rest of Kam's school loans this month before finding out we were pregnant and had enough money for me to stay home with our baby!
God has quickly given us what we needed all along and it's fun to see that looking back. When we first got married in December of 2007, we had only enough money for the two of us to live on and about a month later Kam got a different job that would allow us to keep moving up financially and help me to see that we could some day have kids too! I wish I always put all of my trust in God and that he wants what is best for us and His plan, but he also wants to give us great gifts that we not only desire but will also be a part of His plan to bring Him glory! Lately, I have really needed to be reminded of all of this and be thankful for our son and my ability to stay home with him even if it means doing laundry almost every day along with other household chores and serving my son. It's hard work but so sweet and a huge blessing to our family!
Here's a couple pictures of our now 3 month old baby boy who is so beautiful!
God has quickly given us what we needed all along and it's fun to see that looking back. When we first got married in December of 2007, we had only enough money for the two of us to live on and about a month later Kam got a different job that would allow us to keep moving up financially and help me to see that we could some day have kids too! I wish I always put all of my trust in God and that he wants what is best for us and His plan, but he also wants to give us great gifts that we not only desire but will also be a part of His plan to bring Him glory! Lately, I have really needed to be reminded of all of this and be thankful for our son and my ability to stay home with him even if it means doing laundry almost every day along with other household chores and serving my son. It's hard work but so sweet and a huge blessing to our family!
Here's a couple pictures of our now 3 month old baby boy who is so beautiful!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Ezra's Birth Story!
A few days before Ezra made his appearance we had an appt. with Dr. Fogwell on the 30th and found that I was not dilated at all. I was somewhat disappointed because Dr. Fogwell was going out of town about a week later. We drove to Southlake to stay with my parents and celebrate Christmas with Reece, Cynthia and Gehrig since my parents had been in the Dominican Republic with family over Christmas. We were glad to have made it until they returned on the 26th of December!
On Saturday, January 1st around 6 something in the evening, I lost my mucous plug at my parents and we all decided that labor would be following the next day sometime. However, after we went to dinner I was feeling irregular contractions and wasn't feeling like I had much of an appetite. We returned from dinner and my contractions were short but starting to become regularly spaced out every 5-6 minutes. We still thought that this would go on a long time and there was no need to drive to Dallas that night. After a couple hours of regularly spaced contractions, Kam and I decided it would be better to be safe than sorry and I might be more comfortable laboring at home and sleeping in my own bed. Right after we got home, my water broke and we decided we needed to get to the hospital right away. We called Dr. Fogwell who was thankfully on call and the nurses at the hospital kept in touch with him.
It was about 2:30am and I was checked and dilated to a 1 which was disappointing. Ezra's head wasn't engaged yet and since my water had broken also, I had to stay in bed on a monitor. I was having a lot of back pain during the entire delivery which wasn't what I had expected. It was definitely more painful than I had expected. I didn't get an epidural but towards the end when I was in transition, I asked for pain medication through my IV which I regret now but I had no idea how close I was to being finished. Unfortunately this drug, Stadol, didn't even take away the pain but might have lessened it slightly and then wore off. I told myself ahead of time that this drug wasn't without side effects too like making me loopy and affecting respirations. Thankfully, Ezra and I didn't have problems breathing.
Following this I was checked again at almost 6am and was a 7 or 8, and at 6am I was a 10! I could hear the nurses asking how far Dr. Fogwell lives from the hospital since they weren't expecting me to have fully dilated by that time! Thankfully he made it to the hospital just in time for me to push along with a lot of other staff people just in case he wasn't there yet. I heard him when he was looking at where the pitocin would have been hooked up say, it's not hooked up! Apparently this is not the norm! I'm thankful my body was causing a speedy delivery on its own but boy was it painful!!! After only a few pushes and less than a minute of pushing, Ezra was born on January 2, 2011 at 6:35 am and weighed 6 lbs 6 oz and was 19 1/2" long. We were glad my parents could be in the delivery room for the event too. It took a minute for me to not feel so woosie since I had been given the Stadol right before pushing, so next time I will feel confident knowing that if I am feeling desperate for a pain killer, I am probably about ready to push!
On Saturday, January 1st around 6 something in the evening, I lost my mucous plug at my parents and we all decided that labor would be following the next day sometime. However, after we went to dinner I was feeling irregular contractions and wasn't feeling like I had much of an appetite. We returned from dinner and my contractions were short but starting to become regularly spaced out every 5-6 minutes. We still thought that this would go on a long time and there was no need to drive to Dallas that night. After a couple hours of regularly spaced contractions, Kam and I decided it would be better to be safe than sorry and I might be more comfortable laboring at home and sleeping in my own bed. Right after we got home, my water broke and we decided we needed to get to the hospital right away. We called Dr. Fogwell who was thankfully on call and the nurses at the hospital kept in touch with him.
It was about 2:30am and I was checked and dilated to a 1 which was disappointing. Ezra's head wasn't engaged yet and since my water had broken also, I had to stay in bed on a monitor. I was having a lot of back pain during the entire delivery which wasn't what I had expected. It was definitely more painful than I had expected. I didn't get an epidural but towards the end when I was in transition, I asked for pain medication through my IV which I regret now but I had no idea how close I was to being finished. Unfortunately this drug, Stadol, didn't even take away the pain but might have lessened it slightly and then wore off. I told myself ahead of time that this drug wasn't without side effects too like making me loopy and affecting respirations. Thankfully, Ezra and I didn't have problems breathing.
Following this I was checked again at almost 6am and was a 7 or 8, and at 6am I was a 10! I could hear the nurses asking how far Dr. Fogwell lives from the hospital since they weren't expecting me to have fully dilated by that time! Thankfully he made it to the hospital just in time for me to push along with a lot of other staff people just in case he wasn't there yet. I heard him when he was looking at where the pitocin would have been hooked up say, it's not hooked up! Apparently this is not the norm! I'm thankful my body was causing a speedy delivery on its own but boy was it painful!!! After only a few pushes and less than a minute of pushing, Ezra was born on January 2, 2011 at 6:35 am and weighed 6 lbs 6 oz and was 19 1/2" long. We were glad my parents could be in the delivery room for the event too. It took a minute for me to not feel so woosie since I had been given the Stadol right before pushing, so next time I will feel confident knowing that if I am feeling desperate for a pain killer, I am probably about ready to push!
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