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Tatum Alexis Sex: girl Born: 08 February, 1998 Age: 10 years & 170 days Birthday in: 195 days Starsign: Aquarius Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

This is Tatum, my first true love. She's now 10 years old, and loves being a big sister to Colten. She enjoys playing sports, dressing girly, and watching Hanah Montana. She competed in gymnastics for 6 years, but after a broken wrist and two sprained ankles, decided to move one to soccer and basketball - seems to be less dangerous. She also loves to compete in beauty pageants. She's been crowned queen twice and 1st runner up several times. Okay, I'm done bragging on her, but she really is an incredible kid, and so much fun to be around..........I love you Tatum!!!

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Colten Fox Sex: boy Born: 15 November, 2007 Age: 0 years & 254 days Birthday in: 111 days Starsign: Scorpio Development: See the 8 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 4 hours
Weight @ birth: 6 lbs 13 oz
Length @ birth: 19 in

Colten-Fox`s birthstory

I had my beautiful baby boy! It was the most amazing thing I`ve ever experienced. Complete oppisite of my first labor - not that it wasn`t a beautiful miracle too, it just hurt a lot more, and lasted forever. Okay - I had my membrane sweep on Wed 11/14 at 2:15 pm. My husband and I went to have a bite to eat at a nearby restaurant and the contractions started coming. They felt slightly different than the false labor contractions I`d had just the night before, so I was excited. They were a little more painful, but not as regular as the false labor ones believe it or not. I went on having these contractions irregularly into the evening - they would be 5 minutes apart, then 10 minutes, then back to 5 or 6 minutes apart. I finally had my mom come over and help me time them better. I kept waiting and waiting for them to go away like the false labor ones did, but they never did and then at 6:30pm, I had a bloody show. My husband was so excited, he suggested we go for a walk to see if the contractions went away or got stronger. So, my mom, daughter, husband, dog, and I walked about half a mile in the dark, cold, wind and came back home. They didn`t go away, but didn`t really intensify either. They were painful, but not like moaninig screaming pain - just painful enough for me to have to stop what I was doing, lean over the table, sway my hips from side to side and slow-breath thrugh them. Not unbearable at all. It took my mom and husband until 10PM to convince me to go to the hospital - I was so afraid they`d send me home again. So at 10PM, I gave in cause I got sick of their antsiness and we loaded up the car ad headed to the hospital. It was the same ER person and same nurses that were there the night before, so everyone was like - oh, you again. I got checked in and they took me to a labor and delivery room (a really huge one with surrounding windows - it was like being at a nice hotel) and they checked my cervix to find me dilated to 3, very thinned out, with a bulging bag of waters. They started my antibiotics right away for the group B strep. They called my doc and he advised them to give me an epidural and pitosin. I was against having either of these, but my husband was begging me to get the epidural for his sake because he can`t stand to see me in pain. I figured if I`m going to get an epidural, I`ll have to stay in bed and be all hooked up to stuff anyway, so I may as well get the pitosin too to speed things up. So they administered the epi (hurt worse than the contractions) and started the pitosin at the lowest possible dosage. The epi was great though once they got it going. I couldn`t feel any pain whatsoever. I could feel my stomach get rock hard with each contraction but could feel no pain. They left us alone for about an hour or so and came back to check the progress. I was at a 4, so I thought okay,. this may be a long night. The nurse told me my doc would be in around 5AM to break my water. I think this was around midnight or 1AM. Well about an hour later, I called my husband over to the bed to feel how hard my stomach was with the contraction I was having, and the very second he touched my stomach with a little pressure, my water broke! I have to say that was the coolest feeling ever. He ran to tell the nurse that `he`d broken my water` lol, and she came in and got me all cleaned up. She left and said she be back in a bit to check the dilation. She wasn`t gone too long, before I started to be able to feel some slight pain with a lot of pressure with the contractions. I was having to breath through them because they were so intense, so my husband went and got the nurse. She checked me and didn`t say anything at first, but the look on her face said it all. I was complete and the baby`s head was coming down! The nurse was kind of in a panic cause my doc was at home asleep. She said you have to give the doc 15 minutes to get here, don`t push! I was like, okay. I didn`t really feel a strong urge to push, so I just liaid there and waited and pushed the epidural button a few times to ensure no pain. The nurse ran out and called my doc and he showed up about 15 minutes later with his hair a mess looking like he`d just rolled out of bed (with good reason). He got all prepped and said okay, it`s time to push. Feeling no pain whatsoever, I got my feet on the stirups, and pushed thrugh a contraction. The doc said, that was great do it again. So I pushed through another one. I pushed through another one, and then doc said, okay, this will be the last one. I was like, `what? you`ve got to be kidding!` So I pushed again and his head came right out. It was facing up and as soon as his head was out, he opened his eyes and looked right at me while the rest of his body was still coming out! It was sooooo cool. They put him on my chest and he cried right away. As soon as we saw him, my husband and I both started crying (the first tears I`d cried all night - that`s how pain free this labor was). They cleaned him up a ittle and gave him right back to me, he started nursing imediately and has continued to nurse very well. He is absolutely beautiful! Weighs 6 lbs and 13 oz and is 19 inches long. We couldn`t be happier!!

2/27/2008

Wow, I can't believe Colten is already a little over 3 months old! He's so adorable and fun! He smiles all the time and even laughs a little bit. He's recently discovered his hands and can grab toys and put them in his mouth. Everything he touches goes into his mouth and he drools a lot. When he was 7 weeks old, we took a trip to Florida to visit my grandmother. We visited Fort Meyers and Marco Island. The weather was amazing - Colten loved being outside and not being all bundled up like an eskimo. This is only my second week back to work, and I'm miseralbe without Colten. I couldn't stand him being at a daycare either, so my mother-in-law has agreed to stay with us and watch him for one month while we figure out what we're going to do. I'm probably going to end up being a stay at home mom, which is sad b/c I really love my job. It will be a sacrifice, but I can't think of anythinig I wouldn't sacrifice for the sake of my kids, and I really feel that Colten deserves to have his mommy taking care of him, especially for that first year. It's so precious and goes by so fast. And I'll never get it back if I miss out on it. My boss is traveling, but I plan to speak to him about it as soon as he returns. I've done a lot of praying about it and I trust that God has a plan.

2/28/08 I just realized how much God looks out for me....I've been trying to catch my boss at the right time to talk about it, but stuff kept popping up and preventing it. I've been really worried cause I didn't know what I was going to say or how to say it or even what to ask for. Well we attended a business lunch today where there was a guest speaker who spoke about how to be a good leader by leading with values, etc. He spoke a lot about listening to your employees, guiding them as people, and just being a good leader in general. Well when we got back my boss came to me and said, he had tome to talk, so I let him know how much I was missing the baby and that I love the company and my job, but I just need to be home right now. He was completely understanding and said he'd send an email to HR to see if I can take a 1 year leave of absense! That is absolutely the best possible outcome for me because I'll get to keep my job and be home with Colten until he's bigger. I am just in awe of how God looks out for me and knows whats best.....amazing.

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