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August 29th

Kat went for her 1 month check-up today, even though she is nearly 6 weeks now. Such a big girl! She now weighs 10 lbs and is 22 1/2 in long. Sad to say that she is only just now catching up to her momma-I was 10 lbs when I was BORN, and 21 3/4 in long...

August 25th

Kat gets bigger and bigger everyday-I can't believe how fast she's growing, and how much she changes everyday!!! We taake pictures of her on practically a daily basis, but it's still frustrating for our families not being able to see her. Even with Nate's family being here in Michigan, they still haven't seen much of her. My mom is having kittens down in KY. She keeps saying "I'm not going to know her..." Which makes sense as my parents haven't seen her in nearly 4 weeks. We email them pictures all the time, but it's hard to give a good idea of what she looks like since she looks so different from picture to picture. She changes developmentally all the time as well. Kat is always cooing and talking to us, herself, or inanimate objects, and she smiles a lot too.

And she's such a STRONG baby. She's darn near impossible to burp, because she pulls an arm back, arches her back, and kicks her legs out. She has what I call a Kat meltdown every time you try. Kat loves bath time, though, and I have been trying to give her one at around the same time every evening in an effort to get her on a routine. We either eat and then do a bath or vice versa, and whichever way works, we have a baby massage and then story time after. My mom read to me from an early age, and I want to do it for Kat. We started reading Harry Potter to her from the womb, lol! Even though we haven't quite got it down to where you can call it a routine yet, we're getting there. And Kat is finally starting to sleep in her own bed. Up til lately I had either taken her to bed with me or fallen asleep on with her on the couch. It was too frustrating waiting for her to get to a deep enough sleep to put her down without her crying. Or we would fall asleep while she ate. Anyway, it's nice to be able to sleep by myself again, even if it is only for a little while at a time.

Not that there is such a thing as a bad baby, but I am extremely thankful that Kat is such a good one. She does better everyday at sleeping and eating. It's just now getting easier at the nursing thing-by the way, I won't ever call nursing easy, convenient, or free again. It's been a hard road getting used to nursing exclusively. I wanted to do it, but it is hard, and frustrating. It's so tempting, especially at night, to just reach for those tins of sample formula and make her a bottle, but I'm sticking with it. For anyone who reads my profile and is considering breastfeeding or struggling through the early days, it does get better. I hope it keeps getting so for me as well. I'd like to keep doing it until Kat is a year, but we'll see where things stand when she hits 6 months.

I guess that's all for today, because my own Very Hungry Katerpillar is hungry again and will be waking soon. If anyone wants to see more pictures of her and/or videos, I have more on my myspace and photobucket accounts. Just message me and let me know. See everyone soon!!!



Nate and I @ Grand Haven at this time last year, and...



This year with my belly!!!



She's Here!!!!

I apologize sincerely and profusely thank those of you I haven't been in touch with these last days. I really appreciate all your support, prayers, and congratulations. I've been a bit busy, but... Kat finally got here on July 20th at 4:40 in the afternoon!

I think I last wrote on here about the anxiety and fear I had of being induced. Imagine my reaction on going to the doctor on Thursday the 19th and finding out I was going to be induced that night rather than the next-whoa! It was pandemonium for me emotionally the rest of that afternoon. That night I checked in the hospital with Nate and his mom Carol to keep me company. Carol was a godsend. Poor woman is a light sleeper to begin with, but she stayed up all night with me, only getting a total of 15 minutes of rest!

They started the drugs (no pitocin yet) around 8 pm. I declined an Ambien because I felt like I was going to sleep just fine on my own, and I would have, if not for the parade of people in and out of my room all night taking vitals, giving more drugs, drawing blood, etc., etc., etc. I didn't sleep much either, nor did I get enough to eat. The next morning I got an internal monitor put in and started on pitocin. By lunchtime I was thoroughly miserable with an empty stomach-nausea, here we come! I was having a lot of back labor, which is PAINFUL to the extreme. I really wanted to go this whole thing med-free, but after more than 18 hours of labor I couldn't handle anymore. I was just too weak, and every contraction would leave me shaking with pain. I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror during one of the few times I was able to open my eyes, and I looked positively green.

So I weighed it in my mind, and an epidural became the lesser of two evils: I figured it was either that or go on god knows how much longer, likely ending up unable to push and ending up having a c-section. So I got the epidural and a dose of nausea meds, and oh what bliss. I thought I had slept hours, but it turned out to only have been about an hour and a half before the nurses woke me to ask if I was ready to push.... I'm sorry, WHAT???? Wow. I couldn't really get my mind around it, but apparently they had to hurry things because the baby's vitals were "fluctuating."

Sooo. After only 4 pushes, my baby girl arrived. We named her Katherine Carter Watson, and are calling her Kat. She was 7 lbs, 4 oz and 19 in long. She's such a tiny little booger. I can't get over how much she is already changing every day. She looks just like Nate I think. We've been obsessing over Kat since she came, so that ladies and gentlemen is what I have been up to. Everything is great, and hopefully I'll be around soon!