Our Little Monkey

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The Battle of the Nipples

So here is the deal... when I was getting ready for Lily to come, I decided to get the Nuk brand bottles because they had great things written on the box and they looked more like a woman's nipple and what not. Well after Lily was born we had to use the bottles which was fine. but it would take her sometimes 1.5 hours to eat. so we tried another route. with the playtex nipples, Lily only took 10 min to eat. what a difference! We have been staying up all night it seems just trying to feed her... so hopefully this will also give us more sleep! She also is suddenly eating like twice than what she used to. With that and me traveling to SLC for the weekend while trying to pump... lets just say my body isn't producing what it needs to. She won't latch onto me, and I can't pump all the time because I've been working too, so basically I'm so sad, but we've moved to formula. I'm hating the fact, but my body hasn't been helping me live up to my hopes.

Today I took Lily to the doctor. She now weighs 7 lbs. and has grown a full inch and her head has grown a full inch as well. She gained a full pound in two weeks! Go Lily! Thank goodness for those other nipples!

Such a Cutie!

Todd was trying to burp her today, and this is what she looked like. She's so sweet and so funny sometimes. She even started smiling when she was in this position, I couldn't get it in a picture though... sorry. What a joy!

Meeting Cousin Robbie

This past weekend, we took our first trip with Lily. It's was rather interesting. She traveled really well in the car and I was so happy about that! She has a new a cousin that was born on Oct. 8 to Todd's sister and her husband. We traveled to Sandy to meet him, since their ages are so close. Robbie weighs 2 pounds more than Lily does, he didn't seem to be too much bigger than her by the looks of things, but he is definitely heavier! He is SUPER cute and has much more and longer hair than she does. He's a sweet little thing and it was fun to watch them together.
Here are the two dads sporting their newborns. Lily was pretty much oblivious to what was going on.
Here they are in their Boppy Pillows. Lily was kind of fussy when we were taking pictures. They sure looked cute next to each other in their seats.

P.S. She slept 6 hours straight last night! Once I realized that I praised her and gave her LOTS of kisses!

Cuddles

Todd has officially found someone new to cuddle with. I'm not sure how I feel about this... jk. It's seriously awesome to see him with Lily and wanting to just have her cuddle up next to him. I don't think she minds either.
She fits in the palm of his hand... I think this picture shows how small she really is.

Great-Grandpa Fisher

This weekend we traveled to the good ol' town of Milford to let Lily meet Todd's Grandpa Fisher. Lily makes his 82nd great-grandchild so ya know, that's kind of important he met her. While we were there, we were looking at his list of great-grandchildren. We knew he had a great-granddaughter by the name of Lily already, but her last name is Swallow and she lives across the country and we figured it would be ok. As we looked through the list of maybe 20 there were four girls with the middle name Elizabeth. That makes sense because Grandpa's Wife, Grandma Fisher's first name was Elizabeth. So basically what we learned is, after 82 great-grandchildren, forget even TRYING to be original!

We had a good time seeing family though. We helped Nisha and Jeep drywall their new addition to their house. (And when I say we, I mean Todd) We also got to go eat with them at the diner there in Milford. It was great to visit with them and our other cousins Ryan and Jessica! It was a nice relaxing day to the end of a stressful week! Yay!

The Fisher Family

Lily likes to make this face a lot! Its fun to watch her when she's awake because she's figuring this whole thing out, sometimes she even smiles!
Welcome to my new life... do I look tired? I'm getting the hang of this!
Todd proud to be a happy Daddy! She's looking at him and making faces at him in the picture, it's kind of funny!

Labor Story

So I've been getting this question a lot so I thought I would just share what my labor story was. Todd told me not to tell anyone because they would be mad at me, so you have to promise not to be mad at me before you read this!

So Saturday Sept 27, Todd needed to do some homework so we decided to walk on to campus so he could work in his own office. Campus is literally 4 blocks away, it's very close. We walked there and were there for about 3-4 hours. We then walked back in time so I could get ready and go to the relief society broadcast. When we got home I sat down for a second, I noticed I was kind of wet. More wet than I had been regularly with the normal discharge. So I called Labor and Delivery to see if we should go in to get checked. They told me to come in and make sure everything was ok. So Todd and I got to the hospital at 6 o'clock. They had to do a couple of tests, one came back positive so they decided to admit me and that it was time to have the baby. I was freaked out because I hadn't really been prepared for that.

I was admitted at 8:30. Before they did anything they needed to make sure the baby's head was down. So they did an ultrasound but the nurse couldn't really tell what was going on so she had to call the ultrasound tech. She probably got there around 9:30. The head was down so now it was time to get an IV in and finish breaking my water. They tried 5 times to get an IV in me, the doctor even tried to get one in me. Before my water was broken the doctor checked me to see how dilated I was. I was already at a 5, I hadn't really been having any contractions... So they broke my water and then decided to give me pitocin to really start me into labor. They started the pitocin, but since I was so far dilated the doctor said I could have an epidural at any point I wanted. Once the pitocin hit, it HIT! There was absolutely no break in between contractions, it was awful! I asked for an epidural soon after. Around 11 or so the epidural guy came and gave me an epidural. After that, I didn't feel any more contractions. So honestly I may have felt labor pains for at most 45 minutes to an hour.

The nurse came in around 12:30 and checked me. I was at a 7! I was trying to sleep because I knew it was going to be a long night. The nurse came back in at 1:15 because Lily's heart rate decreased and she wanted to check to make sure I was ok. I was already complete! I started pushing around 1:30. I had asked for the mirror because I wanted to be able to see what kind of pushing did the most work, since I had an epidural and really couldn't tell... Todd didn't like that part. He had to sit down most of the time while I was pushing. He had to help with my legs since I couldn't move, but he did a great job. As soon as Lily's head came out he was kind of like a little kid. He wanted in on the action at that point. I was so happy that he cut the cord and didn't let the blood stop him. When she came out, the cord was wrapped around her neck a couple times, and that's why her heart rate decreased. As soon as they got that off, she was just fine! Trust me, her lungs were very healthy! No question about that! They put her on my stomach as soon as she was born and it was such an amazing experience! I'm glad it went so well for us and that our hopes and plans had gone through. And yes, I know it was a very easy labor I mean honestly I was only in active labor for 5 hours and I only felt a whole 45 minutes of it.

Lots O' Work

So we've really been enjoying Lily and she's so much fun! She is so adorable and has such a sweet little spirit that has really made our home a great place to be. Yet, I never realized how much work they are! I am so tired I can hardly see straight. She's doing pretty good, but she's got a cold and hasn't been sleeping well because her nose is plugged. It makes me so sad to see her not feeling well. We need to invest in a humidifier ASAP! As of now, we've just been running our dryer all day long because it just blows right into our apartment and with the steam and what not it is basically just a HUGE humidifier. If anyone has any more tips about helping her feel better, I would appreciate them. I feel completely incompetent to be taking care of this totally dependent, sweet, baby. I feel like I've been cut off from the world because I have hardly left my apartment since she was born. I guess I'm way too social... lol

First Bath

She wasn't quite sure about the whole bath thing, we had to keep the warm washcloth on her, which was almost like a blanket because she's so small.
Afterwards she liked the warm towel, I think because she was done being poked in the bath...
We finally found an outfit that fit... it was preemie size, hopefully she can get into bigger sizes soon or else she won't really have a lot to wear. It was fun to give her a real bath since her cord already fell off!