Author: kristennill

Who's your daddy?

Lots of people told me that first time you hold your child, life as you know it changes… This was Ashton in my arms for the first time early this morning.

And they were all right, I already would do anything for this little guy 🙂

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3 am

Wow it’s 3am. While my body feels like a warm cooked noodle, so relaxed (thanks epidural!) I am wide awake. They just came to check me, I’m 6 cm and progressing well, the OB broke my water and said it looked like i would deliver on her shift, which ends at 8 am. It’s been an adventure so far, LOTS of pain (who does this naturally?!?!), shaking, etc… After all is over I will post the story beginning to end but for now, in a dark hospital room listening to our baby’s heartbeat, soft radio, and waiting (in a good way) to meet our baby boy. I still have a couple hours of pushing coming my way of course, just wanted to say hi (and tell Jason sorry for proposing to the anesthesiologist, that epidural did change my life!)

xo

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It's go time

We arrived at the hospital around 9, they said to come in at 730 but we all know Ki – had to take tater tot for a walk around the block first.

11pm – dilated, effaced, in labor & admitted – uh, lots of pain – my poor wifey 😦

12am 8/2 drugs on board – ki is smiling again – AMAZING! Who would turn an epidural down??


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Ahh, the waiting game…


Have you ever been asked the same question repeatedly over & over again for an entire day?? Poor Kristen must have heard me ask her “are you having another one?” a hundred times today. On a positive note in between all those contractions we enjoyed a great day at singing beach!! My trooper of a wife packed up the lunch and waddled down to the beach for the day. At the beach & in my element was about the only thing that kept my mind off of what is to come…

Fast Forward to 430pm… As Kristen is on the phone with the hospital… I am frantically throwing every toiletry and lady product in our house into our “unpacked hospital bag” that was supposed to be packed & ready two months ago.
Relax… it was just a close call. Apparently Ki’s hour long battle with the pain has subsided long enough for me to bite my nails, put up a quick post & disinfect the kitchen countertops?!? (yeah i know right? – insert your joke here)
Last Photo of Ki at the beach – possibly hours before delivery 🙂

Tuesday and a note about names

I am fast learning that if I fail to respond to texts or emails, or show up five minutes late for something, people of course think i am in labor! But… Tuesday morning, still pregnant. The last day I have definitely felt lots of contractions and in general it seems as though Fred is getting ready, but not enough is happening to prevent me from heading off to the beach this morning 🙂

We also get lots of questions on whether we have thought of names. I am proud to announce that we have three, although none of them fit all of my criteria (to be more than one syllable, not in the top 50 most popular names and ending in a letter other than “n”). There doesn’t seem to be a perfect fit? I think we just need to meet him and the answer will present itself. Until then, Fred.

Ok my beach chair calls!

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Jason's First Post

What an exciting time, we have “our very own” blog… & oh yeah a baby coming all the same week 🙂

I’m not going to lie it has been a pretty long nine months since Kristen & I found out the big news. “It’s Official – Your Boys Can Swim!!!” Kristen’s doctor excitedly yelled to us in December (well maybe not in those exact words – but as my new life flashed in front of my eyes thats what I heard…)

The next few months were filled with late sleepless nights, strange cravings & an overall transformation. Kristen “on the other hand” was a champion, i couldn’t have asked for a better partner & mom to be. Never sick once, no obscure food requests & in general life as usual. Except now I had an on call DD for when ever we ventured out 🙂

As the weeks flew by we talked about how/what we were going to do to document the whole event & this is what we came up with… I’ll apologize now, since its my first blog – I don’t know exactly what to say/not say in the posts to come. With the ability to post from my iPhone certain privileges/ability to sensor have been taken away from the “Editor in Chief.” ~ a risky move.

Thanks again for taking the time/interest & i’ll do my best to keep you in the loop!

Jason

Nursery

After many requests I am happy to post a few pictures of our nursery! We went with a fish/whale theme as you can see. Jason put the crib together and I helped hang the wallpaper border. As of right now the dresser is filled with onesies, blankets, etc. all washed and waiting for Fred to get here.

Speaking of Fred getting here, I was awake last night from 5-7 am with contractions but as soon as I got up, they disappeared. False alarm, although at the time I decided I wasn’t ready and started to get nervous. Now that they are gone, of course I wish they would come back and be the real thing. The waiting is the worst part…