Day 1

Today (January 25) is the first day of my career as a Stay at Home (work from home?) mom. Even though my little girl is 2 weeks old M has been home with us for the past 2 weeks so they don't tecnically count. As of today I start to figure out how to do everything all over again and do it while the baby (hopefully) sleeps. I also need to figure out how to take my photography to the next level...I need to figure out how to use my brand new Nikon D5000, set up my recently purchased backdrops and lights and figure out how to market myself...while I am doing that I need to get my jewelry making in order and figure out how to market that as well and figure out how to get my products in to some local stores...anything and everything I can do to not have to go back to work fulltime so that I can figure out how to be a mom and grow the best little girl that I can...

So it's been a while...

I know it's been quite a while since my last post, but I have a REALLY good reason!

Since December 21 I have been out of work on bed rest due to Pregnancy Induced Hypertension so I was a bit busy trying to keep my bun in the oven...but as of January 8 the PIH officially turned into Preeclampsia and my doctor signed the little Smudge's eviction notice. I was checked into L&D at 1:30 pm at 4:00 the Dr. broke my water and at 10:47 pm weighing in at 6 lbs 15 oz Cassie was officially a part of our life!!

The birth was absolutely nothing like what I expected or was planning on having, due to the PIH/PE I was confined to bed and hooked up to an IV pumping me full of Magnesium (absolutely terrible), Pitocin (not as bad as any of the stories I heard probably because of the Mag) and I am assuming regular fluids. I wasn't allowed to try out any of the alternative pain relieve methods I had planned on in order to avoid the epidural, like walking, showering and/or using the birthing ball...so I ended up getting one, which was also no where near as bad as I had expected and whoa baby did it really work!! less than 2 hours after I got the epi I was told I was ready to start pushing, my doctor got there and after 10 minutes of pushing Cassie was in my arms. It was just plain amazing!

And for your viewing pleasure...