Lots of New!!

This month has been lots of fun, and has brought some new and exciting things!

#1 Of course, is baby Jasmine. It is a new, and fun experience having a baby girl! Taylor is doing pretty well, he has an attitude every now and then, but loves his little sister and loves to help out.

#2 New ring- given to me by Jasmine's daddy during labor. I love it!

#3 New car. Yes, a new car!! Who-hoo for us! We finally decided to trade the Mazda in and got a 2007 Chrysler Sebring. It is beautiful, and has lots of new, fancy features. Once we are settled in the house, hopefully I will get my SUV and Brooks can take the Sebring to work. It gets great gas mileage-26 in the city, 32 on the highway.

#4 New job! Brooks has officially received his promotion from Carlson and is now the assistant property manager. The senior director made the comment to him that this was the fastest anyone had been promoted to this position, and we are all super proud of him! Along with this promotion comes a nice pay raise (23%) plus the chance to bonus another 10%.

So, lots of new, and the month is only half over!

She's Here! She's Finally Here!!

Little Jasmine Natasha Wintemute was born March 4th at 11:01 a.m. She weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. She is so darn cute and wonderful and we are the luckiest mommy and daddy in the world!!

Our adventures began on Monday, March 3rd at our 8:30 am doctors appointment. They did a non-stress test since Jasmine was over 40 weeks, and went ahead and scheduled an induction for Saturday the 8th. I was totally bummed- I did not want to wait until Saturday to meet her, even if it was only a few more days. But, during the NST, I was contracting every 5 minutes. "Textbook contractions" they called them, but although they were close enough together and lasted long enough, they weren't Strong enough. So, home we went expecting to see her on Saturday. Only the contractions did not stop, they did get stronger. But, I am a big weenie and did not want to go in because I thought they would just send me home. After Brooks put his foot down and my mom told me (not asked, but told) that she was coming up that night, off we went to the OB triage. I was having the same contractions, but was only 1 1/2 cm dilated. So we went walking around the hospital and found the cafeteria. One of the cafeteria workers came over and told us it was a special event and they had this buffet set up with free food. There was hamburgers, hot dogs, grilled chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad, baked beans, cookies, sodas and bottled water. We sat down and ate at about midnight, and it was delicious! Then I started thinking that probably was not the smartest thing to do, but it smelled so good! We walked around a bit more and went back to triage and when they checked again I was now 3 cm dilated. So, they sent us on one more walk and when we came back we were led to our new room in labor and delivery. I began asking for my epidural right away, and after some quick fluids was granted my wish. By now, Brooks was sleeping comfortable (really, this was a nice set-up). He slept through my epidural, catheter and all that fun stuff that goes along with labor preparations. We called my mom to let her know what happened, and off to sleep I went. Early the next am my doctor came in to check on me and I knew something was going on. I didn't feel so hot, but I couldn't really see the monitor to see what was going on with either me or Jasmine. My blood pressure was low they said, and put me on oxygen for a few hours and kept pumping fluids in me. My mom came in with the kids and Brooks went out to get himself some breakfast at the McDonalds about 2 miles away. They checked me again and I was now at 5-6. My blood pressure went even lower, Jasmine started to have more decelerations in her heart rate, then my water broke and I was at 7cm. I had my mom call Brooks to say hurry back. A few minutes later, I called him again. Then we called again. Where the heck was he? I had a super fast transition with Tay and this was going fast too. My went downstairs to get Tay some chocolate milk and I was all alone and ready to go. Brooks walked in with a jewelery box (some trip to McDonalds!) and I couldn't be mad anymore. He bought me a beautiful mothers ring, it is white gold with an aqua marine and two smaller stones on either side. I hardly had time to enjoy my pretty ring, before my mom walked back in, so did the nurse who checked again and I was at 10, fortunately she believed me when I said I transitioned fast, and had already called the doctor. I could not feel a thing, even though my epidural was totally off and had been for about 30-45 minutes since by blood pressure was so low. I gave two pushes and out Jasmine came! We had planned on Katie being there, as she had asked beforehand and really wanted to see Jasmine born. Brooks jokes because I was so doped up and was having a full conversation with my doctor as I was pushing. This was a super easy labor (aside from the waiting for the labor to begin). Tay was drawing a picture when Jasmine was born and we kept it for her baby book.

So now we are home, and doing pretty well. We are not as tired as we thought we would be, Jasmine is pretty easy going, and so far Taylor is decently interested in her. Brooks is home for a week. We received flowers in the hospital from Carlson and today went shopping to enjoy the $230 gift card to Babies R Us they gave us.

More to come, be prepared for more pics of the world's cutest little girl!

Still no baby...

For the past three nights, I have had very uncomfortable and painful contractions, even to the point where we decided to start timing, or when Brooks was not home, I was ready to call him. Then, they'd stop. This is completely unfair. Brooks had a talk with Jasmine and told her it was time to come out and that she should be sleeping in her own crib now, and not mommy's tummy.

While Jasmine is not cooperating, I am just trying to keep busy doing stuff. I am hoping when we go in on Monday the doctor will schedule the induction sooner rather than later. Brooks went in to work this weekend to get ahead, so that way he would have a little less to catch up on.

I have had lots of friends calling daily, which is very sweet and heartwarming. Currently in the BizEMoms agenda, Jasmine's birth is under the member brags section. The joke is they may have to change that to a brag about me for having the longest pregnancy. Taylor had been born by now, so what's the hold up Jasmine?