August 20, 2004
Happy Birthday Baby!
One year ago today marks a great day in history - the birth of Molly. Just to recap...I started having contractions on Monday the 18th last year at Fazolis. But I had no idea what they were so I went to the hospital. They sent me home of course and soon my contractions were getting regular - 12 minutes apart. I went back to work and then went to Ted's later that night for a spicy mexican dinner. I went on to work Tuesday the 19th and my contractions were about 9-10 minutes a part. I had to pause during our office meeting every 10 minutes to concentrate on a contraction. To help progess the labor, after work Peter and I walked around Target for an hour and a half. My contractions were getting closer - about 7 minutes. We got home, I tried to go to sleep, tried to take a bath, I tried everything. I called the hospital at 6 minutes apart and begged to come in. They told me to wait until I was 5 minutes apart since my water had not broken. Finally at 5 and a half minutes apart, we went in at 2 am. I was admitted - dialated to a 3 - almost a 4. They gave me an epidural, started me on pitosin to progess the labor and at 10:11 am on Wednesday the 20th, I gave birth to Molly with only about 20 minutes of pushing and a small episiotomy. And I've successfully sustained a life for one year! To read the full story, click here.
She's one year old today. We had a great day! Well not the part where I was working and away from her but when I got home, we took her to Chuck E. Cheese's with her grandma and cousin Rielyn and daddy. What fun!! We rode rides, ate pizza and Peter even gave her a sip of coke - bad daddy!
Although Molly has not yet started walking (she can, she just would rather crawl), she can babble constantly, say "uh oh", "ball", "mama", "dada", "boo", "cat", and "papa". She can spit and buzz her lips, roll her tongue, throw huge stomping and kicking her feet fits, wave bye bye and best of all - blow big kisses. She hasn't been to the Dr. yet for her 1 yr. checkup - her appointment is next week but I think she weighs about 17 or 18 lbs. now. I'll let you know. So we still have a couple months before she can sit forward facing in her car seat.
Well the big birthday bash is tomorrow. I'll post those pics up tomorrow.
P.S. - Molly has another cousin - Ashlyn Nicole born exactly 1 year and 1 day later than her. They'll be really close as they grow up I imagine.
Posted by Kim at August 20, 2004 11:18 PM