Sarah's First Week

I can't believe it has already been a week since our little girl was born. This has been the fastest, most exciting, most emotional week of my life. I had several people try to tell me what to expect after having a baby, but I really had no idea what it would be like until it happened. I have truly never felt so much love for another human being than I do for this precious little girl. (crying again). It is hard to take my eyes off of her for even a second for fear that I will miss a new facial expression. Also, I was totally one of those people that said things like, "my baby will never sleep in bed with me, that is a bad habit" and "if my baby cries I will just let her cry until she goes to sleep in her own crib," but now that she is here it is SO different. I hate to hear her cry and want her to be happy all the time and if that means she sleeps with me a few hours a night so be it. I understand she will eventually need to sleep in her crib, and I am getting there, but for now I want to cherish every moment with her. Sarah's first week was definitely a busy one. We came home Monday and had several visitors, including Maryellen & Brandon, come over to see baby Sarah. Tuesday she had her newborn checkup with Dr. Dinicola and also had to get tested for Jaundice. Wednesday she was tested again, but the test was wrong so the Dr. said if it gets worse take her to urgent care on Friday. On Thanksgiving she looked so orange I kept calling her my little punkin head. We had a busy (and a bit overwhelming) Thanksgiving day. David played football with a couple different groups of guys that morning while Sarah and I hung out at the house with Grandma Glenda and Katy and Lucy. We did a fun little photo shoot with Lucy and Sarah because their outfits happen to match (I will post pictures soon). Then we went to Grandma Smith's and ate a yummy dinner my Aunt Debbie had made and the awesome turkey David made. After dinner we took family pictures and then headed over to Uncle David's house for dessert. It was fun to visit with all the family, but I was exhausted by the end of the day. My dad also got here on Thanksgiving, but we didn't see him until Friday night. So on Friday, my mom and I took her to the Pedi Center to get tested again. They sent us to Mercy SW lab to get her tested and they called later on Friday to say her results looked good and she would be just fine. While we were out at Mercy SW we went to see a lactation specialist to help me figure out the whole nursing thing. They were helpful, but I still have to use the shield (which isn't so bad, I guess). Saturday was the first day I was able to stay home all day with her so we enjoyed it. Today we went to my grandma's for my cousin's little girl, Emma's, 1st birthday. So that was Sarah's first week. It went by way too fast!

Sarah Jean Bunting

We had an exciting weekend. Lindsey checked into Mercy Southwest on friday evening. Before that we had dinner with her family at California Pizza kitchen and hung out. After we got to the hospital lindsey was given a drug to help her efface. We waited 12 hours and nothing happened so she was given another dose and after 12 more hours (saturday night at 10 p.m.) she had started some strong contractions.the was given an epidural which was pretty cool from my perspective but lindsey was pretty focused on not moving. Dr Tan came in and broke her water by about 11pm saturday, that night Me, Lindsey, Glenda, and my Mom all stayed in the room and we tried to get some sleep. I guess I slept pretty good becuase I woke up at about 3:30 am sunday morning when I heard the nurse tell Lindsey she was dilated to a 9.5 so i jumped up, got dressed, and tried to keep my cool. She pushed for about an hour and a half, then the doctor came and helped get things moving. It was amazing to see. we never knew what we were having, so it was also incredible to see a little girl come out screaming. Lindsey and the baby are both healthy and home. so without further ado, pictures.

Family Pictures

Puzzle Pieces

I stole these pictures of me and Katy from Jill's blog because I am too lazy to upload the ones I took. Thanks Jill!


We are like pregnant puzzle pieces because my belly fits right on top of hers.

We are even puzzle pieces back to back because my butt sits right on top of hers.

I am due Nov. 24th and Katy is due Dec. 30th.

#2 Pregnancy

I know I haven't blogged much about my pregnancy, but I have been writing most of what happens in my pregnancy journal. So I am going to basically copy down most of what is in my journal here.
How I found out I was pregnant: David and I had been trying to get pregnant for about a year and I had taken around a dozen pregnancy tests and they were always negative. Well, I decided that I wouldn't take another one until I was almost sure that I was pregnant because I was tired of being diappointed. So around the 2nd week in March I was feeling pretty sure I was pregnant. I was late and I was extremely tired (more so than usual). So I went to Katy's to take a test, I think she had one already or I just didn't want to do it alone, I forget. I took the test in her bathroom and then waited by myself for the result. It showed up negative so I waited a few more minutes trying to will it to change, but it did not. So, I started bawling my eyes out and then walked out and Katy tried to console me, but I just left crying. I was around the corner from their apartment when Katy called me and told me I was pregnant. I was kind of mad so some reason because I had just seen the test and I didn't know why she would do this to me. So I turned around crying the whole way of course and then she showed me my test, which she dug out of trash. I still saw negative, but Katy pointed out that there was a VERY VERY VERY faint line there which made it positive. I still couldn't see the line, but Katy was so confident that it was positive that I started crying and knew she had to be right. It was a very emotional moment.
How I told David: Well, that was on a Wednesday I believe and Easter was the following Sunday so I decided to wait and put something in David's easter basket to tell him. So I put sugar daddy's and sour patch kids and other stuff like that and then in the back was a picture of the test I took (an EPT test that was electronic and just said "pregnant") because the test cleared after 24 hours. He was excited and the first thing he said was, "I just saw this really cool website with cool baby stuff on it." He swears he doesn't remember saying that.
How we told the family: Well, we had planned Easter dinner to be at our house so later that day when everyone came over we told them then. I told me mom first seperately and she started crying and everyone was wondering what was wrong to then I gave the picture of the test to Gaye and told her to tell everyone what it said. It was SO awkward for both of us to tell anyone so we always tried to do it in a round about way.
Health during pregnancy: I would say I have had a pretty pleasant pregnancy. I had night sickness early on in the pregnancy, but I am pretty good about throwing up so it didn't bother me too bad. As most of you know and witnessed, I didn't show for a very long time so moving around hasn't been a problem until recently; it is getting to be a little difficult to bend over or get out of a soft chair (i.e. the love sac). The worst part has by far been the heart burn. It gets so bad! I finally started taking a heartburn pill that worked, but as of a couple days ago it hasn't been working. Oh, and as I posted awhile back, when I was in Idaho this past summer I had the worst migraine I have had!
Ultrasounds: I had my first ultrasound on July 14 (it seems like just the other day). I was 21 weeks and the baby was measuring 21 weeks. The baby was in a fetal position facing down so it was hard for the ultrasound lady to see everything she needed to see so we got to go back 4 weeks later for another one. The second ultrasound was great. They finished the fetal survey and said everything looks good. Well, I got a call not too long after the second ultrasound and they said they wanted to ultrasound specialist from UCLA to take a look at me and the baby because the head was measuring big and the stomach was measuring small. I really wasn't worried about it, however, I can't say the same for my mother, she was a nervous wreck leading up the appointment. Well, we saw the specialist and everything was fine. He took a look at David's big head and my small stomach and that explained why the baby was measuring funny. I did have one unscheduled ultrasound when I had a little scare in the grocery store. On Oct. 8th, I was shopping and suddenly I had pain on my right side, especially in my lower right back. I thought maybe I just had to pee so I went to the restroom, but the pain just kept getting worse so I went to my car to drive home, but the pain was so bad so I called David to come get me. While he was on his way a threw up and by the time he got there it was so bad so he drover me straight to the Dr. My Dr. checked me and then sent me straight over to have a stress test done, but that nurse was having a hard time with the machine and I was still in a ton of pain so she wheelchaired me (embarrassing, but necessary) over to the ultrasound lab and by the time I got my ultrasound the pain had gone away. I was 33 weeks and the ultrasound still showed the head at 2 weeks big (35 weeks) and the stomach at 2 weeks small (31 weeks). I am scheduled to have another ultrasound on Monday (38 weeks) to see how big this kid is...just to make sure. There is a history of big babies on both sides.
Fun Facts: I first felt the baby move at 22 weeks. It took a while for me to feel it because the placenta was on top; I forget what that is called.
Friends that are pregnant: I have had several friends to go threw this with me. Katy is due Dec. 30th so that has been exciting. Aubrey found out she was pregnant on Sept. 15 so that was exciting, she is due May 26th. In our ward there are quite a few pregnant ladies including: Brittany Bulkeley (actually just had her baby about a week ago), Heather Cline (Jan.), Stefanie Ray (Feb.), and Leanne Persinger and Karen Carrillo had babies a few months ago.
Cravings: I haven't had a lot of cravings. My biggest one has been for cinnamon rolls. I think I am finally over that. Also, in my journal, it says I craved grilled cheese sandwhichs early on. Good thing I wrote all this down because I already forgot most of what happened 8 months ago.
The Nursery: We almost have the nursery finished. We just need a few finishing touches to say we are done. The nursery kind of came together on its own really early on as far as furniture goes. My sister had to clean out my nephews room to make some room in her apartment so she brought the crib and changing table that she had over to my house when I was only a couple months pregnant. We already had the toy chest from David's childhood in the room since we moved into the house. And then I was just out yard selling one day when I found the little green couch. I will post pictures later, our disk space is low or something and I can't get the pictures to come up. The paint color was from a magazine idea I had, but ended up not doing to whole idea, so it is a light yellow color. Not really how I had imagined it, but it looks good.

As of today, I am sick. I started feeling sick last night and was up all night throwing up and have been feeling nauseous off and on all day today. I have heard that sometimes women get sick right before they go into labor so we'll see. Also, the baby has been moving like CRAZY today. It's like its trying to punch its way out or something. Well, that's all for now. I feel so much better having documented my pregnancy on my blog so I can't lose these memories.

I will post pictures of my belly and the nursery as soon as I can.

Please excuse my Gay Bashing

I decided to weigh in just in time to swing voters who haven't made up their minds. I think I have had more interest in our states propositions than the presidential race. I lost interest in the run for the white house when a bunch of idiots in New Hampshire decided that they should vote for an old liberal republican over someone that could have fixed our economy. I hope they are happy, now we get to decide between two senators from a congress with a 75% disapproval rating. I don't really call that a choice. I could talk for hours about Obama but that would make me just like him, talking about the way things should be but never really doing anything. unless you count running a campaign as experience. John McCain has a track record which affords us nothing but a clear picture that he loves democrats and despises conservative values. I would vote for Alan Keyes but his problem is he is too smart for 90% for the population to understand.
As for our propositions #8 is the most polarizing. I could really care less about someone deciding to be gay. take more than a minute to read the California family code and you will know that gay couples already have all the same rights that a straight couple have, they just cant be married. READ IT HERE All that 8 will do is define MARRIAGE as between a man and woman. Prop 8 only adds 14 words to the constitution "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Opponents seem to have forgotten that we already went over this eight years ago and prop 22 passed 68.4% to 38.6% and that is in California of all places. But I guess popular opinion does not matter unless it in line with what the newspapers and labor unions tell us to vote for. Now we have to vote on the same issue again because a couple of worthless judges decided to deem prop 22 invalid because it violated the our states constitution. On Wednesday we will know how Californians felt and I am sure I will feel pretty good, I just might have to pick up some rainbow cookies at Smith's Bakery.


P.s. This post is in no way conclusive i left out about 10 other propositions but i hate quoting T. Boone Pickens and the Sierra Club.