Dear Tyler,
You and I had to stay in the hospital for 48 hours following your birth. Daddy stayed with us the first night, sleeping on the fold-out couch in our room. I decided to let you stay in the nursery as I was very sleep deprived and exhausted. It was a long night as the nurses came in to check on me and push on my belly to check on my uterus every couple of hours. They brought you in to the room so that I could feed you whenever you were hungry.
Dear Tyler,
We were scheduled to be at the hospital by 6am for our induction. Your daddy thought that was awful early and joked with me as to whether he could just meet me over there a little later in the morning. 🙂 Don’t worry…he was just kidding. He wouldn’t have missed your birth for anything.
Gina and I got to the hospital a little after 6:00 am this morning. Gina was a little nervous. She asked if I was nervous. I said not really. 3rd time is a charm. She said yeah your not pushing a bowling ball out today.
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Dear Tyler,
You were my 3rd pregnancy and I wasn’t sure what to expect since my other two were so completely different. Was I going to be throwing up the entire nine months like I did with Bailey or was I going to have trouble with pre term labor like I did with Makenna or was this going to be another unique experience? Well you ended up being another unique experience! Full of fun and adventure (most of the time…). At age 40, I was on the older end to be doing this again, but I still felt so young. Your daddy said that I looked at least 5 years younger very soon after getting pregnant. I’m sure some of it was the pregnancy hormones and some of it was just plain being happy and excited. One thing I knew for sure, I wanted to enjoy every single second of the pregnancy.
I was 37 weeks along and anticipating giving birth at any time as I had been having lots of contractions each evening. On Sunday, December 18th, Nate lounged around all day. He was not feeling well at all and had a pain just below his sternum. We assumed it must have been something he had eaten.
This year for Thanksgiving I smoked two turkeys using our new smoker. Grandma was making a ham and the rest if the fixings.
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