Mariah Christine

So I have this baby who is six months old and she is super cute. Her name is Mariah and I have never blogged her birth story, which is kind of funny since I love and anticipate reading other blogging mamas birth stories. So here is how it went down. 

I tried to get my labour going for like three weeks before she came. I get as big as a house and it was becoming quite difficult for me to take care of my other children. I ate a whole lot of pineapple and jumped on the trampoline, got a foot/leg massage along many other things. Finally, three days before her due date she came! I woke up at 4:00AM with a sharp contraction. They only happened about every 7 minutes, but they were consistant and painful. So I showered and woke Anthony up and we were on our way to the hospital by 5:00AM. I checked in and got into the monitoring room around 6ish. (My times are fuzzy. I promise I still love her even though she is my third and I don't take good notes.) I was on the monitor for like thirty minutes before they decided to check me. I tolerate pain fairly well and at this point they were looking to send me home. My contractions were still 7 minutes apart if that. Well I was at EIGHT! My doctor came in and broke my water and took me to my room. I got to walk around for a bit and then I laid down and I was like a 10 minus a little tiny bit. That little tiny bit was the worst. When I was a full ten I only had to push for like 5 minutes and she was out. 

Moral of the story: Third children are a total blessing. haha. Honestly though. Lydia took three whold hours to push out. Mariah was only five! 

Her hair! How is this my child!?

The kids love her every minute of everyday. I cannot imagine life without her. So in love. :) 

2014 Year End :)

This past year has definitely been a good one for the Burdett Family. We started off the year in Cochrane and we are ending it in Orton. Lydia and Brigham have grown so much in the past twelve months. We saw Brigham get his first eye surgery done and found out he will need another. He and all things high are not friends. Haha. He falls off of something at least twice daily. I am hoping this next surgery will help him and his depth perception.

Lydia is just a little cutie. She has an amazing vocabulary (or at least I think so) and she is understanding a whole lot these days. She sings to herself and she has a great imagination. She love to play pretend. Brigham follows right along flapping his arms like a bird or roaring like a lion. Lydia has been learning a little bit of sign and can sign her name.

Brigham has just started to really babble and loves to say grandpa and bubbles and pee! He can copy most things we say now, but I think his favourite word to say these days is yummy! Everytime he sees candy or his favourite foods he repeats yummy and points his arm towards whatever it is he wants to eat. And boy, can that kid eat! He was off of all kinds of milk around 11 months old. It made his tummy upset and I was slightly overjoyed since I didn't want to have to wean him off of any kind of food or drink. He drinks water like a champ. If ever he is slightly unhappy, I just give him water and he is happy as can be.

Another thing Brigham loves are his stuffed animals. Or anything soft for that matter. He just snuggles right in. Lydia loves little babies. She is so kind and gentle whenever she sees ones and just likes to comment on how cute they are. Lydia is excellent at giving compliments as well. Anytime Kayla brings a friend over, she just has to comment on their earrings, shoes, hair, shirt, you name it! She also adores being with the girls. She likes to hang out in Kayla's room while they get ready for whatever the day holds. Lydia actually has invited me into her own room to talk at times. I think it makes her feel special and grown up. haha.

This Christmas we stayed over at my parents house in Lethbridge. My kids quite enjoyed that, and Lydia especially liked having Uncle Brad to play with. She was also pretty excited to talk to her Uncle Jeff on Skype, but when it came down to it, she was just a little too shy to even show her face.

Lydia is really enjoying her presents she got for Christmas including puzzles, a baby doll, chocolate and a play castle. The castle was also for Brigham too! He has mostly enjoyed the food of the season and reading his new books. Oh and he has loved loved loved his soft oversized stuffies. :) So cute.

One of my favourite parts of the Christmas holidays was getting to see our new little one at our ultrasound and finding out that we are having another little girl! We are due May 15th and if she follows suit and comes early, we should get to meet her sometime before Mothers day :)

Here I am at 21 weeks.

And here are some pictures of my cute kids :) Ignore the big scabs on their faces. haha

Way too excited for a stuffed animal. haha

Brigham Rodney

I don't know why, but I love to read birth stories. They are all so different! Since I like to read them, I figure I should write Brigham's down so others can see how it went the second time around for me.

I started having contractions on August 26th at about noon. Anthony, Lydia and I were at the Helen Schuler Coulee Centre just checking things out. We went for a walk outside after we saw everything there was to see in the building. I was getting pretty uncomfortable about every five minutes. This pregnancy I had Braxton Hicks contractions so at this point it wasn't really anything different than what I had been feeling for the past week. But they stayed. So we drove over to my parents house and Anthony persuaded me to get on the treadmill to keep the contractions coming. While I was on the treadmill the contractions came 3 minutes apart, but they weren't painful to the point where I felt like I needed to go to the hospital. I went on and off the treadmill for a couple hours and the contractions would speed up to every 3 minutes while moving and down to 6 minutes apart when I was just sitting down. I got an app to measure contractions and by the time I went to the hospital they had been averaging about every four minutes. I didn't go to the hospital until about 8PM after I realized that I hadn't really been feeling any movement from Brigham. I figured he was just tired from being squished all day. After my dad, Anthony and Jeff gave me a blessing I went to the hospital with my sweet husband.

When I got to the hospital I was still in really good spirits, nobody really believed me that I was in labor. I didn't really believe it at that point either. I was certain they were going to send me home. They hooked me up to the machine to monitor Brigham's movements. I had to be hooked up longer than normal because he was sleeping. The monitor picked up a few movements and the nurse said he was doing perfectly fine. My contractions had slowed down to once every 7 minutes or so. The nice nurse lady checked me anyways because the whole labor and delivery floor was empty. She was very surprised to find that I was 5 cm. My water had not yet broken but she said that she would call my doctor and get him to break it for me.

He came and broke my water around 10:00ish and they put me back on the monitor and my contractions were still only 7 minutes apart. so I went for a walk after they took some blood from me. I immediately got a hematoma in my arm. It just looked really swollen. At about 11:00PM I was feeling something. haha. I went back into my room and endured through contractions coming every three minutes or so. Soon enough the nurses were looking nervously at each other and then out the window. The one nurse kept on checking her watch. I was really feeling it at this point and I thought to myself I don't remember it being this painful. haha. She just helped me breathe through it and finally the doctor showed up just after midnight. Brigham was born about 5 minutes after he showed up. I was soo happy that I only had to push for 5 minutes!! I pushed for 2 hours and 45 minutes with Lydia, so this was a piece of cake!

Brigham Rodney Burdett was born at 12:15AM on August 27th, 2013. 6 days early. He weighed 7 lbs 15oz and was 21.5 inches long. He has been an excellent baby and lets me sleep. Lydia on the other hand had a bit of jealousy and started waking up in the middle of the night after having slept through the night for over a year! So between Brigham and Lydia waking up I got only a few hours of sleep the first couple of weeks.

Lydia has since been cured of her terrible sleeping habits, but has not been cured of her pinching habits. She definitely loves her little brother and hugs and kisses him all the time, but she is still almost a 2 year old.

Having two kids is definitely hard, but so fun at the same time! They are both so cute and I totally get what is meant when they say you will have joy in your posterity.

 Lydia meeting Brigham for the first time.

 The Burdett Family:)

Leaving the hospital

Our Little Girl

Well, our baby girl just couldn't wait for her due date. Lydia Estelle graced us with her presence 18 days early! She was born January 28th at 7:31 PM and weighed 7 lbs 4 oz.

Anthony and I had planned to go to the Temple that morning and then come home and get some serious renovation work done on the house. We got to the Temple..... but then my water broke while I was in the Temple. (Yes I was that girl that you heard about. haha) My cousin said she had heard that someones water broke in the Temple, but she didn't know it was me until my Grandma told her later that day.

After my water broke I didn't start having any contractions until about 1:00 PM. That gave us time to pack a hospital bag. We went to the hospital at 2:00 PM and 2 hours later I was fully dilated. I was surprised though how many times they ask you if you want anything for pain. I mean, I said I didn't want anything the first time. Now this little girl took her time coming and made me work real hard. 3 hours of pushing is way too long. Fortunately Lydia was fine the whole time and my doctor and the nurses were so supportive and kept me going. I am a strong believer that women were made to have babies and don't need drugs. Then again I am quite used to pain and pushing my limits.

Having her here with us has been amazing. So far she has been a great little eater and sleeper. And she is so cute! Of course I am her mother, but she really is adorable. :) I am so grateful for the opportunity that I have to be a mother and a wife. I love my little family.

Coming soon...

Almost a whole year has passed without an update on my blog. So much has happened! Biggest news for Anthony and I is that we are due to have a baby in 5 weeks! It is so crazy for me to think that it is that close. We went to a Labour and Delivery Pre-Natal class on Saturday...oh boy was that ever interesting. It gave me alot to think about as far as birth plan/wishes go. It looks like Anthonys job during labour will be to give me a ton of massages. haha. For those of you who may not know we are having a girl and the exact due date is February 15th. We have a name picked but we are trying to keep it a secret. :) There needs to be some kind of suprise on the big day.

We are getting our hardwood floor refinished today! Well at least the living room floor for now. I am not too sure what day our bedrooms are getting done. Hopefully soon or else we will be living at my parents house when the baby is born. We have done quite a few renovations on our little house since we bought it last July and it has been a lot of fun! I will post pictures once we get all the furniture moved back in.

I guess for now I will just have to leave you with my

latest bump picture. :)