7 months

Quincy is 7 (and a half) months old! She is just over 19lbs and is 28.5 inches long. She wears 9mo all the way to 18month clothes. She is LONG. 

She started sitting up a few weeks ago and prefers this all the time now. We still do some tummy time, hoping she will crawl soon but she usually just screams till I sit her up. 

She is grabbing everything, drooling like crazy but still no teeth. 

She eats baby food once a day, but we skip if she doesn't nurse well. She's a great eater, but gets distracted from nursing VERY easily. 

She goes to bed around 7, goes down SUPER easy (thank you, DOCKATOT), wakes up 2-3 times to eat (I know, yikes!) and sleeps till 7-7:30. I know it's hard to believe, but I DO NOT mind one bit nursing her at night. Maybe just cause I know she's my last baby to nurse so I actually kind of enjoy it. I will truly be sad when she starts sleeping all night! 

She takes 3 naps a day 1-2.5 hours. 

She is always happy, unless she's tired. She loves watching big brother and sister. She's very snuggly, loves to giggle and talk, and just loves being a part of what's going on. Leave the girl in the other room, and she will let you hear about it! 

3.5ish months for Q ball

I'm going to go ahead and give an update on Q girl since I am taking her to the doc this afternoon and I'm currently thinking about it! I'll likely forget or not have time when it comes to her 4month update.

I suspected she had her first ear infection. She has been ever so slightly congested with no runny nose for about 3 weeks. She is such a content little lady that taking her to the doc, honestly, has not even occurred to me until recently her night time sleep has been BAD. Up most of the night, nursing all the time. She is just happy as a lark during the day tho. So this morning it dawned on me that Blakely would get ear infections and have no symptoms other than fussiness. Doc said she has fluid behind one ear but doesn't look bad. So if she doesn't shape up will try an antibiotic in a few days. She is 14.5 lbs! Little porker! 

And poor thing with that hair. 😂 she's just the prettiest with a bow tho. 

Little miss is just as sweet and easygoing as she could possibly be. She goes to bed around 6, and is not interested AT ALL in being up any later. She nurses 3 times through the night until she is up around 6:30. I have not even attempted to hold her off any longer since she is in bed with me and I'm asleep within a minute or two of her waking me up. Maybe I should try, but I'm just too tired! Plus we are sleeping great as it is. 

She has really started to warm up to Stephen and actually lets him keep her without throwing too big of a stink. He can even get her down for a nap- not sure our other two let him do that for the first year of their lives! 

She rolls over front to back- almost
immediately after putting her on her tummy. So not much tummy time happens. Plus she's the 3rd baby so she's lucky if I even remember to put her on her tummy once every few days. 😳

She loves Blakely and Henry- and doesn't look quite as scared when Henry approaches. He is also really improving on the dos and donts of babies. He's still a little aggressive (think growling 2 cm from her face) and is entirely too self assured (running as fast as he can within inches of her head---"but I'm being careful, mom!")

She's turned into a pretty great napper for me during the day. She goes down super easy, usually sleeps for 30-45, talks to herself for a bit, then goes back to sleep for 30-1hr. She's a dream compared to my other two! 

Still eats every 3 hours or so and is a breeze to nurse. 

We do lots of snuggling cause I know she's probably my last and I know first d that they grow up too fast! (I'm about to have a kid in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!)

Literally the cheesiest grin you've ever seen after she wakes up. Lol

3 months!

Q pie turned 3 months on Christmas Day. Her first Christmas was spent sniffling from a cold and sleeping while other people opened her presents. 

5 grandchildren 5 and under. All still take naps, one takes two naps, one takes 4 naps. It was difficult to find a time where everyone was awake to even take this picture! And to get everyone to smile... Not happening! 

Blakey and Henry get more and more fun. They had a blast with the cousins and we made memories celebrating Jesus' birthday. 

I am not sure how much Quinny girl weighs but I would guess around 13lbs. A few weeks ago she was around 12.5. She wears size 2 diapers and is wearing 6mo clothes. Smaller pants and shirts fit, but she needs 6mo length if it is a one piece. 

She is awake for about an hour and then needs to start winding down for a nap. She sleeps in her "dockatot". She usually wakes up at 30 minutes on the dot. Talks for a little while, then starts fussing, and sometimes will go back to sleep, sometimes not. She takes 4 "naps" a day, but the last one (after 3:30) is usually in her carrier. She goes to bed between 6-6:30, sometimes earlier if she didn't get that last nap. And if you don't get her to bed on time she will make you PAY. Girlfriend is my LOUDEST screamer by a mile. She doesn't mess around with fussing either. She goes straight for the death scream. She sleeps from 6-6-7:30ish. She usually eats twice sometime in there. 

She's my easiest nurser. She eats every 2.5-3hours. And only eats for 5-10minutes. 

As you can see, she doesn't miss a meal. She is so fluffy! She has rolls that neither of my other kids ever had. #midforearmroll

She loves kicking and talking on the floor when she is awake, watching big brother and sister play, and watching tv. She is also a big snuggler!  

She really is a super laid back baby, and goes with the flow of our fam. Thank goodness! 

8 weeks

Q baby is 8 weeks old! We went to the doc for reflux yesterday. Two month check is in a couple weeks and I'm already having anxiety over her getting shots. 😭

She is 23.5 inches long (96%!!!)

And weighs 11lbs 11oz (68%!)

BIG GIRL. 

She started prevacid(?) this morning for reflux. She has spells of being REALLY fussy that seem to be related to eating. She grunts and squirms a lot when she is laying down and spits up a ton. Blakely and Henry had this problem too, but I think she is the worst so far. She doesn't sleep peacefully so I want to see if this settles her a bit. Here's hoping! 

She still doesn't win any awards napping during the day, but we make it work with the solly wrap, or i hold her, or i lay down with her and put her pacifier in over and over. 😉

She usually starts to get super fussy around 4:30/5 and she goes to bed around 6:30. 50/50 she goes down easy or goes with a big fight. She usually does one long stretch 4-6 hours, then gets up at least one more time before getting up between 6:30/7:30. 

She's a mix of her brother and sisters personalities. She can be laid back like her brother was, but does not have his long fuse- she gets mad quick like her sister. She's pretty happy and smiley during the day like Henry was! 

And because my other two babies are pretty cute too:

5 weeks

Quincy babe is almost 6 weeks! I'm updating on her because we had to go to the doc 😝 so I know her weight currently. She was 10lbs 5oz! Chunker!  

She already has her first cold. So sad. She isn't super fussy during the day, but
she's not sleeping. It seems to really bother her at night. Poor girl can hardly breath. I find myself trying to clear the mucous out of my own throat and nose thinking maybe it will clear it for her. Lol. 

This was the one good nap she's taken since who knows when. 

She was Cinderella for Halloween. 

So far she is certainly not the easy third baby I was counting on. It's good that I kept this blog when Henry was little, cause I remember him being so easy, then I read this and realize he really wasn't that easy. 

Quincy doesn't fuss a ton during the day, but does at night. She requires all of my attention from about 4 until I can get her to go to sleep. I've been trying to get her to bed around 6:30 for the past week. But it doesn't always work. Thanks to my noisy other kids and her just not really wanting to cooperate. She sleeps okish at night. She doesn't stay awake long after I feed her but she wakes up SCREAMING when she's hungry or whatever else is upsetting her. Like literally I think she's shaving years off my life when I wake up in a panic cause she is death screaming right next to me. It is so startling. She grunts and squirms all night. Even in bed with me she just doesn't sleep restfully. She eats about twice a night. During the day she goes 2.5-3 hours and at night usually does one 4hr (we've gotten a couple 5hr) stretches  unfortunately it's the first one after she goes to bed. So I don't benefit much from it. She also spits up quite a bit every time she eats. 

This is as close to a smile as I've gotten on camera. But she IS smiling at me. More each day. I think I got my first smile a couple weeks ago. 

Blakely wants to hold her touch her sing to her play with her all the time. I actually have to keep her away sometimes cause she has a knack for "playing" with her as she is dozing off or barely stirs and Blakely yells "she's awake!" Lol. Henry occasionally wants to touch her or hold her but he is generally not that interested in her. He told us the other day that he's still not ok with it that she isn't a boy. 

Leonardo and Elsa. 😊

Quincy Mae

Well, I am obviously not in the blogging game anymore, but I wanted to take a minute and document baby number 3! With two kids, I know all too well how quickly the memories fade, and there are plenty of things that I do not want to forget!

This pregnancy was WAY different than my other two.  In many ways it was the easiest.  I had the least amount of medical complications.  Quincy always grew right on track. I NEVER measured small (lol). We never even had to see a specialist!  So different than my last two.  I drove 10 minutes to each appt. instead of 45 minutes multiple times a week.  However, in other ways it was the hardest.  I truly think that 30 (years of age) took its toll on this pregnancy. I learned first hand that there is a big difference in 25 and pregnant and 30 and pregnant.  Along with chasing after my other two kiddos, my body just was more...tired. Things hurt a little more, got a little bigger than before, and I managed to have pretty much every possible negative pregnancy symptom there is.  Heartburn, swelling, sleeplessness, leg cramps, shortness of breath, extreme fatigue, etc.  Not to mention about halfway through I developed a hernia. I also was not eager for this pregnancy to be over like I was the other ones.  Despite being pretty miserable the whole second half, as the reality of having THREE children sank in I sortof went into panic mode and at times (all the time) thought maybe we'd made a big mistake.  Stephen ASSURED me the entire time that this was (obviously) God's plan for our lives and that we were going to have a baby (whether I wanted to or not). It wasn't until my last few weeks of misery that I was even excited about having a baby.  Is that terrible or what?! But in all seriousness, I got uncomfortable enough that I decided that having a baby was less terrifying than continuing to be pregnant.

Back in March, when I was a mere 2 months pregnant, I thought it would be a GREAT idea to rent our house out.  I figured being the fairly laid back person that I am, I was flexible enough to swing it.  After all, what were the chances of me actually HAVING the baby on one of the weekends we had the house rented? Well, I am a laid back person EXCEPT WHEN I AM 39 WEEKS PREGNANT AND RENTING MY HOUSE OUT.  woopsies.  I definitely caused myself a lot of stress with that one.  It was time to schedule my induction, which was going to be during the time we had our house rented for 4 days.  Thankfully we have family that lives nearby and was kind enough to let my entire family stay with them before we had Quincy.

Oh yeah, and the poor girl did not have a name until a few days before we had her, and even then we were not totally sure.  We went through a ton of names, and just never LOVED any of them.  With Blakely and Henry, as soon as we knew the gender, within a week or maybe even days we had their names picked out and we never looked back. With this one, we would like a name and then after a week or two we would cool off on it.  We also had a really hard time agreeing.  Stephen would love a name (Clara) and I would just not be quite as on board.  And vice versa- I loved Ella, and Charlotte.  The name we were closest to giving her was Charley.  I still really love this name for a girl.  Scoff if you want, but I think its great.  After we had Henry we said our next child would be Charley- boy or girl.  The only reason we cooled on it was because it seemed to be a rising trend, and we weren't really going for trendy.  As it came down to the wire, it was between Ella and Clara.  For some reason I just couldn't commit to either.  A few days before we had her I mentioned Quincy, and stephen loved it and then we stuck with it.  Given our flakiness before, I was unsure we'd actually keep it, but on the day I delivered her we just went for it, and now it feels like it was meant to be her name.


On to the actual birth story.  I was scheduled to be induced at 5am Friday September 25th.  My birthday.  At first I was not excited about sharing a birthday, but Friday just happened to be the most convenient day for us to have a baby since I HAD to rent my house out.  I know many people might frown on someone being induced on a day because it is "convenient" and to those people I say "yep, my bad." But it was between Thursday and Friday so I didn't feel too bad about it.  We were at my aunt and uncle's with the kids. I took a benadryl the night before so I had at least a shot at sleeping (great decision) and I woke up at 4am and couldn't go back to sleep.  I half expected myself to go into labor the night before since that's what happened with Henry.  I was having contractions, but nothing regular.  I was already dilated to 4cm, so I could get the epi as soon as I wanted, but I was very afraid of getting it without considerable pain. With my other two, it was complicated, hurt and ended up not working until a couple of tries.  The only thing that made it better was that I was in enough pain that it was worth the pain of the epi to EVENTUALLY get relief.  This time, I knew I probably wanted it eventually, but I was scared to get it before I was in a lot of pain. As with all my labors, as soon as I walked into the hospital my blood pressure went up. I never have high bp at any other time during my pregnancies.  I think its called white coat syndrome or something.  This time it was much higher than with my other labors (185/125). So after a couple of hours I decided to go ahead with the epi in hopes that my bp would go down.  It did go down a little, but was still high for the rest of the time I was in the hospital.  This epi guy was AWESOME and I literally barely felt a thing and it worked right away.  PTL.  Then it was pretty smooth sailing for a while.  Me and stephen just got to chat and hang out all morning. I cherrished it a little more this time because I knew that our little chats were about to come to and end once we added a third.  It really was a fun morning. My doc was busy with lots of deliveries and surgeries so he actually didn't get around to breaking my water until sometime after noon.  Around that time, sadly, my epi was not working on my belly area.  So I couldnt feel my legs, but I sure could feel the contractions. I think at the time I might have thought it was terrible, but two weeks later and I literally can't really remember it.  Up until he broke my water I had only progressed to a 5, and then around 2:45 he decided to check me because my contractions were milder but close together and sure enough there she was! (like, I think he could see her head! yikes!) So everyone casually started getting things ready for me to push, and I thought I should mention that I only pushed once for Henry...so they said they were going to go ahead and get the pediatric nurses in there.  I still didn't actually think it would go that fast, and obviously neither did they, because I pushed once, heard a baby crying, and my doc saying "Call the ped nurses!" I of course started crying right away. There was a little slippery baby on my chest crying, and I did not know who she was.  People were asking us what her name was (cause we hadn't even told anyone that Quincy was a possibility) and I think we were both afraid to say it outloud. Stephen told me to tell them (which I'm still kinda mad that he did that, cause I was blubbering crying cause there was a BABY on my chest, but whatever). And through tears and sobs I said "Her name is Quincy Mae." I then heard my dad from the door say "Her name is WHAT?!" lol.  I don't really know what anyone thought/thinks of her name since we didn't get ANYONES opinion on it, but I don't care, and I'm so glad that we got to pick a name without input from anyone else.

She was 6lbs 11oz.  20 inches long.  I got to hold her for a little while before they had to take her to the warmer cause her temp was a little low.  My parents were there when I delivered her, so they went to get the kids right after.  They were funny, and not how I would have expected.  Blakely saw Quincy, but was SO worried about me being "alone" on my birthday.  I guess stephen doesn't count.  So she showered me with gifts- little trinkets she had found and drawings and little pages with stickers on them. It was super sweet.  Henry was VERY interested in Quincy.  He mainly wanted to hear her cry. Little stinker. They were there for the whole post birth process of them putting the antibiotics on her eyes, clamping her cord, and bathing her. It was pretty fun for them to watch, and I was confined to my bed, so they had a much better seat than me! Henry was VERY handsy with her. I had to tell him multiple times not to touch her face cause he was definitely about to poke her eyes out.  A little while later my parents left with the kids and headed to OK for the week.  It felt like forever, but was definitely much needed for us! We ended up staying in the hospital two nights because of my blood pressure, and got to go home Sunday morning.  Which was perfect timing since our RENTERS checked out sunday morning.  We had a girl come and clean for us before we got there.

The last two weeks have been crazy.  Quincy was tongue tied- anterior and posterior, as well as lip tied.  We had the anterior one fixed, but didn't learn about the posterior and lip until a few days ago, so we will be getting those corrected this week.  Stephen got sick (of course) about a week after Q was born, and he is still fighting it off. I got it too, but not quite as bad. The kids came back after a week, and have been adjusting pretty well.  They are playing together better than they every have- I guess because they know they only have each other right now.  haha! I don't know if I'll update this again, but I did want to make sure and have her birth story documented as best as I could!

July 2014

It's been a while! Here's a quick update of the last few months. 😉

We bought a house

  

Went to Kaleo at the beach for 6 weeks. 

Had a fun visit from Uncle Joey, Papa, and Gigi. 

Seaside vaca with cousins, BB, and D-dad!

Back home to our own backyard!