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Baby OOTD // Wake Me Up Designs

Mornings with my little bubby are so priceless to me. It is my favorite time of day. He is so happy and loves to play while I drink my coffee and make out my schedule/lists for the day.

My sweet bloggy friend, Sarah from Whimsical Minutes has recently opened an Etsy shop called Wake Me Up Designs. She sells coffee mugs that can be personalized and has recently started adding other products to her shop. Right now she has this adorable “Mommy’s Coffee Date” tee-shirt and also has a matching mug! When I saw the tee-shirt, this coffee obsessed mommy had to have it for Hamp. She is going to add more shirt designs for babies and toddlers soon. Sarah also made me this personalized tee-pee mug that I absolutely adore! It made our morning a little more special.

Sarah is offering my readers a discount to her shop by using this code: sscblove


Follow Wake Me Up Designs on Instagram @wakemeupdegins and don’t forget to favorite her shop on etsy!

Shirt: WMUD // Jeans: Target (similar) // Socks: Khols (similar)

Hampton // 3 Months

Hampton is 3 months! He is now wearing 3-6 month clothes, is eating 3 ounces every 2 1/2 hours and is smiling and baby talking all the time. He is finally taking 1 or 2 naps a day which is much better than he was doing last month. He is able to sit in his bumbo and loves to go on walks with mommy. He discovered his taggie blanket and won’t ride in the car without it. He loves Thomas the Train. He had a fun weekend with his best friend, George and he saw his first snow! He is growing so fast and is almost rolling over. He is waking up once during the night and is still sleeping in his pack and play, however he does take naps in his crib so we have started the transition. He weighed 12 lbs and 14 ounces at his last doctor appointment and was 25 inches long. We go back at the end of this month. Happy 3 months sweet baby!

Hampton is 2 Months

So, I’m terrible. Hamp was 2 months on Christmas Eve and I’m just now getting around to posing it. This is a year of firsts. We celebrated Christmas with our sweet angel this year and also enjoyed bringing in the new year with him. Here is a look at Hamp’s second month:

Hampton is smiling all the time and cooing/ talking a lot. He is really loving his swing these days and is starting to cry a little less during tummy time. He still doesn’t like to sleep much but Mommy has made it her mission to start getting him to take at least one nap a day. He hasn’t been napping at all during the day up until this point unless he did not sleep at all the night before. He had his first ear infection this month which was pitiful but luckily some antibiotics cleared it right up. He has been rolling over on his back since he was 3 weeks old, but he is doing it a lot more often now. He is still sleeping in his pack and play next to our bed but we hope to make the transition into his crib in the next couple of weeks. He is starting to pull hair. He eats 4 ounces and is growing like a weed. he is in the 95th percentile for his height (not surprising since Ryan and I are tall) and 50th for his weight. He still loves to stare at fans and is happiest in the mornings. 
Happy 2 months, sweet boy!

My Christmas Miracle

My Christmas miracle blessing, as you may have guessed, is my son, Hampton. Last December I had some tests done. Ryan and I had been trying to get pregnant for a few months with no luck and I wanted to make sure everything was okay. On Christmas Eve last year, I got a phone call from my doctor saying that it was not okay. I had not been ovulating. At all. Do you know how devastating it was? After all those months of trying and then to find out it was never going to happen. That something was wrong with my body. That it was me who was keeping us from getting pregnant. I felt like my body had failed me. I started thinking “what have I done to make this happen?” It was devastating.

I remember sitting on the bathroom floor crying that night and begging God for not only a baby but just a little bit of hope. I didn’t want to lose hope. I didn’t want to give up and probably never would. I begged him to give me a sign that things would be okay.

During Christmas I had a very hard time getting through the day and all the festivities. I’ll never forget when my FIL asked when we were going to have kids and I had to all but run to the bathroom to ball my eyes out. It was awful. Of course they didn’t know because we had not told anyone at that time. The thought of me never being able to have children plagued my mind. I have always wanted kids. I love them so much.

At the end of January, I took an ovulation test and got a smiley face! I had ovulated! There was all the hope and sign I needed. Thank you, Lord!

My doctor is a close friend of my family’s. She is a precious woman. She prayed for me daily during those devastating months. She prescribed me clomid and my 2nd month taking it, I got pregnant!

February 21st I saw two pink lines! I cried and cried and I couldn’t wait to tell Ryan so I called him at work and balled/screamed it into the phone. He was in a meeting and had to make a quick exit. He came home for lunch and we danced around all giddy and I cried for probably 2 days straight.

Because I was on clomid I had a greater risk of miscarrying so I immediately began praying fervently. I begged God not to take this miracle from me. I told him I didn’t know if I could handle it but that I definitely didn’t want to have to handle it after everything we had already been through emotionally and physically.

I had to have my blood taken the next day and everything was confirmed. I had to have blood taken every week for the first 4 weeks and then had our first ultrasound. My baby was perfectly healthy! We told our family when I was 12 weeks along.

He blessed us with our sweet angel on October 24th, 2013. My life has changed forever and God’s timing was perfect. I told Ryan that maybe God wasn’t ready for us to have a baby until then. I am holding my baby extra close this holiday season. We are so blessed and God is so GOOD!

Merry Christmas, to all my readers! I have been so blessed by you for the last year and a half and I’m sure I will continue to be.

What are you thankful for this holiday season?

Being a Mom: The First Weeks

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing and natural experience. It still rocked my world like I assume it does most people. Reading every book in the world will not prepare you for the selflessness it takes to be a mother.I prayed throughout the entire pregnancy for patience and wisdom to raise my child. I would not be making it today without God’s help with both of these things. I’ve actually been shocked with the amount of patience he has blessed me with.

I have honestly loved every step of the process. My pregnancy wasn’t perfect but it was an incredible experience. In fact, I told Ryan that I could not imagine it being my only pregnancy. I would have 4 more if he let me. haha The moment I saw my baby boy, my heart melted. He was exactly how I pictured him. I just knew he would have my brown eyes because brown is a dominant color. I knew he would have his daddy’s nose because that gene is strong in his family. I also knew he would have hair because the ultrasound tech told us he had a head full at our last visit. He was everything I imagined, but so much more.

From the moment we arrived home from the hospital, I was extremely overwhelmed. Not only was I feeling very uncomfortable from the episiotomy, I also walked in to a house FULL of company. I immediately felt like I had to entertain. I probably should have sat down and relaxed, but that is hard for me to do with a house full of people. We ended up having guests until 10:30 that night. I was exhausted, hungry and I lost it. I balled my eyes out to Ryan (bless his heart). The first 4 weeks of Hampton’s life were like this. We literally had company over every day and night for 4 weeks straight. I didn’t think we would ever get back to our normal lives again, but finally we did. Once we started getting out of the house and doing things like taking H to church, shopping or out to eat with my friends, it was amazing the difference that it made. I had a life again!

My mom was also supposed to stay with me for the first week home, but only ended up staying for two nights because of some other things going on at her home. That was tough. I felt really stressed about being alone with him so soon and while I was still trying to heal. It actually worked out well because it forced me to do it and it proved to myself that I could do this whole mom thing and do it pretty well.

I was joking with my dad the other day about how it was only 10 a.m. and I had been pooped on, peed on, spit up on, and sneezed on. He said: “so does this mean you aren’t having anymore?” and I said “absolutely I am!” haha It really has been so natural for me. Falling into this new life and new routine has been a huge adjustment but now that we have done it, I couldn’t imagine my life any other way. It has obviously had its challenges at times, but it has been so wonderful. Those first few weeks were tough with all of the company and lack of sleep, but it was also such a wonderful time. I enjoyed showing off our baby boy to all our friends and family.

If you are about to experience motherhood for the first time, all I have to say is don’t ever think you are prepared, because you aren’t. The only advice I will give you (because everyone has been giving you advice and it’s annoying after a while) is that you need to be prepared to be unprepared. Everything you’ve read will go flying out the window. That schedule you’ve worked out will not work for your baby. That rock n’ play you bought for him to sleep in for the first few weeks? He won’t sleep in it (yes, that happened).

I didn’t expect:

to cry so much during the first week. I cried because I felt fat. I cried because the baby cried. I cried because it was his first Halloween and I couldn’t take him to the Trunk-or-Treat at church. I cried because the Halloween episode of PLL was SO good. I cried because taking a shower was the best thing in the world. I cried over everything.

for breastfeeding to come so naturally. I heard so many horror stories of breast feeding. EVERYONE told me it would hurt, but it didn’t. People told me abouthow their milk supply was too low. Mine wasn’t. People told me how their babies simply wouldn’t latch on and just couldn’t get the hang of it. Mine did it perfectly the first time. I was preparing for the worst, and it has been a wonderful and fairly easy thing. I will say that I was not prepared for how demanding it is. YOU are the only one who can feed him. YOU have to be available 24/7. That part has been tough and very confining.

Your hormones will be all over the place and it will take a little while for them to settle down. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Throw (not all but some) of the advice that people have been so kind to offer out the window and do what works for YOU and your baby. Don’t ever ever ever compare yourself to other moms or your child to other children. Your child is a special gift from God and is his or her unique person. Treat him/her as such. Pray in the mornings, in the shower, in the car, before bed, while your baby is screaming, and when they smile the first time. Pray all the time. Mosty importantly, LOVE your sweet baby and every moment with them because it really does fly by so quickly. Enjoy all of those special moments.

 

Hampton is 6 Weeks

My sweet boy is 6 weeks old! Where has the time gone? He is smiling so much and has even laughed a few times. He is much more alert for most of the day and has been sleeping a lot better. He slept for 7 hours straight this week. We were ecstatic to catch up on some rest. We finally got him a swing and he loves it. It also gives me a break from holding him ALL the time. Yes, he is a snuggle baby. He loves to be held and hardly lets me put him down. I’m not complaining though. 🙂

1 month old

I can’t believe my baby is one month old! It is so hard to believe a whole month has passed. I feel like we just got home from the hospital. These past few weeks have been such a blur between the sleepless nights and all of the guests we have had. It has been so crazy around our house but I wouldn’t trade one minute of it.

We finally took Hampton to church for the first time this past week. He did so good! I also took him on his first mini road trip to Dothan to visit some family and go to my cousin’s shower. We had a wonderful time and everyone fought to hold him the entire time.

We are so excited to celebrate Thanksgiving this week at home with our family and see some friends we haven’t seen in a while. What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

I hope y’all have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Hampton is 3 Weeks

Hampton was 3 weeks last Thursday! We had a great week but very little sleep. We have been averaging about 3 hours a night. Yikes. I’m definitely ready for him to start sleeping a bit more. We started off the week by having family movie night and ended it with my grandparents coming to town to meet him for the first time. We had a great time with them and they couldn’t get enough of him. Here are a few pics from our third week with Hamp!

2 Weeks

I’m a little late getting this up. Hamp was 2 weeks last Thursday. Our second week has been much better than the first! Hampton has been sleeping a lot better at night and even slept 6 hours straight one night! I also started pumping which has made life more complicated in some ways but a lot easier in others. I feel like I can actually leave the house without worrying about where I am going to breastfeed which has been a lot less stressful. We also went on a couple of walks which was really nice. I’ve been feeling a lot better and I’ve been going so stir crazy sitting in our house for 2 weeks, so getting out and walking was a relief. We have had tons of visitors every day and it has been so fun seeing all of our family and friends come together for our little man. I am definitely ready for things to calm down so that we can get into a routine and start this new journey. Here are a few pictures from our 2nd week with Hamp!

         

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