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  • Tamara 12:22 pm on March 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    It’s been a busy 3 weeks 

    Ella turned 3 weeks yesterday!

    We’ve been busy trying to keep up with the uploading of pictures, but I haven’t posted to let everyone know they’re there until now! Have a look!

    Ella is a great baby. She loves to be held … all the time! She doesn’t care for soothers much, but we can get her to take one for a little bit and sometimes she’ll fall asleep with it.

    She’s been a champion feeder. She lost 8.2% of her birthweight (7lbs 13oz when we left the hospital on friday) and gained 4oz in 3 days before our breastfeeding clinic appointment. We started giving her some formula at night in hopes that she’ll sleep longer. Currently on breastmilk alone she’ll sleep for 1.5 hours or so in her bed, but in the carseat … hours!

    She seems to like her sling pretty well, but it gets a bit heavy on my back after a while… I’m working up to it! She also likes her swing for a bit each day, which gives me a little break to get some things done around the house. :)

    We haven’t had a chance to thank everyone for their wonderful gifts and cards… working on it! Thanks everyone!

    Me and the kids are heading to Fredericton for Easter Weekend so Rick has some time to study for his exam coming up next weekend … The Easter Bunny has been very good to Marshall ;)

     

  • Rick 3:10 pm on March 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Brother and sister 

    Yesterday, Marshall was a bit wary of being picked up at ‘school’ by Grampy, because he had it in his head that Mommy was going to be the one getting him.

    However, he did end up leaving the schoolgrounds and cooled his jets after a while. He wasn’t interested in seeing any pictures of his new sister, nor did he want anything to do with going near any hospital. That is until his mom told him there would be elevators and that her room was kind of like that of a hotel. Then he couldn’t get out the door fast enough. So funny.

    So they came over and met Ella and toured the hospital a bit. He was curious and seemed proud of his baby sister.

    This morning, as we were leaving the house to go to ‘school’, he says, “I want to go by the hospital first to say bye to Mommy and Baby Ella before going to school.” Even though it hadn’t been part of the plan, it turned out to be a delightful idea. He gave Ella kisses and hugs and got to hold her on his lap.

    So far, they seem like perfect little siblings!

     

    • Gram 8:37 pm on March 10, 2010 Permalink

      How sweet! It’s good to be adaptable with plans when they have a tendency to change like that…. good job!

    • Julie Gibson 8:21 pm on March 22, 2010 Permalink

      Ricky, Tamara & Marshall,
      Congratulations on the newest addition to your family. Ella looks like a beautiful baby! Aunt Jude told me you were online so I wanted to pass along our best wishes to you all!
      Love from,
      Julie, Bruce (and the other) Marshall :)

  • Rick 11:33 am on March 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    New photos 

    Just wanted to let you know that there will be a trickle of new photos being uploaded over the next few days. Some will be in the “Current Photos” section, which requires you to log in. Others will be in the Photostream at the bottom of the left column on this site.

     

    • Juanita 12:12 pm on March 9, 2010 Permalink

      Congratulations!! She is absolutely beautiful, you must be so proud.

      I am glad to hear everyone is doing well and I can’t wait to see more photo’s as they are posted.

      Congratulations too to Marshall on becoming a big brother.

  • Rick 12:07 am on March 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Pool results 

    I was going to enter the actual results to see who scored highest in the pool, and it dawned on me that I still don’t know what colour her eyes are! They haven’t been open very much. Will have to check tomorrow.

     

  • Rick 6:59 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Stats 

    Ella was 8 lb. 9 oz. and 20″ long.

     

    • Donna 8:58 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink

      CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!
      what a beautiful baby!!!Glad everything is ok and everyone is fine!you haven’t revealed her middle name yet.what does Marshall think of his sister?

    • Bertha 10:12 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink

      Congratulations!! She’s beautiful! I’m so excited for you guys! I bet Marshall is super excited to be a big brother!

    • lana 10:18 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink

      She is cute! Love the pink hat:)

    • Sandra (Nana) 11:42 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink

      Congratulations to all of you. What a gorgeous girl !! Ella picked a grand day to make her entrance into the world. Looking forward to seeing you all soon. Glad the wait is finally over and everything is fine.

  • Rick 5:48 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    She’s here! 

    Introducing Baby Ella, born at 4:32 pm

    Everyone is doing great!
    More details soon.

     

    • Stacey 5:54 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink

      yeay!!!! congratulations you three!!!
      can’t wait to hear the details…how big is she? how long?
      love you all!!! stacexoxo

    • lana 6:00 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink

      Congratulations to you and your family…thanks for the up to the minute tweets…

    • Jamie 6:10 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink

      Congratulations to all. I’m anxious to meet her.

    • Gram 8:14 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink

      Mom and Ella look awesome! Hope the boys in the family survived as well as the girls! And how totally incredible to have a daughter born on International Woman’s Day!! Congratulations!

  • Rick 12:24 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    The drugs 

    As you can see here, she is all hooked up and still tweeting away on her iPhone. The petocin drip started at 11:20 and they are making preparations for an eventual epidural.

     

  • Rick 9:54 am on March 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Things are moving along 

    9 am here and an electrode has been introduced to break the water. Things should start moving within the next couple of hours.

     

    • lana 11:20 am on March 8, 2010 Permalink

      Looking very happy….:)

  • Tamara 11:56 pm on March 7, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Baby update 

    I was in the hospital yesterday morning and they checked me out and took some blood and determined I should go back today for induction. So today I went in at 5pm and got checked out and had Cervidil inserted, monitored the baby’s heartbeat for 2 hours, then came home.

    Labour could start on its own tonight, but unlikely. I am to remove this cervidil business at 6:10am and call the labour ward to see if I’m cleared to go in, and they’ll do either more gel or the drip to get things started. Looks good for a March 8th baby at this point ;)

     

  • Tamara 9:31 pm on March 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Maternity photos 

    I forgot to mention that I finally decided to have some maternity photos done by Gretchen at Blue Chair Photo and she did an amazing job!

    She sent us a few to give us a sneak peek (and for our facebook profiles etc.) And the rest will be coming in the next week or two. I added them to the Belly#2 album if you’d like to view them!

     

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