Baylie Layne is 7 Weeks Old :)

So it's about midnight on a Thursday and I'm about to go to bed but I decided to write a little bit to wind down.

The past few weeks have been crazy for me but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I've been back to work for about a week and 1/2 now and I must say I hate being away from my baby girl but its nice to be back to work. This is how my weeks have been going. Baylie's Aunt Zay is going to be watching her starting November but we needed to find some temporary sitters so we decided Baylie's Grandma Abby would watch her on Mondays and our friend LeaAnn would watch her on Wednesdays and Thursdays. I would have her Tuesdays because thats one of my days off and Brad would have her Fridays because thats his day off. We are both off on Saturdays thats the only day and Brad would have her Sunday since I'm at work. Crazy I know. So lets see heres a what you would call.."normal" week. Monday. Wake up around 6am feed Baylie, get myself ready along w/ her diaper bag and whatever she needs around 9am-10 fee Baylie again then around 11:30 leave for Dresden which is about 10-15min away drop her off with Grandma Abby and then head to work which is back in the opposite direction about 10-15min. Then I work 1pm-10pm I usually get to see Baylie on my lunch break on Monday because shes home by then so we cuddle a little then go back to work until the nights done. Come home and feed/bathe her then go to bed! Tuesdays we play around thats momma's day off. Wednesdays and Thursdays are crazy..same morning routine but this time I drop her off at LeaAnn's which is about 10min away then on my lunch break I have to go pick Baylie up and bring her back to our house so her dad can have her and then back to work..so my dinner on those days consists of whats in the vending machine at work. Very healthy things you know..some of my favorites..nutter butters, quaker cheddar cheese mix, m&ms, and snackwell cookies. YummmY. Yea right! Anyways...its a pretty crazy schedule!!

Baylie has been great though. She's fitting in perfect...she sleeps through the night which is great and she seems to be a very healthy baby! I stopped nursing her after about a week and 1/2 which was not easy to do! I've never felt more guilty in my life but I felt that it was better for the both of us considering I was a mess everytime she would go to nurse! I felt a little selfish stopping because of pain/stress but I realize this was probably affecting her too! She is great on formula and the constipation only lasted a few weeks. Now we can't get her to stop dirtying diapers! Haha :) Her cousins love her very much even though cousin Gwyn is a bully and steals her binky...it happens. Gwyn's Momma (Baylie's Aunt Heather) Tells me that she has taught Gwyn to fight for herself since she's the baby in her family. I still say she's just a big bully ;). Also the picture on this post is Miss Baylie smiling! I can't believe at 7weeks I can get her to smile, now I sound completely ridiculous getting her to do it but hey..whatever it takes!

Now for my situation..I currently work at the cable company. 1pm-10pm with Tuesdays and Saturdays off. This schedule is horrible, I really do not enjoy working it. I have been interviewing with a local packaging company for an office assistant, which is the same rate of pay I get at Time Warner but it will actually end up being less money because they are a smaller company and the insurance does not include dental and vision and the family insurance is more expensive than Time Warner. I feel that as long as I can pay my bills this would be a good job to take. It is 8-5 Mon-Fri with weekends/holidays off. I think its very important to spend time with Baylie and Brad right now! I can take a little pay cut and cut back on material things that I do not need. So anyways I have had three interviews now for this which have all gone really well. I got a call that they would let me know this week if an offer would be made or not...I really hope so!! But whatever will be will be! Ok enough rambling I need to get some z's! By the way I don't know who all reads this I know my sisters do but say a little prayer for my family..mostly my sister Lindsay (who will probably read this and tear up) she's going through a rough time right now and needs lots of love and prayer!! I'm sure whatever happens with her she'll find happiness but its a rough patch right now and lots of decisions to make! I know she'll do whatever is best for her and her husband!! I also wanted to write another thing on here because I know my sisters read this, thank you for everything! Even if its just an ear to hear me B***h about Brad or something else it helps a lot! And I may not always take your advice but I do listen. Its nice to have someone to complain to :) I really wanted to buy you all something nice...but I am broke. sorry...lol. Okay so Brad just came out to see what in the world I was doing on here, time for bed. G'night!

A New Little Family

My little angel Baylie Layne Tignor was born on Tuesday, August 21st at 10:39 PM. She was three weeks early and weighed only 6lbs and was 19in. I had never been more excited in my life! My contractions started late Monday night, which I thought was cramping from a previous doctor's appointment. By 4am on Tuesday these pains were increasing. I called up my sister who is experienced in this field and asked her if I should be concerned about these pains. We started to time them and they were pretty regular every five minutes and a little difficult to walk through. By 8:00 I had paged the doctor and he told me to come up to labor and delivery to be checked. My mom and I packed my bag and got everything ready and headed up to the hospital by 10:00. When we got there the contractions just pretty much stopped. I was thinking great this is probably false labor. Being just 37 weeks I really wasn't expecting it anyways. So Dr. Lepi came up to check me and I was about 2 cm dialated. Tuesdays are his surgery days and since I hadn't changed much and the contractions were irregular he told me he would have me walk aruond the floor for about an hour and if things hadn't progressed I would be sent home. As my sister put it...I would be doing the walk of shame out of the maternity ward. :) Haha. So my sister Heather, my mom and I began the walking. All around the floor for an hour, by the end of the walk I was having to stop for each contraction. We got back into my room and I let my mom and sister know they could go get lunch and bring it back for them and I would rest, just in case I would be delivering that night. By the time they got back my contractions were coming stronger one after another and I was about 3 cm so they decided to admit me! I didn't show it but I was so nervous! I would be meeting my baby girl within hours the time had finally come! Baylie's daddy was at work and things were going pretty slow so I let him know he could wait until the day was over. My sister Lindsay was there and my Dad didn't go to his golf league he was also there. I wished my oldest sister Mandy could have been there and I know she wished she could've too but she got to meet her neice Labor Day weekend and I got to see her and her babies!! Back to the story...so around 4 cm the doctor broke my water and man oh man the contractions intensified something horrible. I felt like a little baby, considering my sister Heather had to stand the pain for quite awhile. The first contraction after my water broke I was asking for my epidural! Within minutes they had the bags of fluid in me and the anthesioligist was in the room. I think it was love at first site, I wanted to kiss this man! Got the shot and was feeling better but nervous, my right side was not numbing! This got better later on but even when I was pushing I could still feel more on my right side. Anyways the doctor checked me around 8:30pm I was 6 cm, they had already put me on pitocin (sp?). The nurse decided I needed to try and go to the bathroom, which I thought was rediculous considering I couldn't feel half my body, there was no way I could control this. She ended up putting a catheter in and that must have done it. My family stepped out so I could rest and an hour and 1/2 later I was at 10cm! Ready to push! My mom, Brad (Daddy), and two sisters Lindsay and Heather were in the room with me. I pushed for about 45min and Baylie arrived! What a cutie..there was some scary things going on though! Being early and so little my baby was having trouble breathing, they brought in oxygen while the doctor assured me I could hold her before they took her to special care, but this wasn't the case, something went on with the oxygen tank and they took her away. I was a blubbering mess! I had no idea what was going on and I just wanted to see my baby! By this time my epidural was wearing off and I was itching like a crazy person! They gave me benadryl and I was out of it. I fell asleep and woke up at 3am realizing I had not seen my baby girl yet. I finally got to go see her after my bath. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BABY!! I know my opinion doesn't really count by my goodness I've seen some pretty babys but she is a beauty! I'm so proud :). So she stayed in special care over night and ended up in our room around 7pm Wednesday. We didn't leave until Saturday because of high levels with jaundice. But we finally brought our baby girl home. And for the past 4 weeks we've been learning to take care of her and loving her so much! She is a sweet little baby and I can't wait to watch her grow even more!

29 Weeks Today!

So this is my first blog and I'm really not sure how this works but I'll give it a try =). I decided to make this blog about the rest of my pregnancy and the different things I'm going through and getting ready for! As you can see I'm 29 weeks today (if it weren't for the handy email I get from babycenter.com every week I highly doubt I would remember this!) I've gained about 20lbs total and I like 15 of that is in my bra ;) My belly is also growing by the day. I'm having a baby girl in September! Baylie Layne is the name we've picked out and I am so excited to meet this little stinker who kicks me all night long! It seems like in the past month shes been going crazy in there! Right now me and her daddy, Brad, are just working to pay off all our bills and get ready for Baylie to come. We are making the nursery in my parents house where we will live until I'm out of school which will probably be a couple years. Today we are taking a wall down and maybe taking up the carpet =) I'm so excited to decorate it for her! So I guess my blog will basically be about preparation for my little girl in the next few months! Feel free to comment I'm new at this =)