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Hello World!

Posted by Lucy on Monday Sep 22, 2008 Under Infancy, Pregnancy
Lucy writes her first blog post!

My name is Lucy Titus and I was born today, September 22nd at 4:47p.m. PDT. I weigh 6lbs 2oz and am 19″ long!

I was inquisitive the moment I was born!

Chillin with my peeps...

Chillin with my peeps…

Footprints?  I can't even walk!

Footprints? I can’t even walk!

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Full Term! Finished Nursery!

Posted by Chelsea on Sunday Sep 21, 2008 Under Pregnancy

We celebrated being full term by putting the finishing touches on the nursery. As Shaun was sitting in the rocker and looking at all our hard work he exclaimed, “This is the best room in the house!” I have to agree. It turned out perfectly.

View from the door:

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Crib (with homemade quilt above it-courtesy of Pat and Michelle):

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Rocker (covered masterfully by Pat) with homemade quillow (thanks Sharlene!):

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Lucy Letters:

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Storage:

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Just for fun:

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Okay Lucy, Mommy’s ready for you!

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Picture People ROCK!

Posted by Chelsea on Friday Sep 19, 2008 Under Pregnancy

We just got our photos back from Picture People and they are A.MAZE.ING. I highly highly highly recommend them for you family picture needs!!!

Some of my favorites:

My Very Favorite:

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I think there’s a baby in there:

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Really there is!:

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Va Va VOOM!

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I love you Lucy!

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A tame one 🙂

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They framed 2 different sets for us and we are just so THRILLED!!!!

All the proofs:

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36 Weeks and Keeping Her In!

Posted by Chelsea on Tuesday Sep 16, 2008 Under Pregnancy

We had quite the scare last week!  Two weekends ago (9/6) I woke up at 5 with some lower abdominal pain that was new but it seemed to get better.  I had a massage that day and DID NOT ENJOY IT AT ALL (that should have tipped me off) and had a few pains but they weren’t regular or that close to each other.  We went to Babies R’ Us to buy everything else we needed and while checking out I had 2 what I thought were contractions, followed by another one in the car and another one when we got home.  I decided to call the doctor.  He had me come in to Labor and Delivery.  They hooked me up to the monitors and sure enough I was having pretty regular contractions.  They checked me and I was a fingertip dilated and “soft”.  They continued to monitor me and decided to try to stop the contractions.  I was 35 weeks which is a transition week.  If I were 34 weeks or before they would have tried anything to get labor to stop and if I was 36 weeks they would let labor go.  Since I was 35 weeks they tried the least invasive they could and gave me a medicine that relaxes the uterus.  I did not react well.  I got an instant headache, my heart started beating really fast, and I got red all over-including the whites of my eyes.  Not fun.  The contractions continued but I was making no progress.  They gave me a shot of morphine and told me to go home and sleep.  If when I woke up I was still having contractions I was to come back in.  All the nurses were telling me that I was having a baby in the next 48 hours and the Doctors were saying that we could stop it.

We went home. Shaun frantically got the carseat together and I went to sleep.  I woke up at 3 with pretty painful contractions close together.  Back to Labor and Delivery!  They hooked me up to the monitors again and I was having contractions.  This time the baby’s heartrate was a little low but that was due to the medicine they had given me.  They had me lay on my side and drink ice cold water to wake her up-who knew! I was in the hospital until 11 am and they sent us home again with the instructions to come back when my contractions were a minute long, 4 minutes apart and I couldn’t talk through them.

We went home and Shaun frantically got all the baby stuff together and I laid on the couch.  My Mom flew up and Sunday night contractions started at about 11.  They were painful and close together but they stopped after about 35 minutes and I was able to fall asleep.  I woke up again at 3 with more painful contractions that again stopped after 35 minutes and we were able to sleep until 10.  We thought for sure we were headed back to Labor and Delivery but NO DICE-thank goodness!

Since then, I’ve been at home “taking it easy”.  No work.  No sitting up (it hurts). No walking (it makes contractions start).  No nothing really.  Just sitting here baking a baby 🙂

We’re trying to get to 37 weeks and it looks like we’ll make it!  I had my 36 week appointment today and I’m exactly where I was when I left the hospital.  They can feel her head but I’m only a fingertip dilated and I’m still supposed to “TAKE IT EASY”.  This Sunday (9/21) marks 37 weeks and I’m confident she’ll stay put.  I think she’s going to stay put until her due date actually 🙂  Dr. Medina did say that at the end of September we would discuss induction if she hasn’t come naturally yet since I’m in a lot of pain-lots of cramps and Braxton Hicks Contractions that are NOT comfortable.  But I’d rather just wait for her to come when she’s ready.  Inductions have a higher rate of C-Section and I REALLY don’t want to have a C-Section, so I think I’ll just wait.  Once I can start doing more stuff (this Sunday!!!) I think it’ll be easier and not as uncomfortable for me.

So that’s the update.  We’re here, just baking away!

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Measuring Right on Target

Posted by Chelsea on Thursday Sep 4, 2008 Under Pregnancy

My doctor’s appointment yesterday went really well. Lucy is estimated to be a 5 pounds right now. She’s head down. My fluids look great, the placenta is in a good place, all her organs are functioning properly (from what we can tell), and she’s, as Dr. Medina put it, “100 percent a girl, I can guarantee it. There’s no question.” That’s the third ultrasound to confirm it in such a manner.  She’s NOT modest! We get a crotch shot every time!

After he did all the measurements, the machine had me measuring at 34 weeks on the dot yesterday. I was 34 weeks and 3 days so that means she’s right on target. No measurements are abnormally large or small (which in my family babies usually have REALLY big heads and are measuring REALLY big at the point-thank you Shaun Titus!) The first measurement he did was of her tummy and that had her due date at 10-18-08 and I started freaking out, but then the other measurements brought her right on target. I’m still convinced that she’s going to be late, but how late? I don’t know. Well, I guess not past 10 days late!

Her heartbeat sounds wonderful. Dr. Medina said “Just wonderful. Isn’t that beautiful? This is what labor and delivery sounds like. When you walk up and down the hall you hear all these wonderful baby heartbeats.” I :love: that my Dr. loves his job so much.

I go back in in 2 weeks after that I’m onto my “weeklies”-an appointment every week until I deliver. 38 days to go until the expected due date!

We got one, not so great picture of her face that I’ll have Shaun scan and post.  I think she looks like her Daddy.  Daddy thinks she looks like an alien.

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It’s starting to look a lot like Baby Time everywhere you go… (in the Titus house)!

While Chelsea and I continue to experience the joys of pregnancy I thought I’d take some time to do some financial calculations on just how much money in square footage it is taking to store all of the things we’re going to need. I basically calculated the square footage of each item and then multiplied the total square footage times the value of one square foot of our home (based on purchase price).

Here we go:

Baby Swing: 2.5 x 2 = 5 Sq Ft

5 Square Feet!

Baby’s Room: 12 x 15 = 180 Sq Ft

180 Square Feet!

180 Square Feet!

Half of Hall Closet: 4 x 2 = 8 Sq Ft
Pack N’ Play: 3 x 2 = 6 Sq Ft

Total Sq Ft: 199

Value: $86,521

Storing baby stuff may be expensive, but becoming a new parent is definitely worth it.

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Pictures from this Weekend

Posted by Chelsea on Monday Sep 1, 2008 Under Pregnancy

We flew down to LA this weekend for our friend’s wedding. While we were there we took some pictures with my parents. It was a really quick but fun visit.

Pictures:

3 Generations of Lingo Women:

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Mimi, Mommy and Lucy, and Papa:

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Mommy and Lucy and Papa:

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Mommy and Lucy and Daddy:

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And, Mommy and Lucy, 34 weeks:

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We’ve got our 34 week appointment on Wednesday where we’ll get our last ultrasound to try and estimate how big Lucy is and to measure all my fluids and everything.  We’ll be sure to post after that!

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100 Degrees

Posted by Chelsea on Thursday Aug 28, 2008 Under Pregnancy

It was 100 degrees in San Mateo today.  It sucks to be pregnant in 100 degree weather especially when we don’t have an air conditioning or even a fan.  We gave all the fans from our days in Sunnyvale to St. Vincents DePaul earlier this year.  This is the only time we’ve ever needed those fans so I’m not mad that we gave them away but this Mommy is HOT.

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RSS – Get our Lucy updates via email!

Posted by Shaun on Wednesday Aug 27, 2008 Under Pregnancy

Hi Guys,

If you want to be informed of Lucy updates via email, you can use the subscribe button on the right.  The email option is near the bottom of the list that displays when you mouse over it.

If you have an RSS reader like Google reader you could use that too!

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The Shower!

Posted by Chelsea on Sunday Aug 24, 2008 Under Pregnancy

My shower was amazing.

I show up and my friends and family are there (I missed those who couldn’t make it!) and it looks beautiful and everyone is giving me hugs and there’s food EVERYWHERE:

There were homemade bagels, to-die-for homemade croissants, egg pie, a ricotta thing that people raved about, cheese platters, lunch meat, the list could go on and on. Plus A-MAZE-ING homemade cookies and my favorite cupcakes that had little baby carriages on them and booties and said “Oh Baby” that my Mom ordered. Seriously too cute. The chefs were: Adrienne (OMG those croissants), Jocelyn (best cookies EVER), Nina (Egg Pie with Heirloom tomatoes), Elaina (Hostess de Jour), and I feel like I’m missing one person. Seriously wonderful food and if I forgot you, I suck!

We all sat and ate-the weather was perfect-warm but just right in the shade :) With chairs transported by Amanda-among the thousands of other things she did for the shower.

After eating, we moved to the shade and played a game of baby pictionary-SO.MUCH.FUN. The “tie breaker” was that I had to draw something and whichever team guessed first won. I picked a hard clue and it was “Lactation Room” Ummm…how do you draw that? I drew big boobies with milk coming out of them-someone got lactation! And then a picture of a square with a door. A team got it and I’d say within the 1 minute time limit. It was a scream and SO MUCH FUN. My sister asked who I knew with boobs as big as I drew them and I said “Um…ME!!!” But we won’t get into that.

Then it was time to open presents. Seriously people-there were a lot of presents! And? All of them amazing. They always tell you that you’ll have to take stuff back and you’ll get duplicates and that people will shop for whatever they want and won’t look at your registry. Um no. There were all sizes up to 2 years of clothing, I didn’t register for clothes and I still got the essentials, plus darling things, all the gear was from the registry, and I’d say almost every other gift was handmade. And the cards-I cried about 10 times. And the paper that everything was wrapped in-so precious. I also got tons of books-which makes me about the happiest girl alive. I :love: books and Shaun hasn’t been letting me buy any. So now Lucy has quite the start of a library. I don’t have pictures of the presents yet, but I’ll take some :)

What was the handmade stuff you ask? There was a “quillow” which is a quilt that folds into a pillow but it’s made out of all Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar fabric-the theme of the nursery. It’s so amazing that I’m going to hang it above the crib-that was from my friend from college Sharlene. My aunt made a flannel rag quilt and changing pad that it so soft and so pretty. My friend from the knit shop, Pat, who is covering my glider for me-gift enough! made me the cutest one-of-kind onsies, my other friend from the knit shop, Jocelyn, made booties and a sweater in the most perfect yarn. The first pair of socks that I made for myself are those same colors :), Adrienne, my very very good friend (and knitter) made Lucy a crocheted blanket with all the colors from her nursery and she made ME the prettiest cardigan that will be perfect for the fall and nursing. It’s awesome. Again, I think that was all the handmade things (not to mention all the other thoughtful and amazing thing) If I missed something, I’ll be back to update since I plan on taking pictures of everything. It was overwhelming-let me tell you!

One gift made me exclaim “YES!” and I want to explain for those of you that were there because it wasn’t like this gift was SO much better than the other ones and I felt bad as soon as it escaped my mouth. Here’s the back story: Shaun is a VERY practical person who doesn’t like “stuff”. He hates it in fact (Yes a baby is going to be a BIG adjustment!). I knew that we had to get a carseat, a pack ‘n play, and a mattress. Those are all essentials that we need and I would not get a fight out of him. An essential that I think we need but I know he would never let me buy was the swing. If we had to buy that ourselves, we would have never gotten one (unless I went to the store by myself and bought it and put it together and threw away the receipt and got in really big trouble). Well, when I opened the swing from Nina and Adam I was totally excited. That and the bouncer (which Sarah and Todd got us-THANK YOU) were the 2 things that I really thought were essentials and I knew my husband would never agree to buying them (well maybe until we had a screaming baby on our hands). So the fact that I got it made me SO EXCITED! Everything else, from the Boppy to the baby positioner, to the bag of every mom needs it (complete with haiku), to the froggy for the bath, the actual bath , the towels, the clothes, ummm everything was so needed and appreciated and just perfect. Thank you everyone!!!

The best gift? Well besides all my friends and family being there to celebrate the birth of my baby-and I mean that honestly-that was the best part of the shower…anyway, the best gift? Came from my Mom. My Mom has a tendency to go overboard and this was no exception. You know those beautiful pima cotton smocked baby dresses that a little girl is lucky to get just one of? I think she got Lucy about 6 of them-all with matching leather shoes-white patent leather, pink sandles, etc. and bonnets and bows but NO that was not the best gift. Nor the baby Ugg-like boots and soft soft SOFT pink furry jacket (with ears!), nor the HUGE tu-tu-seriously I need a picture of this-with the most adorable satin and leather ballet shoes. Nope not that. Or even the robe and pink Ugg slippers for me. Nope not even that. (And yes, all of these things that I just listed came from my mother).

The best gift was something that made me sob in the middle of my shower. I mean SOB in front of all my friends. I’m just getting teary eyed thinking about it. It was a book of pictures of my family. My great grandparents are in there, my grandparents, my parents (including baby pictures), my siblings baby pictures and then just page after page of me with all these people and me by myself and me being nursed by my mother (one of the only picture in existence of my mother and me when I was a baby I think!), me with all of my grandparents, my sister, my brothers, my first birthday party. The reason this is so special and make me so emotional is that I’ve been asking for pictures of me as a child for about 5 years and my Mom couldn’t find them, I thought they were lost and gone-she always assured me they weren’t but I didn’t believe her (me of little faith). There were pictures of my older siblings but it was like a black hole of Chelsea (and really Jake-the brother that is 2 years older) pictures. I thought they had gotten destroyed in the garage or lost in the move and I thought I’d never see them again. Plus being the youngest of four, I was SPOILED, but, my Mom was (understandably) busy. So there was never a baby book or picture album of me. My older brother and sister each had one but my brother and I didn’t and I always wanted one.

My Mom (and I’m sure my Dad) put so much effort into that book. The book is amazing and I will cherish it forever. She wasn’t quite done with it and wanted to take it home and I wouldn’t let her. That thing is not leaving my possession-NO WAY. Take away every single thing I got yesterday and if I only got that book I would be the happiest girl alive.

Okay, I have to stop writing about it because I want to stop crying!

In between all of that gift opening, we played 2 more games: unwrap the parcel, and then they had to cut yarn that they thought was as big around as me. Some of those pieces were 4 times the size of me! My knitting friends Jocelyn and Pat’s were the exact.same.length and about an inch bigger than I am right now, so they won the prizes :). For the record, I’m up 14 inches to 41 inches around! We also stopped for dessert amidst all that present opening :) YOM.

And then I got to take pictures with people-YAY! Unfortunately, the picture of my Mom and me didn’t turn out. We even took 2 but both are pretty horrible :( I think she has some of us on her camera that are good (or someone does), plus I’m going down there next week to go to a wedding and I’ll take some more because I really want a picture with me and my belly and my Mom. My Dad is good at getting my Mom to take good pictures so I’ll make him do it ;)

In the meantime-Pictures!

2 preggers sisters and their baby bellies!

This one is my favorite of the bellies:

And just in case you didn’t see:

My sisters (SIL, Me, Sister):

My aunt Marci and me:

Friend pictures (I didn’t get to take pictures with everybody or get a picture of everybody but hopefully someone got a picture of us sitting in the shade together):

Amy and me:

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Amanda, me, Sharlene:

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Adrienne and me:

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Elaina and me:

It was an amazing day. Shaun, Lucy and I are such a lucky people to have so many amazing and wonderful people in our lives. Thank you.

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