11.16.2012
11.13.2012
Birth Day Photos
I promised photos...and now that life has settled and I was able to go through the memory card and download the computer they are finally ready to be posted :)
Life can really change in just a few minutes!
Solid little guy!!!
I am here....HEAR ME ROAR!
Something precious about a fresh from Heaven new baby :)
So totally and completely absolutely in LOVE!
Cold Snap
A couple of weeks ago we had a "cold snap"....for those up North I know it's not really cold to you, but for us Floridians it was chilly....and made for perfect evening park weather.
So we put on jackets, hopped in the car and went out to play.....before the baby decided to join us. Tim and I had a great time just watching the boys run around....and watching Liam try to be so much bigger than he really is.
So we put on jackets, hopped in the car and went out to play.....before the baby decided to join us. Tim and I had a great time just watching the boys run around....and watching Liam try to be so much bigger than he really is.
11.12.2012
Day 10
Crazy!!!! 10 days passed by in a blink!
We have ventured out of the house...alone with all three of you boys and myself in the car. Granted we met Nena shortly after leaving the house :)
First doctor visit was successful...screaming and all. We're down to 8 lb 13 oz. but my milk had just come in, so I look forward to seeing what you bounce up to this week when we return.
You sleep in the swing when at home. Mostly because you lay down in the crib and roll to your side! Freaks me out!!!! You shouldn't be doing that at all yet! So you sleep 4 hour stretched at night in the swing and we are all happy.
Umbilical cord came off this morning!!! Yeah! (I hate the nasty brown stuff and the icky smell it makes.)
Tomorrow you are getting a solid scrub down :)
You stay awake for a good spell of time in the evenings when your brothers go to bed which is kind of nice. Also think you do this since you were born in the evening and your clock might be a little off.
Hate getting strapped into your car seat but you don't seem to mind the car rides at all as you often fall asleep. (Thank you Jesus!)
You are beginning to startle at noises and be aware of your surroundings.
You love to snuggle up and sleep on me or Nena, or anyone for that matter but like to left alone while awake to stretch and look around.
Beginning to find and explore your hands.
Seem to be happy to take a pipe :)
Newborn clothing is getting tricky because you are so long!!! But some three month stuff is still to wide for you.
Here you are in the pj that was Liam's favorite....don't know if I will be able to fit you in it much more :(
We have ventured out of the house...alone with all three of you boys and myself in the car. Granted we met Nena shortly after leaving the house :)
First doctor visit was successful...screaming and all. We're down to 8 lb 13 oz. but my milk had just come in, so I look forward to seeing what you bounce up to this week when we return.
You sleep in the swing when at home. Mostly because you lay down in the crib and roll to your side! Freaks me out!!!! You shouldn't be doing that at all yet! So you sleep 4 hour stretched at night in the swing and we are all happy.
Umbilical cord came off this morning!!! Yeah! (I hate the nasty brown stuff and the icky smell it makes.)
Tomorrow you are getting a solid scrub down :)
You stay awake for a good spell of time in the evenings when your brothers go to bed which is kind of nice. Also think you do this since you were born in the evening and your clock might be a little off.
Hate getting strapped into your car seat but you don't seem to mind the car rides at all as you often fall asleep. (Thank you Jesus!)
You are beginning to startle at noises and be aware of your surroundings.
You love to snuggle up and sleep on me or Nena, or anyone for that matter but like to left alone while awake to stretch and look around.
Beginning to find and explore your hands.
Seem to be happy to take a pipe :)
Newborn clothing is getting tricky because you are so long!!! But some three month stuff is still to wide for you.
Here you are in the pj that was Liam's favorite....don't know if I will be able to fit you in it much more :(
11.08.2012
Overwhelmed
I am not in any way a tear up kinda gal.....aside from Bible study group (where life seems too real to be anything but honest and somehow tears just flow) .... So this flood of emotion and everything that has happened to me in the past 6 days is just overwhelming.
Not post baby blues kinda thing....more like "How is this really my life? and "I blinked and God really did this most amazing thing....really?"
Some moments I feel like surely we won't be able to survive the crazy that is life with three boys, but here I am in the middle of the night with a sweet and AMAZING little on my chest, and all I want to do is cry because I am so madly, crazy, over the moon in love with each of them.
I am terrified about not giving each enough attention, we've had tantrums and fights already, I wonder how each will adjust and if I am holding each enough and don't want them to grow up too fast....but one thing I know to the depth of my soul is that God so knew what He was doing by throwing my world upside down with these four amazing men....from my sweet and sexy hubby to my independent big, wild man middle and bomber baby boy....
I could not ask for more! And knowing that God loves me so much to grant me a life in this crazy world of boy is just overwhelming ❤
Not post baby blues kinda thing....more like "How is this really my life? and "I blinked and God really did this most amazing thing....really?"
Some moments I feel like surely we won't be able to survive the crazy that is life with three boys, but here I am in the middle of the night with a sweet and AMAZING little on my chest, and all I want to do is cry because I am so madly, crazy, over the moon in love with each of them.
I am terrified about not giving each enough attention, we've had tantrums and fights already, I wonder how each will adjust and if I am holding each enough and don't want them to grow up too fast....but one thing I know to the depth of my soul is that God so knew what He was doing by throwing my world upside down with these four amazing men....from my sweet and sexy hubby to my independent big, wild man middle and bomber baby boy....
I could not ask for more! And knowing that God loves me so much to grant me a life in this crazy world of boy is just overwhelming ❤
11.03.2012
Fresh
The clock in my recovery room just ticked 5:57 p.m. and I have a sweet big little love in my arms.
Very hard for me to believe this is all actually real. My bigs have come and met him and almost all of extended family has arrived and been introduced.
Oh my word, this is so different Loving your last compared to loving your first or second. Everything is so raw and unfiltered somehow.
I can't believe he is here! How did God let this little life come into our world and why us?
Very hard for me to believe this is all actually real. My bigs have come and met him and almost all of extended family has arrived and been introduced.
Oh my word, this is so different Loving your last compared to loving your first or second. Everything is so raw and unfiltered somehow.
I can't believe he is here! How did God let this little life come into our world and why us?
11.02.2012
11.2.12
6 a.m.- Alarm beeps....had been in a some what semi conscious state of awake already. Dawns on me why alarm beeps....delivery day! Panic!!!!!
Heart races, blood pressure rises...
"My grace is sufficient for thee...my peace made perfect in your weakness."
6:30 a.m.- Getting ready and realize the verse actually was "strength" instead of "peace"....decide I like it better the way He whispered it to me this morning.
7:12 a.m.- Leave house.
7:39 a.m.- Labor and Delivery calls while we are driving...induction postponed a half hour/hour cause no beds are ready yet :/ Ask on how baby is moving and I noticed he moved great all night and hardly not at all this morning. Will call back in 30 mins.
8:12 a.m.- Delay lands us at local CFA for breakfast. (Side note, my local shop is AMAZING! This one stinks in comparison!)At least the hiccup in scheduling allows for some giggles with my man :)
8:52 a.m.- Check in at Labor & Delivery....wait on paperwork and for a room.
9:30 a.m.- All paperwork and registration complete and back in waiting room. Waiting on an open bed as they have been slammed all night and morning.
(The knowing this is going on today is nice, sorta....the waiting is nerve wrecking! Once again smiling as I think of God laughing at me as He says..."You get this, just in my time!")
10:27 a.m.- Still waiting in waiting room....(insert exasperated sigh here :/)
Decided to be productive and do my Bible Study that I was a bit behind on...good stuff on Ruth and her having a son....striking a cord in my heart.
10:35 a.m. - In hospital room #10...donning the awesome blue gown and hooked up to fetal monitors. Answering questions, chatting with nurse, more waiting :)
11:32 a.m. - IV started and checked...4 cm...baby floating high and pitocin started
FYI....IV sucks!!!
12:24 p.m. - Contractions coming every 3 mins or less....beginning to hurt a good bit :/ Making progress :)
12:40 p.m.- Doc came in, water broken. Ouch! Contractions hurt, baby getting ready to drop, pressure. Oi!
12:55 p.m.- on a good note my belly shrunk a lot....bad note is I am sitting in a bed, leaking fluid and this crap hurts...and no that is the filtered version, I am not thinking those words in my head!!! I foresee an epidural in my near future!
Tim is laughing at me for documenting this, but it helps keep me distracted in the short breaks between pain.
2:15 p.m.- Epidural requested :(
2:55 p.m.- epidural in
3:15 p.m.- death has arrive....epidural does NOT work at all :(
3:36 p.m.- epidural removed and redone
3:50 p.m.- some pain gone. Baby bounces down during contraction and retreats up
4:03 p.m.- oxygen given. 9 cm
4:18 p.m. - blood pressure drops low, getting scared, Tim prays
4:40 ish- blood pressure gets better, baby heart rate drops, he won't move down enough to push
Okay...some of the crazy has settled and I need to recap while it is fresh.
Epidural did not work at all first time. Sheer hell thinking you are going to get some relief and then nothing. Apparently a student or not the head doctor did it the first time and I had waited a long time to get it :/ When it didn't take the head doctor came back and removed it and tried again, and doses me straight in the back to get some quick relief. Worked somewhat for about hour and half. Was 9 cm but my cervix would stay behind his head and baby would sneak back up after the contraction ended.
About 5:30 my heart rate and baby are stable and the drugs are not working :/ Every time I had a contraction I felt him drop down and hit my pelvic bone....horrible! A few minutes pass and the nurse has to check a lady next door. My drugs are gone and Lincoln decided to drop and turn and want out! Super, horrible, terrible! After a few contractions Tim runs out to find nurse and when she comes in I beg for drugs which apparently now she can't give because I am ready to deliver.
Death is upon me! Doc gets ready and I push twice and Lincoln's head comes out....want to breathe and have a second but the cord is all around him and they force me to push again to remove him. Poor guy is all blue/purple :(
He arrives! Sweet Jesus it is almost finished. Amazing how the instant pain relief comes in seeing baby. Doc finishes his thing, stitches me up and gets me settled some. Nurses take baby from me to the warmer. Apparently big babies need to be monitored as much as little babies and they wanted to check his shoulders and hips weren't hurt in delivery.
Because he came so fast at the end and the drop and turn so sudden, and he was so big....he was quite bruised so his face is a little purple and splotchy. No photos yet, neither he nor I were able to get cleaned up. His blood sugar fell cause of his size and they wanted me to hold him and nurse him to stabilize his heart and breathing better.
I am tired. More tomorrow. And pictures of him after he is bathed in the morning.
Heart races, blood pressure rises...
"My grace is sufficient for thee...my peace made perfect in your weakness."
6:30 a.m.- Getting ready and realize the verse actually was "strength" instead of "peace"....decide I like it better the way He whispered it to me this morning.
7:12 a.m.- Leave house.
7:39 a.m.- Labor and Delivery calls while we are driving...induction postponed a half hour/hour cause no beds are ready yet :/ Ask on how baby is moving and I noticed he moved great all night and hardly not at all this morning. Will call back in 30 mins.
8:12 a.m.- Delay lands us at local CFA for breakfast. (Side note, my local shop is AMAZING! This one stinks in comparison!)At least the hiccup in scheduling allows for some giggles with my man :)8:52 a.m.- Check in at Labor & Delivery....wait on paperwork and for a room.
9:30 a.m.- All paperwork and registration complete and back in waiting room. Waiting on an open bed as they have been slammed all night and morning.
(The knowing this is going on today is nice, sorta....the waiting is nerve wrecking! Once again smiling as I think of God laughing at me as He says..."You get this, just in my time!")
10:27 a.m.- Still waiting in waiting room....(insert exasperated sigh here :/)
Decided to be productive and do my Bible Study that I was a bit behind on...good stuff on Ruth and her having a son....striking a cord in my heart.
10:35 a.m. - In hospital room #10...donning the awesome blue gown and hooked up to fetal monitors. Answering questions, chatting with nurse, more waiting :)
11:32 a.m. - IV started and checked...4 cm...baby floating high and pitocin started
FYI....IV sucks!!!12:24 p.m. - Contractions coming every 3 mins or less....beginning to hurt a good bit :/ Making progress :)
12:40 p.m.- Doc came in, water broken. Ouch! Contractions hurt, baby getting ready to drop, pressure. Oi!
12:55 p.m.- on a good note my belly shrunk a lot....bad note is I am sitting in a bed, leaking fluid and this crap hurts...and no that is the filtered version, I am not thinking those words in my head!!! I foresee an epidural in my near future!
Tim is laughing at me for documenting this, but it helps keep me distracted in the short breaks between pain.
2:15 p.m.- Epidural requested :(
2:55 p.m.- epidural in
3:15 p.m.- death has arrive....epidural does NOT work at all :(
3:36 p.m.- epidural removed and redone
3:50 p.m.- some pain gone. Baby bounces down during contraction and retreats up
4:03 p.m.- oxygen given. 9 cm
4:18 p.m. - blood pressure drops low, getting scared, Tim prays
4:40 ish- blood pressure gets better, baby heart rate drops, he won't move down enough to push
Lincoln Brandt Drumm
5:57 pm
9 pounds 7 ounces
21.25 inches
Picture to follow
Okay...some of the crazy has settled and I need to recap while it is fresh.
Epidural did not work at all first time. Sheer hell thinking you are going to get some relief and then nothing. Apparently a student or not the head doctor did it the first time and I had waited a long time to get it :/ When it didn't take the head doctor came back and removed it and tried again, and doses me straight in the back to get some quick relief. Worked somewhat for about hour and half. Was 9 cm but my cervix would stay behind his head and baby would sneak back up after the contraction ended.
About 5:30 my heart rate and baby are stable and the drugs are not working :/ Every time I had a contraction I felt him drop down and hit my pelvic bone....horrible! A few minutes pass and the nurse has to check a lady next door. My drugs are gone and Lincoln decided to drop and turn and want out! Super, horrible, terrible! After a few contractions Tim runs out to find nurse and when she comes in I beg for drugs which apparently now she can't give because I am ready to deliver.
Death is upon me! Doc gets ready and I push twice and Lincoln's head comes out....want to breathe and have a second but the cord is all around him and they force me to push again to remove him. Poor guy is all blue/purple :(
He arrives! Sweet Jesus it is almost finished. Amazing how the instant pain relief comes in seeing baby. Doc finishes his thing, stitches me up and gets me settled some. Nurses take baby from me to the warmer. Apparently big babies need to be monitored as much as little babies and they wanted to check his shoulders and hips weren't hurt in delivery.
Because he came so fast at the end and the drop and turn so sudden, and he was so big....he was quite bruised so his face is a little purple and splotchy. No photos yet, neither he nor I were able to get cleaned up. His blood sugar fell cause of his size and they wanted me to hold him and nurse him to stabilize his heart and breathing better.
I am tired. More tomorrow. And pictures of him after he is bathed in the morning.
11.01.2012
The Last Day
Today is the last day
That I will belong to a family of four.
That I will only have two little boys.
That I will actually be able to nap during nap time. (At least for a while.)
That I will spend with a full little life inside of my body.
That I will say I have 2 sons.
Tomorrow....good Lord willing....I will check into the hospital, suffer through medication, enjoy an epidural, deliver and baby and begin a new normal for the rest of my life.
It is a little bizarre to know that this is the end of the road in this season of life. On one hand it is weird knowing it is over, and on the other hand there is a still peace and gratefulness in the knowledge.
That I will belong to a family of four.
That I will only have two little boys.
That I will actually be able to nap during nap time. (At least for a while.)
That I will spend with a full little life inside of my body.
That I will say I have 2 sons.
Tomorrow....good Lord willing....I will check into the hospital, suffer through medication, enjoy an epidural, deliver and baby and begin a new normal for the rest of my life.
It is a little bizarre to know that this is the end of the road in this season of life. On one hand it is weird knowing it is over, and on the other hand there is a still peace and gratefulness in the knowledge.
Halloween 2012
We weren't sure if our littlest dude was going to make his arrival yesterday or not, but we still made sure he felt like the crew and had a "costume"!
(Thanks for the shirt Casie!)
After stopping by Nena & Papa's house to trick or treat we went by church for our first Light the Night event and he boys had a blast!
With a race car driver, real life Prince Charming and little superhero, what more can a girl ask for? God has been so gracious to me with these sweet lives. Getting excited to see what the newest dude is going to add to our crazy crew!
(Thanks for the shirt Casie!)
After stopping by Nena & Papa's house to trick or treat we went by church for our first Light the Night event and he boys had a blast!
With a race car driver, real life Prince Charming and little superhero, what more can a girl ask for? God has been so gracious to me with these sweet lives. Getting excited to see what the newest dude is going to add to our crazy crew!
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